Fade In Mobile 4+

I love FadeIn Pro on my MacBook Air. It’s an amazing tool that I enjoy using.

I tried using this on my iPhone but found the experience lacking. It almost feels difficult to write efficiently compared to the desktop version and that’s a shame.

With a new iPad with a keyboard cover, I thought I’d give it another go and sadly this highlighted more issues.

There’s still the same sluggish experience which pales in comparison to the desktop version. Typing ‘I’ with the Scene Heading format selected fails to prompt ’INT.’, meaning you might as well type the scripts in Word. Where’s the fluidity and efficiency of the desktop app here?

I was hoping with the keyboard cover, my inputs would make ie easier to use, but the app seemingly is not designed for keyboard use, meaning the developers are unaware that the iPad, iPad Air, and iPad Pro’s can use keyboards.

What’s more confusing is that my scripts on my desktop are saved to my iCloud, however upon accessing these through the iPad app, they cannot be opened. Considering this is an option to access scripts, it seems odd that this doesn’t work, especially as iCloud is the iOS native cloud for storage.

It’s sad to say this, but after such a great user experience with the desktop app, this mobile app is clearly lacking and really needs an update and overhaul taking into account the technology of the day and what makes the desktop app so great and highly praised.

A huge miss and it’s a shame, as I’m now having to use a competitors app (Final Draft) on my iPad and transfer these to the desktop version of FadeIn as an inconvenient (but better user experience) workaround.

Agree 100% with another review - while the desktop app is outstanding, the mobile one is an almost unusable mess. The basic experience is sluggish - it seems to hang every 10-15 seconds. The integration with Dropbox is buggy, some of my files and folders don’t even show up in the app browser, making it literally impossible to work with.

I’m actually thinking of doing the unthinkable and reverting to Final Draft, but they have the opposite problem - the mobile app is really slick but the desktop is a mess. Constant exporting and importing between the two is very undesirable (not least because you cannot convert in-app) but at the moment its the least bad option.

It’s been eight months since even a maintenance update. Kent - the desktop app is brilliant. Please re-think your development schedule to prioritise improving this woeful app, it’s the glaring weak link in the Fade In ecosystem - thanks.

I’m a huge fan of Fade In. This app is an atrocious attempt of a mobile version. Freezes regularly, doesn’t save resulting in huge and regular losses. Poor. Poor. Poor. Zero Stars if I could. Update sorely required