Freeform is a great place to bring your ideas to life. Sketch out a project, design a mood board or start a brainstorming session on a flexible canvas that supports almost any kind of file. And with iCloud, all your boards stay in sync, whether you’re on your Mac, your iPad or your iPhone.
Features
Unleash your creativity
• Add photos, video, audio, documents, PDFs, web links, stickies and more anywhere on a Freeform board, perfect for creating a digital pinboard, collecting research for a school project or gathering inspiration for your home renovation.
• Use your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad, to draw anywhere on the canvas. Choose from a variety of brush styles and colours.
• Create beautiful diagrams with a library of over 700 shapes and alignment guides to help make your document look just the way you’d like.
• Scan paper documents with the built-in document scanner to archive documents and even annotate them if you’d like, directly on the board.
Collaborate with others
• Invite your friends or colleagues into your board for real-time collaboration. Freeform brings people together into a shared space for creativity, whether you’re at your desk or on the go. Easily invite others via email, link or Messages.
• Brainstorm together with up to 100 collaborators in the same board.
• Communicate with Messages or FaceTime. When you’re working on a board with others, you can jump into the associated Messages conversation or start a FaceTime call with your collaborators with a single tap.
Certain features are available only in selected languages and regions.
Make board in board and board categorisation options available please :)
limerence fernweh
There’s only so much to write in a single board. When you’ve a lot of boards, on different topics or projects it looks scattered and takes time to find the exact board you’re looking for. Suggestions:1. Board in board options. There’s only so much to write in a single board. The freedom to add more boards to a board. So everything that didn’t fit in a page stays together. By this, users won’t need to exit the board and enter a new board. So we can have a book of board where there’s boards inside the book. Just like a book concept where you have page 1, page 2, page 3 etc.2. Create ‘file’ categorisation function like what ‘Notes’ is having. For easier locating of board based on topic/ projects.I really hope these functions will be available soon! :) I really love using boards and thank you for making this app available, it’s just that I think these additional features will really complement this app by a lot!Own and extra thing, using Apple Pencil on boards rlly crashes it a lot. I’ already using the most current iPad with RAM etc big enough to support.
Issues That need to be tackles to be the number 1 note taking app among the ipad user
Sofiah 945
Hi Apple team, I love Freeform app so much! But I am a bit sad when the link in my digital planner is not working in all of the pages that i have copied and pasted afterwards. It made me have to install other note taking app hence buying the pro version for my own use. This make me so sad because lots of Freeform features that are free, i have to buy it in other app. Also, please make folder to the sticker. This is useful if i want to at bunch of different sticker in it. Also, can you make shortcut app to enter directly into the pdf that is imported to the freeform? Because it keep sending me to the cover pdf in the freeform which i have to double tap first before entering my pdf if i make a shortcut. Also, saving my edited pdf takes longer than the other note taking app. I really love FREEFORM App very much. Hope you can fix all this and become the number 1 note taking app among the ipad user. Looking forward for the improvements! Thank you so much!!
The app would be better if there is a sorting function for the notes.
aaaa1736
I’m a medical student which prefer to revise with making mind maps. Thus the app is literally the perfect match for me. However, I’m a little disappointed with the lack of sorting function within the app, it makes the app looks a bit messy. Thus, making me a little reluctant to use it. So I hope there will be a sorting function soon.
A bit laggy
ZerotwoStudio
Im using ipad m1 128gb version. To my surprise, this device gets quite warm when using Apple pencil to write. The writen text was very sluggish and not real time made it hard to maintain good hand writing. Other feature such as importing images is good but can be better. I prefer it has an ability to paste images copied from clipboard. Procreate can do this, why Apple native app can’t? Please add folder system to organize the notes better.
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