i’ve been a long time medibang user and i was so pumped to see that they were making a new app! (i preordered it at lightning speed) its actually pretty good for what its worth. im writing this the day they release it so it’s not perfect.. a few bugs and its a bit laggy but still pretty decent. the only thing i personally have a grudge against is that they weren’t very original with the layout of the app.. first few seconds into it and i realized it looked A LOT like that big popular drawing app… same thing with brushes, gestures, etc. i understand why they made it look similar to that other app..but there’s hardly any originality and sort of jumped on the bandwagon. again- ive used medibang ever since i was a teen and i like medibang pro so far, but personally i was kind of disappointed that they sort of sold themselves out.

I’ve never heard of Mediabang but for some reason it popped up when I searched for the excellent camera app Hydra. I’m not sure I want to learn another drawing app but this has a big thing going for it- a recognizable user interface (UI). I’ve been re-trying photo editing apps lately so I can clean out the garbage and, I gotta say, some of the UIs I reencountered were absurd. I’ve used all of them before so I shouldn’t have been struggling but sometimes doing what everyone else is doing is a good thing. Why labor over reinventing something just because you can, especially when the point is to just look diffferent?Don’t think lousy UIs is just a drawing and editing problem- I’ve been struggling for over a year to find a workable notes app. I love the native Apple notes with a very simple, straightforward, and clean look but it’s been crashing whenever I try to retrieve anything from my notes. There are dozens, if not hundreds of notes apps available and so many have their own charming look that then fails utterly in practice.

Not only is this a worse version of the other Medibang Ipad app, is also unstable and riddled with bugs.While It has slightly more functionality than Procreate (with things like brush sizes being in px and layer group opacity,) the only benefit I can see this having over the other Medibang IPad app is the lack of ads, and the option of purchasing a perpetual license.That sounds like it should be a good thing, but it just feels outright offensive when you consider that you were previously able to purchase a perpetual license for the other iPad app UNTIL AT SOME POINT it was replaced with a monthly subscription model, which at the time caused me to switch to a different program entirely.Its such a shame because I feel that Medibang iPad app is probably one of the best drawing tools on the iPad, however, it is held back drastically by their removal of the perpetual license.Not having the option to pay once to remove video advertisements and banner ads taking up 10% of the screen, and instead having to pay monthly for it despite that previously not being the case, comes across as extremely greedy.

I don’t get why there’s a usage thing on this app. It doesn’t make any sense for a drawing up to even have it and it’s kind of stupid to be honest. The fact of the drawing app is so you can draw at least four hours no I would understand if there was some explanation which I’ve checked and there is no explanation to it. It’s just there so it’s a stupid reason to be therethough the app is very much way better than the other one. I do like this one very much it’s a lot smoother and it’s better to dry in, but I want to know why is there a usage notification on a drawing app? 🤦🏻‍♀️🧐 who ever in your dev team added or had that idea , needs to reevaluate their minds because that usage notification thing is so stupid like .why??