This app is something that truly, truly showcases what you can do with an iPhone. I downloaded it so long ago, I had an iPhone 7, and even then it was outstanding- I was even a bit intimidated by it because of the quality. It was really made for art and design on a professional level. Fast forward a few iOS versions and iPhones, and it’s turned into a total powerhouse. You just can’t bust out work like this so easily- especially video media- in this style. If you didn’t have this app, you would be doing A LOT of work for this output. This is true multimedia art. ORIGINAL REVIEW (from like 5 years ago when it was a different name): This app has been not only educational in the way that I am learning about vectorization, but it has given me hours of true artistic freedom. I carefully edit my shots, optimizing them for vector output, then import them into the app. I've made some really nice stuff. The app has always been a bit crashy and slightly buggy, but there is some major rendering going on! Highly recommend this app for digital artistic exploration. I've been using it for well over a year 👍🏻 thanks devs 🙏🏻😊

I had this app as a free version for a long time but finally paid for the full version and it was worth it for me. I love that it handles both images and video. Couple of notes or ideas: 1) could the dev add a better way to hide modals. Especially the kind that pop up over the working area with property value sliders on certain style modes. Like maybe a long press on the title could make it draggable or a swipe right makes it slide off the screen (hidden), or just a classic close /hide button. 2) could there maybe be a global undo/redo button to jump between previous or subsequent effect changes. Like if I have the first mode selected, then scroll way to the last mode and select it, but then want to see the first mode again it goes back to the first one after pressing undo. 3) the editor, particularly layers. it would be great if the mode buttons only operated on user-selected layers. For example, if i wanted to add the outline effect on the original image, i could add a new layer (from the original image) and select that layer, then select the outline mode, then when i go back to the layer it only updated that particular layer, keeping any other layers as they were before i selected outline for that layer. Like it only updates that selected layer. 4) support for different algorithms. This is just an example. The remove background function already works amazingly, but it only uses one default algorithm. Maybe there could be other object identifier algorithms or background removal algorithms to select from on these sorts of functions so the user can select the one best for them. Additionally, maybe the user can add an “anchor” pinpoint to the image and the function then attempts to find the object containing that point, then it removes everything but that object. But that idea is a little more extreme because i personally haven’t seen any background removal apps that do that. 5) better and more transparent rendering process. It hasn’t worked for me yet to export a video.

Then it got complicated and now it is basically unusable. I can’t save an image from ANY of the filters (I can take screenshot of it, that’s all). The editor is a hot mess. Many people, me included, can’t figure out how to use it in a productive manner. And then, today, while trying out the video option, I pressed for the camera and then tried to pause it so I could take a screenshot... well, now that’s broken too! It’s all a bright green image and in a matter of seconds a message appears saying that the path limit has been reached. Mind you, I’ve chosen no paths at all. I wasn’t even using the editor feature!This used to be the best image editing app if you wanted to play around with vectorization or just apply unexpectedly fun filters. It had lots of options and a few of them were for premium users but there was enough for the free user to love. It was also possible to understand what you were actually doing. How the inclusion of an editor became the kiss of death and why it’s impossible to use any filter to save an image are questions best asked directly. What happened, Mr Developer? How did a perfect and fun photo editing app became unintelligible even for people with some graphic design experience?

*April 2024- They have improved their version of the ‘auto-trace’ or ‘auto-vectorizing’ whatever it goes by.. it was always pretty good and unique but it has improved to be even better so if that’s one of your main reasons for wanting a vector app then I say hands down get this one because the price is perfect..a one time payment. Lots of different options to make unique SVG files from more complex images or photos and then turn them into vectors. Being able to customize settings like lines, thickness, colors, etc. in a simplified and more intuitive interface is worth the price alone. I will say this though- If you are planning on making a lot of art with different brushes & effects, wanting to go all in on an iPad app then I’d recommend something like Affinity Designer 2 bc it’s way more robust but also more complicated with a steeper learning curve & it doesn’t have an auto-trace function. But back to Vector-Q.. Once you have vectorized your image, you can then go into the ‘editor’ and start editing and play around with the nodes, add text, etc. or you can skip the auto-vector part and just go straight into the ‘editor’ and draw or paint from scratch to make your own art in the program. All in all I definitely recommend. *Updated Review: May 2022* Love it! ❤️👍🏼 - I have had this app for a couple months now and l’d say that I only use it on average about 15 times a month but it's not all that scary like it was in the beginning when I first got it, being new to the whole vector and digital art/graphic design scene in general but I have come to think its an awesome piece of vector/editing software. It’s more straightforward and less glitchy than others I’ve tried and I’ve tried a lot these past few months. I have been designing my own SVG’s for my Cricut projects. When converting images to vectors and drawing with the brush tool it doesn’t add so many nodes like other converting apps do. I would def try it out, it’s free to use so you can try it and then if you like what you’ve done and want to export then you pay like $5 or something small like that. Worth it.