MAKEID-Life 4+

I love the label maker, but there are a few things I would change about the app. While the visual is appreciated for the font, it is weird that the fonts don’t have names. If I was asked to print in Times New Roman, I would be left guessing.

Also, now every time I go to print a label, it asks me for a size. I would like to see a place where I could keep this size as a default. I don’t think my printer is capable of the smaller labels, so it is annoying to choose every time.

Finally, if I forget to turn on the printer, I have to close the app to get it to detect the printer. No big deal, but once again it’s annoying.

The printer is great for a quick sticker for my kid.

Did you change the title of the fonts within the app? Every single font is titled MAKEID-Life. Talk about annoying. That is just plain ignorant. Why do you have to reinvent the wheel? What is wrong with you? In addition to that now you’ve made it so that I have to download each and every font separately. Why would you do that? If I remember correctly, I used to have a list of fonts that I could scroll through to find the one that I want. Now there is almost zero comparison, as you have at the most 4 fonts on the screen at on point. Because you have changed to a single font on a label. When the dead space of the label takes up so much room on the screen. Furthermore going through the process of making a label one does eventually see the print on the label before printing.
Update:
These MAKEID-Life apps load incredibly slow! I have two different apps in the phone currently. Each of them are incredibly slow to load. In addition to that the developers website also loads incredibly slow. Cannot get anything done on either.

I don’t know why this is rated so low; it’s really quite good and workable for high quality labels with good design merit. I say this as someone who has done professional UX and design for functional elements.

With just a handful of smaller features and fixes, this would be a powerful tool, but for now I’d still highly recommend it and commend the devs for achieving a stable, performant, intuitive, and feature- and content-rich experience in this modest little free app. 👍🏻 Here are my suggestions:

Text boxes
Decrease line height below 0 (bug; can set but no visual change occurs)
Bug: bounding box is frequently not horizontally and/or vertically center aligned to text
Feature requests

Community driven areas for fonts, frames, stickers, and other content in app
Remove general limitations for certain adjustments (e.g. there should be no minimum or maximum sticker size)
Ability to lock individual elements on the board
Undo/redo (history stack)
Ability to turn off snapping so elements can be more easily nudged into exact positions close to but not exactly on the snap guides
Pictures

More accurate monochrome conversion of pictures to more closely resemble what will be printed
Auto remove background
Thanks!