Note Widget - Love Drawing 4+

me and my best friend use this app, and I love it because of all the features. you can draw, take pictures, take photos out of your camera role, or make videos. they automatically appear on your friend/partner’s widgets, so you can easily see them. we always send each other cute things, and I love seeing what’s she’s up to. I recommend this app 100%. the only thing I don’t like are the occasional ads, but they don’t show up a lot. just saying that there are some in app purchases, which are super annoying, but it’s still really fun either way.

The only enjoyable part about this app is the end product- exchanging cute photos with your partner. However every step along the way is excruciating. First off, the user interface is (ironically) not user friendly. It lacks many basic iPhone shortcuts that users have become accustomed to (ex: swiping right to go backwards a page, etc). There is a massive lack of camera options when taking a photo in-app; you can’t even adjust the orientation of the camera, it automatically converts the photo to inverted and you cannot change it back. The ads are not long, but they are extremely annoying. Without fail, every time you press the ‘+’ button to start a new message, when you press ‘send’ on a message, and when you choose a page (on the bottom hotbar) an ad pops up. Many force you to interact with the ad in order to even have the option to close it. The last (main) issue is the messaging system- it is not instant. When in-app, you must exit and re-open the app in order to load new messages. The refresh feature rarely works, and new messages also take a long time to display in the widget feature. All of these issues make it feel extremely clunky, poorly developed and very enticing to delete. I feel the developer(s) rushed many of these concepts without thinking things through first.

So I’ve had the Note Widget app for about two years and when I originally got it, I paid for the lifetime premium where it was a one time purchase for all the tools. Suddenly a couple weeks ago I noticed my widget was completely blank and when I clicked on it wouldn’t take me to the app. I opened the app to find that I’m logged out, and when I tried to log in it could not find my email. I clicked signed in with Apple ID and it prompted me to create a new account. Once I did I clicked restore purchases and it says that my lifetime purchase was created on a different account (it then provided me with an account number of said account) yet when I tried to log in with the email on that account it says it wasn’t found and may have been deleted. There’s no way it could be another email because I tried them all. The fact that there’s no option to repurchase my lifetime subscription shows me they’re trying to scam users out of their money. If you also bought a lifetime premium membership I would beware.