Prêt-à-Template 4+

Yes, this app like every other app is imperfect. It has glitches. There have been improvements made. More improvements are needed—however I still gave it 5 stars. I’ve been using this app since I discovered it a year or 2 ago. I loved it then and I still love it now. I’ve been drawing fashion sketches since I was a kid and 30+ yrs later I’m still drawing and designing. I’ve been to FIT and quite truthfully I can draw without a template.
However, when I’m on the road and in a hurry and have a fashion design in mind—using this app simply saves me time. It’s fun using the app and it took some mistakes and messing around with the options to see how it works but once you get the hang of it— you’ll love it! I give credit where credit is due and quite frankly there is not another app out there that even comes close to this one available in the App Store. Believe me, I’ve tried many and I’ve searched for something like this one for awhile. I was even considering coming up with a fashion design app of my own but, I simply don’t have the time or expertise. Everyone’s experience with this app is different. Mine has simply been wonderful.

I’m an apparel designer and this app allows me to sketch ideas while on the go. Two features I really wish this app had: 1) folders or a filing / categorizing system for finished sketches (I have over 100 and need to organize them). 2) the ability to customize the color palette (there’s a shade of dark red that I have to fiddle with every time). One thing I wondered about before I paid for the subscription was if you could open these files as vectors in Adobe illustrator. You can’t, but you can send the files to a computer as PNGs and then trace them. Doesn’t save me any time but is still a lot faster than paper and pencil. Overall love using this app to create original designs.

So I download this app to do some lowkey fashion design, dresses, that kind of thing. First thing in, it asks me to sign up to a subscription plan, which you need to get pretty much ALL THE GOOD STUFF. Like, pens? Subscription plan. Different body types besides the basic female one? Subscription plan. Better purse or shoe template? Subscription plan. Cool patterns and fancy-shmancy scissor functions said to be in the app? SUBSCRIPTION. PLAN. So that was a big red flag. I kept drawing and made a dress with the limited supplies I had anyway. Was going fine, just clicking the X when the subscription plan popped up. But, later, I was trying to use the dropper tool and everything just froze. I went to close the app and the dropper icon glitched and stayed on the tabs screen. (On a tenth-gen iPad paired with an Apple Pencil, btw.)
Pretty soon, we realized the crazy app had FROZEN THE ENTIRE IPAD.
We couldn’t swipe, click, or tap, meaning we could’nt even close the problematic app. AAAAAAnddd we only got it back to normal when we restarted the whole dang iPad. It was scary, please don’t download this so it doesn’t happen to you. *sarcastic* Otherwise, great sketching app!! :)

-DoodleGirl, 12 yrs.