Silhouette Go 4+

Functionality Isn’t There

I have used Silhouette products for about ten years. I’ve always liked how easily I could design and cut things out using the full program, Silhouette Studio, so I thought I would try Silhouette Go for the iPad. It took me a good four hours to cut out a simple script font. I had to go back and forth from iPad to Mac to take the design I made, convert it to an SVG, upload it to the Silhouette Library directly, make cut lines, and then use the app to cut it (my Mac would not connect to my machine at the time). It was a very frustrating process.

I really can’t see myself using my Silhouette much if I have to go from Mac to iPad all the time… I have regrets that I didn’t buy a cutting machine that had better cut programs with it. :(

If developers are reading this - please consider adding the trace function to the app. That would have saved me an inordinate amount of time. The basic functionality of adding type/font would be nice too.

Useless! Need an upgrade

This app helps me literally do nothing! This is not a very in-depth way to design and cut. I guess this app is basically just for designs that you want to purchase and cut from the app, because trying to design your own photos and files to cut, this is absolutely terrible. I thought the silhouette cameo was a high-end product which is why I purchased it, but this app is’s for a kindergartener. Silhouette if you are seeing this review, you need to do better! This app needs to be redesigned. It would be great if you can get all of the same features from the actual desktop program and fit it into the app. If you can fit all of those features in it I’m pretty sure all of us silhouette users wouldn’t mind paying a couple bucks for the app to get the whole program. Just food for thought. Also I paid for the whole business edition programming for my desktop so that would be nice for it to identify my account when signing in and give me all of those features.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback. Silhouette Go is designed as a simple companion to aid sending on-the-go. However, we are continually working on new developments, and we think you will be pleased with many of the updates that come in the future!

No FONTS and cutting issues

I’m not sure why Silhouette would release an application that doesn’t at least give you access to a couple font types with welding and shadowing options. This is 50% of the jobs I cut and the app just does allow for this. I went online and bought several font sets from their website and they won’t even pull up. Also bought other images that never showed up in my library.
As far as cutting goes, they have bugs, every other cut I made, the machine decided after the cut was done to just do random cuts and the only way to stop it was to turn off the machine. I had to be ready to pull the blade out so it wouldn’t get ruined. I’ve owned 4 silhouettes and cut on my machine daily. I know how to use the software so coming from someone who’s not a novice, I found this app to be severely lacking and a disappointment. I was running the app from my iPhone 11 and my iPad Pro 11 which is brand new with all the firmware updates done.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback. I'm sorry to hear about the cutting bugs you experienced and we will investigate this issue ASAP. If you need further support, please feel free to contact Silhouette America's support team online as they may be able to help you.