Freeform 4+
Bring your ideas to life
Apple
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- Free
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Description
Freeform is a great place to bring your ideas to life. Sketch out a project, design a mood board or start a brainstorming session on a flexible canvas that supports almost any kind of file. And with iCloud, all your boards stay in sync, whether you’re on your Mac, your iPad or your iPhone.
Features
Unleash your creativity
• Add photos, video, audio, documents, PDFs, web links, stickies and more anywhere on a Freeform board, perfect for creating a digital pinboard, collecting research for a school project or gathering inspiration for your home renovation.
• Use your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad, to draw anywhere on the canvas. Choose from a variety of brush styles and colours.
• Create beautiful diagrams with a library of over 700 shapes and alignment guides to help make your document look just the way you’d like.
• Scan paper documents with the built-in document scanner to archive documents and even annotate them if you’d like, directly on the board.
Collaborate with others
• Invite your friends or colleagues into your board for real-time collaboration. Freeform brings people together into a shared space for creativity, whether you’re at your desk or on the go. Easily invite others via email, link or Messages.
• Brainstorm together with up to 100 collaborators in the same board.
• Communicate with Messages or FaceTime. When you’re working on a board with others, you can jump into the associated Messages conversation or start a FaceTime call with your collaborators with a single tap.
Certain features are available only in selected languages and regions.
Ratings and Reviews
Deep Thinking godsend
As a visual thinker and avid mindmapper over the years, I have been reluctant to go too “freeform” and lose structure and search-ability.
Recently had some real deep thinking work for a complex topic that had to evolve over several days. Flipping between by Mac desktop and iPad having the ability to be a little more structured when needed via the keyboard and completely free with the pencil and combining the two on an infinite canvas was a fantastic experience and really boosted my effectiveness to get through the tasks.
Great experience and will very much be part of my workflows from now on.
Great!… but there are two easy-fix issues needed to be solved
Since this app launched, I’ve been using it daily, I’m a very visual based person when it comes to note taking, organising and productivity. I use this as a way to keep all my info, research, structure work plans, literally everything. And I’ve finally felt compelled to write a review because of two basic things that should be implemented by now… One being FOLDERS!!! If you’re like me using this frequent. Its become super cluttered and I can’t organise it outside of ‘Favorites’, and thats not enough. Apple Notes, Reminders even Voice Memo have folders, why doesn't Freeform???… And also, when uploading images/videos together, they seem to be grouped together overlapping each other. Why is there no way to align them from the moment they are uploaded without them overlapping?… Two simple additions/changes that would be massively useful. Please make these amendments in a near future update please!
Extremely Lagging and caused problem
At first it’s good, I made notes fluently. However, after using it more than an hour or so, it gets unbelievably laggy, I’m using iPad Pro 2020, I’ve never seen may iPad gets so laggy in an app. No matter writing, tapping, or even open and close the app, it was unbearably laggy in the app. I tried restart the device but eventually the app goes laggy again. When I copied and pasted one section of my notes to another section, it didn’t land in the place I wanted it to be but overlapped with my other notes weirdly, then I tried to move it away, BUT because it’s so laggy, the notes can’t even be moved. Then I reopened the app, and my notes just overlapped with each other and I can’t even withdraw my previous procedure. I’m very upset right now because my valuable notes that took me so long to finished just overlapped with each other without any solution. I am very disappointed and sad, and a bit angry. Not gonna use and trust this app anymore. Until the problem get fixed, which I wish so.
App Privacy
The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Apple Distribution International
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.2 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free