Charcoal 4+

Nice little app - be a great whiteboard

This app would be perfect as a whiteboard app. The simplicity really kicks-in as super valuable for white boarding. Having a range of simple tools rather than only markers is great for visual facilitation work. All it’s missing is a laser tool and unlimited canvas capability.

There are plenty of sketching apps (aimed at kids and adults who ‘play’) as well as loads of note taking apps - two very crowded markets. As a professional, I’m already using ProCreate, and Affinity Designer for vector work. They both nail pro level art working. A really great whiteboard app the one thing I’m missing.

I’d recommend the developer give serious thought to positioning this app as a simple concepts sketching and white-boarding app. I’d happily pay for one that did those two things well. They both require simplicity in order to work well.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for taking the time to write a review! I'll definitely consider this feedback when developing future updates.

Here is the deal

So, the colour palette is decent, offering a good amount of colours such as pink. What I must ask is, where are the colours that we may need like brown? Anyway, the tools that are offered aren’t terrible, but a couple more couldn’t hurt. The fact that the app is free is great however, and another great perk is the little to-no ads on this app. One other thing that is great, is that we can choose the page we want to draw on. Whether we want it to be portrait, landscape or square is completely up to us. So, overall this is a great app that I personally wouldn’t use for extremely complicated drawings, but is great for someone to sketch or record ideas for future products/drawings/concept art. I can certainly see myself using this in the future for concept art so thank you developers!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the positive review! I'm currently working on an update to the app which will allow you to create custom color palettes. This way, you will be able to add your own browns, for example. I hope to be able to release the update this fall.

Good app, could do with a little more personality

I really love the idea of this app. The idea of focusing on one thing with such a minimal UI is just… nice. It looks like it just uses the basic iPad pen tools which is a shame. I would have really enjoyed a nice brush engine with a small selection of tools. Maybe add in some sound effects (as a setting) and you could really make this into something where people can focus purely on the drawing. Also I love the default colours provided btw