How does this differ from the Notes app which has many (most?) of the features in the description? Is Freeform just supposed to make these features more discoverable?
Handwriting support in Concepts doesn't feel as good as Notes or Procreate so I imagine it'll be better in Freeform.
Infinite canvas, super simple, lightning fast, near zero learning curve. Powerful enough. No arbitrary lock in to the apple ecosystem. Free. Open source.
“Let’s do collaboration”, says the company locking people who dare not be in its ecosystem out. Gross, IMO.
It's exemplary, and I really hope it grows.
Excalidraw works with Apple Pencil which is great but doesn’t have snapping and straightening of lines.
Unfortunately, palm rejection on Excalidraw isn’t great - each time I rest my hand on the screen to start drawing with the pencil, random lines get drawn on the screen.
Shame, as the potential is high. Will bookmark for future in the hopes it improves. Thanks!
And that’s a shame because I also use Obsidian, which has a decent Excalidraw integration.
With hybrid work a thing, everyone is trying to win vertically integrated online collaboration. Eventually they’ll sell a wall mount ipad.
The UI also wouldn’t be as good as that of an iPad on your lap, I think, and you can already use airplay to mirror your iPad’s screen on a large screen (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204289)
Finally, if you have a Mac, it can run this program, too, and thus show this on a large screen.