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Quadro

Quadro is a smart controller for your MAC and WINDOWS computer, a sort of external Apple Touch Bar.
Category Price Seller Device
Productivity Free Actions s.r.l. iPhone, iPad, iPod

Create touchable shortcuts to accomplish any digital task, launch every application and all of their actions, automate them, perform online researches, manage your communications and much more, just like you have always dreamed of… with a single tap! (just like with the new TouchBar!)

Its purpose is to simplify and empower computing tasks, streamline your workflow to help you stay focused and be more productive, while making you feel like a sci-fi spaceship captain - not too shabby, uh?

Whether you need turbo for your professional workflow or a smoother, more efficient computing experience, you just found the right tool for the job.

Quadro is great at:
- speeding up your editing workflow for Audio, Video, Photography, Design
- quickening the change of context, from task manager to chat, from documenting and note taking to web browsing
- boost your online search experience with search automations
- automating cross-platform and cross-application tasks and data transfer
- making the process of learning software super-easy for newbies and oldies

but most of all:
- making your co-workers blush with envy :)

Control your native or web applications with our many included free presets (find the list at the bottom), or activate Quadro premium and customise its functions and look to fit your necessities and reflect your style.
Create your own control palettes for softwares and tasks you use the most, set up your own shortcuts, and when you are done don’t forget to share them with your peers.

With Quadro do everything you did before, but in a better and more direct way!

Quadro is available for iPhone and iPad, is compatible with OSX and Windows and can control every native and web application.
It includes 10 categories of actions a smart keyboard and may cause a mild work addiction.

Features:
• Control your favorite apps thanks to 100+ built­-in interface presets
• Connect via Wi-Fi or USB
• Add or remove functions from your personal interfaces
• Customise how actions look
• background (with colors, gradients or custom images)
• size (7 dimensions)
• icon (use symbols or artworks, 1600+ included)
• Create new interfaces from scratch for native and web applications
• Add multiple screens to a single interface to keep your tasks organized
• Easily create macro sequences and automate your workflow
• Type from your device to your computer with Keyboard
• Glide and select text with the Smart Arrows
• Launch nested actions in a snap with fluid gestures
• Immediately recall your most used applications thanks to the Favorites section
• Automatic connection to known computers
• Share and install interfaces with a simple link
• Long-press an action to get information about it
• Connect multiple devices to a single computer (Star Trek mode)
• Automatically assign icons to new actions
• Global gestures for the most common commands (copy, paste, undo, redo and more)
• Custom-designed UI sounds
• Energy saving mode
• Auto-recall of interfaces for software in focus
• Compose your actions choosing among 10 action categories
• Application (invoke menu actions (OsX only), launch shortcuts, launch iOs actions...)
• Contacts (send messages, emails, calls...)
• Text (create snippets, modify strings...)
• Files (work with files)
• Media (control audio/video playback)
• Web (launch pages or perform searches)
• System (sleep mode, display luminosity, empty trash…)
• Windows (move application windows around)
• Flow control
• Scripting

Additional details:
• Secure 256bit aes encryption
• Available on iOs 8 and latter
• Compatible with both Mac & Windows PCs
• Back-up of user generated contents

Reviews

Frustrating
TimDawgz

I loved this app at first which was fun to use but now the annual price needs to be paid or you can do nothing. It's pretty useless without the annual subscription. The problem subscription is way too expensive at $15/yr for an app that I might use a couple times in that year. Then I've been noticing that a lot of the actions you can download are designed for the Mac only! ?


Horrible support
DJ Kinetic Power

Love this app but their support is terrible. I have already contacted them 5 times for tech support and tried sales and they never ever respond back. a company with no support is worthless in my opinion


Windows download doesn’t even work.
Matt_Johnson124

I got the app and it told me to go and download its software on my computer, screen I did. I followed the instructions and once installed I went to open the file but it was corrupted in some way so I tried to download it a few more times (deleting the olds ones) but it didn’t work. I even tried using the 32 bit link but that one wouldn’t open either and gave the same error “unable to create shortcut”. This should probably be fixed.


Great app! Full of convenience!
Zmzmsisnd

This app changes the way I work, in PS especially, all the functions are right there. Which I think this is even easier than the new MacBook Pro touch bar. And it works with zero lags too! Wish the custom settings are easier to manage! Can't wait to see more cool actions in the coming builds!


Good
Imgai6.9000000

This is a new app and is quite rough around the edges. In time it will become a very useful tool.


Game changer
noisyDonnie

Found this gem a couple days ago and I'm already addicted. You can create buttons for any application function and even automate long series of commands. All of this in a beautiful interface. Impressive.


Dumb....and Useless...and causes Issues....etc
Bakes73

All this app does, is allow you to press big, colorful buttons on your IPad rather than on your Mac. Want to reply to an email? WHY TROUBLE YOURSELF WITH THE KEY COMMANDS OR Pre-INSTALLED Reply BUTTON? Just choose the RED REPLY BUTTON in this app. Which by the way requires a sync app on your MAC and requires that you be tethered by a lightning cable. So at any given time the control panel for your MAC is a few inches away from your MAC. Let that set in. Just a stupid idea and dumb app. A novelty, but not functional at all.


Typo
Scupolies

You spelt "later" wrong at the end of the description


Cool idea but…
BCsJazz

While I have to say this seems like a great idea and it is executed pretty well, but in the end I did not find it very useful. I guess if you are the type of computer user who refuses to learn and use keyboard shortcuts then this might be a time saver for you. However if you, like me, pretty much learn the keyboard shortcuts for your most frequently used features of a program and just in general get familiar with the location of buttons, menus etc then this app really doesn't save any time. This is not due to any design faults on the developers part, on the contrary, they did a great job with pretty much everything about the app. The problem is in the physical reality of the fact that a computer is still a very keyboard/ mouse/trackpad oriented device and thus every time you go to use this app you have to move your hand from the keyboard or mouse/trackpad to another device. Unfortunately the time it takes to do this is longer then it would take to use a keyboard shortcut or even find the command in the menu if you know where to look. So for me 4 stars for a nicely designed app and 1 star for practicality.


Something truly new
ChurchillLives

Excellent UI. This is a great experience - and can be very helpful if you like to create a custom workstation. Using on iPhone 7 plus but this app is making me consider iPad purchase to get max value.


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