Substrate Reviews

Great designs

Christmas in September

I love this app! I really love these kinds of designs but I wish there were more options to make this app more interesting.

CALM DOWN...You Are Not A Psychologist

egmusic

So shut up...anyway... Good app. Great implementation of mathematics in code.

I read reviews and it said it was a stress reliever? Yes I am quite young but I have had so much stress in my life to the point where I was diagnosed with depression and somewhat struggled with self harm. I like the way it looks but it's kind of confusing to make it work. It doesn't really relax me at all either. Overall it's ok. And the people bashing the kids, calm down. Don't make it a huge deal. It's just an app like really? Take a breath and go away.

Very soothing?????

KISAAN

when ever you are traveling anywhere like on the plane or car it WILL KEEP YOU WATCHING FOR EVER,it is just so Sooothing ????? ????

Love the app but it needs fixing

Mia harp

I enjoy this app quite a bit but it needs to be fixed for iOS ate it still keeps freezing on me How can I use my pictures when it won't even let me???????? Once you fix the app I'll give it five stars again but if you don't fix it I can't give you five stars I absolutely love this little app it is so cool The nice part about this app is a voiceover accessible that works for me Also I really like the way it makes your background looks like Stain glass You know like when you see stain glass in the church this is what the app reminds me of Don't change anything If I could give it more stars I would I am already using this to make beautiful backgrounds from my iPhone and soon to be iPad Thank you so much for creating this lovely little app

Developers quit

MeandYouandOther

Unfortunately, seems that they stop upgrading or fixing essential issues. The app is good but you can't use photos to get colors because when you try the app freezes. Without colors the fun it's over, limits your participation and from a fun app you have a boring one. Their website looks abandon, so seems that they aren't doing much . But, you never knows, maybe one day somebody takes over, fixes the problems and we'll enjoy a relaxing and unique app. I'll immediately change my one star to five if they fix the color issue..

No updates

Deassoc

I wrote a review a couple of years ago. IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!! I guess the author has no intention of making a fix. What an -------. Oh well, what can you say?! Or he or she simply doesn't care. Probably the latter. There's a problem with substrate where it does not recognize, and thus crashes, when applying a picture image in the setup screen. I contacted support over six weeks ago, but absolutely nothing has been done to address the problem! I think the program is very cool when it works, but until the problem is fixed... don't buy it. You wouldn't buy a broken toy or game would ya?? Well... same here. Don't buy it!!

Update PLEASE

InstantSuccess

I love this app. It's really relaxing to watch and can make really creative designs. I would give it 5 stars except for the fact that it hadn't been updated in 4 years. I don't know if you guys have up on the app or not but could you please update it soon? The app is still formatted to iOS 6 and iPhone and iPod 4s. It used to let me set a photo to use but now when I click to select a photo the app freezes up. Otherwise I love the app ☺️

Please! Pretty Please Update

Zarafa

I've loved this app -- see below. But it hasn't been updated for newer iOS. I'd be happy to pay if the developers would update the app. Even back them on a crowdsourcing platform. Please update -- thanks very much. This is an update to my earlier review (below). I keep on coming back to Substrate; and recommend it to people all the time. I'm a fan of apps that generate abstract art (while giving you some control) and have tried lots of them. Substrate is still one of my absolute favorites. As I said in my first review, you can get more vivid colors in your substrate designs by using other art apps to create brightly colored designs, saving them to your camera roll, and taking colors from them. The one problem I have with Substrate is saving designs. Some of the time, I pull two fingers down and it just doesn't save the design. One can be sure of saving if you take a screen shot by pressing your iPad's home and power button together, but then you have the little info symbol in the lower right hand corner. There are pros & cons here. If you want to print your designs (say for origami paper, scrapbooking, putting behind a photo in a frame, etc.) the little info symbol may be a problem. Though you can easily solve the problem by cropping in a photo editing app or program. The upside of saving by taking a screen shot is that your design gets saved at a higher resolution than it will if you save via the two finger swipe. This is good if you want to be able to print out your design in a largish size, say to make a 12x12 scrapbook page or a 11x17 print to use for wrapping paper. At any rate, I still highly recommend this great app. ------------------------------------------------------ My daughter & I both love this app. I'm still experimenting with how much I can control the output. One issue i haven't resolved is whether it is possible to get designs that are in other colors than the earthy tones shown in the description. They are lovely, but i'd like some more vibrant colors too. Up until now, I've only used it with photos that have similar tones in them though. I've not had a chance to use something like a brassy blue or neon pic. One thing I have done is to save one of the designs I made with Substrate and use it as my screen saver. It is much nicer than the ones that came with the iPad. And I want experiment with printing some pale Substrate designs and then printing something else over them. UPDATE: I've now come up with a way to get bolder colors. Using wSketch (a simple, free app for drawing with marker-like tools), I used wide markers to fill the page with one/two strong colors, saved that, then used it as a photo for substrate to get the colors from. I now have a lovely, primarily bright blue opening screen on my iPad & get lots of compliments on it. Though I haven't had a chance to try printing images over a Substrate design, I had another idea to try: printing some of my Substrate designs to use as origami paper. For the people who complain that they cannot control the designs being made: 1) experiment with changing the curves, speed, etc in the controls; 2) experiment with tapping in various places & on lines; 3) think in terms of enjoying the design unfold; this app is a wonderful tool for making art, but it does have its limits. Also, it is a tool that you will never be able to control completely; it's a bit like the Japanese method of marbling paper, where the inks float on water and are affected by air currents, temperature, whatever, so that even master marbling artists cannot make the same design twice. If you can relax, experiment, and take delight in watching your designs unfold, this app is for you. If you want to make art with media that you can control tightly, want your pieces to turn out a particular way, and do not enjoy artistic "accidents" then you will not like this app. Finally, I've looked quite a bit and have not found another app at all like this one. So cudos to the developers.

Needs an update badly

Scorpio1704

Hasn't been updated in 5 years. Awesome app, but the options screen is still based on iOS 6, and it's locked to the screen size of the iPhone 4, and the app freezes if you try to change the colors. It also freezes a lot on newer phones. It's really cool, but it needs to be updated. If it does, 5 stars.

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