Features +, Accesibility - – EDGE touch (pixel art tool) Review

This is a typical case of attemting to do too much and making the app less fun to use in the process. The basic screen's interface has menus on three sides of the screen, which limits the amount of space you have to actually see and edit the picture. The interface itself is designed rather haphazardly-it's ugly, but it works. Well, after you figure out what you're doing. For instance, I want to size the picture to be around 8 pixels wide and 40 tall. Impossible. It doesn't inform you of this though- it just alters the pixels of H or W to coincide with the number you most recently changed... So say I type in 8 under width. Cool. 8 is there. Now I type in 40 for height. Cool. My 8 is still there. Hit okay. And it resizes the picture- not to my specifications, but to the nearest pixels possible in it's set aspect ratio, according to the number I more recently altered. That's one example of the oddities behind what you'll learn about how this program works. I guarantee you'll find others. If you want to edit pixel by pixel, you need to be zoomed in very close- to the point in which you only see about 30 pixels total on screen. That's just a limitation of the device, not a problem with the app, but the app doesn't do the best it can to circumvent the issue. A different app gets around the issue of hitting intended pixels by making you tap each individual pixel- tap on to place color, tap again to erase. I find this superior because it allows the user to move the image by dragging one finger rather than using two, which is convenent seeing as you'll need to do this a Lot because you can only see and accurately tap on around 30 pixels total. With this app you'll be doing a lot of two finger scrolling. This app lacks a lot of polish, but it definitely has more features than any other pixel editor I've found on the app store. However, I find it's overall clunky interface far too inaccessible to continue using personally. Ease of use is far more important to me than the myriad number of features offered.
Review by emerazea on EDGE touch (pixel art tool).