Great App but Unstable – Tayasui Sketches Pro Review

Hi! I teach Drawing on the iPad at University in the US and I was delighted to have heard about this app. I have just assigned it for a project for my class because I like it so much. I love the way the tools work and especially the watercolor and oil pastel tools. It has almost all the functions I need to teach my class. Unfortunately I also have some big problems with it’s reliability. Here is my problem/wish list: 1. The blade tool is unreliable when copying and puts images all over the page. This is by far the worst thing I have found yet as I have assigned a surface design project for my students. 2. There is either a long delay or some of the tools are quite slow in getting up to speed. This is driving me crazy. Sometimes I touch a new tool and it seems stuck on the old tool which is just awful. 3. Can you just save quietly in the background? I don’t necessarily want to know ever time you save. Also I dislike collecting a new image every time it saves. 4. Please: would like to see editable text so I can work on comics. I would also like to have access to all the fonts on my iPad do I can integrate with iFontMaker. Generally a few more text features are needed. 5. Re: Comics, there is a word balloon shape but I’d like to be able to render the shapes as white with a stroke around them so I can use them as actual word balloons. 6. Is there a way to enclose to linear and dot screen graduated tone tool?(s)? 7. It would be nice to be able to link a few layers together so they can be transformed together without having to totally merge them. 8. Re: Color Palette, I want the color to change immediately upon tapping the palettes, not to have to “save” or “add’ THE COLOR, I just want to stay in the flow and use the color I have tapped PLEASE!! Generally the above issues make this app feel much more clunky than it needs to be. Within just a few upgrades I think you might have developed a close to perfect app. Thank you!
Review by AuntViolet on Tayasui Sketches Pro.