Cool idea, TERRIBLE function – Color Alive 2.0 Review

Found this app and thought it would be a fun pastime. I enjoy coloring books to relax, but adult coloring books, especially superhero ones, often have too much black shading to be worth it. The Marvel book itself is cute and has unique pages. This app though? Not worth the code it’s written with. Scanning feature doesn’t recognize the page unless it’s just so, and it wants the camera to be held completely still for 5-10 seconds. Apparently, things like breathing constitute camera movement. I can’t get any of the images to scan in the app, it takes at least 5 tries. If the scanner does manage to pick up the colored character (and not the blank page next to it!) what appears in 3D form is not the character I’ve colored, but some disturbing Frankenstein version where colors aren’t where they should be, and for some reason half the 3D model isn’t even colored. I certainly wouldn’t recommend this app for kids. The coloring book is a good time, but unless you want to play around with disturbing zombie versions of favorite characters, don’t bother with the app.
Review by NCC-1701-A on Color Alive 2.0.