- ASTROPAD STANDARD VS STUDIO PRO
- ASTROPAD STANDARD VS STUDIO SOFTWARE
- ASTROPAD STANDARD VS STUDIO WINDOWS
ASTROPAD STANDARD VS STUDIO SOFTWARE
(The cheapest one on their site is $999 for a 13″ display.) If you have a Mac and an iPad, this software may be the solution to having to use such a display. There is a product you can buy from Wacom called the Cintiq which gives you an actual monitor you can draw on digitally, but the cost is quite prohibitive.
Drawing on one surface and having the resulting marks appear on another surface (the way a traditional drawing tablet works) is a bit unnatural, but with the iPad and Apple Pencil, it’s like having a touchscreen Mac with a drawing tablet on top. Since I don’t have a drawing tablet for my Mac, this app combo saves me having to buy that, find space for it, and learn to use it. I imagine in the next decade or so, WordPress will actually have a touch interface for editing, but meanwhile, we have AstroPad! But these irritations aside, it was pretty cool to export photos from Photos and have them be renamed to our standard convention, then drag them over to the upload area within Safari, and place them from my iPad. The iPad standard placement is bottom right, so, again, non-standard design fooled my muscle memory. The other quibble was the keyboard hide button is on the bottom left. I kept getting sentences with no spaces until I figured out what was going on. The biggest issue was using the virtual keyboard: the spacebar doesn’t extend under the “M” key like on most keyboards because the designers made the inverted T arrow keys too large. I edited and uploaded the text and photos to this article from my MacBook through my iPad. Sent MON, WED, and FRI with the latest gadget reviews and news! Subscribe to The Gadgeteer Daily Digest newsletter There is a toggle to allow you to virtually hold down modifier keys while clicking or drawing as well. You can also choose to view the entire defined area or zoom into 100% for closer work. On the iPad, you have access to a wealth of controls: finger-gestures that give you control-click or option-click, quick switching between “draw” and “erase” if you’re using a drawing tool, etc. From within the Mac app, you can choose which monitor (or part of a monitor) will be viewed by the iPad. Multiple monitors pose no special problem either. Even on a different wifi network from my house, AstroPad studio reconnected without missing a beat.
ASTROPAD STANDARD VS STUDIO PRO
Besides using the setup at home for testing, I used the Mac/iPad Pro to present to a user group at a restaurant we frequent. If there is a lot of traffic or spotty connectivity, you can actually connect your iPad directly with a USB cable, or manually tweak the connection, but I never had a problem.
There’s a bit of handholding you have to do the first time, but every time after that, launching the Mac app gets you the “launch the app on your iPad” dialog box, (or launching the iPad version from your iPad and get the “Launch AstroPad on your Mac” dialog.) and you’re in business. To set up, you simply launch each one from their respective machines, making sure you’re on the same wifi network. But if you don’t need the pressure sensitivity pen input, or the “macro”-type feature of custom gestures, you’ll be OK with the Standard.
ASTROPAD STANDARD VS STUDIO WINDOWS
I’m going to concentrate the rest of the review on the Studio edition, but the Standard edition would be great for anyone who needs to use their Mac from their iPad occasionally for such things as file transfers, running programs that behave differently on a Mac than an iPad (* koff* WordPress’ * koff* arcane web client * koff*), or even Windows programs via Boot Camp/Parallels/Fusion. You not only get constant updates for free but priority support, Magic Gestures, Custom Pressure curves, the Eraser tool and a lot more. There are two pricing plans: the Standard, one-time-pay version for $30, and the Studio version, with a subscription that costs $65/year or $8/month. For the Mac app, you’ll need to visit to download. The install/download of the two pieces is easy enough – go to the app store for iOS and download. Note: Photos may be tapped or clicked for a larger image.
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