MagicalPad for OS X is available

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Posted by Paul Korm
May 28, 2014 at 05:02 PM

MagicalPad for OS X is available now on the Mac App Store. The author discounted the software 30% “for a limited time”. The discounted price is $39.99, which seems steep. I’ve used MagicalPad on iOS (iPad) since it was first released. It is something of a cross between OneNote (the Windows feature set) and Curio, but not as fully featured as either, in my opinion. Curio is not (yet) offering an iOS version.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 28, 2014 at 06:04 PM

I’ve been playing with MagicalPad for Mac for the past half hour and I’ve already found several bits of squirrelly behavior, including temporary lockup. If and when MP matures, it will be a nice app, I think. Paul nailed the description, comparing it to a hybrid of OneNote and Curio. The advantage of MP over Curio is the IPad version and the fact that it runs on OS 10.8—the new Curio, coming soon, will require Mavericks I believe, as does OneNote.

Steve Z.

Posted by steveylang
Jun 4, 2014 at 05:54 PM

Thanks for letting us know! I have MagicalPad on my iPad, but never really used it. It looks really nice, but too much to learn in the interface. I don’t really need to do much diagramming, so for me it’s stuck between 2 paradigms (each with simpler apps)- when I want to mind map I used MindNode, when I want to outline I use Workflowy.

But any time there’s a Mac version available that syncs with iOS I will take a closer look. The iOS version is currently free and has pretty wide price swings, so maybe the same will happen with the OSX app.

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 3, 2014 at 10:51 AM

New versions of MagicalPad for iOS and OS X were released today. “Automatic sync” is the headline feature. Be careful. In a test notebook I was unable to get the full content of a page created on the desktop to sync to the iPad—about half the figures on the pages were transmitted. After a few moments the iPad synced back to the desktop and the items that were not transmitted to iOS disappeared from the desktop page. There’s no way to recover this content. I immediately shut off Dropbox sync on both machines. There appears to be no way to do a manual sync—it’s either use the “automatic” feature or do not sync.

On the positive side, for now the Mac version is $9.99—down from $49.99.

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