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Posted by satis
Dec 13, 2022 at 11:18 PM
satis wrote:
>Seeing as you’re in the Apple ecosystem, take a look at Apple’s new
>Freeform app. Currently available on the latest versions of iOS and
>iPadOS, it is currently in the latest beta of macOS Ventura, due out
>soon. Seems to do what Scapple does and a *lot* more, allowing adding
>(and real-time sharing of and collaborating on) sketches, notes, files,
>web links, documents, photos, video, and audio.
Freeform is out officially today, alongside new versions of macOS, iOS and iPadOS. The app looks amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AM5Fgb-qjA
I think that $21 Scapple is effectively a dead duck on Mac compared to this more powerful, free alternative.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Dec 14, 2022 at 10:50 AM
Although it’s worth reminding people that Apple Numbers already did all this stuff, but had an accessible repository (in iCloud; you can’t access Freeform files directly) and was also collaborative
>
>satis wrote:
>
>>Seeing as you’re in the Apple ecosystem, take a look at Apple’s new
>>Freeform app. Currently available on the latest versions of iOS and
>>iPadOS, it is currently in the latest beta of macOS Ventura, due out
>>soon. Seems to do what Scapple does and a *lot* more, allowing adding
>>(and real-time sharing of and collaborating on) sketches, notes, files,
>>web links, documents, photos, video, and audio.
>
>Freeform is out officially today, alongside new versions of macOS, iOS
>and iPadOS. The app looks amazing.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AM5Fgb-qjA
>
>I think that $21 Scapple is effectively a dead duck on Mac compared to
>this more powerful, free alternative.
Posted by satis
Dec 14, 2022 at 02:41 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
> Apple Numbers already did all this stuff
I really don’t think it did.
https://www.macstories.net/reviews/freeform-leverages-the-freedom-and-flexibility-of-a-blank-canvas/
Posted by Chris Thompson
Dec 14, 2022 at 05:54 PM
The Freeform app seems very underwhelming to me. Nothing really attaches to anything else in a way that would make it easy to rearrange. I could imagine using it as a large white board mainly for sticky notes though.
Posted by steve-rogers
Dec 14, 2022 at 09:04 PM
I agree. Compared to Scapple which provides better tools for linking notes using flow chart-type arrows, I don’t foresee using it much.
Chris Thompson wrote:
The Freeform app seems very underwhelming to me. Nothing really attaches
>to anything else in a way that would make it easy to rearrange. I could
>imagine using it as a large white board mainly for sticky notes though.