Apple Freeform for the iPad (whiteboard) | complete review

[@ehoumanevans4783]

very very very good detail review on Apple Freeform for productivity and for starting from scratch ! Thank you!

[@warb]

Thanks for this detailed review! Let's hope iOS 17 at least introduces folders in Freeform. 😅 For me, the big feature that sets this app apart from Notes or Pages/Numbers is the infinite canvas. It's amazing to know there's always more room to grow outward in any direction from your existing work. Numbers has an infinite canvas too, but it can only grow to the right and down. Have an amazing day!

[@tommyboyindy1157]

I haven’t used either much, but how does Freeform compare with the MS whiteboard app?

[@PaperlessX]

We also want to test that, but Microsoft’s Whiteboard is probably better on Windows. On iPad it’s not great, at least from first impressions

[@vespucciph5975]

I would love to replace notability with freeform in the future. However, as of now it's still lacking to many features. I do like that they didn't include in into Apple Notes, though. It's a different use case.

[@valterviegas3970]

Mais um excelente vídeo, já deixei o like!!!.

[@PaperlessX]

Thank you!

[@oTK89o]

i would love to see your current "best practice" for your daily workflow. I am just entering the game of taking notes on the iPad. Between Notes, GoodNotes, Notability and even Obsidian. Also sometimes I have PPT's or PDF's to work with but still want to take notes on the site. I will continue to watch your videos but one like this would be especially interesting to me. Also simetimes I create things on the iPad or PC (shopping list) but want to cross it off on the iPhone. Currently I do this with taking a photo of the pc monitor and then manually cross that with the pencil :D

[@PaperlessX]

For your PC and iPhone shopping list, you can use Microsoft To-do. It is cross platform. We hope to start covering some detailed workflows soon. Hope they'll be helpful.

[@Papa-hs6yg]

I went thru all lthe Note taking apps like you're apparently doing now. Watch out for doing that. You end up with content all over the place and its a mess. Decide on one app, like Notes, and maybe Freeform or the like. Remember, you also have emails, safari bookmarks, numbers spreadsheets, contents of documents and files folders, etc.

[@Papa-hs6yg]

learned a lot from your comments even tho all negative. just starting with a whiteboard type app. very helpful in organizing me KZbin collection of vids. I take screen shots of 5 or 6 YT then move the screen shot to a board, and highlight the stuff I want to focus on first, like my woodworking projects. My main confusion at this point is finding stuff. It may be tiny, almost invisible to see a new text box and it could apparently be anywhere on the board, like buried in another paragraph of text somewhere. But I like it and having fun with it. Never tried doing the same kind of thing in a note. So maybe your point that its the same functionality as a Note is valid. I'll try it. But for now, I can't imagine you couldn't find anything positive to say about the app for newcomers like me who don't know any better. I would like to know more about mind mapping, and whether there are other apps better at that, but I dont really want to go out of the Apple apps built in to the ooperating system, so would Pages and Notes therefore be the only things to check out for mind mapping?

[@PaperlessX]

There are many mind mapping apps, Freeform is really a whiteboard than it is a mind mapping app. At its core, mind mapping can be done anywhere, in any app. But sure, we’ll cover more apps for that in the future.

[@mike_qbik]

Was looking for your take on this since its release. Superb! Looks like missed opportunity. Will rely on Keynote which would benefit with some of the Freeform features. Oh well .. half baked, I di share the same sentiment.

[@GuruGovindMahesh]

The collaboration feature doesn’t work some verification issue persists. If u can render a solution do help.

[@PaperlessX]

Unfortunately, the collaboration feature is terrible at the moment.

[@membeli999]

After trying Freeform, I took a year's subscription to Muse. Muse is quite expensive, but it is a delight to use, compared with Freeform.

[@PaperlessX]

We’ll check it out!

[@MaiElizabeth]

The reason I don't use Freeform is because it doesn't allow us to change the board colour and the lack and weird choice of pen/brush.

[@PaperlessX]

Really hope they improve that!

[@Papa-hs6yg]

seems like a lot of you spend too much time over cosmetic issues.

[@jacobeickhardt84]

Why is there no way to Organize your Boards in Folders? And I agere the Pencils are very bad! Very disappointed - was hoping to use it instead of Onenote :(

[@vishalmalhotra3217]

Why the voice is like that of Annabelle ?

[@PaperlessX]

The scary doll? 🤣

[@osamajavaid1]

Suggestion : Work on your voice to avoid this "breathy" voice

[@pebayou.3380]

😂😂😂... we love her voice... and the famous hello😊. I think you are the only one with that problem .