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Found Footage: Instaviz, graph sketching app for iPhone
I spend a lot of my time with a dry erase marker and whiteboard sketching diagrams for clients. I draw use case diagrams, flow charts, mind maps, you name it. On my Macs, I use the shape tools in Pages to draw my diagrams, but I often wish for a tool that would let me sketch charts on my iPhone.
Instaviz (click opens iTunes), from Pixelglow Software, is exactly what the doctor ordered. You can sketch out a rough shape (circle, rectangle, square, diamond, or triangle) with your finger, and Instaviz "cleans up" your sketch by turning it into a clean, symmetrical shape. Links between shapes are done by just dragging a finger between the shapes, and Instaviz automatically enters a straight or curved line to connect the shapes.
You can choose colors for the different shapes and lines through a color picker, zoom in or out using the familiar iPhone two-finger pinch/reverse-pinch gestures, add or edit labels, and scroll around your diagram. To erase objects, you tap on them and then shake the iPhone "Etch-A-Sketch" style.
The US$9.99 app can export graphs to a MobileMe iDisk or any WebDAV server in DOT/GV or PDF format. Here's a video showing the app in action:
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alan said 6:19PM on 12-09-2008
anyone notice that's actually an iPod Touch?
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Muero said 7:32PM on 12-09-2008
Well, it is officially called the iPhone OS.
jeremy said 9:49PM on 12-09-2008
LOL I was so confused at the end when the headphones were at the bottom.
Jeff said 7:39PM on 12-09-2008
Those graphs could certainly stand to be prettied up a bit.
...but the interface seems pretty straight-forward.
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Mattias said 4:07AM on 12-10-2008
This would work better for an OS X application on your desk? Draw it and it turns into circles, boxes etc... Use OmniGraffle now, good and everything, but it would be a lot faster to simply draw it.
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Kate said 6:07AM on 12-10-2008
check this out guys.
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Tak said 1:19PM on 12-10-2008
Wow! I've actually been wondering why Apple hadn't already done this for the iPhone/touch. I have this feature on my 10-year-old Apple Newton, and it was the greatest tool for drafting sketches during meetings.
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