When you were young, the grown-ups used to catch you doodling little circles and lines on the back of your exercise books or paper napkins, instead of paying attention to what they said. They didnt realize that you need to sketch things out, how they relate to other things, in order to get them into your head and other peoples heads.
Much later, you learnt the grown-up names for these sketches — mind maps, concept maps, semantic networks, org charts, flowcharts, social networks, genomic hierarchies, E-R diagrams...
Sketch a rough shape with your finger and Instaviz transforms what you drew in a split second. Sketch a link between two shapes and Instaviz quickly redraws the graph with the best layout. No pesky user interface getting in the way of your brainstorm!
Instaviz 1.3 is now available on the App Store, featuring a whole swag of sharing enhancements for your diagrams!
Export them to Microsoft Visio 2007, email them to other iPhone and Mac users, import them from web servers and even open them from third-party apps and websites like Nocsos MyDBR and Ideatree.us.
newton-style shape drawing and more for your iphone.
john siracusa, ars technica (twitter).
this could be a problem.
i could spend hours just playing with this $9.95 app.
paulfranz (twitter).
this program is probably in the uppermost tier of design tools
that every on-the-go ... should have.
price? i would have paid double for this.
★★★★★ froguts (app store review).
... i realized the way the application organizing the chart is actually more logical
and forces me think my ideas through a little deeper.
i think i finally can eliminate paper from my life.
★★★★★ superluminous (app store review).
This makes for a very simple and incredibly fast way to construct our graphs:
its so practical and easy you just need to try it to get caught.
cdamions weblog (blog).
i often wish for a tool that would let me sketch charts on my iphone.
instaviz, from pixelglow software, is exactly what the doctor ordered.
steven sande, tuaw the unofficial apple blog (website).
im hypnotised by the correction of a fuzzy hand-drawn circle
into a clean crisp algorithmic circle.
nat torkington, oreilly radar (website).
if youve ever jotted on a napkin, you arent gonna have to do that anymore.jerad hill, the app podcast (video review).
instaviz uses graphviz ... and some clever shape recognition
to create an easy to use app with broad appeal.
dan grigsby, mobile orchard (podcast).
turns out, the developers ... put their energy into making a powerful one.
what is under the hood is pretty impressive.
★★★☆ danc, whatsoniphone.com (review website).
it does offer a pretty robust set of tools, though,
and its all integrated fairly well into the iPhone, with great support for multi-touch.
★★★★ gary lucero, 148apps (review website).
instaviz is one of the best mind-mapping apps that ive come across.
its dead simple to use and works quite well.
8/10 editors pick michael alexander, appcraver (review website).
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