Description
INSTAVIZ is diagram sketching for your iPhone. Sketch some rough shapes and lines and Instaviz magically turns them into beautifully laid-out diagrams.
“Instaviz is one of the best mindmapping apps that i’ve come across. It’s dead simple to use and works quite well.” — 8/10 Editor's Pick, AppCraver.
“The developers put their energy into making a powerful one. What is under the hood is pretty impressive.” — ★★★½ What’s on iPhone.
“I often wish for a tool that would let me sketch charts on my iPhone. Instaviz is exactly what the doctor ordered.” — TUAW, The Unofficial Apple Blog.
“It does offer a pretty robust set of tools, and it’s all integrated fairly well into the iPhone, with great support for multi-touch.” — ★★★★ 148Apps.
“On the iPhone my mindmapping app of choice is Instaviz. It is a powerful, yet easy to use app that can’t help but impress.” — Gear Diary.
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 didn’t realize that you need to sketch things out, how they relate to other things, in order to get them into your head and other people’s heads.
Much later, you learnt the grown-up names for the sketch — mindmap, concept map, semantic network, org chart, flowchart, social network, workflow diagram, genomic hierarchy, E-R diagram...
Instaviz is a pocket whiteboard. Throw away the exercise books and paper napkins, Instaviz will figure out the diagram for you. Brainstorm and conceptualize like you use pencil and paper, without a pesky interface getting in your way. Then with a couple of taps, share your diagrams with friends and colleagues through email and websites.
• Tap on the Edit button and sketch out a rough shape. Instaviz magically transforms it into a neat ellipse, circle, rectangle, square, diamond or triangle.
• Tap on the Edit button and sketch a link between two shapes. Instaviz quickly redraws the diagram with the most pleasing layout.
• Scroll the diagram by dragging with one finger, or use two fingers in Edit mode. Zoom in and out by pinching with two fingers.
• To edit the label, color or style of a shape or link, tap on the Edit button, then double-tap on the shape or link.
• To change the shape, tap on the Edit button, then tap on the shape to select it and sketch the new shape over the old one.
• To delete a shape or link, tap on the Edit button, then tap on shape or link to select it and shake the iPhone.
• To share the diagram, tap on the action button at the main Graphs list, tap the graphs to check them, then choose a sharing method. You can preview to Camera Roll or Saved Photos, Email or Export the diagram to box.net, iDisk (MobileMe) or any WebDAV server. You can choose Graphviz GV, PDF, PNG and Visio VDX formats.
• To import a new diagram, tap on the action button button at the main Graphs list, then tap on the Import button. You can import the diagram from box.net, iDisk (MobileMe) or any website, in the Graphviz GV format.
WATCH a video of Instaviz in action:
http://instaviz.com/video/1/
http://instaviz.com/video/2/
http://instaviz.com/video/3/
PRINT and EXPORT Instaviz diagrams with the FREE Mac and Windows application Instavue:
http://instaviz.com/instavue/
• Instaviz uses Recog, a new shape recognition engine. Trained on over 2,500 sketches drawn by real users, Recog uses advanced fuzzy logic to recognize what you just sketched in a split second.
• Instaviz uses Graphviz as its automated graph layout engine. The industry standard for automated graph layout, Graphviz represents over 18 years of research work at AT&T and won two Apple Design Awards in 2004.
These apps and websites can open their diagrams in Instaviz:
Nocsos myDBR — http://www.mydbr.com
Ideatree.us — http://ideatree.us
What's New in Version 1.5
• Better graph display while scrolling and zooming.
• Animates graph changes.
• Better autoscrolling in Edit mode.
• Two-finger panning and zooming in Edit mode.
• Batch file operations in Graphs list.
• Complete help files and localizations in 10 languages.
See complete list of enhancements and bug fixes: http://trac.pixelglow.com/instaviz/wiki/WhatHasChanged
Customer Reviews
A Huge Leap
This application is only application is only getting poor reviews because it is not well documented. Almost all of the features that the other reviewers say aren't there (i.e. shape changing, exporting, deleting, etc.) are actually there. Initially the auto-arranging feature was a bid odd and I found myself wanting to rearange the diagram, but then I realized that the way the application organizing the chart is actually more logical and forces me to think my ideas through a little bit deeper.
I think I finally can eliminate paper from my life. I frequently have to chart out software applications, marketing plans, general business process and story ideas and this app along with Zeptoliner gives me all I need. It is expensive but very worth it. I downloaded the only competing app iDiagram and this app is so much quicker to use.
Stunned!
Um, I used to use ibluesky for mindmapping and still love it, BUT this program is probably in the uppermost tier of design tools that EVERY on-the-go: programmer, IT, Engineer, Project Developer, etc.(HEY THIS MEANS YOU!) Should Have. If you own and use any outlining or mind-mapping software on your iphone you should seriously consider Instavis. I was actually amazed at the quality of pics I was able to screenshot and email, and it synced to my idisk quickly too. Wow! Wow! Wow! Who needs a computer anymore. Price? I would have paid double for this.
an amazing app
I build geoprocessing models in ArcGIS at work. I just used Instaviz to lay out a complex analysis task (about 20 separate GIS operations) while waiting for my kids to finish their dinner. The application's unobtrusive interface is amazingly effective; I was up and running in minutes, building complex model diagrams far faster than I can build them in ArcGIS. It's actually faster to think out the analyses in Instaviz and recreate them as ArcGIS models than it is to think out and build the same models in ArcGIS. And I won't lose my train of thought while looking for the right GP tools in ArcGIS; I can whip up a graph diagram in Instaviz as fast as I can think thru a problem. Pure genius.
- $9.99
- Category: Business
- Updated: Dec 04, 2009
- Current Version: 1.5
- 1.0 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Seller: Pixelglow Software
- © 2008–2009 Pixelglow Software Pty. Ltd.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
