Blueprint Lite (App Mockup‪)‬ 4+

This app has a lot of features no other mockup app has. Undo being the biggest advantage over other apps. It's very easy to use and easy to learn. Almost no coaching required. I was designing interfaces quickly and was happy as a clam, then I came to a screeching halt! I keep running up against the "this does not work in the lite version" message. That's really where this app fails, at least this version. I really liked this app until then. I cant understand why anyone would put out a lite version that doesn't allow you to use all the features? This is most notable on the Image, Image Sources screens. Limit the app in some other way. Number of screens maybe, don't disable the very features you are trying to promote. It makes no sense. There is absolutely no way I'm going to part with $20 for the full version of an app I can't try out. That's a lot of money for an app. (at least for me it is) Maybe it's worth it? Maybe not? For $20 I guess I'll never know.

I would easily give this 5 stars on the feature set of this app but it loses one star because of more than infrequent crashes--3 crashes in the last hour alone. I'm on iOS 6 on the latest iPad. Fortunately I have lost very little work after a crash. I DO like this app. I am impressed that the app just disappears and allows me to just think and dink with my user experience. I do wish some of the controls were "smarter" so you wouldn't have to duplicate screens to show small changes in UI state. For example, the On/Off control is mostly just used in changing settings--it usually does not activate a whole new view of your app. Would be nice to toggle the control without having to duplicate a view just with the toggle state changed. It would also be nice to have a functional slider control. Of course, I'm also asking for a richer message set along with more life like controls. for example, having something like a swipe action for the slider control so I could go somewhere in the UI based upon the slider value rather than simulating a swipe with multiple screens with the slider showing different amounts "of slide". The downside of having life-like controls of course is more complexity but for professional UI designers like me, I could more efficiently simulate my user experience with less copy and paste of static displays. I'm really not complaining, this is really a very nice piece of work stability issues aside.

Really nice tease, but just as I was getting comfortable with the features and it's quirks, I ran into the limitations. Did not learn enough to commit to the Pro version. For now, I will stick to XCode story boarding.

My recommendation is to remove the screen limitation (or make it a large number) and provide the full set of widgets. Getting a stronger taste of the potential full functionality might hook ones appetite, then focus on the next phase as input to platform dev in the Pro.