Hi All I'd like to introduce my diagram sketching app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and new for the iPad. Sketch some shapes and links and Instaviz magically turns them into beautiful flowcharts, mindmaps and diagrams. Check it out: More details here: http://instaviz.com I'm giving away 5-10 promo codes, depending on demand. Here's what you have to do to get them: You need to have over 50 posts in the Touch Arcade forums and be able to claim promo codes from the US App Store. Post in this thread why you want Instaviz or how you will use Instaviz. I'll choose the best 5-10 replies in 48 hours, and PM them a code each. Thanks for playing! Cheers Glen Low Pixelglow Software
Based on the video, this is a sophisticated app with an incredible number of uses. Personally, I'd use this to draft network diagrams in the early planning stages of projects. I can do without messy scratch sheets which after some time easily become illegible. With Instaviz, I can go through various iterations and not compromise the overall look with messy doodles and scratches. I can seamlessly make changes on the fly and have it look clean and professional no matter how many iterations my diagram just underwent. Also, I can use this app to mindmap a brainstorming session to intricately capture all details put on the table. After brainstorming, I can easily remove items that fall off the map or are redundant without mistakenly sacrificing the integrity of the various buckets of the details captured. Conversely, I can easily add and capture ideas. The end result will be a more robust mindmapping session I can feel confident about. This app is mighty fine!
Yeah, this would be ideal for database designs and flowcharting. More importantly it's an ideal app to help me justify my iPad for work. I'm finding more and more reasons why it's a better choice over a standard netbook. Can you export the diagrams as anything more than just an image? And does it have a snap-to-grid function?
Whoa. I'd never even heard of this app before. Looks like a perfect match for my plans to create new documentation at work. Just got promoted into a lead administrator position in the local site for a pretty big gov't agency. We have a few hundred Unix servers that are not well documented at all. I'm starting to build physical and logical diagrams of the equipment we have and the locations we have them set up. Since no one has a proper physical layout diagram, I'm having to do this by hand. If I get Instaviz, I think I could just draw the rack and server layouts on my iPod and then use that to work from my desk to diagram everything in another format for the rest of the department to use. Those videos on the instaviz web page are pretty amazing. And I'm a bit surprised this tool can do all that you show and still just cost $9.99. Whether or not I get a code, I'm very happy that you posted here so I can put this high on my list of apps I want. May get it in the future if I don't get a code.
I'm sure people will have better reasons, especially for their jobs, but the reason I want it is for my kids (11 & 12) to learn off of and make their schoolwork easier as i've seen my older one do diagrams before and I think this will help them make better ones in the future for their classes...and they love my iPad I would love to get this app, and will definitely review it, but this app wouldn't be for me...would like to get it for my younger ones to play with and use.
Yay. This is my 50th post... Oh wait. It has to be OVER 50. Doh! I have been looking for a diagram program for the ipad for network and simple script programming flowcharts. Sketching shapes for diagramming seems like a very easy/quick way of doing them on the iPad. Time to show the guys at work that there are other things than games on the iPad .
You can export to Graphviz GV (importable by Omnigraffle, Graphviz etc.), PDF, PNG and Visio VDX. If you download the free Instavue, you can also export to EMF (Windows only), Postscript and SVG. There's currently no snap to grid feature, since the app totally handles the layout for you. It's been a user request, so once I figure out a suitable UI, I may put it into 2.0. Cheers Glen Low Pixelglow Software http://instaviz.com
Hoping to hear more ideas from folks on what they could use this for. This looks to be one of the most useful work related apps I've seen. Need more ideas for uses for it, as one way or another I'm going to be getting this soon, and I want to get maximum mileage out of it.
I wish I had 50 posts because this app sounds extremely useful. As an IT Manager, I could definitely use something like this for many of the reasons others have listed, especially network diagramming. Outside of work, as the person who does web design work for my church, I could definitely see the uses for thinking up ideas for a redesign we need to undertake in the near future.
I think if instaviz will be useful for system workflows or process workflows that dictate how an system will behave like an inventory or sales processing system. This workflow diagram can be then exported to my website or intranet so I can show my IT manager the way the system is designed or work, that will be useful. does your app do pie charts?
No it doesn't, it's really focussed on fast flowchart, mindmap and workflow diagram creation and editing. Cheers Glen Low Pixelglow Software http://instaviz.com
Ok just posted my review on iTunes. I Really like what this could become. I don't know that it's a $10 app right now, but if you can add some additional functionality to meet the business/database/IT manager crowd, then yeah. Easily. More flowcharting options... Basically emulate other flowcharting programs out there, export as an indented list or csv file, "scratch out" a node or connection to delete, add an undo button, etc... Maybe add support to export/import to Dropbox and Evernote. Again, looking forward to seeing what more this app could become.
I've had this app on my want list since it was released and never committed. I need an uber-simple flowchart app to quickly record ideas from meetings and such. My brain thinks in flowcharts and I have full-fledged mac programs to document them in the comfort of my home, but nothing that I can use in the field, as it were. This looks to fit the bill perfectly.
Installed it tonight via promo code, and already played with it some. I think it will be handy for me for documenting server racks and system configs, even though I'll be abusing it to get it handling something a bit different from what it is designed for. The way I think about equipment, though, matches well with how this app works, so for my own personal use this should be great. Then I can take the data and put it into another format via my laptop and get the information out in a format my cow-orkers can digest. Really looking forward to working with this over the next few days.
