PaintCode 2 App Reviews

Two days after swift release, update is live! Thank you PixelCut for your loyalty to your product. Looking forward to more font attribute options in the future, but certainly not a deal-breaker. Original review: If you’re a developer, this tool is the ultimate for "woo-ing” clients and end users. The custom views and controls that this produces are amazing. Custom color schemes that can be easily changed, dynamic views, SVG import, and more. There is also a limited expression set you can tie into the code that is produced. 10/10.

The title says it all! Writing drawing code isn’t easy and certainly not a very rewarding job, as it can take hours before you have a decent result. Thanks to PaintCode, I don’t have to manually write drawing code anymore. It alows me to quickly turn a design into code and integrate it into my Cocoa project, so I have more time focusing on the acutal business processes I have to model. The features that have been added in version 2 are amazing. I don’t regret buying the update. Especially the advanced dynamic features make creating dynamic UI elements even easier!

If youre a developer writing anything but a Console-only application this app belongs in your tool kit. Period.

One of the greates tools a developer can use. I use PaintCode for iPad-Apps and it really is amazing. Not only for designing views but for creating concepts like graphs or charts. I taught me a lot so from my part a „must have“ tool.

…At least for me, this App puts App-Designing on a new level. Easy to use, useful integration of vectorgraphics and Photoshop graphics and the ‚Variables & Expressions‘ Sections is great! Thanks to the developers for this App!

I’ve been using PaintCode (1 + 2) for years now and it is an amazing tool that keeps getting better with every update. Updates come frequently and timely (in lockstep with Swift) and none has ever worsened the app - each update brings it more forward, at least for me. Developer support and accessibility is as outstanding as the app itself. If you draw “things” into your UI, are tired of generating and shipping x versions of backing images and look for the best possible approach to create adaptive layouts, then PaintCode is it. And of course if you keep things moving, bouncing, shrinking, pulsing, changeing form and color, following paths… animating - then Paintcode is even more invaluable. You can tell I really like, endorse and wholeheartedly recommend it. Just great and it keeps getting better with each update. I’ve noticed a complaint in the review section that PaintCode might be too expensive and should be made available between .99 Ct and 4.99. I personally have made back the small investment for PaintCode on my first day of using it and with the introduction of the iPhone6, 6+, the Apple Watch and the iPad Pro this 100 Euros I’ve paid (for each version) has turned out as “the bank that keeps on giving”. Given that only professional developers would even be interested in PaintCode it’s even more baffling, especially they, or us, should know 0.99 ct trashy Apps are the root cause why we can’t have more nice things. If PixelCut would need to adapt to a more sustainable pricing model of maybe 5 USD / monthly for upcoming versions and an annual subscription I’d be on board. I’m not writing this in defense of high pricing or to dismiss the in my opinion misguided but ever present desire that everything needs to be cheap. But one thing is for sure - the value of a tool is never to be measured by it’s price, but always and exclusively by it’s return.

This app is an absolute must for anyone who has created custom interface components, or any other imagery for that matter! This version is a major step up from the previous and adds some powerful new tools to its already great repertoire. I’ve used PaintCode for everything from icons, logos, and custom nifty little custom UI components. It also provides great flexibility in working with the generated code which makes it great to integrate into almost any application. I strongly recommend this app! It will pay for itself dozens of times over.

Anyone who makes custom drawn views on OS X or iOS should have this app. This app will pay for itself in a few days and continue to pay off everytime you need to do drawing. Even simple shapes and curves are quicker to draw in PaintCode than handcode. Strongly recommended!

I used to have high hopes for this app. Sadly it seems to have fallen into oblivion. I contacted the developers through direct email and through twitter and got no feedback. They announced new things a while back that have not been heard of since. I fear they didn’t reach critical mass. This last update was minimalist. No blog post, no news about the promised features. I’m not sure I want to invest in this tool that may not be here down the road. I hope I’m wrong since I really like this app.

Its tempting to equate amazing results with a painful learning curve but not here. I was knocking out quality code and replacing old PNGs in my app while giving only a cursory glance to their great documentation. The price is high but so is the quality of the results - the output is better than making the PNGs myself and theyre future proof, too. Hard core Xcoders are clearly behind this app as it just sliped into my workflow with hardly a ripple. Im already saving time. Its safe to say we no longer need art apps to make app graphics.

I can’t tell how much time i save with using PainCode. the verison one was good, this is amazing, Just amazing! Dealing with visuals is always a big pain to me, this one going to change the way how i write code. already it is able to generate Swift code. it is great. Their support is perfect! Thank you.

Absolutely must have!

I have mixed feelings about this app, but I have to accept that theres just no alternative to it. Cons: Seems to be heavily biased towards minizing the learning curve at the expense of the speed of professional usage. The editing workflow is cumbersome and slow, nothing at all like Adobe apps; forget those hundreds of keyboard shortcuts and decades of polish that Photoshop and Illustrator provide (not to mention actions, history and pro stuff like that). All the powerful features of this tool seem to be done in the most painful way possible. Pros: Knows how to implement inner shadows, transparency layers, blending modes and all the other CoreGraphics stuff much better than I do. Additionally, its a neat tool to quickly get the coordinates of beziers that look right or match specific points on an image. Basically it delivers the value, even if the experience isnt nearly as pleasant as Id like it to be. Ive been resisting buying this tool again for a long time (“again” because I owned a v1 license which I never used, and their upgrade policy is “nope”), but I promised myself to purchase it the first time I use the generated code to draw an actual control. Lo and behold, that time has come.

It’s very helpful instruments but it supports up to Swift 2.0. When Swift 2.1????

Doesn’t appear to have a trim function. Just boolean operations that do not seem to produce intuitive results. Can’t get it to snap a line to an existing node. Help function just points to the menu item. Still looks like it can save time.

Thank you for such a great app.

Version 2 is even more awesome than v1. Amazing work, incredibly useful.

Well thought out application with some surprising capabilities. Go through the tutorials and pay special attention to the color inheritance, variables, and expressions. Clearly the developers tried to make the user interface compatible with Xcode and the integration between the two tools is almost seamless. I can see Apple buying this product in the future.

One of the best UI helper tools for ObjC development I’ve used. This utility and Attributed String Creator are two essentials for any heavy-lifting help with your UI coding. I can’t imagine doing without either one. Great tutorials, too!

I like paintcode but I can’t understand why it does not provide a way to fit text within a rect or frame. It seems like a big over site and something that is easy to fix. Please fix that.