Shapes 5

Shapes 5

By Celestial Teapot Software

Description

Shapes is a simple, elegant diagramming and vector graphics app. Shapes gives you all of the most important features you need in a diagramming and vector design tool without all the extra cruft, at an affordable price. Shapes has support for "connected" lines. When resizing lines, the lines magnetically snap to other shapes. Then, as you drag the connected shape around the canvas, the connected lines adjust themselves as well. Shapes offers "smart" paths which can be used for connecting boxes and shapes with smooth, curvy lines without requiring lots of fussy fiddling. Shapes also includes a powerful Bézier Path tool for creating vector graphics of nearly any shape or description. Additionally, Core Image Filters like "Pointillize", "Pixellate", "Gaussian Blur", "Sepia Tone", "Twirl Distort", and more can be combined and applied to any vector shape or image on the canvas. Shapes is great for Programmers and Web Designers looking for a simple tool for rapidly designing flowcharts, laying out wireframes, or visualizing model relationships without getting lost in a sea of extraneous and confusing features. Shapes is also a swell vector graphics tool for designing icons and other graphics using bézier paths. Shapes lets you get to work quickly by giving you just the basic tools you need in a slick, single-window user interface. Shapes is a thoroughly Mac-native app offering QuickLook support, Fullscreen Mode, Version Browsing and iCloud Document Storage. Export your compositions in common image formats like SVG, PNG, JPEG, TIFF or multiple-page PDF.

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Reviews

  • Five stars PLUS

    5
    By Mark in Tigard OR
    I love this program. It made diagramming flow charts so easy. And it was so inexpensive. Plus they keep updating it and making it better! I just willingly and unnecessarily bought a new copy just to support them. I am a software developer and I really appreciate this company (product). Seriously, it’s a great program, continues to be improved, and should cost more.
  • Still Buggy

    3
    By pipentassle
    I came back and bought this app (again), and it’s still buggy. The text boxes in certain circumstances will move as you change the font size (slide the size up and down and watch the textbox move across your screen). Also, can’t print to PDF. Gives the error “Error while printing.” The workaround is to choose “Mail PDF, then save the PDF from there. Still waiting for the bugs to be worked out with this software, because it has potential to be really cool (and flexible), but it’s just not there yet.
  • Simple but glitchy

    3
    By uxyvty
    It has the functions that I want, and is simple to use. I like that. And the price is good. But it's full of glitches, as if the author never uses it: Control-clicking on an object doesn't pop up a menu like the video says—it zooms in by 5000%! There's no documentation or help, beyond 6 videos on the website. There's no apparent way to leave a control (like "line" or "text") selected, so you need to press it again for each object you draw. If you group objects, then rotate them 90º, and then ungroup, they rotate back to their old position! In one doc that I created but not another: When drawing a curve with no fill, existing objects behind it are painted out in white until I zoom in and out again to make it redraw. Make a polygon grey and only part of it gets shaded until I make it redraw. Selecting a polygon in a group highlights its line on some parts of the shape but not others, and draws its fill in some parts of the shape but not others. "Save as PDF" always uses the filename "Untitled", not the source file's name. On one computer but not another: After I print to a PDF, the document gets marked as modified, every time, so the PDF always ends up looking out of date, older than the source file. That's all after one evening of using it! (macOS 10.12)
  • Great Shapes

    4
    By karlostjackal
    I have used Shapes since 2011 and it is a great tool for creating simple images. I bought the original Shapes back in 2011 and upgraded it to 3.5, but it has been crashing unexpectedly on macOS 10.12.1 and there is no upgrade for it. In addition, Shapes 4 does not open .shapes files created by Shapes 3.5. These two items are why I cannot give it a 5-star rating. I did still purchase Shapes 4 because I like the tool and I want to use it, and since 3.5 still crashes then Shapes 4 is the only option.
  • Crashes constantly!

    1
    By Schwa!
    A 10 dolloar app should not crash constantly. Very disappointing:(
  • Unusable

    1
    By PSkeath
    Running OS X 10.11.6 on 2015 MacBook Pro. Opened Shapes 4, couldn’t draw the rectangle shape, then crashed the first time I drew a free-form line with the pen tool. Decided to restart MacBook Pro, then tried again. Same problem. I purchased Shapes 4 for ease of use, but VERY sorry to say it doesn’t seem to work at all with OS X 10.11.6 on MacBook Pro.
  • Much more simple than OmniGraffle

    5
    By YandY
    I do charts and diagrams occasionally - not a lot - and find Shapes to be a *simple* and *reliable* tool to achieve your goals very quickly. Thank you, Todd!
  • Can’t Install Via App Store

    1
    By fava fave
    Doesn’t install, on OSX 10.11.1
  • NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH PREVIOUS VERSION

    1
    By Nonlinearmind
    To be honest, I haven’t tried using the app beyond going up to the file menu and trying to open a shapes document that I created in Shapes 3.5. What the developer deceptively does not mention in this app’s description is that there is no way of opening a file from the previous version. Very disappointing, because I really loved version 3.5 and created many many documents with it that all no longer be able to open in future versions.
  • Pretty cool little app…great price!

    4
    By Bad Kitty
    I needed to create a quick flowchart to show a friend a process, and I found a couple of free utillities online. They weren’t very good. I found Shapes, and it is very easy to use. There are a couple of quirks, like I haven’t found a way to change the page size or orientation (I’d like to make a tabloid-sized chart for my friend), and I’d like to see a “connector” function that automatically joins the “handle” of one shape to another…right now you have to drag the tools from the sidebar, then manually drag the ends of the connector in place. However, once joined, the shapes can be moved and the connectors adjust, unlike trying to do the same thing in Keynote. Also, if you download the trial from the developer and you’ve created a diagram, it won’t let you save. However, you can “Select All” and copy, quit the program, install the new paid version, then paste. It does support multiple pages, though, and I don’t know if this would work if you had more than one page. I’d recommend the app, and look forward to a few minor enhancements…but for now, it works well!

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