Hi! Hope this form of promotion is acceptable here, but if not, I'll gladly remove the post. I've been working on a new drawing app for a while now - the initial sketches I made back in 2023, and...
Hi! Hope this form of promotion is acceptable here, but if not, I'll gladly remove the post.
I've been working on a new drawing app for a while now - the initial sketches I made back in 2023, and I've been teaching myself Swift and SwiftUI until I recently dusted off the project, polished it a bit and registered to be published on the App Store, so here it is!
Cassini is an intentionally limited drawing app with a skeuomorphic design inspired by the Teenage Engineering OP-1 (readers familiar with my work will be aware I'm a little obsessed with it). It's an intentionally limited app, and it encourages you to see these constraints not as limitations, but as opportunities to make something you wouldn't make otherwise.
For example, every Cassini canvas is 1000x500. That's it. No other resolutions exist, no other aspect ratios. If you want to make a portrait piece, you will have to physically rotate your device. Cassini offers a 12-colour palette, and comes with 16 palettes preloaded. There's no layers, only your drawings and a background, you can not import images, and there is a single undo state.
Likewise, you can save files, but you can't name them. They will get a randomly assigned nonsense name, which you can reroll. You can add real time filters to your artwork, but the parameters are cryptic and require experimentation. You can add patterns, if you like one of the 15 procedural ones.
Cassini is free to download and currently on TestFlight as I want to collect some feedback before I actually submit it to the app store. As such, some bugs are to be expected. Please email me if you find any, or use the built in feedback tool.
I’m excited to have a play with this, I’m enjoying the design quite a lot on first load. It comes across as somewhere between game and app, and I really like the way you’ve implemented the manual!...
I’m excited to have a play with this, I’m enjoying the design quite a lot on first load. It comes across as somewhere between game and app, and I really like the way you’ve implemented the manual! I’ll need to dust off my gen 1 apple pencil and charge it up to have a proper play, as this (presumably deliberately?) doesn’t support finger input. More feedback to follow when I’ve done that :D
Gorgeous app and website! I love the skeuomorphic UI, especially the keys as they really do show their Teenage Engineering inspiration. I'm also a sucker for serif fonts in tech, much like old...
Gorgeous app and website! I love the skeuomorphic UI, especially the keys as they really do show their Teenage Engineering inspiration. I'm also a sucker for serif fonts in tech, much like old Apple designs, and it's tastefully used here. I don't think I've seen your work before so I explored your website and I absolutely love your stuff haha, especially the Hypermetro wayfinding map and the ISA branding!
It's apps like these that make me miss having an iPad. I love my Android tablet but there just aren't as many beautifully designed apps available for it, understandably so as the market is tiny. I've been thinking about switching back to an iPad (even if my Android tablet works fine) just to be able to experience apps like this haha.
Hi! Hope this form of promotion is acceptable here, but if not, I'll gladly remove the post.
I've been working on a new drawing app for a while now - the initial sketches I made back in 2023, and I've been teaching myself Swift and SwiftUI until I recently dusted off the project, polished it a bit and registered to be published on the App Store, so here it is!
Cassini is an intentionally limited drawing app with a skeuomorphic design inspired by the Teenage Engineering OP-1 (readers familiar with my work will be aware I'm a little obsessed with it). It's an intentionally limited app, and it encourages you to see these constraints not as limitations, but as opportunities to make something you wouldn't make otherwise.
For example, every Cassini canvas is 1000x500. That's it. No other resolutions exist, no other aspect ratios. If you want to make a portrait piece, you will have to physically rotate your device. Cassini offers a 12-colour palette, and comes with 16 palettes preloaded. There's no layers, only your drawings and a background, you can not import images, and there is a single undo state.
Likewise, you can save files, but you can't name them. They will get a randomly assigned nonsense name, which you can reroll. You can add real time filters to your artwork, but the parameters are cryptic and require experimentation. You can add patterns, if you like one of the 15 procedural ones.
Cassini is free to download and currently on TestFlight as I want to collect some feedback before I actually submit it to the app store. As such, some bugs are to be expected. Please email me if you find any, or use the built in feedback tool.
I’m excited to have a play with this, I’m enjoying the design quite a lot on first load. It comes across as somewhere between game and app, and I really like the way you’ve implemented the manual! I’ll need to dust off my gen 1 apple pencil and charge it up to have a proper play, as this (presumably deliberately?) doesn’t support finger input. More feedback to follow when I’ve done that :D
Gorgeous app and website! I love the skeuomorphic UI, especially the keys as they really do show their Teenage Engineering inspiration. I'm also a sucker for serif fonts in tech, much like old Apple designs, and it's tastefully used here. I don't think I've seen your work before so I explored your website and I absolutely love your stuff haha, especially the Hypermetro wayfinding map and the ISA branding!
It's apps like these that make me miss having an iPad. I love my Android tablet but there just aren't as many beautifully designed apps available for it, understandably so as the market is tiny. I've been thinking about switching back to an iPad (even if my Android tablet works fine) just to be able to experience apps like this haha.