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“Astropad Mini features breakthrough network technology that keeps up with you even when wireless,” developers said.
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On the Mac side, Liquid uses GPU acceleration to mirror what’s on your Mac to your iPhone. On the iPhone side, Astropad Mini takes full advantage of ARM assembly code to maximize both battery life and performance. Well, Astropad owes its smoothness to a proprietary engine dubbed Liquid which provides nearly three times faster performance (12ms) versus Apple’s AirPlay (36ms) and image quality better than the highest quality JPEG. How’s an app like this possible, you ask. In addition to finger-based drawing, Astropad Mini supports all pressure sensitive styli available for iOS, ranging from FiftyThree’s Pencil to varied styli from Adonit (all models), Wacom (all models made for iOS), Pogo (Connect 2), Adobe (Ink) and Hex3 (JaJa)
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This includes both established creative apps such as Pixelmator and Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom and apps like Capture One.īecause Astropad was designed as a software graphics tablet that offers the most powerful way to make photo edits with your Mac, the app is particularly useful for making quick edits as spot healing, smoothing skin textures, patching, dodging and burning, precision masking and so forth. Literally any Mac app can be used in conjunction with Astropad Mini for iPhone and Apple Watch. “What you see on your iPhone is the same as on your Mac. “Built for the needs of creative professionals, Astropad Mini is true to your source material with color corrected output and retina resolution,” reads the blurb. It has customizable shortcuts, lets you pinch to zoom and pan in Mac apps, includes customizable shortcuts and more.

You can also hook up your iPhone to a Mac via USB to maximize performance and image quality.Īstropad Mini runs on any iPhone with iOS 8 or later and supports all pressure sensitive iOS styli.
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Upon installing a desktop helper app (no drivers required) and opening Astropad Mini on your iPhone, the two will establish a connection over Wi-Fi. In a nutshell, this sophisticated piece of software couples the iPhone’s touch display with your Mac and mirrors your Mac’s screen on your iPhone, allowing you to naturally draw and retouch directly into popular popular creative applications such as Photoshop, Lightroom and more. “We’ve completely rethought and redesigned Astropad for the iPhone and we’re ready for Force Touch,” co-founder Matt Ronge told me in an email. The team just released Astropad Mini, an iPhone edition of Astropad’s iPad app with Apple Watch support for remote drawing into Mac apps and more. We wrote about Astropad Graphics Tablet, an app that turns your iPad into a graphics tablet for your Mac, shortly following its February 2015 debut.ĭesigned and built by smart ex-Apple engineers Matt Ronge and Giovanni Donelli, the app has since been updated with support for FiftyThree’s Pencil stylus and gained other new features.
