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Just curious. Did the guys from Balsamiq hire you to port their app (Balsamiq Mockups) to the iPad and use their graphics? I’m assuming yes since it’s practically the same product name and UI elements.

Very cool. I’m looking forward to trying out all kinds of great iPad apps that will help me in my UX Design work. It’s hard to believe that there are some people that just think the iPad is a bigger version of the iPhone. I certainly would never think of creating mockups on any mobile phone just because of the screen size.

Looks ideal for several purposes at work. Cost?

What about interoperation with the desktop, for those unfortunate enough not to have an iPad?

Please come out with Desktop version as well, i would definitely buy it

Looks really nice. Being a developer, I could really use something like this.

That’s terrific. As soon as iPad becomes available in my region, you’ve got yourself a customer!

Love it, want it.

now - please give us a basic uml modeller someone - and we can do much of the applicationdesign with touch - both UI-wise and Class-wise

Love the app …

hey, does this allow for all the cool drop-down menus and other non-iphone specific interface elements? i’d assume so. this is definitely on my list of must buy iphone apps (i actually made the list just because of your app), because i am buying an ipad for the explicit purpose of programming an ipad. i am in charge of interface design, so it is great that i can use the ipad to design the interface! i also am salivating thinking of all sorts of things i can mock up. thanks for your hard work!

@ken
This is fantastic, excellent work. WIll iMockup be able to export to and import from Balsamiq Mockups?

Ok, bought the app and it looks promising - but, where is the color? I was concerned it was black and white only when I saw the video and now it appears I was correct? Will this be corrected in the next release?

Balsamiq support please! Either that, MockFlow or your own Desktop client. I see you’re planning an update to support exporting as pdf or XML - this is great, but I’m more concerned with being able to take the mockups created on iPad, have them worked on by someone who doesn’t have access to an iPad and vice versa. This would be killer!

What is needed is “MockupML” so that those who develop with these tools can transfer to other tools easily. Of course it may be that there will be items that don’t transfer but the core will be supported. The visual look of a window might change, but the data will be shareable. IT is also possible to allow custom extensions in a standard so that “round tripping” is possible for any application.

MockupML would grow the market - I hope that the competitors can work to make this happen, perhaps with an intermediary to moderate.

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Any thoughts to creating ‘toolkits’ that could have various graphic pallets that could be selected based on what you’re developing for? I don’t do web or iPhone/iPad development, but I do develop in FileMaker. I’ve downloaded and I’m going to give it a try but it would be nice if user’s could either develop their own graphic objects, or better still if the app came with different pallets that could be selected for each project. For example this project is for an iPhone app, so I use the iPhone pallet. This other project is for a FileMaker app so I will use the FileMaker pallet.

Any chance you guys would do a web app or desktop app. Or could you recommend one that would be the equivalent of your iPad app on web/desktop? I know your iPad app is the best in its class but I don’t see myself or my colleagues having one within the next couple of years. Good luck.

The iPad is the perfect platform for this app. I agree with you Ken. There is plenty of room for innovation in this area and you guys are doing exactly that. Great job! Thanks for the latest iPad update, really nice. Keep it up.

In the same way of Steve’s suggestion (April 6th), that would be nice to have a graphic pallet based on the platform. For example, I would be interested to have the layout and controls for Microsoft Dynamics CRM (xRM). I know I can probably do a generic mockup that would represent the idea, but if the controls, the layout and the colors were similar to the real thing, that would be very interesting. Thanks.

Man that looks like a nice app. To bad the iPad isn’t remotely in the budget.

Any word a of OSX version? (I know that might be too much to ask. . .)

looks fantastic! i be sure to buy this when my iPad arrives on monday!

@Robert Dall
Yes, it’s called Balsamic.

Hi, I just got my iPad at the Apple store, and the first app I loaded on it was iMockups. Thank you for making such a brilliant, intuitive product that makes laying out wireframes such a breeze. You guys are awesome!

This looks great, I only have one question before i buy it. Can you export your mockups? Perhaps save as a PDF or a flat image that can be emailed to a client?

Addendum to previous bug report :
Image import failure only applies to image elements in old mockups ( I.e. Those created with the old app version). Creating a new image element or cloning an old one works as advertised.
Suggestion : at the moment, the source image stretches to fit the image element bounds. It might be useful to have the image maintain its aspect ratio and clip itself so it fills the image element without stretching.
Suggestion 2 : when you hit the import image button, recall which image album we were last selected an image from, and start in that album. If you want to add multiple images from the same album, this would save lots of time.
Thanks for listening !

Looks great, but you need a translator asap. The german language description in the AppStore is very bad and wrong and sounds funny at best. Drop me a note if you need help, it’s not that much text, after all.

hi guys any chance of adding more iphone interface elements like pickers and the notification screens? i love this product! it’s made my life sooo much easier! keep up the great work!

@xian

Hi Xian,

We definitely have plans to add more iphone interface elements in a future update. We will try our best to get them out as soon as we can.

That’s awesome to hear that you are loving iMockups! Thank you for your support. We really appreciate it.

If you have any other suggestions or questions, feel free to let us know.

Thanks,

Linda
Community Manager, Endloop Studios

Hello, first I want to thank you for an already great app that really boosts the usefullness of my iPad. I would really appreciate
- more standard shapes like horizontal and vertical lines
- a browser-shape that reflects the toolbar-stuffed reality (less usable space)
- a stencil Import like omni graffle would be just great (or any other way to add new and/or custom shapes)
- IMPORTANT: Make use of the VGA Adapter so that we can work together and use a projector. This is really killing me at the moment, because I am pretty much limited to use iMockup just for my rough ideas … no way using it with clients. So I have to change to a desktop Applikation …
- Support of the workflow like adding notes and comments to pages an objects.
- It would be very helpful if several objects could be coloured … e.g. to mark them as “to be delivered”

Are you planning an update already and what will be key features?

Chaot

@chaot

Hi Chaot,

Thank you for your suggestions. We love hearing them as it helps to point us in the right direction.

Our latest version will include some of the features you have requested. We plan to submit an update today and hope to release v1.08 as soon as it is approved.

Version 1.08 will include more shapes, lines, arrows, sticky note and mark-up elements. We are doing our best to add more and more elements as we release our updates. You will also have the ability to import your own stencils with the image import via the photo library as iMockups will support images with transparency. Grouping elements and the ability to cut, copy and paste across all projects are a couple of other key features in v1.08.

By toolbar-stuffed reality, I am assuming you are referring to the white space in the browser in which you can resize to remove the white space. Let me know if I am misunderstanding this.

We are currently working on supporting the VGA adaptor and the ability to change the foreground and background colour of elements for a later update.

We thank you for your patience and are happy to hear that you finding iMockups useful. We hope you enjoy the new version.

Feel free to drop us a line if you have any further questions or suggestions.

Thanks again,

Linda
Community Manager, Endloop Studios

Hi Linda,

thank you for your immediate response. 1.08 sounds good! With “toolbar stuffed” I was pointing to the usable white space inside the browser which actually has a big impact on the screen design if you are developing for 1024*768 etc. In this case I would prefer to get a better idea of how many elements are really visible without scrolling.
As I wrote … support if the VGA-Adapter is the key feature I am (and everybody I know with an iPad) that I am missing. And your app is already so good that it is able to be used instead of “grown” desktop apps.

Thank you

Chaot

How do you get an actual image into the image stencil?

Hi

Great app - and one that I will be using to develop apps with my clients. Hit one issue when importing image graphic - I get a thin white band around the top and right hand edge of the graphic when I load it into the image cell. Tried the same action using Keynote and it is not there (so probably not the graphic element. I am basically wanting to load graphics of all iPhone elements onto my iPad and then, if you dont have the element in you list, I can simply create the element using an image graphic dropped into an image cell….. Can you look at this for me please and see why it is happening/how to correct it.

Thanks

Hi Ross,

Thank you for informing us of this issue.

We can’t seem to replicate it and would like to know if this is happening to all of your images or only specific ones?

Good idea on your end in importing your own elements into iMockups!

We will continue to look into this until we can find what is causing the white banding.

We appreciate your help.

Best,
Linda
Community Manager, Endloop Studios

@Linda

Hi Linda

I think that it may have been how I copied and pasted the element… I have managed to do it without the white line - I will try and replicate it again and let you know - if I do - maybe I can email a copy to you…?

Ross

@Ross

Hi Ross,

Yes, please email me at support@endloop.ca if you continue to experience anymore issues.

Thanks,
Linda