Linea

New Features

• Custom Color Picker - New superpowers to get the right color
  • Eyedropper that lets you quickly pick a color from the canvas
  • Type in hex colors to match a color from a web site or other design
  • Slider to adjust lightness or darkness of a color
  • Keeps a history of changes making it easy to experiment
• Color Sets - Customize the palettes of colors you use in Linea
  • Tap the Color Sets icon at the top of the palette to access options
  • Each of the three palettes can have its own color set
  • New color sets include pastels, art deco, flesh tones, app design and more
  • Each palette has a set of custom colors: build a color library
  • Recent Colors makes frequent color changes a snap
• New Templates - Now use Linea for productivity and web design
  • Lay out multiple responsive Web Design concepts with or without notes
  • Also works great for mobile apps on multiple devices
  • Monthly Calendar for scheduling in portrait or landscape orientation
  • Checklists for to-do items, groceries, and more

Improvements

• Pencil and pen tools have lower latency to provide the best drawing experience
• Tool size indicators display the current color of the tool

Bug Fixes

• When copying or dragging from a portrait-oriented document, the content is now kept in the proper orientation
• Fixed cosmetic issues

Tip Jar

Developing new features is expensive. Now you can contribute beyond your initial purchase to help fund future updates with the Tip Jar. It’s a subscription-free way to show your love for Linea Sketch.

• Donate at any time using the Tip Jar item in the Settings view
• Tipping is optional and reminders are only displayed after new features have been added

Improvements

• Added an option in Settings to control the polygon part of the ZipLine feature.
• When drawing with a finger, tapping (without drawing a line) now leaves a dot behind (making it easier, for example, to dot i's or write periods when not using an Apple Pencil).

Fixes

• Importing images into portrait documents should now rotate the image correctly.
• Fixed layout of Settings when larger text sizes.

Fixes

• Project views in split screen should now always be sized correctly
• Presentation mode now properly handles portrait sketches

Move / Transform

• New scissors icon in Layers panel - see in-app video for a demo!
• Resize by dragging the orange handles
• Rotate with two-fingers or by dragging the selection box outline

ZipLine

• Quickly create straight lines and polygons - see in-app video for a demo!
• The delay needed to activate ZipLine can be adjusted via Linea's settings

Image Import

• Add images to a layer - see in-app video for a demo!
• Import from your camera, photo library, clipboard, or a file browser app

Portrait Orientation

• Linea now supports portrait orientation for drawings and notes
• New sketches are created using the iPad's current orientation
• Change the orientation by rotating 90º and closing sketch

New Templates & Grids

• Take notes on Notepads with wide and narrow rules
• All templates work in portrait and landscape orientation
• New storyboarding template with 1.85:1 ratio
• App Design templates updated for latest devices
• Added small dot grid

Split Screen

• Linea can now be used while it's side-by-side with another app
• Reference an image on the web or in Photos
• Take notes while researching in Safari or any other app

Drag and Drop

• Drag images from another app and drop them into the active layer
• Drag images out of the Export view
• Turn on the Settings option to drag out from Selection

Other

• Reduced size of the smallest eraser
• Added support for Smart Invert Colors to help folks with low vision

Fixes

• Fixed a problem updating the setting of the Touch Eraser

Fixes

• Fixed a crash that would occur occasionally when using multi-touch system gestures to change apps
• Fixed a couple other issues that could cause occasional crashes

Improvements

• Now displays full, native resolution on the 10.5" iPad Pro (instead of a scaled-up version of the 9.7" resolution)
• Improved tilted rendering of the technical pencil, especially on the new iPads
• No longer displays a confirmation when clearing a layer from the Layer popup since the clear command is undoable

Fixes

• Fixed a couple crashes users had seen with 1.1
• Sharing multiple sketches from the project view now exports them in the order they are displayed
• Project view now animates certain changes

New Features

• Linea now supports iCloud for storing Linea projects and sketches!
  • On first launch, you will get a summary of iCloud usage for your sketches
  • Turn on iCloud sync and projects become available on all your devices
  • New and updated sketches are synced automatically
  • Copy, backup & inspect sketches via iCloud Drive
• New Canvas Compass options:
  • Single tap to access the Compass
  • Flip the canvas horizontally or vertically for a fresh perspective on your sketch
  • Don't worry, flipping is only a temporary state while drawing
  • Includes actions for resetting, restoring and locking canvas position
  • Tap & hold the Compass to switch between default and custom canvas position
• A quick pinch gesture resets the canvas to the default position
• Added several new isometric grid styles to Grids & Templates
• Added new shortcuts for Bluetooth or Smart Keyboard users
• While sketching, hold down the Command key to see available shortcuts

Improvements

• Palm rejection improved to reduce unwanted zooming and panning
• Gesture handling for zooming, panning, and rotating was reworked to provide a smoother experience

Bug Fixes

• The eraser's outline (showing the area being erased) is sized correctly when zoomed in or out
• Trying to export part of a document and assign it to a contact no longer crashes
• Emoji are no longer sometimes clipped when used in a project name
• Fixed an occasional pause / skip that could occur while sketching or erasing

New Features

• Tilt support for the Apple Pencil can now be used with each tool:
  • Technical Pencil: A smooth, faded stroke along the edge of hard lead
  • Art Pencil: Soft, wide shading that varies with both size settings & pressure
  • Pen: Flat nib great for hard edges or calligraphic writing
  • Marker: Wide flat stroke perfect for coloring large areas of the screen
  • Eraser: Round vs flat oval tip for erasing
• Move Sketches from one Project to another:
  • Long-press a drawing in the Project view > Move...
  • Select multiple drawings in Select mode to move them all at once
• New Sketch command:
  • Creates a new, blank sketch using current grid & background settings
  • Located under the More (...) menu when drawing
• Presentation Mode via video out or AirPlay to an Apple TV:
  • Displays the current sketch full screen and omits tool palettes, zoom level & rotation
  • Turn on AirPlay via Control Center (or connect a display via a Lightning-to-HDMI adapter) then activate Presentation Mode from within a sketch from the More Actions (...) menu

Improvements

• Hexagonal Grid: Available in multiple sizes in Grids & Templates
• Double-tapping the Eraser icon now offers to clear the active layer
• After closing a sketch or paging to a different one, if you return to it without changing another sketch, you can undo the last few actions

Bug Fixes

• Improved Apple Pencil tracking on the opacity mini-sliders in the Layers panel
• Improved error message when attempting to rename a project to include a slash

New Features

• New "Gray Bristol" paper added to the Background options
• Canvas Locking - Enable by double-tapping the compass icon or long-press it and select Lock from the popup
• Duplicate Sketch was added to the more-options (...) popup while drawing

Improvements

• Palm rejection improved to make it less likely to erroneously detect gestures
• When a layer is cleared, the layer popover is now automatically dismissed
• When a layer is cleared or merged, the now-empty layer is reset to 100% opacity
• Merge Layer now works better when the layers are not at 100% opacity
• Merge Layers is disabled when the layer beneath is not visible
• Layer visibility and opacity changes are now undoable
• When launching after a new install, the how-to document will now be opened
• Animated transitions between views have been improved
• Twitter and Instagram links added to the Settings view
• A few icons polished for consistency

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash and/or strange behavior after having used multiple documents
• Adjusting the mini-slider on the layer panel with an Apple Pencil will no longer trigger layer re-ordering
• Duplicating within the project view with multiple sketches selected now duplicates the correct items
• Duplicate sketches are now placed after the selected documents instead of at the beginning of the project
• Fixed a problem with undo that could occur if used after merging layers
• Fixed a rendering bug that occurred when changing documents with the page arrows while zoomed in
• When starting a stroke near the color picker, it will no longer cause a color-set change gesture to be triggered (and the stroke canceled)
• When undoing initial content being drawn in a layer, the layer icon is now reset to the empty state

Initial Release