> [!tldr] **Freeform** is an Apple-made [[Whiteboarding App]] that sits in kind of an odd place ever since its introduction in 2022. Like essentially *all* whiteboarding apps, it's an "infinite canvas for your thoughts and ideas!" It's baked-in on Apple products (what I'd call "bloat ware" back in my Android days). Honestly it's not *bad*... it's just strange. Good: - Its Apple Pencil support is excellent. - Navigating the app on the iPad and iPhone both feel good and natural. - It's fast & supports real-time collaboration. - It produces whiteboards that look pretty. - The [[#Scenes]] feature is neat and opens up some interesting use cases. Bad: - Navigating the app on desktop feels a bit clunky. Zoom & scroll management don't follow what feel like standard user-interaction paradigms adhered to by so many other apps (Ctrl+scroll doesn't zoom, for example) - You cannot label lines. So [[Subject-Predicate-Object]] depictions isn't really possible. I prefer [[Excalidraw]] for essentially every use case imaginable. ![[Apple Freeform 2026-01-28 15.04.05.excalidraw.svg]] %%[[Apple Freeform 2026-01-28 15.04.05.excalidraw.md|🖋 Edit in Excalidraw]]%% # Scenes Freeform's one unique-ish feature is the ability to save pre-set scroll & zoom positions as *"scenes"*, which you can easily navigate through using arrow buttons. This lets you setup a whiteboard almost like it were a PowerPoint presentation. You can even "Print to [[PDF]]" all of your scenes, enabling a whiteboard to become a durable document. **** # More ## Source - self