Make My App 2 Pro
A tool for bringing app ideas to life, on “paper” at least
$24.99 Developer IT Top, ittop.mobi Requirements OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
Everybody gets ideas for The Next Great App. But to move on it, you need a clear, strong mockup of your vision to share with others. Make My App 2 Pro wants to be the vehicle for your vision.
Available in free (with ads) and paid versions, Make My App 2 Pro is a tool for building visual examples of your app, allowing you to tinker with how your apps might look and work at a basic level. Think of it like an app for diagrams or mindmaps along the lines of OmniGraffle or MindNote, but specialized for apps.
Make My App 2 Pro has built-in objects to represent devices like the iPhone, iPad, and even Apple Watch. Drag one to your canvas, then drag a variety of iOS objects on top to build your interface. There’s a good choice of objects – buttons, text boxes, scrollbars, tables, charts, switches, and more. However, a few essentials are missing, including tab bars (at the bottom of the likes of Tweetbot, Day One, and Safari). It would be nice to see Make My App 2 Pro get rounded out with some of these common visual building blocks. Something else we found disappointing is a lack of what we call “alignment smarts.” If you’ve ever dragged things around in apps like Apple Pages, Pixelmator, OmniGraffle, and others, you’ll have seen the smart guides that help you align objects. Make My App 2 Pro has ways to group and resize objects to your specifications, but no tools to help you polish a clean, clear layout.
Make My App 2 Pro could do with a few more of the core objects found in iOS, and a little more smarts to help polish ideas. Still, for $25 (or free, if you can put up with ads), it isn’t a bad way to get started.
THE BOTTOM LINE. A decent app mockup tool that could benefit from some fleshing out.