discussion Useful apps.

[Ian M]

As there are a few model friendly apps out there which ones have you found, that are not only useful but actually does as it says on the box.
To start the ball rolling:
My wife put me onto an app for my mobil that turns your smart phone into a PDF scanner. Single side, loads of pages just like most printers you tell it which of the photos you have just taken you want as a pdf and it makes it for you. found it very handy. Pdf files are normally very good at sizing up without going all fuzzy. I use it to make pdf files of instructions that need copying.
(Heads up Tim, pm inbound lol)
https://www.adobe.com/dk/acrobat/mobile/scanner-app.html

Its free!

Do you have any apps you wish to share?

 

[Guest]

Urgh, Adobe … I’ve used vFlat a couple of times recently and am pretty happy with it. For iOS and for Android.

 

[John]

If you have an iPhone long press on the notes icon and it lets you scan documents

 

[Guest]

Or in the app itself: tap the camera icon.

 

[Guest]

I've seen several for 3 D printing and scale measurements.

 

[flyjoe180]

If you have an iPhone long press on the notes icon and it lets you scan documents

I did not know this, I've been using Microsoft Lens

 

[Guest]

Oh! Another one that can come in very handy for measuring real-world stuff (it’s not accurate enough for modelling) is Apple’s Measure app that comes with iOS and iPadOS:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208924

It really does work as well as that article claims: you may have seen the photos I sometimes post of new stuff for the stash, taken on a table with a surface of little tiles. When I used to Measure app on them it told me the tiles are 5 cm square, or 25 cm² if I wanted to know the area. A ruler confirmed that they are, indeed, that big.

 

[langy71]

I use 'modelpaint42' for checking paint colours and more importantly other company's versions of the colours I need, although the app is for IOS i'm sure they also do an Android version.

modelpaint42

Android version ....

Android Hobby colour converter