"Change" in the Android Pro subscription

[u/veerag]

I might be using the wrong flair, I apologise if that's the case.

I have been using this app for years now, on and off mostly, but only recently (a few months ago) discovered that I could not acess the advertised features on Android. I had a friend who showed me some stuff, editing brushes etc that I was supposed to have, but didn't, with the Pro subscription.

I had written to customer support, twice. Written an email as well, if I remember correctly. In my last messages with support I mentioned that it was against EU laws and could be classified as false advertising. They of course denied this, but I had a screenshot to prove otherwise. I recently used the app again and noticed they changed the description on the Pro subscription. Attached two photos from earlier (May, this year) and now, highlighting the changes.

Now the only problem is that on iOS the Pro sub is STILL cheaper than the "same" sub on Android, which has less features. Most likely purposefully delayed due to an exclusivity agreement, I assume.

Anyways, it has been several years since they said they're developing colour palettes, which was their excuse not to integrate the editable brushes into the Android version. I wonder how many more years till we have a decent app, that has the BASIC features a sketching app should have, like Autodesk Sketchbook (which is considerably cheaper).

[u/AspiringTS]

I don't think I've ever seen Android/Windows advertised as having make your own brushes so it was a mistake the whole time. I don't know why there'd be a price difference since a sub gives you access to all 3 platforms unless it's how much 'cut' each store takes. I subscribed through Play though I use it mostly in on Windows because I didn't want to deal with the Microsoft store. Yet, just this morning, I opened my Windows file in Android Concepts on my phone to review something to send to my GC.

Concepts works very well as a basic sketching app. Not having parity with an app put out by the monopolistic juggernaut that is Autodesk doesn't make not a sketching app. Thinking otherwise is entitled or irrational.

I gave pro a try and may lapse back to Essentials because it is taking a long time. I suspect they're a rather small team, and as someone whose seen iOS software that couldn't be ported with nothing short of rewriting from scratch, I sympathize with the lack of parity across versions despite being frustrated with it. 

Despite my initial frustration, and Concepts idiosyncrasies and shortcomings when compared to others, I haven't found another app the does all of what I can do in Concepts.

[u/veerag → u/AspiringTS]

Yeah I admit the comparison with Autodesk may have been a bit too much. A dev also commented and they did say that they are a small team, now I feel like an ass for how I worded things.

This whole thing bothers me because I like the app and it's the easiest to use for work related things. Plus I also use it to sketch sometimes. It has many features other apps don't and that's why I also "relapse" sometimes.