![]() ![]() ![]() YJ: I'll just buy this other app that lets me draw with my trackpad. ![]() One day, our co-founder and instructor YJ was complaining about the lack of an elegant solution to Jia Chen, our intern, co-instructor, and Swift Student Challenge 2020 - 2021 winner. * With the Sidecar feature, available on macOS Catalina and up, you can use an iPad as a secondary mirrored display to draw upon This worked great for us, until we ran a few apps in class, including video conferencing, and things got awful and slow * Drawing with your mouse or trackpad to annotate a specific part of the screen is difficult and imprecise (Also, have you tried drawing a chicken using your trackpad?) Why not just use a dedicated Mac app for drawing on the screen? No more - with Friction on iPad, we can now see our Mac screen on the iPad, and draw a little circle (or chicken) in just the right place, with the accuracy of Apple Pencil, to tell our students "Look here!". We've always wanted to just annotate Xcode, to point out that tiny Source Control Navigator button, but just resorted to wildly swinging our mouse pointers around like madmen. Under our Tinkercademy brand, we teach many programming classes in apps that don't support on-screen annotation. This provides a familiar yet novel and unique experience for any user, whether you've seen the classic Mac OS designs or not. ![]() Interactions such as moving and rearranging windows were inspired by the native Picture-in-Picture interactions, while the Trash button is a redesigned version of the original. * Classic interface with a modern twist: Friction's interface was inspired by the original Mac OS interfaces, with a modern twist. * Download drawing: Used Friction for brainstorming, and need to send the final drawing out? Save it to your Photos app * Save to sketches: If you need to reuse the same sketch over and over again, save your sketch and use it later * Simple setup: Open the apps, connect your Mac and iPad, and you're all set * Black/Whiteboard: Turn your Mac's screen into a black/white board and sketch diagrams on it Perfect for presenters who need to draw diagrams without the Mac screen distracting your audience * Draw on your screen: Draw and annotate directly on your Mac screen You don't need an Apple Pencil, but Friction works great with one Now imagine using it on any app, drawing using your Apple Pencil, in meetings and classes. If you've ever annotated your slides in PowerPoint, or scribbled on your screen with Zoom, you know how it works. is thrilled to introduce Friction, an iPad app that lets you draw anywhere on your Mac's screen, in any app, using your iPad and Apple Pencil. ![]()
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