Our Verdict
Flowboard is a little fiddly, but the results are terrific, especially for a free app. It’s a shame there aren’t more ways to share them.
For
- Nicely designed interface
- User-friendly
- Good selection of templates
- Free
Against
- The smart guides could be smarter
- Sharing options limited
Why you can trust Creative Bloq
Should you ever find yourself having to prove the iPad's credentials as a tool for creativity, you could do worse than turn to Flowboard. This elegantly designed app allows you to create portfolios, presentations and photo slideshows, and it produces beautiful results.
You can start from scratch or choose from a large number of templates. After selecting a template option, you tap on a box and add an image, video or some text.
The boxes themselves can be dragged around and re-sized, and their content can be scaled using the familiar two-fingered pinch and un-pinch gestures.
Our only complaint here is that while there are smart guides to help you align boxes, they pop up arbitrarily and not when you need them most.
You can share your work, but only on Flowboard's servers. That's not a huge issue unless you run up against the 20GB storage limit, at which point you can pay £2.99/$4.99 for the premium version.
Key info
Price: Free
Universal: No
Version: 1.1
App size: 37.4MB
Developer: Flowboard LLC
Age rating: 4+
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out of 10
Flowboard is a little fiddly, but the results are terrific, especially for a free app. It’s a shame there aren’t more ways to share them.
Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.