I wish Scapple were alive … on iOS! Badly needed indeed!
In my quest for alternatives for Scapple on iOS I’ve hit bull’s eye: iThoughts.
You can read about me praising this wonderful app here:
https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/brainstorm-storyboard-outline-apps-for-ios-compatible-with-scrivener-until-scapple-has-a-mobile-version/35204/8
I was watching some YouTube videos about Scapple and one comment said Scapple was no longer being developed. This made me sad.
I’ve read this thread, and sincerely hope to avoid any controversy by asking if this is true. I intend NO criticism of L&L—there is nothing to criticize! But I would like to know if L&L sees Scapple as an active project: anything from as minimal as “no new features necessary, but will quash bugs as they appear (in new OSs)” to “tweaks and enhancements as time permits” to “we have some great ideas we want to include in a future release.” If it’s no longer an active project—no bug fixes, tweaks, enhancements, new features—it would be nice to know that too.
I love the napkin sketch simplicity, more so now after a couple of kind users shared some pretty awesome examples on Facebook, so I’m working on incorporating Scapple into my writing workflow, but if it’s not active, I might consider alternatives.
My sincerest thanks for a reply and my thanks for creating such a great app!
Scapple has not been abandoned.
I cannot speak for the developer, but I believe it is seen as “finished” in the sense that it meets the goals for which it was originally written. So future versions are more likely to include bug fixes and minor tweaks than major enhancements.
Katherine
Scapple has definitely not been abandoned, although it has certainly been a long time since there has been an update, for which I am sorry. The simple fact is that, on the macOS side, I am a single developer, and along with Scapple I develop the much more complex Scrivener, and in 2015 I had to abandon hopes of another developer helping me with the iOS version of Scrivener and code that myself, which took up the latter part of 2015 and a huge part of 2016. Along with that, over the past couple of years, I have been focussing on a big update to Scrivener on macOS. On the Windows side, the two developers there have been concentrating on getting Scrivener for Windows caught up with the macOS version for the next major update.
Because I knew from the start that Scrivener would take up most of my time, I deliberately designed Scapple to be simple and something that would not see (or need) too many updates, and that would be fairly low maintenance. That said, there are a number of enhancements and fixes I do want to make to it. By this summer, I hope to have Scrivener back in maintenance mode for a while, following the major development push on the macOS and iOS versions over the past two years, which should allow me some time to make some updates to Scapple. That said, I’m not planning on making major changes or additions to Scapple, because it was designed to fulfil a very simple need (the software equivalent of the way I scrawl over paper).
All the best,
Keith
Yeah, maybe one or two, but don’t get carried away.
Good.
… which it does. And quite nicely.
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So looking forward to Scapple for iOS… Haven’t found any replacement for it.
I love to write and doodle on paper. We are in the midst of going paperless. While I have enjoyed Scapple on the Mac, to be able to write and make connections in iPad pro would be a dream come true. Love ya’ll work – started with Scrivener for PC - when I had to get a new laptop I switched to Mac just to have these programs in their native environment (okay - the other reason was because my husband bought a Mac air the same year I bought my PC and it is still going . . . ) Thanks again for your work! -a
Is Scapple alive. I is like using a pencil: if you use it, then it’s alive as much you are alive yourself. (Not always is more, more, more a sign of being alive.)