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Thomas P.
Manager Human-Centered Design
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
What I like best about Pencil (apart from the fact that it is free, both as in "free beer" as well as in "free speech") is the large set of available stencils. You have sketchy stencils for early wireframes, but also native UI stencils that are drawn using your system's widget theme, as well as Android and iOS controls, common web elements, flowchart elements and more.
The GUI stencils are not simply "dumb" vector graphics, but have properties like disabled, default button etc. Wireframes for different UI states can be interconnected using hyperlinked UI elements to create simple "interactive" mockups and export them as PDFs or HTML documents.
You can create your own "dumb" stencils just by combining and editing existing stencils and then adding the result to your personal collection, or you can create stencils with all the bells and whistles by writing them in XML. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
The only two things I'm missing is online collaboration and the ability to create highly interactive prototypes.
Real-time collaboration simply isn't possible with Pencil, so you're left with sending your mockups back and forth between team members. Online wireframing tools like myBalsamiq have the advantage in that regard.
If you want to do highly interactive prototypes that can be animated and change states dynamically, you'll need tools like Axure RP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Chris B.
Sr. User Experience Designer
Design
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
The materials and the design craft. I was looking for a pen tool to use with my screen for quick sketches using the Paper App. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
It best functionality only work in the Paper app. I am not limited by a pen or real world pencil as it can write on most surfaces but having the pencil only functionality of pressure and point recognition only work in their app was a little disappointing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Deena B.
Creative Designer
Management Consulting
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
We can copy our mind in paper without any borders as beautiful drawings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
Can't undo the drawing. If there is a choice of erasing i wish i could be able to do much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Randy R.
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
Some of my favorite features are the ability to output to a multi page SVG file and PDF format.
And the inter page linking is very useful, one of the features I use a lot! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
I would love it if I could use it on my iPad and transfer the file back to the desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Daniel W.
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
"I've used the product many times to create schemas to show to potential and established customers."
What do you like best about Pencil?
The fact that it is an open source product drew me to it. And the fact that is multi platform, but still runs on the desktop also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
The slow development cycle, and the lack of tools for better diagramming, like:
- new Palette kits with updated user interfaces Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Verified User in Online Media
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
* Open source
* Export to pdf/png
* Easy to use
* Available also on linux and multiplatform
* Firefox extension available
* Stencil collection available for material and bootstrap
* wiki available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
Nothing for me is perfect, we use in my agency with many different users without problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
GG
Verified User in Graphic Design
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
I like that it’s free? It’s cool that I can download it without any cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
It’s very frustrating to use. The controls don’t behave as I expect from graphic apps like Photoshop, Illustrator or Sketch. It’s got a very horrible tab bar used to navigate screens and once you have more than a few it becomes a pain to navigate and sort your pages. Blah. D: For a UX app it’s got horrible UX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Eder E.
Software Engineer
Computer Software
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
It's really easy to use, the sketch style widgets look amazing and it's open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
The only bad thing I could think of is that it hasn't been updated for some time now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Hakan Y.
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
It is very useful while picking out your product ui first time, specialy custimization great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
there some header tool problems, but they can be user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Verified User in Internet
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Pencil?
It's free and open source, and also pretty much the only half decent prototyping tool on Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Pencil?
It's pretty buggy. The interface isn't very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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