Astropad, the maker of Astropad Studio, Luna Show, Rock Paper Pencil, and extra is out with its newest product immediately in beta. Providing creators (and anybody) a lot of flexibility for enter and management, Astropad Slate turns your iPad right into a no-screen pen pill or trackpad for Mac. Right here’s what it could do.
Astropad introduced the Slate beta and made it obtainable to everybody immediately turning iPad right into a Wacom pill and extra.
The thought for Slate got here final 12 months when Apple introduced new iPads with Apple Pencil hover. It acquired us excited about the standard no-screen pen tablets that so many artists begin their inventive journeys with. Might we carry that very same expertise to iPad?
Astropad Slate options
- Trackpad: Use your Apple Pencil as a cursor for Mac
- Write: Flip your handwriting on iPad into textual content on Mac
- Draw: Use your iPad as a no-screen pen pill
- Hover: Works with Apple Pencil hover on newer iPad fashions, simulated hover on older iPads.
Remember that is the beginning of the beta, so Astropad is searching for suggestions on the way to enhance Slate together with squashing bugs.
Right here’s the way to strive it out without spending a dime:
- Obtain the beta at www.astropad.com/slate
- Launch the apps – Open the companion apps in your Mac and iPad and observe the setup directions.
- Join Mac and iPad – Join your gadgets over WiFi, USB cable, or Peer-to-Peer networking.
One other neat choice is having the ability to use Slate with out an Apple Pencil. Try the announcement video together with a extra detailed demo under:
