It’s pretty cold in Canada where our lead Flow engineer Adam has been bunkered down rebuilding the Flow drawing engine from the ground up. It’s been a mammoth effort but he’s emerged with some truly amazing results which will unlock the next generation of Flow features. And right now you get to enjoy the first big thing: a huge new leap in performance.
Questions? Talk to us at flow@bonobolabs.com. We’re human.
Blazing fast page loading
Pages load so fast now that it’s actually taken us a bit of time to get used to it. Is that irony? We aren’t entirely sure. The important thing is no more waiting as you move around your document.
Super responsive drawing
The tools now work even faster than we thought possible. It really does feel like ink is flowing out as fast as you can write and draw.
Buttery smooth panning
Panning around documents in this new engine is so smooth it’s simply a joy.
Zoom in way, way further
You can now zoom in 10 times further than before. Ten times. That’s the headroom you need for fine handwriting, tiny annotations, and the kind of intricate detail work the old zoom range simply couldn’t reach.
More accurate selecting and erasing
The lasso and eraser tools now work much more precisely, so it’s easier to draw around (or remove) just the strokes you want, without grabbing the empty space around them.
Better drawing resolution
The page now displays at full resolution all the time. You’ll no longer see unsightly changes in resolution as you draw new strokes. This could happen before, especially with tools like the crayon.
Sharper background patterns
Grids, dots, and lines now stay crisp no matter how far in you go. Zoom all the way to the new maximum and the page still looks like a designed thing, not a pixelated approximation of one.
Better correction pen
The correction pen now has a better edge, supports layers, and with Apple Pencil shows a live preview of exactly where you’ll erase before you touch down.
The page scrubber has been retired
A new way to see and manage the pages of your documents is coming soon. Stay tuned.
Flow 4.5 is available now on the App Store.