Sketches Coming To App Store, Gaining New Features

If you've hacked your iPhone, chances are you've come across a fun little application called Sketches. While it's not very useful (but entertaining) in it's current state, it's in for some big improvements. Ars Technica's Clint Ecker caught up with Jorge and Pedro of LateNightSoft, and they say that Sketches will indeed be in the App Store, with some major additions. Ars talked about it with them, as well as their experiences of developing for jailbroken iPhones vs. the App Store.

The new version's main screen is a cork board showing all of your sketches. You can choose between a photo from your camera roll, several pre-made background like paper or leather, a solid color, a map (centered with Core Location), or even a web page. It also has the ability to zoom in, letting you draw with much greater accuracy for things like writing text.

They've also added several fun vector shapes to scale and rotate, like speech bubbles, mustaches, hats, cartoonish Apple hardware, holiday symbols, and more. When you're finished, you can share it with your Twitter followers. They haven't settled on a price yet, but say that it will be affordable to the average user.

[via Ars Technica]