Etch a Sketch HD for iPad
By Christopher Healy,
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ETCH A SKETCH HD FOR iPAD provides a good-looking -- but less user-friendly -- virtual version of the classic drawing toy. Using the knobs to draw proves much trickier to pull off on a flat iPad screen than it does with real three-dimensional knobs you can hold and turn on a real Etch a Sketch. You can also draw directly on the screen with your finger, but that sort of kills the whole Etch a Sketch feel. There are some nice extras, like the ability to add stickers to your artwork. But on the whole, the Etch a Sketch feels like a toy best left in the offline world.
App Details
- Device: iPad
- Release date: November 18, 2010
- Category: Entertainment
- Publisher: Freeze Tag, Inc.
- Version: 1.281
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 3.2 or later
- Last updated: August 23, 2016
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