iPhone App Review: Pollock

Hey guys, this is Mac Heads 101, and a new app came out on the App Store that you probably haven't heard of because it's not on the top 50. I haven't heard about it much on the internet, and it's only 99 cents. This app is called Pollock.

Right there, and what it does is it allows you to make a potluck; it's a kind of art style. So what you can do is you can just tap on it right over there, and it will show you directions, but it's pretty simple to use. What it does is you draw on it, and it kind of modifies what you draw to make art. So if I just draw a line, you see it like droops because it works with the accelerometer.

So whatever you do, if I turn it and then I make a line, you'll see the lines will droop this way. Also, as you just saw, multi-touch does work on it, so I can draw with one finger, draw with two; it's always three, it's always four, even with five—hold on, that was a bad example—five. So multi-touch does work on this well.

Another uh, so I'm just going to show you how well it works. So hold on, I can just randomly draw some stuff, maybe put a little dots—that's what you can also do that. And um yeah, so that's what your final result should look like. Obviously, you can't— you see I'm not working on it very hard, and it still looks pretty good, and you're obviously probably going to work on this a little more.

It's just one of those fun little apps in case you're bored, and what you do when you're done making something you like, you can just double tap. It'll bring up this menu, and then you can save it to your photos. Just hit there, and it'll say um this photo has been saved successfully. Hit okay, then if you go to your photos in your camera roll, you now have this when you can do whatever you want with it—make it your background, zoom in on it to see how it looks, whatever you want.

Okay, now every app has glitches, and so I'm going to show you the ones I found, and one of them is actually useful. So I don't know if they meant to do it or if they put a glitch, but let's say you want to put a background. If you hit it with this part of your body, like right under your thumb, you'll see a little thing growing.

Hold on, wait, hold on. You see that spot that grows? So I don't know if they meant to do that because it wasn't in directions, but basically that kind of like puts the background as it grows, and then you can draw on the background. So that's kind of useful, but I guess it's a glitch—I don't know.

And so um another glitch is I'm actually gonna have to put it on my desk so you can see this, and I'll just put it on my lap because um okay. Basically, if you take six fingers and draw, you'll see it starts freaking out.

Okay, so basically when it does this, um these two colors like fighting with each other, you can just tap, or sometimes we might have to go to the home screen. So you go to the home screen, come back, and it'll be fine. It's not any permanent damage or anything like that.

So again, just to show you what that does is you take six fingers—oh yeah, oh yeah—and you shake to make a new thing, which is pretty cool. Take six fingers and then it starts going nuts on you.

So um this is just a little app. Again, it's called Pollock. You can find it in the App Store for 99 cents. I hope you like this video. Um on an iPhone app review, keep an eye out for much more.

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