Today's update is a small one but lays groundwork for more to come! The collections page now is more well-suited to multiple collections rather than just the one currently shown. There's also now an Attribution tool in the tools menu that will show the credit and source of the image where possible. As always please email me (shane@valuestudy.app) with any issues, questions or feedback.
New features! 1) Fullscreen mode. This has been heavily requested, find it in the tools menu. It will hide all UI until you exit the fullscreen mode. 2) Browse files. You can now browse your iPhone/iPad and iCloud directly from Value Study! On the right of Choose image you will see a ... menu. You can access the browse files from there. I've also moved the Take photo option to there. I've also updated the Information page to support videos. Currently it just has the one I was previously linking to, I need to re-record that as the app has improved a lot since I made the video! As always please email me (shane@valuestudy.app) with any issues, questions or feedback.
Small bug fix for photos that have been edited/cropped in photo library. It should now show the most recent version! --- Usually my work on the app focusses on new features, performance improvements or bug fixes. This update is a bit more business-ey. I’m incredibly grateful for all of you that support Value Study through subscriptions and lifetime purchases, not to mention reviews and word-of-mouth. I’m working to make sure new people who discover Value Study see its worth straight away and want to join in too. I’ve made some changes to improve how the app introduces itself to new users and to better show what it can do from the very start. I’m also putting more time into YouTube, creating videos that help newcomers get started and highlight new features as they’re released. As always, every App Store review, bit of feedback, or question sent to shane@valuestudy.app is really appreciated. Thank you for continuing to support an independent app. You’re helping Value Study grow and reach more artists around the world.
Usually my work on the app focusses on new features, performance improvements or bug fixes. This update is a bit more business-ey. I’m incredibly grateful for all of you that support Value Study through subscriptions and lifetime purchases, not to mention reviews and word-of-mouth. I’m working to make sure new people who discover Value Study see its worth straight away and want to join in too. I’ve made some changes to improve how the app introduces itself to new users and to better show what it can do from the very start. I’m also putting more time into YouTube, creating videos that help newcomers get started and highlight new features as they’re released. As always, every App Store review, bit of feedback, or question sent to shane@valuestudy.app is really appreciated. Thank you for continuing to support an independent app. You’re helping Value Study grow and reach more artists around the world.
Usually my work on the app focusses on new features, performance improvements or bug fixes. This update is a bit more business-ey. I’m incredibly grateful for all of you that support Value Study through subscriptions and lifetime purchases, not to mention reviews and word-of-mouth. I’m working to make sure new people who discover Value Study see its worth straight away and want to join in too. I’ve made some changes to improve how the app introduces itself to new users and to better show what it can do from the very start. I’m also putting more time into YouTube, creating videos that help newcomers get started and highlight new features as they’re released. As always, every App Store review, bit of feedback, or question sent to shane@valuestudy.app is really appreciated. Thank you for continuing to support an independent app. You’re helping Value Study grow and reach more artists around the world.
Those bug fixes just caused more bugs... apologies to anyone that got locked out of Value Study! Should all be fixed now.
Improving the offline mode with a few more bug fixes.
A bunch of bug fixes today. Especially around improving image support and performance.
Here's another small update to the new Grid feature. As requested by Howard, we can now adjust the colour of the grid, from the Line appearance section of the Grid settings. --- GRID MODE IN VALUE STUDY APP!! This update brings one of the biggest feature requests Value Study has had since day one, Grids. In fact it was on my original wish-list of features when I started building the app! Every approach I took early on was too slow and clunky... but with all the performance and code improvements, it's now ready for launch. I always say to send me feedback but this update is more important than others, it's a very large feature that will improve over time. So I need your help to ensure it is perfect for you all, please do email shane@valuestudy.app with feedback (reviews are always helpful too).
Here's a little update to the brand new grid feature to introduce multiple cell selection and an option for hiding non-selected cells! --- GRID MODE IN VALUE STUDY APP!! This update brings one of the biggest feature requests Value Study has had since day one, Grids. In fact it was on my original wish-list of features when I started building the app! Every approach I took early on was too slow and clunky... but with all the performance and code improvements, it's now ready for launch. I always say to send me feedback but this update is more important than others, it's a very large feature that will improve over time. So I need your help to ensure it is perfect for you all, please do email shane@valuestudy.app with feedback (reviews are always helpful too).
A quick update to translate the app to more languages. --- GRID MODE IN VALUE STUDY APP!! This update brings one of the biggest feature requests Value Study has had since day one, Grids. In fact it was on my original wish-list of features when I started building the app! Every approach I took early on was too slow and clunky... but with all the performance and code improvements, it's now ready for launch. I always say to send me feedback but this update is more important than others, it's a very large feature that will improve over time. So I need your help to ensure it is perfect for you all, please do email shane@valuestudy.app with feedback (reviews are always helpful too).
GRID MODE IN VALUE STUDY APP!! This update brings one of the biggest feature requests Value Study has had since day one, Grids. In fact it was on my original wish-list of features when I started building the app! Every approach I took early on was too slow and clunky... but with all the performance and code improvements, it's now ready for launch. I always say to send me feedback but this update is more important than others, it's a very large feature that will improve over time. So I need your help to ensure it is perfect for you all, please do email shane@valuestudy.app with feedback (reviews are always helpful too).
Okay, it's here... iOS 26. This update to Value Study ensures it works well for the new version of iOS. It's only subtle changes, I have not gone heavy on the glass effect! As always please review on the App Store, share with friends and send me and questions and feedback to shane@valuestudy.app
Just a small fix for the new toolbar on smaller screens.
This adds Portuguese, Polish and Dutch languages and improves how translations are handled generally.
A small improvement to the toolbox today. You now have 5 shortcut tool icons next to a Tools menu where all tools are available. This is really useful because it means I can show the name of the tool not just the icon! So you can now click the star (if you have remaining spaces out of the 5) to add to the toolbox at the bottom of the screen. As always please shout if you have questions or feedback: shane@valuestudy.app
This update improves performance for the collections and information pages.
This fixes a bug where black areas would sometimes show as white.
Fixed a bug with HEIC/P3 images that caused all functionality to break! So sorry about that. As always please report bugs to me via email shane@valuestudy.app along with any requests. Reviews always appreciated.
Histograms are here! One of the most requested features since the launch of Value Study is finally available. The new Histogram tool gives you advanced control over your value selection. You can now fine-tune the range of each value — for example, if the sky looks too dark, you can easily adjust the range of darks to lighten it. I've also moved the Shape Simplification tool next to the Histogram, since they work brilliantly together for simplifying and analyzing your compositions. The Histogram works seamlessly with Live Filter mode, as well as the other tools in Value Study — including colour palettes, shape simplification, outlines, and value selection. As always, if you spot any bugs or have questions, feel free to email me at shane@valuestudy.app. And if you’re enjoying the app, I’d really appreciate your review on the App Store!
This update adds the ability to share from the Photos app (and others) to Value Study.
Small improvement to the new customisation pages.
This update brings customisation to the forefront the first time the app is opened. The options are still in Settings but will now be much more obvious to new users.
Small bugfix to ensure you are able to remove all palettes (except the default black-white) by long pressing on the palette of choice then clicking Remove.
As many of you know, I am very privacy-focused, so I’ve avoided using trackers in the app because they can often be invasive. In this update, I’ve added a privacy-friendly tracker called TelemetryDeck. Their values (no pun intended!) align very well with my own. I want to improve this app for everyone without compromising privacy like so many other apps do. This is a behind-the-scenes change, but I want to be completely upfront about it. I hope you'll see the positive impact as I can now focus my efforts where it matters most to everyone.
Just some small tweaks to the settings page. As always get in touch shane@valuestudy.app if you have any questions or feedback. Reviews always appreciated too!
This app has some small bugfixes. As always get in touch shane@valuestudy.app if you have any questions or feedback. Reviews always appreciated too!
This update will improve robustness for existing lifetime purchases when opening the app.
Updates the Palette tool to have a start and end color instead of always ending on black.
A small but useful bugfix today. This updates makes sure you can properly use iPadOS' split screen. Have Value Study open alongside your favourite drawing app!
Okay so Value Study is becoming a powerful tool now isn't it... it's time for the Information page. This is a simple but critical page that will hopefully help people new to Value Study to know where to start, and give the rest of you a reminder of where everything is. As always please reach out if there's any particular questions or guidance I can help with shane@valuestudy.app.
Okay so Value Study is becoming a powerful tool now isn't it... it's time for the Information page. This is a simple but critical page that will hopefully help people new to Value Study to know where to start, and give the rest of you a reminder of where everything is. As always please reach out if there's any particular questions or guidance I can help with shane@valuestudy.app.
It's time for a performance release! This is just lots of behind-the-scenes work to ensure Value Study runs faster and more smoothly than ever.
A highly requested feature has been to introduce colour into Value Study. This update is the first step, it introduces a Palette tool which will let you switch and add new (currently monotone-only) colour value scales. I've also added a "send a tip" button in the settings. This is entirely optional, but of course very appreciated.
Update to fix reported bugs with new payment screen and some other bugfixes.
This update improves the way the annual subscription and lifetime purchases are implemented. This should result in less bugs with restoring purchases! It also sadly no longer supports iOS 15 due to limitations and bugs. I hope this update will make Value Study much more stable for everyone.
This update fixes a bug with value selection causing the other values to be hidden.
This fixes a bug affecting older MacOS versions which caused the app to crash on launch. Very glad to have (hopefully!) got to the end of that bug. Please email me shane@valuestudy.app if it is still crashing for you.
This update has a bunch of improvements for performance. It also has a bug fix for the highly-reported bug where it wasn't possible to save an image when using the outline mode... this turned out to be related to light/dark modes which has now been fixed!
Bugfixes for Mac Mini (caused a crash when trying to open the missing camera) and for opening simplification and gallery panel.
Value Study is now supported on MacOS! Purchases on iOS will work on MacOS too as long as the same Apple ID is being used. This update is some improvements behind the scenes that enabled the MacOS version.
Introducing the eyedropper tool! Just a small little tool that has been requested by many of you. With the eyedropper selected, you can select anywhere on your image to show the relevant value highlighted (and shown in the corresponding swatch on the value selector).
This is a small update to make it easier for me to see when bugs/errors happen and to hopefully be quicker at fixing them!
This aims to fix a bug that some people were seeing where opening the app just gave them a blank screen.
Here's the big one, Value Study is no longer free. There's a very low cost yearly subscription or an affordable lifetime purchase available which includes all features. I must say I am so humbled and grateful to all of you that use Value Study. When I put the message up saying this would happen, I didn't get one complaint but hundreds of positive messages of support. Honestly I am so thankful. Please do email me (shane@valuestudy.app) if you ever have questions, feedback or anything else. I didn't want to just put up a page blocking usage (or giving a set time to trial it) so this update also introduces the concept of Collections. These are collections of images that the app will provide (requires internet) images that you can use. This first one is the App Preview collection which non-paying users will see by default. But I hope over time I can provide some useful collections of images for you to all use!