What's New

- New support for Apple Pencil 2nd gen:
• Create & modify pencil drawings / designs for each Material

- New support for Apple Pencil Toolbox:
• Enjoy the precision, colours, markers and more
• Relocate / minimize the Toolbox while making design notes

- New Design section
- Increase photo size (iPad)
- Increased font size for keyboard notes

App Description

Design Materials is an offline material reference guide trusted by hundreds of Engineers and Designers all over the World. It was created as a personal tool to support me on taking design decisions during the concept ideation of industrial products. Basically, it provides the fundamentals for most design/engineer materials on the market based on reliable and curated academic sources.

The guide contains material categories such as polymers, metals, naturals and more. All of these include synthetic, organic, bio-degradable, plastic, and much more subcategories. Each material contains information such as: About, Properties, Applications, Types and Photos.

Other features includes:

• Advanced search filters (all, metal, natural, plastic and synthetic)
• Favorites section
• Offline reference (no Internet needed)
• Long list of properties per material
• Save Notes per material
• Create Designs using Apple Pencil
• Support for all iPhone screen sizes
• Dark Mode
• iPadOS support
• MacOS support
• No Internet required
• Continuous Updates with New Materials
• UNIVERSAL PURCHASE - One Payment for all Devices



New Pro version auto-renew subscriptions:

- 1 year (Gold) | 3 month (Silver) | 1 month (Bronze) subscriptions*
- Access to all material database


ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS

• Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.


• Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.

• Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.

• Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.



• Terms of use (EULA):
https://www.termsfeed.com/live/faff17b4-8765-4690-b57e-9aabde3d2950

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 10, 2015 Initial release
  • June 18, 2015 New version 1.1
  • July 30, 2015 New version 1.2
  • November 29, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $19.99
  • November 30, 2015 Price decrease: $19.99 -> FREE!
  • February 24, 2016 New version 1.3
  • November 05, 2016 Price increase: FREE! -> $1.99
  • November 15, 2016 Price decrease: $1.99 -> FREE!
  • November 23, 2016 Price increase: FREE! -> $1.99
  • January 04, 2017 Price decrease: $1.99 -> FREE!
  • June 14, 2019 New version 1.8
  • December 03, 2019 New version 2.0
  • December 10, 2019 New version 2.1
  • July 14, 2020 New version 2.2
  • October 23, 2020 New version 2.3
  • September 16, 2023 New version 3.4