Astropad Studio Gains Peer-to-Peer Networking for Faster Wireless Connection Between iPad and Mac

[MacRumors]

Astropad Studio, the app that is designed to turn the iPad into a drawing tablet for a Mac, is today gaining a major new networking feature that will cut down on latency.

Peer-to-peer networking will allow an iPad to connect directly to a Mac using a wireless connection, which Astropad says will cut latency in half by bypassing the router. No cable between the two devices will be necessary, so this is a function that improves the wireless connectivity between two devices.

Astropad Studio users can take advantage of peer-to-peer connectivity even when a WiFi connection is not available

According to Astropad, peer-to-peer functionality removes the uncertainties of WiFi for artists who rely on Astropad Studio, introducing smooth and low latency drawing. Peer-to-peer connectivity works with all Astropad Studio features, including Apple Pencil integration, touch gestures, shortcuts, and more. I

Peer-to-peer is limited to Mac users and it is not available for those who use Astropad Studio with a PC. It requires an iOS device with iOS 13 or later and a Mac running macOS 10.15 or later.

Peer-to-peer networking is a free update for all current Astropad Studio users. Astropad Studio is priced at $99.99 per year, with a 14-day free trial available for testing it out, but there is a 20 percent discount through May 19. More information on the feature can be found on Astropad's blog.

Article Link: Astropad Studio Gains Peer-to-Peer Networking for Faster Wireless Connection Between iPad and Mac

 

[vegetassj4]

Sidecar doesn't do enough?

 

[Analog Kid]

Astropad Studio is priced at $99.99 per year

This is absolutely absurd.

 

[aibloop]

Adobe subscription brain rot… Software developers need a reality check

 

[oldwatery]

They can stick it where the sun doesn’t shine at that price!

 

[purplerainpurplerain]

Adobe subscription brain rot… Software developers need a reality check

The brain rot is real. You can buy drawing tablet for $100-200 and it lasts a decade or more until driver support is finished, and you can sell it to upgrade.

Most of the subscriptions based products and services are from companies that have shared investors and shared shareholders. So all that money they are sucking out of society while making people believe they are being give “value for money” cheap subs.

No subs are not cheap in many cases they are much more expensive after two or three years than buying a product outright.

 

[1284814]

Being broke creative person i Wished I could sub

 

[nicolas17]

I bet this is using the Multipeer Connectivity framework added in iOS 7...

 

[Razorpit]

This is absolutely absurd.

But there is a 20 percent discount through May 19! 😉😄

 

[Macalway]

Well this is interesting. Go to their site and there's nothing mentioned. The reason I say this is I have Luna, which might include this (who knows). No mention of Luna

Anyone know if Luna includes this? I guess I'll find out soon enough.

 

[matthazz]

Well this is interesting. Go to their site and there's nothing mentioned. The reason I say this is I have Luna, which might include this (who knows). No mention of Luna

Anyone know if Luna includes this? I guess I'll find out soon enough.

It doesn't include it but works with luna. I purchased Astropad ages ago and they are supporting the old app with no upgrades. The benefit I see to Astropad is refining your pressure and barrel etc. But luna has been plenty fine for me and is much better than sidecar.

 

[amartinez1660]

Sidecar doesn't do enough?

Sidecar for some reason has terrible pressure sensitivity.
Don’t know if it is the responsibility of the app or sidecar itself to calibrate, but on affinity photo and sidecar I have to punch through the iPad to be able to see 70% of the intensity of a brush.
I stopped using it that way.
Also, I don’t know when apple will fix this, but if you are working with a VPN to connect to the office, A LOT of the continuity features bug out (copy paste from devices, annotate on iPad’s markup for a mac’s screenshot, etc)… including sidecar which just doesn’t work at all.

Well this is interesting. Go to their site and there's nothing mentioned. The reason I say this is I have Luna, which might include this (who knows). No mention of Luna

Anyone know if Luna includes this? I guess I'll find out soon enough.

I got Luna display (which works wonders and the pressure sensitivity of sidecar mentioned above is spot on compared). I think it doesn’t have the peer to peer option because the app still asks for WiFi things and it looks quite pixelated.

I have always used it connected via a cable for that matter, it’s almost perfect that way and charges the iPad 🤷‍♂️

 

[startergo]

I think it doesn’t have the peer to peer option because the app still asks for WiFi things and it looks quite pixelated.

Which app Luna's? You can connect through thunderbolt cable. No need for WIFI. You can use iMac as a display with thunderbolt cable.

 

[mariocapo]

Astropad Studio, the app that is designed to turn the iPad into a drawing tablet for a Mac, is today gaining a major new networking feature that will cut down on latency.

Peer-to-peer networking will allow an iPad to connect directly to a Mac using a wireless connection, which Astropad says will cut latency in half by bypassing the router. No cable between the two devices will be necessary, so this is a function that improves the wireless connectivity between two devices.

Astropad Studio users can take advantage of peer-to-peer connectivity even when a WiFi connection is not available

According to Astropad, peer-to-peer functionality removes the uncertainties of WiFi for artists who rely on Astropad Studio, introducing smooth and low latency drawing. Peer-to-peer connectivity works with all Astropad Studio features, including Apple Pencil integration, touch gestures, shortcuts, and more. I

Peer-to-peer is limited to Mac users and it is not available for those who use Astropad Studio with a PC. It requires an iOS device with iOS 13 or later and a Mac running macOS 10.15 or later.

Peer-to-peer networking is a free update for all current Astropad Studio users. Astropad Studio is priced at $99.99 per year, with a 14-day free trial available for testing it out, but there is a 20 percent discount through May 19. More information on the feature can be found on Astropad's blog.

Article Link: Astropad Studio Gains Peer-to-Peer Networking for Faster Wireless Connection Between iPad and Mac

Wow. They went subscription? No thanks.

 

[svish]

$100 for yearly subscription is high.

 

[Macalway]

Extremely high for what is offered.

For example and perspective. I have subscriptions to 3 different software products, among others, that offer access to software costing thousands of dollars if bought outright. All three!. These subscpitons are around $100 each a year.

The mind boggles.

 

[fluffy]

I backed the Luna Display dongle in their Kickstarter, and it never really worked particularly well for me (and even had to be replaced because it physically fell apart after two uses). Then they went bait-and-switch with the subscription for the software to use it properly, and then Sidecar came out and worked way better than Luna Display ever did, and then I assumed Astropad would have gone out of business by now because seriously, why would anyone want to support that company?

 

[amartinez1660]

Which app Luna's? You can connect through thunderbolt cable. No need for WIFI. You can use iMac as a display with thunderbolt cable.

Yes, I mean that I think it doesn’t have the new Astropad Studio’s “peer to peer” wireless (device to device, instead of device <-> WiFi <-> device).

But you are correct, for 99.9% of the time I use it connected, it’s perfect really, via a thunderbolt cable and it keeps it charged.

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I do find Sidecar great though, it’s a single click away on the menu bar “extend to iPad”; or when using the mouse/keyboard link can have your iPad having random apps (teams, music, reference videos, etc) hogging zero resources on your Desktop.

The reason for Luna for me is pen pressure sensitivity is correct and works with VPN connections. My work VPN blocks Sidecar (just doesn’t work, wired and wireless).

 

[dysamoria]

I said a big fat NO to this company when they went subscription. This does nothing to interest me.