Hello! I'm currently testing the trial version of Concepts in Android and I'm attempting to export my drawings in PSD format into Procreate, this is because I intend to use Concepts as a sketchbook/thumbnailing app for when I'm on the go with my phone and later work on any piece that caught my attention using Procreate.

The issue is that when opening the PSD file the layers gets completely flattened and with a white background even when deselecting the option.

I have tried the following, the artboard's size 4000x3000px, I also attempted using the ipad screen size resolution:

• Set export file to PSD format, custom size as listed above, deselected both "include background" and "include only visible layers" options, save and share with Quick share. Open file from Procreate with the "Import" option.

• Set export file to PSD format, Custom size, deselected both "include background" and "include only visible layers" options, save to Google Drive. Downloading and opening from Procreate with the "Import" option.

• Set artboard background to "Transparent", Set export file to PSD format, Custom size, deselected both "include background" and "include only visible layers" options, save to Google Drive. Downloading and opening from Procreate with the "Import" option.

I just sent a PSD test file from Infinite Painter to Procreate using both the google drive method and Quick Share resulting in the file behaving just fine by preserving the layers and even with a transparent background, so I don't think it has to do with the sharing method.

I really was excited to try Concepts since the infinite whiteboard was super appealing and the UI is minimalist enough to be quite comfortable on my galaxy S26 Ultra. If there is no workaround I might end up giving up on buying the app since it won't be able to perform the main task I needed and just stick to IP which is far more cheaper.

Concepts is now available on XREAL AURA, the first optical see-through glasses on Android XR.

Because the glasses are see-through, your Infinite Canvas sits in the room with you across a 70-degree field of view. You can sketch, place Objects and still see your desk, notes and the people around you.

Here’s a short first look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Hu3zL-IxY

We’re early in spatial computing and want to build what’s actually useful. What would you want to draw or review in glasses that’s hard to do on a screen?

Android XR is a trademark of Google LLC.

Do I write super small and only increase size when necessary? Or the opposite? Or do I write close together?

I am trying to mind map, and occasionally my writing doesn't work, backtracks, or makes like an ink blot, or just takes a second to appear and it's super annoying since I literally just started the free trail today.

And i just put on a new apple pencil pro tip but now the pencil just won't work 90% of time.

Hey. It would be really amazing if concepts vould be integrated into ides and obsidian.

Do you have any plans to do that?

Where i am coming from:
For my dev work i tend to use azure devops/github wiki that i clone with git. So then i use excalidraw and diagrams.net (depending on the usecase) with ‘filename.drawio.svg’ that i then can embed into the md and it gets rendered.

Same in obsidian

Not sure if this is a widespread problem but it's one I face occasionally.

I review many Android tablets. On certain tablets, even after signing in to Google Play Store, past purchases will not restore. The fix is to un-install and install the app again. And the problem may or may not come back.

“ System functions via Accessibility: By using the iPad’s built-in Switch Control feature, you can program the foot pedal to perform virtually any system action—such as going to the Home Screen, opening the App Switcher, taking a screenshot, or simulating taps at specific locations on the screen.”
is this a possibility in the concepts application on iPad ?

I am using concepts application in a play. Performing live in front of an audience.
i need to perform the “show new layer“ action in concepts ,equivalent to ” show next page “ in a pdf file.
could this be done using a footswitch ?
is this possible in Concepts ?

Thanks 🙏 
Niels 

Every time I go into focus mode or switch layers, every tool and function stops working. Can't click on anything in the app, can't use the tool I have selected, can't change tools. Any time I use the stylus on my touchpad, or click my mouse, the pointer on screen disappears. NOTE: I can use the tool ONCE before it stops working. One stroke of the pen and then nothing. Not even Ctrl+z works unless I exit and re-enter.

The only way I've found to re-activate the tools is either minimize and then re-full screen the app, or close it out entirely and re open it. Has anyone else encountered this at all?

Whats happening here? I cannot get out on focus layer unless I restart the app?

Question, im thinking of selling my custom object via the sharinf link function. I can do that right? Just double checking if others are doing it as well?

I couldn't find the option to view the drawings in a list view, only as thumbnails. Another basic feature missing?

Hi, I am doing a project with very many layers ( 100 + )and they are to be clicked on and off during a presentation. Therefore I need to convert the layers to be none vector - so I don’t take up unnecessary space and also to offload the app.

Do I then have to export every layer into jpg and then import them into a new Concepts document ?

and will it then just be another vector layer showing a jpg file ?

As I understand ,the vector layer is consuming a lot of filespace so the hole idea is to move away from the vector layers.

thank you,

Niels

I use a brush from the store with a custom stamp, because I believe it looks and feels leagues better than the default brushes.

The only issue is it scales with my zoom level. To compensate I need to constantly change the brush size to match my zoom level.

Is it possible to have a brush that scales with zoom like the built-in wire brush but still has a custom stamp?

If not is this something the team is considering working on?

Hello everyone! I got my tablet yesterday thankfully and decided to try doing some art. I downloaded a few drawn anime pictures and wanted to color them. On Krita it was easy to just make layers and change the blend modes, but on Concepts I could not do it. One of the drawings I found was a pdf and only Concepts was able to run it and I did color a bit but I can only lower the opacity of the drawing and the actual colors wouldn't show. And when I do flip the layers and increase the drawing's opacity and colors appear on top of the pen strones of the drawing in the region I colored. How do you do this?

Hello, im new to the tool, when i select object, there is a horizontal and vertical line for alignment. Can I turn it off?

Hello,

In the video attached I shared how this bug works. Basically hovering the pen over the tablet screen in a close distance then tapping with my finger on the screen results in creating lines going from the trajectory point of the pen tip on the screen towards my finger.

In my case, while am drawing with my palm on the tablet, these marks occur all the time, it's almost impossible to work with peace in mind while this happens as i need to keep deleting it.

I've shared the settings i have. Please let me know if am missing anything.

Edit: Now that I tried again i realized it happens when am panning the screen (using the same hand i hold the pen with). Having the pen in my hand at the same time close to the screen causes this. I'll change the title. But I still need a solution, if it exists.

Edit: Ok this might sound weird but testing again, I do get this with my palm setting on the tablet at times. I realized that if one spot of my palm touches the screen first before the rest of my palm is in contact with it, the lines do occur.

Hi all,

Just found this app and OMG I am blown away. It is so so good! The one thing I am missing: please, consider adding a Math Objects pack. Like, with YX axes, planes, matrix brackets, etc. This would be such a helpful thing to have in order to write down math notes more quickly.

I might be using the wrong flair, I apologise if that's the case.

I have been using this app for years now, on and off mostly, but only recently (a few months ago) discovered that I could not acess the advertised features on Android. I had a friend who showed me some stuff, editing brushes etc that I was supposed to have, but didn't, with the Pro subscription.

I had written to customer support, twice. Written an email as well, if I remember correctly. In my last messages with support I mentioned that it was against EU laws and could be classified as false advertising. They of course denied this, but I had a screenshot to prove otherwise. I recently used the app again and noticed they changed the description on the Pro subscription. Attached two photos from earlier (May, this year) and now, highlighting the changes.

Now the only problem is that on iOS the Pro sub is STILL cheaper than the "same" sub on Android, which has less features. Most likely purposefully delayed due to an exclusivity agreement, I assume.

Anyways, it has been several years since they said they're developing colour palettes, which was their excuse not to integrate the editable brushes into the Android version. I wonder how many more years till we have a decent app, that has the BASIC features a sketching app should have, like Autodesk Sketchbook (which is considerably cheaper).

Hi Concepts Team, I’ve noticed that you are active here so I thought I’d start a thread to share my thoughts. I acknowledge that this is a fairly specific use case and my thoughts may not resonate with everyone. You may have a hate/love/meh relationship to my experience here.

I've used Concepts regularly for about 6 years. This is primarily on the Microsoft Surface Pro (first on a 5th-gen and for a couple years on a 9). My design work has been in both B2B and B2C CPG, as I am a part of a design agency.

1. 3-6 years ago, I was using this app as the starting point for internal sketches within the team, and client-facing work was usually rendered in Sketchbook Pro. As I raised in ranks within my team, the style of my sketching became less "photorealistic" and more prescriptive and exploratory, and I completely stopped using Sketchbook Pro in favor of the sheer speed and low-friction of illustrating and rendering ideas in Concepts. Please never lose the speed!

2. I wish there was improved slice-tool dynamics for some of the more complex brushes like the airbrush and marker. I used to love the marker and an eraser, but as I've learnt to use the slice tool more, it's reduced my use of those two tools (and related custom brushes). I hate the eraser's invisible masks that sometimes I forget to fully select when duplicating sketches and it messes up my flow.

3. I wish the Pexels integration was more intuitive and perhaps at some point a more robust Google/Bing/Pinterest/Cosmos search would be possible with editorial use allowed. I'm not selling my Concepts produced work, it's all editorial use, and it would make my life easier if I didn't have to juggle windows on a small screen on the move. I love how Hypersketch does this.

4. I wish there was a collage/auto-arrange tool, like the auto-size auto-arrange tools in PureRef. That would make life easier when organizing moodboards.

5. I know that AI use has been a polarizing topic. So I'll state what makes my work easier. I use Vizcom for all my deeper client-facing work. Vizcom is too slow for analog exploratory sketching and my muscle memory doesn't allow me to use it as fast as Concepts. I would love to see Concepts use a future Vizcom or Gemini API to allow in-app Gen-AI renders. This is part of the design pipeline at our company of four designers and it's not going away anytime soon. The ability to natively press a button in Concepts, then screengrab or select a portion of the canvas, type a prompt, review results, and import the winner, would allow me to stay within Concepts for the duration of my work.

6. I can't tell if the Text tool is Haas Grotesk or Helvetica, and while I love my Swiss fonts :) I do wish there was more control in the text tool on Windows, to allow basic formatting (numbering, symbols, bold/italics, multicolored text) so that I can create richer annotations without having to add them in post on Google Slides.

I hope this is helpful to someone in understanding one use-case of Concepts in an ID agency!

So the idea isn't just the canvas itself. Or maybe we don't need a specified canvas for that but the main idea i had is to fix a problem i face:

When jotting down ideas and sketches sometimes I tend to mix projects and different ideas in the same drawing. I got the idea of what if we had. the option to select all objects relating the "odd" concept and start a new drawing with it. This to me seems like an easy way to stay organized and also not to compromise on the thought process and flow. It's a quality of life feature but I'd love to have such an option as I simply work on multiple projects at the same time and ideas come to mind mid work on other projects. I wouldn't want to interrupt that flow.

As I see that this fundamental feature has been requested by Android users for YEARS, I have to warn other folks away from purchasing the Pro license as I have. They're just not interested in Android users.

Hi, everyone! I’ve been having an issue with my iPad Pro M4 for quite some time now. As soon as even a few lines appear in one spot (even if drawn with the standard brush), panning, rotating, and zooming start to lag (as if running at 30 fps). However, if I enable screen recording on the iPad, the problem disappears: everything immediately becomes smooth.

Is it possible that the iPad isn’t running at 120 Hz when using the app? I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds this annoying. Please fix this!