Gabe Weatherhead reviews Paper and his gripes reflect some of my own.

Regarding how the fountain pen behaves:

The faster the stroke, the thicker the line. That seems a little counter intuitive to me. With real ink, which I believe Paper is trying to mimic, darwing faster produces lines that are thinner and lighter. It does not feel like real ink to me but that’s ok. It takes some getting used too in order to make the pen behave how I want it to. That’s not ok.

It’s true that Paper’s brush behaves unnaturally. However, in the context of the iPad’s limited ability to mimic reality, it makes sense: How else would you be able to draw at any level of detail if the brush worked the other way around?

On getting your drawings out of Paper:

My second biggest complaint about drawing apps (next to ink quality) is data transportability. Paper fails here too.

I totally agree. Email isn’t enough and that there is not way to copy your drawings to the clipboard is almost comical.

On Paper’s pricing:

I would have simply preferred an honest version of the app with all of the tools for a single price.

My sentiment exactly.

Go read the whole review, it sums up Paper pretty nicely.