Symbolt Reviews

As others have reported, this is super buggy to the point it's a waste of time and unusable. I had purchased this in hopes that in the month these have been reported (arguably even known before that), the team would have been hard at work to correct these issues, but they still persist - NOT A GOOD LOOK.

Avoid this at all costs, there will be another product that offers something similar and will provide value.

Sorry Symbolt, time to pull this deal and walk away. This campaign will only further damage your brand, this product isn't ready.

This is a great concept but has a ways to go to get there.
To be able to design a stationary item and have a client be able to not only access, but possibly just edit text is great!
The design is sleek and modern and the controls provided are the MOST necessary ones.

The issues I have thus far:
the extreme slowness of the system is not feasible for great productivity. The initial loading was a crawl and I chopped it up to just setting everything up. But after I was in the system and using it, there was such a lag moving between pages. While in the tool and not switching pages, the speed is not so bad.
The system seemed to be very buggy, with some buttons and controls not working quite right or at all.
The overall layout is ok, but alot is not super intuitive.

Some things that I ran into that aren't necessarily bad but I would love to see:
- importation from some major programs (pdf, photoshop, indesign, illustrator, other online design tools)
- import custom fonts

I couldn't make this work consistently. It looked really promising and I'd like to believe that in the long term it gets better. It is WAAAY better than a ton of overcomplicated tools. However, I can't recommend this because it is currently unusable.

Ever worked with Word for document designTHIS IS SO ANNOYING and tried to move something, having to figure which F button to use and what is the hidden code that is causing the problem?

Alright, I have them all, from QuickReviewer to more or less every design thing that has come up on AppSumo. Also have subscriptions to Adobe (annoying and complex) and LucidPress.

This combines a little bit of everything for .doc. It's like QuickReviewer (except clients can edit but only what you want them to edit) and LucidPress put together for Word.

Set it up and figured it out in minutes. Playing with it quickly, I managed to put together a reasonable document in minutes with drag and drop and a few changes. It's amazing to be honest. There's also an image catalog - wasn't expecting that and a real bonus. Client reviewed and you can assign rights and views and they were pleased beyond belief.

Plugged in a word doc and it worked perfectly - have to redesign it but its drag and drop - not Adobe madness.

It's a bit slow in response time, and wish there were more templates but that's about it - not enough to distract from this amazing tool. Haven't tried full branding (not sure if you can upload fonts - always a problem for some clients) but the font catalog looked extensive.

If you're looking to create designed documents without the Adobe drama, or without figuring out Word, cannot see how you can go wrong.