Snodoodle Support

Draw a snowflake!

Watch it fall!

Print it and cut it!

About Snodoodle

Snodoodle is a snowflake maker for iPhone and iPad. Use the snowflake editor to make a perfectly symmetrical snowflake. Save your snowflakes, print them to cut out of paper, and watch them fall in a winter scene.

Snodoodle works on iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.

Getting started

Edit: draw a snowflake

Tap inside the editing triangle to add points. Snodoodle joins them with lines and repeats them around the snowflake
Touch and drag a point to move it
Tap the snowflake preview to turn fill on or off
Use the buttons at the top to undo, save, or clear the drawing, and to change the number of sides (4, 6, or 8) with the # menu

Library: your saved snowflakes

Tap a snowflake to open it.
Change its color, turn fill on or off, and show or hide the fold guides
Share it, print it, save it to your Photos, edit it, or delete it

Snow: watch them fall

Your saved snowflakes drift down in a winter scene
Swipe left or right to change scenes
Tap the screen to show the controls: colored snowflakes, how much snow, wind sound, and music. They hide again after a few seconds
The Snow tab is the only screen that turns to landscape on iPhone

Help

The Help tab inside the app shows a short, illustrated tour of these steps

Make a paper snowflake

Open your snowflake in the Library and tap the Print button. It prints as thin gray lines with dashed fold guides, so it's easy to cut and uses little ink.
Fold the paper along the dashed lines, then cut along the solid lines.
Unfold carefully to reveal your snowflake.

Tip: Print on thin paper, since it's much easier to fold and cut than thick paper.

Questions

I can't hear any sounds or music.

Snodoodle follows your iPhone's silent switch, so turn off silent mode and turn up the volume. In the Snow scene, tap the screen and check that Wind sound and Music are switched on. They start off each time you open the app.

"Save to Photos" doesn't work.

Snodoodle only needs permission to add pictures to your Photos. Open Settings, then Snodoodle, then Photos, and choose a setting that allows adding photos. Then try again.

Printing isn't available.

Printing uses AirPrint, so you need an AirPrint printer on the same Wi-Fi network. You can also pinch open the page preview in the print window and use the share button to save it as a PDF.

Where are my snowflakes saved? Do they sync between devices?

Snowflakes are saved on the device you drew them on, and they don't sync to other devices. They are part of your normal device backup. If you delete Snodoodle, its saved snowflakes are deleted with it. Use Save to Photos or Share on any snowflake you want to keep for good.

I edited a snowflake from the Library, but it made a new one.

Choosing Edit opens a copy in the editor. The first time you save, it's added to the Library as a new snowflake, and the original stays as it was. Delete the one you don't want from the Library.

The screen won't turn sideways.

On iPhone, only the Snow tab turns to landscape. The other tabs stay upright. On iPad, the Edit, Library and Help screens stay in a portrait-shaped column when the iPad is turned sideways.

Something looks wrong or the app closed unexpectedly.

Close Snodoodle and open it again, and check that you have the latest version from the App Store. If it keeps happening, please email me. Tell me what device and iOS version you have and what you were doing, and I'll look into it.

Privacy

Snodoodle has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking, and it doesn't collect any information about you. Your snowflakes stay on your device. The only permission the app asks for is to add pictures to your Photos, and only when you choose Save to Photos.

Contact

Questions, bugs, or ideas? I'd love to hear from you.

studiopandamarmot@gmail.com