DesiGN Books Author Templates App Reviews

Great themes for your projects. I would like to see more frequent updates though.

I was really excited about this app. I have been creating books using iBooks Author and have been wanting some more templates. I was disappointed after spending over an hour creating a book with one of the themes offered in this app and it continually crashes and does not show my saved changes. Hope this problem is fixed in the near future.

This is a complete rip-off. The themes are poor and offer little variation. To charge so much for a program that offers themes that actually dont work with iTunes Author is a disgrace. If you are going to use iTunes Connect do not use these themes as they do not format the book properly. How can Apple allow such bad content in their store?

Im trying to use the "Starting Family" template, but on the Chapter page layout I cant change the picture. While they are very nice looking people, I would really prefer to use my own pics. Im really hoping there is a fix for this.

Nice templates but found a few quirks. Example, when I used a template and built my first book, I was able to edit all the IPSUM LOREM stuff fine in landscape view, but there is a section on one of the templates that is locked or cannot be edited when looking at the book in standard view. Additionally, I have not been able to figure out how to edit the non-landscape chapter pages. The template has a left nav color and white to the right, but the lettering is also white so whatever extends past the left nav gets washed out. I would like to see an update to fix these issues. There are work arrounds (i.e. creating a colored shape to go over the un-editable Lorem Ipsum stuff) so it is not a major hinderance. but the non-landscape view is challenging to work with.

It downloaded for me, even though there was no progress bar. The themes are very handsome.

Despite another review to the contrary, I downloaded this and it works fine. It took a while to download/install, but then you open the Themes app (not the iBook Author) and double-click on a theme. It opens in iBook Author and seems to work the same as the built-in themes. The app seems to have a good variety of themes. Im just now discovering all the ins-and-outs of this software, so I dont have any more detailed comments … yet.

The app used to work great, but now I cant even use due to it crashing every single time I try to launch. Not cool. I hope an update comes real soon, because this is frustrating after buying this app and than not being able to use it. Please resolve issue and send update ASAP.

I purchased this app in hopes to find a larger variety of layouts, unfortunately I found very basic layouts that I could have done myself. Some of the layouts had over lapping sections that I needed to make adjustments to in order to show the full content.