

Sketchable boasts a massive selection of brush types, color options, and tools to help you create some genuinely professional-grade drawings and uses a UI designed to be navigated and controlled with a stylus. Sketchable is up there with Autodesk SketchBook as one of the best Surface Pro drawing apps within the Microsoft Store app store. Some of the advanced features are locked behind a $24.99 paid upgrade. The app’s main claim to fame is seamless syncing between devices and an easy link sharing feature, allowing multiple people to work on the same digital workspace simultaneously across multiple Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices. Whiteboard has some additional line and chart tools and some solid import support for PDF files and images from the Bing search database. They are also a large enough size for children to interact with without accidentally selecting the wrong function. The pen size and color options are easy to access along the bottom of the Microsoft Whiteboard screen. This app features a streamlined interface designed for those who prefer to use a stylus, such as the Surface Pen, though it also works well with a mouse and basic touch controls. If you’re after a super-simple drawing app for your Surface Pro or another Surface device, you really can’t beat Microsoft Whiteboard. Microsoft Whiteboard isn’t ideal if your project requires a lot of text. So even if the Surface Pro 7 still isn’t for you, it’s unlikely legacy is well worth celebrating.This drawing app may be too simple for some adults.

That said, it’s the consistent excellence of this product that encouraged its maker to expand the Surface range to encompass a laptop, headphones and even an honest-to-god smartphone in the forthcoming foldable Surface Duo. Bar a drastic redesign and a smidge more battery life, this is as good a Surface Pro as Microsoft is likely to make. Perhaps the bigger takeaway from the Surface Pro 7 is what it means for Microsoft’s Surface range as a whole. What you see here is the hybrid product you expect and it’s a very likeable computer at that. Just as iPad has become a byword for tablets and Sonos has done the same for wireless speakers, Surface Pro sits alone as a hybrid computer worth considering, even if this year’s additions of a new processor and some added ports don’t exactly make it much of a game-changer.
