FSM Designer at Mac App Store analyse

The need and concept are good. This can be useful especially for some complex state that needs to be coded out quickly. But the UI and the graph editing are a little rough and is not that intuative. Some of the arcs between state overlapp in odd ways. It appears I can’t drag the states around. The program appeared stable and did not crash. Also, a Swift option would be nice. Final conclusion on this is: Needs some of the kinks worked out and a little more work. But the need and concept is useful. I gave the program 3 stars.

Interface is not intuitive. For example: right clicking on a state and selecting edit does not edit that state, it edits the state that is in edit mode. You put a state in edit mode by clicking the edit button in the tool bar and clicking the state. But that doesn’t edit the state, you still have to right click and select edit. And basic functionality doesn’t work reliably. Clicking edit on a state doesn’t always bring up the edit window. Arcs are difficult to edit. Drag and drop is buggy. Arcs don’t move their atttacnment points based on relative location, so they overlap the states or each other when you move them around. At one point I ended up adding several states trying to edit the first. Still haven’t gotten a machine working, but I’m hopeful. Not worth paying for yet, maybe worth $1.99 if it worked.