Create and solve jigsaws ... anywhere... anytime

Before you can start creating any puzzles you must choose where you want the puzzles to be stored.

You can either store your puzzles locally on your device or you can store them in iCloud.

Storing your puzzles locally on your device is probably the best option if you have only one device or if you have a poor or limited internet connection.

Storing your puzzles iCloud allows you to share them between your devices. This means you can create and start a puzzle at home then continue solving it on your commute to work.

Puzzles stored in iCloud are automatically synchronised to your other devices so you can easily pick up where you left off.

Note: Puzzles stored in iCloud are stored in your private iCloud area and cannot be accessed by anyone else.

The home view serves as your puzzle library.

There are two categories of puzzle 'Active puzzles' and 'Completed puzzles'.

Here you can see:

• The '⊕' button which lets you choose the photo you want to use to create a new puzzle
• The puzzles you have created
• Your progress solving each puzzle
• The puzzles you have ccompleted
• The 'Privacy' button which shows some privacy information and allows you to delete all your puzzles.

Tap and hold a puzzle to show an action menu.

The menu you see will vary slightly depending on whether you tapped an 'Active' puzzle or a 'Completed' puzzle.

Active menu:

• Solve puzzle - tap this to start solving the puzzle
• View details - tap this you view a detailed analysis of your progress for this puzzle
• Export puzzle - tap this at any stage to export an image of the puzzle
• Delete puzzle - tap this to remove the puzzle from your library

Completed menu:

• Restart puzzle - tap this to reset the puzzle. All the puzzle pieces will be regenerated making it different from the previous puzzle based on this photo that you solved
• View details - tap this you view a detailed analysis of your progress for this puzzle
• Export puzzle - tap this at any stage to export an image of the puzzle
• Delete puzzle - tap this to remove the puzzle from your library

Creating a new puzzle is easy!

Just follow this simple process:

• Choose the photo you want to base the puzzle on. Note the photo you choose will be copied into the DigiSaw puzzle library. Large high resolution images may be scaled down to make them more usable in the app
• Select the difficulty level of the puzzle you want to create. There are three difficulty levels Easy (approx. 500 peices), Medium (approx. 1000 peices) and 1500 (approx. 1500 peices)
• Tap the 'Create' button to generate the pieces
• If you are happy with the result simply tap 'Save' to store this puzzle in your puzzle library

If you have chosen to store your puzzles in iCloud and have more than one device your new puzzle will be automatically fetched by your second device when you next use the app on it.

DigiSaw Puzzles has a number of features that make solving puzzles on your iPhone or iPad much easier.

Borrowing from the techniques that we use when solving jigsaws the app allows you to group pieces in various ways:

• Show only the corner pieces
• Show only the edge pieces
• Show only pieces that have 4 tabs
• Show only pieces that have 3 tabs
• Show only pieces that have 2 tabs
• Show only pieces that have 1 tab, we call this an ugly piece!
• Show only pieces that have no tabs
• You can re-order the pieces by simply tapping and holding the piece you want to move and then dragging it to a new location

You can also quickly view the complete photo by swiping over the arrows. Swiping the opposite way shows the puzzle again.

To place a piece simply tap the piece and then tap the where you think it should go in thge puzzle.

Tap and hold the puzzle image to view an action menu that you might find helpful if you are struggling with a puzzle.

The action menu allows you to:

• Turn on/off autozoom. Autozoom automatically scales the puzzle so that size of a piece in the puzzle frame is about the same size as the piece in the piece collection.
• Turn on/off hint mode. Hint mode automatically posistions the puzzle frame so that the piece you have selected is located somewhere in the frame
• View a detailed analysis of the puzzle

You can also zoom in for a closer look at the puzzle or photo at anytime using the standard 'pinch to zoom' action.

If you ever want to view a detailed analysis of the progress you are making simply select the 'View details' option on any of the action menus.

The details view gives the following information:

• Puzzle dimensions in both pieces and pixels
• Statistics showing the number and percentages of corners,edges and all pieces placed
• When you started the puzzle
• Approximately how long you have spent solving the puzzle. This is not the same as difference between now and when you started the puzzle but is instead measured as you interact with the puzzle