Freehand 10 & 11 insist on saving files in the application folder instead of going to whatever system default I have selected. With a control panel like DefaultFolder Freehand just takes longer to readjust to a new location to save files. The program offers no contextual menus even though this feature has been available on the Mac since OS 8.0, and the floating tool windows clutter up the screen with no easy keystroke to temporarily hide them to see one's entire work area.

Versions 10 and 11 offer little improvement over version 7 which was the previous version I used. It is markedly slower and places more demands on the CPU and the memory. Unfortunately Illustrator is still more awkward and less intuitive to learn when it comes to using basic tools and doing simple manipulations of vectors.

I only wish Freehand 7 were OS X native. I would gladly give up all the fancy features for a cleaner vector drawing application that Freehand used to be.