Sketchbook

Sketchbook

In-app purchases

About this app

From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.

Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas.

• A full complement of brush types: pencils markers, airbrushes, smear and more that look and feel just like their physical counterparts
• Brushes are highly customizable so you can create just the look you want
• Guides, rulers and stroke tools support precision when you need it
• Layers with a full complement of blend modes deliver the flexibility to build up and explore drawings and color
• Purpose-built for sketching, the interface is clean and unobtrusive so you can focus on drawing

Ratings and reviews

I've used this app since I was about 13 (23 now) and it's really intuitive for me, and the pro version isn't some subscription! It's a one time purchase, has been since I got it when I was 13. The desktop one is a one time $20 too. I'm not the most tech savvy, so idk what making and editing brushes is really like, but I really like this app, and the pro is definitely worth the couple bucks.

I mostly love this - all the free features are all you need to make exceptional art. The premium features are probably cool, idk I haven't used them because I'm poor, but you don't need them. When they came out with premium I was worried they were gonna paywall important stuff but I'm glad they didn't. Only issue is a bug that suddenly appeared (01/18/25) - layers randomly corrupt and you have to clear the layer to even change layers or view layers. Please fix this bug for 5 stars!!

I do truly love this app, and I think it's very good for artists. I do wish it had an animation setting like Ibis Paint X. This app also does not get blocked by Bark. I love all the different settings, and I think it works well and is easy to use once you get the hang of it. However, I do have a problem with the way that it saves a blank file before the art it just takes space on your phone. There are also no ads, just peaceful drawing! ✏️

What's new

Steady Stroke tool
• draw smoother lines and curves
New Free Symmetry tool
• rotate the line of symmetry to any angle
Consolidated export workflow for all file types
Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in the Premium Bundle!
Clipping masks
• blend and manage the content of your canvas across different layers more easily
• enable and disable clipping masks in the Layer Editor