ArtFlow: Paint Draw Sketchbook

Artflow Studio

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About this app

Convert your device into a digital sketchbook with more than 80 paint brushes, smudge, fill and an eraser tool. This fast and intuitive painting and drawing application will unlock the full power of your imagination. With support for pressure sensitive pens (like Samsung's S Pen) your device will be transformed into a real canvas.

Important: this is a free application with advanced features requiring a pro license in-app purchase. Single licence purchase will activate all devices associated with your Google account.

Features (some functions require pro license):
• High performance (GPU accelerated) paint engine
• Canvases up to 6144x6144 with 50 layers^*
• Stylus pressure support
• Pressure simulation for touches^†
• 100+ brushes and tools (including smudge tool and gradient fill)
• Create custom brushes from imported images
• Selection and selection masks
• Layer clipping mask
• 10 layer filters (HSV adjust, brightness & saturation, color curves and more)
• Material design inspired, fast, fluid, intuitive and accessible user interface
• Import and export supports PNG, JPG and PSD (Photoshop Document)
• NVIDIA DirectStylus support
• Palm rejection - no more accidental zooming and panning when drawing^†

*) depending on device and available memory
†) some devices are incompatible with pressure simulation and palm rejection


You can paint, sketch and draw with ease thanks to fast and fluid brush engine. ArtFlow aims to replace your physical sketchpad and become universal art studio type application for Android™.


Artworks by:
Oleg Stepanko (https://instagram.com/rwidon)
Miguel Alvarado (https://www.instagram.com/3d.mike)
David Rivera (http://www.facebook.com/BlownHand)
Jon Mietling Portal Dragon (http://portaldragon.com)
Rob Pennycook
Marco Hurtado
Joel Ukeni (https://www.instagram.com/j.ukeni/)
Enrico Natoli
Andrew Easter
Andrei Lanuza (http://plus.google.com/+AndreiLanuza)
David Mingorance (http://davidmingorance.weebly.com)
EB Leung
Geremy Arene (http://www.youtube.com/geremy902)
ViBu (http://candynjuice.blogspot.com)
Oskar Stalberg


Unlicensed version limitation:
• 20 basic tools
• 3 layers
• Undo limited to 6 steps
• No PSD export

Ratings and reviews

The issue I'm having with it is that I can't make very slow movements (ex: drawing a line carefully) without the input kicking in until it travels a certain number of pixels. So if I drew a zigzag line? A straight line from point A to point B appears. And that's if you have the Long Press shortcut off, otherwise the app thinks you're doing a hovering gesture when you're just trying to move slowly. I was thinking it was a brush setting (such as the spacing), but that didn't change anything.

This has gone from a 4 star rating to a 1 star. I used to love this app. So much, then the new update broke the smooth brush ability. After that, I couldn't delete images in folders, yet I still managed. But now they've taken away my ability to have 3+ layers via advertisements and while I have been able to navigate around these issues before, no ads completely ruins the experiences and disables me from working.

It used to be great but until then, the smooth option for the smooth guide started acting up. I tried closing the app, uninstalling and reinstalling the app, and still nothing. The rest of the tools work fine but the smooth option for the smooth guide for lineart started acting all wonky. If I try to delete my data on there, that would delete all of my drawings and works in progress I've been working on for the past 2-3 months. If this issue gets resolved, I would highly appreciate it.

What's new

Gallery migration according to Android 11+ requirements
Fixes for multiple rare crashes
Pick color from layer shortcut
Gallery backup (export to zip file) and restore (from zip file or local folder)
Fix for redraw issues on Galaxy Tab S8 series
Fix for rare crash when using custom brushes with certain grain textures
Fix for crash when using SPen hand writing recognition for image size input