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Inspire

Originator snowCanoe
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Available exclusively on the App Store, meticulously designed to be beautifully powerful, and painstakingly engineered for iPhone — Inspire delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing, and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes. Our proprietary painting engine Sorcery™ takes full advantage of the GPU to render brush strokes with brilliant 64-bit color, laser-sharp sub-pixel precision, and insanely fast speed. While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with just a bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors on the canvas together to create new ones. Whether you are a budding artist, seasoned professional, or somewhere in-between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of the most intuitive and compelling illustration app for iPhone, Inspire. Amazing Brushes • 150 high-quality brushes to choose from, divided into 15 sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Spray Paint, Paint Splatter, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Markers, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastels & Conté, Basic Shapes, Complex Shapes, Shape Outlines, Patterns, and Textures • All brushes can be used as a Wet Brush, Dry Brush (Blending), or Eraser • Over 20 different settings are available to customize brush strokes with powerful versatility and variation The Best Painting App for iPhone • Sorcery™, the fastest 64-bit painting engine on the App Store • Create a canvas of any size up to 16K (64MP) • Dual-texture brushes • 64-bit color • All device orientations are supported all the time — switch from portrait to landscape painting with ease • 1000 levels of undo and redo are available • Touch and slide hotspots can be used to quickly change brush size, opacity, and pressure without opening a menu • The eyedropper tool can be used with a touch and hold gesture to select paint colors from the canvas • The canvas can be moved around, rotated, and zoomed in and out up to 6400% Canvas Playback Video Recording • Brush strokes are automatically recorded as you paint without any delay • You can play the video of your artwork being created stroke-by-stroke directly in the gallery • Export high-quality videos of your artwork to your Photos Full-Featured Color Picker • Choose any paint color you can dream of with the intuitive color picker • HSB and RGB sliders accompany a large color circle, color square, and opacity slider • Your latest colors are saved to a palette automatically while you paint • You can also save your favorite colors to a palette with drag and drop Visit snowCanoe.com to check out more screenshots, videos, and artwork. With no subscription fees or in-app purchases, you own Inspire and all future updates forever, with just one purchase!
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Mad-ninja Call-of-duty • Nov 12, 2025 ★ 5
This painting app is distinct from other apps, my favorite feature is the video progress. Where after you finish you can see the animation coming to life from simple lines and smudges to a castle. The painting itself is great, it takes some time to learn but it’s easy and fun.
iFyl2 • Sep 13, 2021 ★ 5
I’ve made some things on here that surprise myself. Great app.
TSAVORITE43 • Sep 5, 2021 ★ 5
I love this app. It feels like your finger is a brush and no mess at all. So much fun!
Spraycan p • Jan 14, 2021 ★ 5
This app is great! It has a great selection of Brushes to use and a lot more than most paint apps! great fun
15nieces & nephews • Sep 5, 2020 ★ 5
Very easy to navigate & be creative.
silentminja • Dec 14, 2019 ★ 5
While many apps out there essentially do the same thing with brush patterns (pro-create, etc) There is nothing that compares with the blending effect of wet-on-wet you get with this app. This is the app that I go to for that traditional oil painting look.
mariabgood • Jan 13, 2019 ★ 5
Great way to play with art
BigBoiDownUnder • Dec 29, 2018 ★ 5
Such an amazing app! I used to use the free version of ibis paint but when I really got into art I met complications along the way so I decided to change to a new art-making program and that puts me here. The first piece I made was two planets both with one moon in a galaxy and I have to say that the vast arrangement of tools Inspire offers made this quite easy while keeping it looking good and fresh!

You got a new user! -J
K0GGLE • Nov 8, 2018 ★ 1
DOESN'T SUPPORT MULTIPLE LAYERS
Hercules2513 • Oct 22, 2018 ★ 5
This app totally rocks
Dida61 • Aug 24, 2018 ★ 5
I have many painting apps - ArtStudio Pro, Affinity Designer, ArtRage, Paintstorm, Procreate - yes, I play with the big boys. But when I’m ready to settle down and get things done, Inspire Pro is my go- to painting app. Its ease-of-use is the primary reason but come on...look at all those brushes, and the blending capabilities are above an other app! You should really give this app a try if you’re serious about painting!
Loncfgdrgsfcdhjgj • Jul 11, 2018 ★ 5
This is my first art app and I love it so much and I thank you the creators
JCsReviews • Apr 22, 2018 ★ 5
Amazing app!! Very enjoyable. It blends old school artistic techniques and tools with new digital painting techniques and tools.
The recording of all brush strokes is the icing on the cake. It’s fun to watch the painting appear from a blank screen and it’s a great teaching tool.
Great job!! Love the app!! Thank you for creating it!!!
Adding layers would be awesome.
dustymom • Feb 14, 2018 ★ 5
Lots of fun! Makes an artist out of everyone. Easy to use. Addictive. Relaxing.
ShaineTm • Dec 18, 2017 ★ 5
Although, I wish they would add more brushes.
Kuhlneffe83 • Jul 8, 2017 ★ 5
I love this app! Fulfills all my artistic needs.
The Artist of Pain • Jun 5, 2017 ★ 3
I enjoyed the app when I first got it, but now it crashes every five minutes, deletes all my progress, and just makes it really difficult and frustrating to use. Fix it soon, or I'll be contacting Apple to see about getting refunded for an app that has issues and hasn't had an update to fix said issues in a long time.
Wrdgrl57 • Apr 5, 2017 ★ 5
I have tried a few other coloring/ actual create your own art apps and this is far better!! This allows me the freedom to make art wherever I go. I find it much easier to use and colors blend better.
Home run😀😀😀😀 • Mar 16, 2017 ★ 4
I absolutely love this app as it lets me create the art I love without having to carry a computer with me wherever I go. However, I have found that after using it incessantly for one day, I cannot use it without it glitching and exiting out of the app entirely after only five minutes of use. This wouldn't be too big of an issue if my work would be saved. With this isssue, I lose all the progress I have made on the piece I am working on. Adding to that, I have to wait a week or more before I can work for more than five minutes without a crash. Due to waiting so long, I often have to write down exactly what I have planned for the piece so I do not finally have the opportunity to work again and have to completely start over. So, in whole, I absolutely love this app, but hate that I can only use it once every other week. It is definitely worth the money if you plan on using it only for one day during the week. I have already recommended it to several friends and will continue to recommend it. I sincerely hope for the glitch to be fixed so I can enjoy it properly.
Miss Baje • Dec 21, 2016 ★ 5
This is a great painting app. It's intuitive and easy to use. I loved it the second I tried it...so I bought it. Happy I did. It's one of my most used apps, along with picmix...I have fun.