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ArtRage Vitae is our Premium Natural Painting application for mobile devices!
Get creative on your digital canvas with realistic color blending, mixing oil paint, delicate watercolor, and much more! Ever wanted to try painting your masterpiece but were put off by the mess and expense? Now you can!
ArtRage Vitae isn't just about color: It knows how much paint you've used so you can mix it and spread it on a textured canvas. It knows how wet your paint is so you can blend it with other paints. It even knows about the roughness of your paper so your pencils can be used for soft shading.
It's not just a special effect either - ArtRage Vitae is a live simulation of the properties of real artistic media that lets you get creative with colors and textures using tools you already know how to use!
ArtRage Vitae takes full advantage of the Apple Pencil support for pressure & tilt, and 3D touch on your iPhone when available.
Join the ArtRage community:
Forums: forums.artrage.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/artrage
Instagram: www.instagram.com/artrage_paint/
Features:
Real world painting tools: Oils, Watercolors, Paint Rollers, Pencils, Crayons and more. Each tool has a range of familiar properties such as how much thinner is applied to the paint, or how soft a pencil tip is. Tools apply texture as well as color, and blend under the brush.
Add Layers to your painting and work on individual elements without damaging others. ArtRage supports a wide range of layer effects, layer blend modes, and layer contents can be scaled moved and rotated independently.
Import images, converting them to oil paint for mixing and blending or as Reference Images pinned to the canvas as a visual guide. Load photos as Tracing Images which are overlaid on the canvas, and have ArtRage select colors automatically as you paint.
The interface has been designed to maximize your creative space without hiding away critical functions such as tool and color selection. As you paint, it gets out of the way so that you don’t have to stop and manually adjust panels.
Record your paintings! The ArtRage Script system lets you record strokes while you paint for playback in desktop versions of the product at higher resolution.
Share your paintings on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Creative Cloud, Dropbox, DeviantArt or any other sharing app on your device.
Tools:
• Oil Brush, Watercolor, Airbrush, Palette Knife, Paint Roller, Paint Tube, Inking Pen, Pencil, Marker Pen, Chalk, Crayon, Glitter Tube, Gloop Pen, Eraser, Flood Fill, Cloner.
• Paint simulation monitors the physical properties of your paints to allow natural blending, smearing, and other real world behavior.
• Preset support to save your favorite settings for later use.
• Supports the Apple Pencil's Pressure and Tilt properties, and 3D Touch where available to add realism to the simulated paint strokes.
Layers:
• Unlimited layers with Photoshop standard blend modes, visibility and opacity controls. Scale, rotate, and position layer contents independently.
Utilities:
• Record your paintings as Scripts then play them back in a desktop version of ArtRage.
• Unlimited Undo / Redo. Load photos as References or Tracing images.
Files:
• 4096 x 4096 Canvas now available on all devices.
• Control the texture and color of the canvas to create different effects. Canvas presets can be stored for later.
• Export PTG, JPG or PNG to services such as Email, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, and more. Share images on Facebook or Twitter. Import photos to a new file or a layer, with camera support.
Interface:
• Easy access pods provide functionality without getting in the way. Elements vanish as you paint so you can paint underneath. Multi-Touch shortcuts for canvas manipulation, Undo/Redo, and Brush Size.
Stylus & Input Support:
• Apple Pencil Pressure & Tilt.
• Supports 3D Touch.
• Includes support for Wacom, Adonit and Pogo styluses.
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What is ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting?
ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting is a digital product or tool described as: Ambient Design Ltd.
Where did ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting originate?
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When was ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting within our tracked developer communities was recorded on April 11, 2021.
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ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting has achieved measurable traction, logging over 49 reviews and facilitating 4 recorded discussions or engagements.
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Community Voice & Feedback
I purchased this app and I just realized there is another version of this app by the same developer , cheaper, probably better version out there. Money is not an issue , couple dollars only, but why. Is there any differences between those app.
Anyway, Still good app but there is a delay between pen and drawing, it really annoying , I hope it will be fixed .
Anyway, Still good app but there is a delay between pen and drawing, it really annoying , I hope it will be fixed .
So, it starts with not auto-saving when exiting the app, and I hope this issue is resolved in the future. Minus this, I am enjoying my time creating.
I love this program on my computer. I really wanted to use it on my iPad, but it has crashed twice erasing my work suddenly. I’m kind of sad about it. It also doesn’t save automatically. I would also love to have the option of choosing the size of the work by measurements, not just pixels.
This is one of the most poorly designed art programs I have ever come across. It is not easy to navigate and everything you want to do takes several steps. Even increasing a brush size is difficult.
12 March 2025: I have been using ArtRage for many many years now both on my Mac and iPads. There has been little done other to fix bugs and OS inconsistencies with OS releases and I feel that the app is growing very stale. It needs to be enhanced with more and better tools and functionality. It used to be a go to; but, now is nothing more than a stress busting tool. It’s a shame when apps like this fall through the cracks and it makes it even hard to recommend them.
Time for some healthy and genuinely unique u-dates to the app.
Time for some healthy and genuinely unique u-dates to the app.
Unless you are 5 yearsold very limited
You may have to go to preferences to adjust some things though the painting is by far the most realistic. This version is the same as the other one but it has an option to turn the colors metallic I think. You may wanna get the cheaper version if you don't care for that. It doesn't auto save like most apps, so when you exit it, it resets (edit: Yeah no art rage really tests my mental strength because I put in thirty minutes of work and I exited for one moment and it all dispeared) I'm going here every time I get angry at art rage cause sometimes I leave for another app or something for reference and when I come back an entire layer that i painted is gone cause ArtRage didn't save it it happens often. Also with with high resolutions it does this thing where it zooms in a bit and you can't zoom out and another thing I was painting and somehow the reference just disappeared from my screen even though it was on the tab. Ok I left for one second after I spent hours on a a painting and it being gone happened again I'm deleting this app I'm hitting my hand hurts from hitting the table and this is 5 dollars wasted
I don’t know why but suddenly the thumbnails all turned generic the the ArtRage logo. I have dozens of artwork and I now have to spend time opening each one to find it.
It would be nice to have an option to SEE the brush cursor/shape BEFORE I make a stroke. Like most digital painting software.
Big thanks to the developers of this art software. With Procreate’s lack of realistic color blending I gave up on using the iPad for art. Upon buying ArtRage Vitae and seeing it immediately mix blue and yellow to create a beautiful green color I am realizing there is hope for the future of art on the iPad. The sad grey mush you get when mixing blue and yellow in inferior art programs makes ArtRage Vitae a must-buy. Just hold your finger down on the color in the lower right to access the Real Color Blending. My Bob Ross dream is coming true.
ArtRage has always been a go-to for realistic digital painting especially for those who like a UI that’s familiar to fine artists, with a tray of brushes and media tools instead of a Photoshop-like interface. I’ve used AR for years but when I saw this new version I thought finally they updated this app which has never really changed in over a decade. Nope…still the same. It looks and behaves exactly like the original app. So what’s “Vitae” about it? Head scratcher. Still good and worth using but wonder why it exists unless purely to dupe original users into buying. Guilty!
Three times The app has crashed. Each time I lose all my work. I love the app. I hate the way it stores the work.
Glad to have ArtRage on an iPad pro. The tools are great but for me, ArtRage’s main feature is subtlety. Zoom in as much as you like, and you really don’t see pixels, just the transitions among color and intensity. None of my other great art tools do this. I’d like to see selections added to the iPad OS version..iPhone, too.
The iPad version suffers from unreliable palm rejection, often resulting in the brush size widget appearing as you’re drawing, forcing you to scale the brush size up, then down, in order to dismiss it to resume seeing what you’re drawing. Would hope the devs would address this.
The iPad version suffers from unreliable palm rejection, often resulting in the brush size widget appearing as you’re drawing, forcing you to scale the brush size up, then down, in order to dismiss it to resume seeing what you’re drawing. Would hope the devs would address this.
I keep hoping artrage will impress me but I usually end up disappointed. Clunky U.I., lack of options, just O.K. Brushes that are often cumbersome to use and organized in a frustrating way. If you are a primarily traditional artist, and arent familiar with a lot of software, this might be good for you while you get used to digital art. But for me, an experienced digital artist, this is another letdown. Also, there is no excuse for not including 2 finger tap undo at this point. Its standard across many apps and it is SO frustrating when its not default, or an option.
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My main issue was how bad and pixelated some of the brushes looked? And then they did not behave at all realistically. It basically just did not meet the two main expectations I had. Smart of them not to add a demo option, otherwise I would have never bought this, I guess.