Drawing and artwork tools

Animation

Mac · Windows

Timeline 2D animation and interactive vector motion, desktop-first.

Sketching

iPad · iPhone · Android

Turn photos into brushes, shapes, and color themes for Fresco and Illustrator.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone · Web · Android

Light drawing and markup inside Adobe's quick-graphic web and iPad app.

Natural media

iPad · iPhone · Windows

Free painting app with Live Brushes for watercolor and oil, plus vector layers.

Vector illustration

iPad · Mac · Windows

Industry vector drawing on desktop and a Pencil-first iPad app in Creative Cloud.

Raster painting

iPad · Mac · Windows

Pixel painting, compositing, and retouch — desktop plus a capable iPad sibling.

Vector illustration

iPad · Mac · Windows

Subscription-free vector and pixel personas on iPad, Mac, and Windows.

Raster painting

iPad · Mac · Windows

Pixel painting and photo-art compositing with a full iPad edition.

Animation

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Windows · Android

Kdan's flipbook-style animator for iPad, iPhone, and desktop.

Natural media

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Windows · Android

Natural-media oils and palette-knife painting on desktop, with iPad and Android builds.

Raster painting

iPad · iPhone · Mac

Layered painting and photo-art editor for iPad and Mac, one-time purchase.

Vector illustration

iPad · iPhone

Shape-based illustration on iPad — posters and stickers from vector pieces.

Animation

iPad

iPad animation desk aimed at traditional frame-by-frame drawing.

Comics & manga

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Windows · Android

The comic, manga, and illustration workhorse — iPad, phone, and desktop.

Sketching

iPad · iPhone · Windows · Android

Infinite vector sketchbook for product, architecture, and loose ideation.

Natural media

Mac · Windows

The classic natural-media desktop suite for oils, watercolor, and texture.

Comics & manga

Mac · Windows

Free, lightweight comic and illustration app for Mac and Windows.

Animation

iPad · iPhone · Android

Social, kid-friendly flipbook animation that still runs properly on iPad.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone · Mac

Apple's infinite whiteboard for shared doodles, stickies, and Pencil sketches.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone · Mac

Handwritten notebooks on iPad that double as a daily doodle and diagram pad.

Illustration

iPad · iPhone · Android

Lightweight mobile painter with a growing brush set on iPad and Android.

Illustration

iPad · iPhone · Android

Huge brush and material library for anime-style painting on iPad and Android.

Raster painting

iPad · iPhone · Android

Deep mobile painting studio with a serious brush editor, on iPad and Android.

Vector illustration

iPad

Straightforward vector drawing on iPad for logos and simple illustration.

Vector illustration

Mac · Windows

Free open-source vector drawing for logos, icons, and illustration on desktop.

Natural media

iPad · iPhone

Oil-painting simulator for iPad that treats every stroke like wet paint.

Raster painting

Mac · Windows

Free, open-source painting program with a professional brush engine on desktop.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone

Quiet iPad sketchbook with ZipLine straight lines and a five-layer cap on purpose.

Vector illustration

iPad · iPhone · Mac

Vector illustration and layout on iPad and Mac, formerly Vectornator.

Comics & manga

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Windows · Android

Free comic and illustration suite with cloud projects on iPad, phone, and desktop.

Sketching

iPad · iPhone

Architects' tracing paper on iPad — scale, perspective, and mark-up over drawings.

Sketching

Mac · Windows

Minimal open-source sketching canvas with a distinctive brush engine.

Illustration

iPad · iPhone · Android

Finger-and-Pencil 3D sculpting on iPad for forms you then paint or render.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone · Mac

Note app with a strong Pencil ink engine for sketches in the margins.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Android

Handwriting notebooks with a pleasant ink engine for iPad sketches.

Sketching

iPad · Mac

Diagramming that still gets used as a precise iPad sketch and map tool.

Animation

Mac · Windows

Open-source 2D animation studio software, desktop only.

Raster painting

Mac · Windows

Customisable desktop painter with a dense brush workshop.

Illustration

Windows

Lightweight Windows inking and painting favourite among manga illustrators.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone

Fast idea capture and diagram doodles — the original FiftyThree / WeTransfer sketchbook.

Raster painting

iPad · Mac

Mac painting and design app with a new Apple Pencil iPad edition.

Raster painting

iPad

The default iPad illustration studio — brushes, layers, and Apple Pencil, no subscription.

Animation

iPad

Hand-drawn and puppet animation on iPad with a timeline, one-time price.

Raster painting

iPhone

Procreate's brush engine squeezed onto iPhone for sketches on the train.

Natural media

Mac · Windows

Watercolor and acrylic physics on desktop — dripping, blooming, drying.

Animation

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Windows · Android

Simple frame-by-frame animation that feels like a flipbook, including iPad.

Doodling

iPad · iPhone

Daily drawing challenges and a social iPad canvas for practice.

Sketching

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Windows · Android

Clean, free-to-start sketchpad with predictive stroke across phone, tablet, and desktop.

Sketching

Mac · Windows

The paid desktop Sketchbook for Cintiq and tablet monitors.

Natural media

iPad · iPhone · Mac · Android

Zen, paper-like sketching with wet watercolor — iPad, Mac, and Android.

Animation

Mac · Windows

Studio 2D animation system used in television — desktop, not iPad.

Animation

iPad

Modern iPad 2D animation with vector and raster, built for Apple Pencil.