Brushwick
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A drawing app for iPad, iPhone and Android

A complete studio, right on your screen.

Brushes you design yourself, layers with groups and masks, color adjustments, animation and time-lapse. Free, no account needed. Your art stays on your device.

Coming soon to theApp Store Coming soon toGoogle Play
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Email us and we’ll let you know when Brushwick arrives on the App Store and Google Play. The app is available in 12 languages, including English.

Brushwick on iPad: a colored lotus mandala, the toolbar on top and the brush size and opacity sliders on the left
Brushwick on iPhone: the Layers panel with the line art layer, a color layer and the layer actions

Features

Everything for a quick sketch or a finished piece

The tools you need for serious drawing, in a calm dark interface that keeps your art the brightest thing on screen.

  • Brushes and Brush Studio

    11 built-in brushes: pencils, ink, calligraphy, watercolor, oil, charcoal, chalk… Tune the tip, grain and response to pressure and tilt to make your own.

  • Pro-grade layers

    Layer groups, alpha lock, clipping masks, layer masks, 17 blend modes, opacity, merge and invert.

  • Shape snapping

    Hold the pen still at the end of a stroke and it snaps into a clean line, ellipse or polygon. Tap with another finger for a perfect circle or regular polygon.

  • Drag to fill

    Drag the color swatch onto your art to fill a closed area. Set the reference to the canvas to fill up to line art on another layer.

  • Perspective and symmetry

    2D grid, isometric and perspective guides with draggable vanishing points. Vertical, horizontal, quadrant and radial symmetry. Drawing Assist snaps your strokes to the guide.

  • Selection and transform

    Automatic, freehand, rectangle and ellipse selection. Freeform, uniform, distort and mesh warp transforms.

  • 12 adjustments

    HSB, color balance, curves, gradient map, three kinds of blur, noise, bloom, chromatic aberration, halftone and liquify.

  • Color and harmony

    Color disc, classic picker, HSB values and hex codes. Six harmony modes suggest colors that go together, and your saved palettes are always one tap away.

Inside the app

From the first line to the last frame

The template library on iPad: the Lotus mandala template featured with its line art and colored versions side by side, more templates below

Template library

Open a template, start coloring

272 algorithmically generated line-art templates, from mandalas, Penrose tilings, stained glass and mazes to a Dong Son bronze drum, Hoi An lanterns, perspective scenes, comic panels, fairy-tale heroes and manga characters. Each one opens with its layers ready to go and a suggested palette.

  • Preview the line art and the colored version side by side
  • Line art sits on top in Multiply, locked so you never paint on it by mistake
  • Turn on the Color guide layer for a reference
The Gradient Map adjustment applied to a mandala on iPad, with the gradient presets and strength slider below

Adjustments

Color and effects, previewed live

Apply to a whole layer or just inside a selection. Drag across the canvas to change the strength, then tap Done or Cancel.

  • Hue, saturation, brightness
  • Color balance
  • Curves
  • Gradient map
  • Gaussian blur
  • Motion blur
  • Perspective blur
  • Noise
  • Bloom
  • Chromatic aberration
  • Halftone
  • Liquify
Animation Assist on iPad: a bouncing ball with onion skin of the previous frames and the frame timeline below

Animation Assist

Every layer is a frame

Turn on Animation Assist and your layers become a timeline. Onion skin shows the frames before and after, so you can get the timing just right.

  • 1–60 frames per second, loop, ping-pong or one shot
  • Hold frames longer, and keep the first frame as the background or the last as the foreground
  • Export the animation as an MP4 video

iPad, iPhone, Android

Big screen or small, still a studio

The interface adapts to the screen: floating panels on tablets, everything within thumb reach on phones.

Apple PencilPressure and tilt. Double-tap or squeeze does whatever you chose in iPad Settings: switch to the eraser, go back to the previous tool, or open the color panel.
Familiar gesturesTap with two fingers to undo, three to redo; pinch and twist to zoom and rotate the canvas.
Android phones and tabletsThe same features and file formats, with stylus support.
The drawing screen on iPhone with a mandala
Draw
The Color panel on iPhone, Harmony tab with color schemes
Harmony
The artwork gallery on iPhone with colored drawings
Gallery

Export

Take your art anywhere

Export, then share through the system share sheet: save to Photos or Files, send a message or open it in another app.

  • PSD

    Photoshop

    Keeps layers, groups, clipping masks, opacity and blend modes so you can pick up where you left off on your computer.

  • PNG

    PNG image

    Flattened image, with a transparent background when you hide the background color.

  • TIFF

    TIFF image

    Lossless flattened image, ready for print.

  • PDF

    PDF document

    One page with the same proportions as your canvas, easy to send and print.

  • MP4

    Time-lapse

    The app records your process as you draw. Export a 30-second cut or the full-length version.

  • MP4

    Animation

    Your frames as a video, at the speed and playback mode you chose.

Your art stays on your device

No account needed. Drawings, brushes, palettes and time-lapse frames are stored only on your device and never uploaded to any server. It leaves your device only when you choose to share it. Read the privacy policy.