This app is amazing. It has a wide variety of colors and hundreds of brushes that can make artistry easier and more enjoyable for beginners and professionals alike. In addition to the more basic features, it creates the ability to edit your drawing without ever using a brush with things like blur, perspective, smudge, etc. You can even use grids, reference windows, stabilizers and different shaped rulers [for all of those tricky circles ;)] It can be a bit tricky to navigate at first, and I’m still learning as I go, but once you get the hang of it it’s super easy. And on top of it all, even though many things that I haven’t mentioned are premium features, Ibis has an amazing way of both keeping themselves in the air and giving us continence. Instead of having to watch an ad for EVERY SINGLE premium item, you can watch a singular one and get all brushes free for essentially the next day. Which brings me to the one problem. It’s not even an issue, more an inconvenience that I noticed had appeared recently. Every time you go to create a new canvas, enter/exit an existing one, etc. an ad pops up. They’re typically pretty short, and I do get that Ibis has to have some way of getting paychecks, but it’s extremely annoying since I’m constantly deleting my messed up creations and making new ones. If someone could fix this to be less frequent or even just explain why this has started happening, I would be a bit more content. Have a nice day! :)

I’m going to try and keep this short for the few apple users who actually read reviews. I have been using ibisPaint for a few years now, and it still holds up fairly well. it rarely crashes, the brushes are good, and you can even upload it to your drive in any type of file format. Now on to the issue of the ads. I’m well aware that the only form of money this app is making is via other companies paying them to have ads play on their site. Now I don’t mind watching an ad per day so I could use all the brushes for free. But now every time I open up a drawing, save a drawing, and now WHILE I’m drawing, an ad decides to rear it’s annoying head and interrupt whatever it is I’m doing. I didn’t mind getting ads when I saved a file or opened a file. But while I’m drawing, are you kidding me? You already shoved ads in our faces when we did simple tasks so I don’t see the point of showing an ad to someone who is trying to use your app. You are a drawing software it doesn’t make sense to interrupt someone who is trying to use your “drawing” software to make art. I know I said I would keep this short but I’m honestly done with the ads messing with the drawing process. At this point I would rather use other softwares like procreate or HiPaint. And if any of the devs who even read the reviews, Let me remind you this is a “drawing” software not an Ad software.

This app is absolutely amazing. For starters, this app is very professional to be free. Unlike a lot of free art apps it is user friendly, and the majority of things are free. There are some features that you have to buy the membership for, but those are mainly little ones, like the ability to re-arrange your gallery. You can even watch an ad every 18 hours to get EVERY. SINGLE. BRUSH. free of charge. And those brushes are not only incredibly useful for artists of all kinds, but also are fun to play around with. It also has just about every tool you could think of, the ability to specifically choose a color anddd save it to your own pallet, and you can even add layers and move them around, as well as change their visibility. You can also add in any saved image of your phone, or grab one from the apps own gallery. It also auto saves your progress, so if your phone randomly dies, your hard work is safe! There is so much to offer on this app without even having to pay money. The only ads you will ever see, (unless, like me, you watch some for free brushes), will be teeny tiny ones on the top that you barely even notice. And while yes, on older electronics it can be a bit buggy, the amount it has to offer is incredible. I really do mean this, this app is so so great, it will change your artist life for the better.