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My Go-To Drawing App
I have multiple drawing apps but this is definitely the one I find myself going back to the most. Yes, I know Procreate (which I also own and love) has a lot more functionality and, if you need those extra features, go for it. But Sketches has everything I need most often, without the clutter of a bunch of additional options I’m probably never going to use anyway. The interface is straightforward and friendly. The app is rock steady and unbuggy. And it’s just damned fun to use. I even like the sounds. In fact, I almost always keep the sounds turned on with the volume up just loud enough to hear, without disturbing others. It’s heartbreaking whenever you find a favorite creative app that eventually gets discontinued. Sadly, that’s happened to me more than once. But it seems the developers of this app are really committed to it, which is just one more reason I’m glad I fell in love with this one. I plan to use Sketches for a long, long time. And I can’t endorse it highly enough.Show lessRichardJacobson
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I used to use this app to make most of my art until it updated and got rid of the community. The features are fine mostly, sometimes if there are too many layers it will crash. I don't know about others experiences but its always saved my work when it crashed. Now it doesn't have the community and you have to pay for more things? I had Sketches Pro before it updated so maybe I just didn't have to I guess? Also I noticed Pro is more expensive now, also not cool. And the community thing, I understand it was difficult to moderate but it was a safe community with simple features and not a lot of ways to give negative comments on others work. People mostly just had art contests and complimented each others work if there were any interactions between users at all. It's on instagram now, but most people who used the community aren't on there. Most people who used it weren't even allowed on instagram. So while I appreciate the updates to tools, I miss the simplicity and positivity of the community. If you do manage to improve the features enough to a point where you can put in the effort to bring back the community, please do because I think me and a lot of others would appreciate it.Show lessZgamma
It's good but it needs some improvements.
Sometimes the app will freezes up. Every time I try to delete a color in the color palette the app shuts down. The eyedropper needs to be improved particularly when you touch the screen it will show up when you don't want it to, when you touch the screen and hold it there and don't move it there should be at least one second delay before the eyedropper appears on the screen. When you're in the main menu and you want to open up a painting you have to touch it about four or five times for it to open up. One more thing this is with the watercolor brushes, when you're painting a medium to large size areas you get these cauliflower and other similar patterns and it depends on the color and the opacity level, I usually set my opacity level at 50% and I still get those patterns and it can be a lot, it would nice if those patterns were toned down quite a bit. I'm using a iPad Pro 12.9 inch and it's got the latest update.Show lessHamer1952
5 Stars All The Way!
I’ve been using Sketches for a quite a while now…and WOW! I absolutely love it!
There’s so much fantastic things to say about Sketches, but I will say my favorites. First off, The app automatically saves your artwork when you go back to your gallery! Amazing!! Second, Sketches really makes this app like a online sketchbook!! Plus there is so much tools you can use for you to create your very own art work! Third, I absolutely adore how it’s not just your Art Gallery you can use! You are able to go out of your sketchbook and see different things! Drawings you can do with each tool, you can see how to access, use, and draw with the art tools, and activities you can do if you don't know what to draw, or are just bored, and want to have fun! (And more of course!) And lastly…
Fourth, the app itself is just beautiful, one of my all time favorite drawing apps, I TOTALLY RECOMMEND IT! This app really is a Sketchbook!
I hope you find this app well, and thanks for reading!Show lessCappo335
New Feature for the Update
Peace, long time user and lover of the app.
Had a revelation about a functionality that I don't believe is on the app yet, or if it is someone please tell me how to do it.
But wouldn't it be cool and less work, if you could assign brushes and the color they have on them to
specific slides? Like you have your base slide, that's usually where I do my page filling with one solid color, but the slides above that are sometimes dedicated to outlines in various colors and then further up more concrete details. But I have to change my tool each time I go to do a different task. This may sound like laziness and it is to some degree, but I just thought that it would be cool if when I jump back to my base slide, the tool would switch automatically to my paint can filler and the color I filled it with the last time I used it, and then when I want to jump to draft it would be my pen and the ink color I use to draft with. That would be awesomeShow lessAlim Kinte
Worth it!
Get it, its fun! There is a bit of a learning curve, takes a while to learn how to use the tools, & patience (if you’re a complete novice like me) but if you are pining nostalgic for Microsoft’s paint, this will probably hit the spot, and then some! You can produce something that looks like an actual painting! Like working on a drawing tablet & better! The textures, how the tools can be used together! Lush! Once I learned how to combine the various tools, I spent hours enmeshed in crafting something I’m relatively satisfied with! Even if the free version was dauntingly difficult, the limitations made it more interesting, mesmerizing even & that much more fun to figure out! It makes you want to buy it, so you can change the focus of the tools, this app is worth the paid version seriously lush!Show lessAstronomy student
Good, but there’s that ONE glitch (and the community update)
This is a really great drawing app, and I do enjoy all of the different styles and tools you can use (even if I don‘t use them all). I like almost everything about this app, minus the community being moved and the glitch I‘ll get to. It is just a good drawing app.
But there is also a glitch, a glitch so horrible it can cause even the calmest of people to lose their minds. When you use the fit to screen button after zooming in on your art, there is a chance that it will crash Sketches, closing the app, and causing you to lose ALL of your progress on what you have done. It happened just before writing this review, and it prompted me to make this. This glitch is so infuriating and can cause you to lose a ton of work if you aren‘t constantly closing out and saving. Please, find a way to fix this glitch.
Other than the two cons I mentioned, it is a good app, but I will knock two points off of the rating for the awful community update and the work deleting glitch.Show lessJalahime
Developer Response
Hi, We're sorry to hear that. We tried but couldn't reproduce the issue you described. Can you please send us a screen recording at com@tayasui.com? That might be really helpful to understand the problem. Please follow these steps to record your screen. > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207935 Best Regards and sincere apologies for the trouble, Tayasui Dev TeamIf it looks promising, DON’T buy
I purchased this app about 2 years ago. At the first glance it seems like a doodling app, just something for you to jot ideas down, do sketches and just mess around when you have free time. DO NOT use this app while working on something important. This app has so many bugs and glitches that only appear when you almost done with your work. It is not just a fluke, I have had 3 different projects that vanish, and the app supposedly saves then into the cloud or the iPad, but no. Imagine working on something that you can potentially turn into to be proud of it, and the platform you are working on just falls away. This is how I felt when working on my last project. All that I have left now is the draft of the work i was supposed to turn in 2 hours ago. Now what do I do? Tayasui support, please work the major issues out, I am getting tired of creating and the app not saving the progress.Show lessalx144
It was good until…
I loved this app. It’s a great drawing app so easy and fun to use. But that’s not the reason I downloaded it. I downloaded it for the community. Everyday I would go onto the app see what’s new in community like a million things and then put something of mine on the community. Then one day I opened the app and saw a cute cat with a countdown under it saying 30 more days until new sketches update. I was so excited. I would see things on the community saying things like “15 more days until the countdown, so excited” everyday a new cat drawing would show up and the countdown would be down a day. Until one day… the day the new update arrived. I quickly downloaded and saw the new update for the first time I went to community only to see a note that said” community has been moved to instagram” I was so upset, I wasn’t allowed to have any social media so I could never see the community. Please reconsider adding a new community.Show lesspeachesgalore48
Too Simple for the Cost
After buying this software I ended up requesting a refund because for what you get it’s not worth what they charged and you won’t know this until buying it since until then it’s crippleware. You can’t fully test it prior which should have been a warning from the start because the dev must realize that if they allow a more robust testing of their software nobody would buy it. There’s potential here but that is about all and in the time I’ve had it installed, I don’t see this changing or improving as they are still BETA testing it at the user’s expense. So far all I have seen are bug fixes and they moved their art community to an entirely different platform which is weak and shows they are essentially abandoning it. I stuck around to see if they were actively developing this software or not and so far there is no evidence that they are. I cannot in good conscience recommend this art app to anyone and I’ve purchased them all to support Art app development. This is the first one I had to permanently throw back for being too small and underdeveloped. My advise to the dev is to try harder to earn it before taking our hard earned money.Show lessLoq1
Developer Response
Hello, we are very sorry to hear that. Our development team is doing its best to meet your expectations. As for the community, we could not maintain it as it is, moderation is very labour intensive, so we decided to focus on developing new features in the app. Do not hesitate to write to us at com@tayasui.com, we are always open to any feedback to improve our application. Best regards, Tayasui dev Team
