# ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting — Paint realistic on canvas > Realistic digital painting app simulating natural media properties with layers and advanced tools. (iPhone/iPad app by Ambient Design Ltd..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artrage-vitae-mobile-painting/id1521959252 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Ambient Design Ltd.](https://appshunter.io/developer/391432696) - Category: Graphics & Design, Entertainment - Price: $4.99 - Rating: 3.70/5 from 49 App Store ratings · 58 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 10.0 · 51 MB - Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, European Spanish - Released: 2021-04-11 - Data updated: 2026-08-31 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artrage-vitae-mobile-painting/id1521959252/reviews.md ## What is ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting? 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. ## Key features - Realistic oil and watercolor simulation - Layer support with blend modes - Import and trace images - Natural paint blending and mixing - Apple Pencil pressure and tilt support - Customizable painting tools ## Chart rankings - #56 in Top Paid · Graphics & Design (US App Store) ## Recent user reviews (10 of 58) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artrage-vitae-mobile-painting/id1521959252/reviews.md ### 3/5 — You get what you pay for… *2026-04-15, version 1.1.5* …except imo some free-with-ads alternatives are better. Art Set 4 is more realistic looking and easier to use (possibly has more features than Art Rage, but this looked bad enough that I bounced off fast before I could explore it). Even alternatives not trying as hard to look realistic like Procreate, Ibis Paint, Artstudio Pro, etc., have more features and look better. 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. ### 4/5 — I use it a lot *2026-03-12, version 1.1.5* I prefer the more realistic painting in this app than Procreate. I do wish that some bugs were ironed out. My least favourite bug is when the canvas disappears upon pasting from iOS clipboard. But Ive done some really beautiful pieces in this app. Some of the colors don’t seem to mix accurately, like yellow and blue but it’s mostly accurate and definitely better than procreate in this regard ### 2/5 — Best at realistic paint effects BUT *2026-03-03, version 1.1.5* I have had artrage since v. 1.0. Loved it. But this version the menus do not stay open long enough to make selections...documentation talks about it, but does not describe it in any way a non-programmer would know what to do. "Change the "interface"? What is that, how do you do that? Sooo frustrating to see a program I loved so much not designed to help non-techy users...I feel like my time/relevance on this planet has passed, because all I try to do all day is solve computer problems with documentation written by people who probably could not name a single plant outside. Thought I was in the company of artists here. Really can't use it if I have to try over and over to catch the menus from closing too fast. ### 4/5 — Weird *2025-11-23, version 1.1.5* 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 . ### 4/5 — Love the app, but there is a hitch! *2025-10-07, version 1.1.5* 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. ### 4/5 — ArtRageより少し進化した *2025-09-09* ★ArtRageから進化した点 ・ブラシや起動などアプリ全体的でパフォーマンスが向上している。 ・クローナーツール(Photoshopで言うコピースタンプツール)が実装された。以前からArtRageは矩形選択などができないためクローナーツールの実装によってレイヤーを跨いだ部分コピーがやりやすくなった。 ・各ブラシのパラメーターが増え調整できる部分が増えた。 ・レイヤー効果(Photoshopで言うレイヤースタイル)が実装された。影、カットアウト、グロー、インナーグロー、エンボス、ストロークがある。 ・現在表示しているレイヤーをすべてマージする機能が搭載された。 ・直線ツールがいつの間にか搭載されていた。15度単位で引くこともできる。 ★問題点 ・以前のArtRageでもあったがブラシのプリセットを保存した際にアプリが強制終了する。Vitaeはその頻度が高い。→修正された。 ・ギャラリーでのスクロールがページ単位になり、ページとページの間にあるドキュメントが見切れて選択し辛い。以前のArtRageのようなピクセル単位のスクロールの方が見やすい。 ・キャンバスの向きが縦長のものを保存した後、横長のキャンバスを開くとたまに絵が縦置きで表示され天地の向きが戻せない時がある。アプリを再起動すると解決したが。キャンバスを閉じた後でも天地方向のキャッシュが残ってたままになっているのではないだろうか。→修正された？ ★総評 ArtRageから大きく進化したわけではないが少し快適になっていることは確かだ。あともう一つテキストレイヤー機能が欲しいところだがまぁ別のツールでやれということで。長く使っていて気になっている点は、例えば水彩ブラシを2種類切り替えて使いたい場合、プリセットの切り替えでしかブラシの変更ができないところだ。ツールパレットを自分がよく使うブラシだけで構成できると便利かなと思った。 概ね満足している。欲しい機能はまだまだあるがペイントツールとして見た時にコンパクトにまとまっていて使いやすいのでこれが正解かなとも思う。機能を入れすぎて使い辛くなるよりマシだろう。 ★ArtRage→ArtRage Vitaeへデータなどの移行方法 1.ArtRageのギャラリーで各グループの「>」から「グループをエクスポートする」を選ぶ。 2.エクスポート形式をptgにして、iPad内に保存する。 3.Vitaeを開きギャラリー右上の「+」から「import_OtherLcations」でエクスポートしたptgを読み込む。 ★色見本のバックアップ方法 色見本をバックアップする機能はないので、ArtRageで色見本を表示した画面をスクリーンショットに撮っておく。 色見本を復活させる際はその画像をレイヤーとしてインポートし、スポイトツールで一つ一つ色を取り、色見本に登録していく。 ### 3/5 — It crashes. *2025-08-28, version 1.1.5* 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. ### 5/5 — Gute Vorbereitung *2025-05-18* Dieses kleine ARV ist tadellos zu verwenden auf dem Pad. Es leistet mir gute Dienste und Entspannung, wenn ich wenig Zeit habe. Leider ist das viel zu selten. Es ist als gute Vorbereitung auf das große, vollständige ARV ideal. , weil es einfach zu handhaben ist. Dank an die Entwickler ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-04-04, version 1.1.5* 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. ### 3/5 — Seems incomplete *2025-03-24, version 1.1.5* I fell in love with Art rage when I bought a tablet for my PC. It was one of the best for media simulation. Recently, I got an iPad and thought id try it. Its great, but laggy where all my other art programs are not. When I first set down my pencil (iPad specific one), it delays, and so a circle has a flat line in it. So, I can't really enjoy it. ## Frequently asked questions about ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting ### What is ArtRage Vitae? ArtRage Vitae is a premium natural painting application for mobile devices that simulates the properties of real artistic media. It allows users to create digital paintings with realistic color blending, mixing, and texture, similar to traditional oil paints and watercolors. ### What are the key features of ArtRage Vitae? Key features include realistic painting tools like oils, watercolors, and pencils, each with familiar properties. It supports unlimited layers with Photoshop blend modes, the ability to import images as reference or for tracing, and records painting strokes for playback. The app also leverages Apple Pencil for pressure and tilt sensitivity. ### How much does ArtRage Vitae cost? ArtRage Vitae is a paid application. The provided data indicates it does not have in-app purchases or ads, suggesting a one-time purchase for the full application. ### What devices is ArtRage Vitae compatible with? ArtRage Vitae is designed for mobile devices and takes full advantage of features like Apple Pencil support for pressure and tilt, and 3D Touch on iPhone where available. Specific iOS version compatibility is not detailed but it is designed for modern mobile platforms. ### Who would benefit from using ArtRage Vitae? This app is ideal for artists, illustrators, and hobbyists who want to experience realistic digital painting without the mess and expense of traditional art supplies. It's suitable for those who appreciate the nuances of paint mixing, texture, and shading in their digital creations. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.1.5 — 2023-10-17 Bug fixes ### 1.1.4 — 2023-05-18 Enjoy larger paintings with maximum painting size of 6000x6000 pixels! ### 1.1.3 — 2022-08-02 * New straight line feature. Enable in preferences. Change angle restriction steps with a long press on angle restriction button. * Fixed reference image sampling offset bug on iPhones * Many minor bug fixes under the hood ### 1.0.5 — 2021-07-16 Fine-tuned Real Color Blending, Layer Effects and new tool settings Improved Auto Trace and stroke recording scripts Improved Air Brush and Drip Spread features Improved localisatons Other bug fixes. ### 1.0.4 — 2021-05-14 Finetuning in Real Color Blending, Layer Effects and new tool settings, Improved Auto Trace Color in stroke recording scripts, Improved Air Brush Hardness and Drip Spread settings consistency, Fixed localization inconsistencies, Other bug fixes. ## Apps similar to ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Brushes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brushes/id1168117279) | 4.6 (177) | $3.99 | Graphics & Design | | [Color Study: Simplify Painting](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/color-study-simplify-painting/id6755313672) | 4.9 (352) | Free | Graphics & Design | | [Zen Brush 3](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zen-brush-3/id1531841731) | 4.4 (55) | $4.99 | Graphics & Design | | [HEAVYPAINT Classic](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heavypaint-classic/id1469848546) | 4.1 (179) | Free | Graphics & Design | | [Paintstorm Studio](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paintstorm-studio/id1077984099) | 4.4 (368) | $12.99 | Graphics & Design | | [Realistic Paint Studio](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/realistic-paint-studio/id1529593385) | 4.7 (735) | $11.99 | Graphics & Design | ## More apps by Ambient Design Ltd. - [ArtRage](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artrage/id391432693) All apps by Ambient Design Ltd.: https://appshunter.io/developer/391432696 ## Related topics [artrage vitae mobile painting](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/artrage-vitae-mobile-painting) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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