# Paintstorm Studio Lite — Professional drawing > Professional digital painting and drawing app with advanced brush customization. (iPhone/iPad app by Sergei Komarov.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paintstorm-studio-lite/id1097147869 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Sergei Komarov](https://appshunter.io/developer/1060632106) - Category: Entertainment, Graphics & Design - Price: Free - Rating: 4.00/5 from 262 App Store ratings · 140 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 13.1 · 103 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2016-03-31 - Data updated: 2026-08-02 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paintstorm-studio-lite/id1097147869/reviews.md ## What is Paintstorm Studio Lite? Paintstorm Studio is the first iOS App designed not only for simple sketches, but professional digital painting of any level, genre and technique. Paintstorm helps you to discover the magnificence and unleash the full potential of Apple Pencil and brings you to a whole new level of drawing. Creating an art masterpiece has never been so mobile. A major feature of Paintstorm Studio is the array of brushes to choose from. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable to your painting style. Anyone who has ever painted knows it's hard to overestimate the painting tool and the importance of all the seemingly insignificant details. We tried not to miss any of them. Our goal was to create an intuitive, simple-to-use but at the same time functionally powerful tool that brings the process of digital painting to a new level, making it as comfortable as possible. - Full control of all brush options (Incredible possibilities for brush settings) - Bristle brushes of any form and kind - Stroke post correction (You can take an action on any option. Not only on the stroke thickness) - Parameters binding to the perspective - Dynamic interface (Global interface scale, panels scale, opacity, color) - Custom panels - Full controlled mask-brush (Each brush can work as mask for other brush) - Takes underlayer's color while blending - "Close gaps" function when you fill or select - Dirty brush mode - Stroke stabilizer - Usable color mixer - Different gradient strokes - Mirror drawing - Standard tools pack (Lasso, Magic wand, Crop, Fill, Gradient and etc) - Control of the random amounts - Apple Pencil support (Pressure, Tilt, Direction) Lite version restrictions: - It is not possible to load and save psd files - A watermark is added to the picture Upgrade to the full version and get rid of the limits! ## Key features - Extensive brush customization - Stroke post-correction - Apple Pencil support - Dynamic interface - Mirror drawing - Standard tools pack ## What do users think of Paintstorm Studio Lite? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 💎 Excellent brushes and color mixing - 🎨 Sophisticated drawing tools - 🖌️ Advanced interface like desktop apps - 🖥️ Powerful features on par with desktop software **Cons** - 🚧 Cluttered and confusing interface - 🐛 Frequent crashes and performance issues - 💦 Annoying watermark on exported artwork - 🔍 Lack of clear instructions and tutorials **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when opening or switching between projects - Brush settings and color wheel disappearing unexpectedly - Inability to save or recover unsaved artwork **Most requested features** - Remove watermark option - Ability to import photos and images - Better organization and customization of UI - More intuitive brush and tool controls ## Recent user reviews (10 of 140) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paintstorm-studio-lite/id1097147869/reviews.md ### 5/5 — I want screen tones and symmetry!!! *2026-04-02, version 2.51* It will include animate your own, screen tones and symmetry to go along with the app and it will be unlimited 🥳 ### 5/5 — I have matured. *2026-01-25, version 2.50* The water marks no longer effect also your brushes are better then clip studio paint and provide realistic pen pressure without even having a drawing pencil, please if you come back to this app do not remove any brushes or change how the brushes work, I’d only ask that this app doesn’t ask you to press ok for everything, that’s it. ### 5/5 — Paintstorm Lite *2025-11-01, version 2.50* 💎🥰It’s actually really fun. Plus all the brushes are good and it won’t glitch. ### 1/5 — THE WATER MARK!!!!!!!!!!! *2025-07-25, version 2.50* I would give it five stars but the water mark is a 1 star 😢•́︿•̀৹ᵒ̴̶̷᷄﹏ᵒ̴̶̷᷅৹ I love the custom colors and all that it is nice for a free ### 1/5 — I can’t paint *2025-06-01, version 2.50* I can’t paint the picture won’t let me grab a brush I don’t know why and I hate it so I am radio one cause it’s so terrible that I cannot do anything so can somebody please help me and it’s not letting me send just because I don’t know giving you like five stars I did it to the other app and I wasn’t very mistake you’re not letting me send it OK after a year you let me send it to me so I can terrible. Terrible F terrible Siri. I don’t know I’m just letting you know that I need help. Which is Ave so if you could help me I’m sorry for what I’m said this is for real. If you don’t help me so help me. I need it. I download this app. It was so hard and it won’t let me. I don’t know. I’m not some kind of expert doing this, not like you’re that made this don’t let me ### 5/5 — PLEASE GET RID OF YOUR HORRIBLE WATERMARK *2024-12-11* PUT IT IN ALL THE CORNERS TRANSPARENTLY , PUT “made with so and so” AT THE BOTTOM OF IMAGE TRANSPARENTLY WHEN EXPORTED BUT PLEASE, DONT COVER THE WHOLE CANVAS WITH WATERMARKS , NO ONE LIKES IT ON ART SO THEIR GONNA HATE IT ON AN ART APP , AND IF SOMEONE POSTS A DRAWING ONLINE PEOPLE WONT THINK “oh that looks lovely I should get this app now” THEYLL THINK “oh this app has horrible water marks I won’t get this app” ### 1/5 — water mark makes it useless *2024-11-16, version 2.50* stopped using it and copied the brushes into another art app remove the water mark its the worse thing ever the brushes were cool but for watermarking my art alone 1/10 ### 1/5 — Hate it *2024-07-20, version 2.50* I hate this app because it gets laggy can’t make a new canvas and hard to use and I don’t want to pay for the watermark to go away so I recommend ibs paint it works well and it has a tutorial ### 5/5 — This APPLICATION (not Game) is OUTSTANDING! *2024-01-26, version 2.50* The amount of hours that must have gone into creating an app this capable and this good must have taken literally hundreds of hours! The app is better than some apps costing TEN times more! Yes, that’s right. The developer has put a huge amount of work into this. Why is it, then, that so many young ladies feel the need to leave negative reviews? Each ‘negative’ review moans and whines about how they did this, did that, and how great it all seemed, and then the ‘big, bad application’ asked them to pay! They then say things like how it made them cry, and so on… I mean, really? Apple really needs to stop negative reviews based upon the fact an app has in-app purchases — something that is made very clear. The things that these girls say should be free would mean they can use the app free forever and never need to pay. Here’s a question for the moaners: ‘If you spent hundreds of hours of effort, dedicated to creating something amazing, then you put it on the App Store & a section of demographic whine & moan they want your hard work (or, enough of it to meet their specific, freeloading needs) for free, I’m guessing one of the words you, the critics would use is naughty! In the real world, people BUY things to reward the creator for their efforts. People of a level of maturity do not then embarrass themselves by leaving silly, immature reviews etc. Honestly, when you look at the worlds problems today, and then see these ‘devastating’ effects on people because they are asked to pay, I’m genuinely worried for the future of the human race when these people graduate!!! ### 3/5 — It’s ok *2023-03-16, version 2.49* The app itself is ok but I had to delete it bc it was laggy. ## Frequently asked questions about Paintstorm Studio Lite ### What is Paintstorm Studio Lite? Paintstorm Studio Lite is a mobile application designed for professional digital painting and drawing. It offers a wide range of tools and features to help artists create masterpieces on their iOS devices, with full support for Apple Pencil. ### What are the key features of Paintstorm Studio Lite? Key features include extensive brush customization options, stroke post-correction, dynamic interface scaling, mirror drawing, and a standard tools pack. It also fully supports Apple Pencil's pressure, tilt, and direction. ### What are the limitations of the Lite version? The Lite version has restrictions, including the inability to load and save PSD files. Additionally, a watermark is added to all exported pictures. These limitations can be removed by upgrading to the full version. ### Is Paintstorm Studio Lite compatible with Apple Pencil? Yes, Paintstorm Studio Lite is designed to work seamlessly with Apple Pencil, offering full control over pressure, tilt, and direction for a more natural and expressive drawing experience. ### Who is the target audience for this app? This app is intended for artists and digital painters of any level, from beginners to professionals, who want to create professional-quality digital art on their iOS devices. It aims to make the digital painting process comfortable and powerful. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.51 — 2026-02-11 Minor fix for Apple Pencil behavior on the latest iOS version ### 2.50 — 2023-04-18 - Added support for Apple Pencil Hover. Additional settings you can find in Menu->Options->Cursors. Also added support for Apple pencil Double-tap. - Added the ability to create folders for brushes. Separators for brushes and brush categories can also be created. - Added the ability to select multiple brushes (click on the right side of the brush). - Added brush search functionality. - Added different display modes for brushes in the brush panel (Stroke+Icon+Shape, Stroke+Icon, Stroke+Shape). - Improved categorie brush movement. To move a categorie, hover over the categorie icon and hold down the mouse button. - Added "Brush presets" feature (button in the upper right corner of the brush panel). Now you can create multiple presets for each brush. - Added "Copy/Paste Brush Settings" buttons and "Undo Load Default" button in the brush panel options. - Added "Fast export" feature. it contain 2 in one. It include bunch of options to whole document export & selected layer export. - Added search functionality in the "Define Hotkeys" panel. - Added "Tex Rand Offset Point" feature in the brush texture settings for random texture offset with each stamp. - Moved layers to another document can now be done using the "Swap Layers" function - simply start dragging the desired layers in the Layers panel and drop them onto the target document. - Added "Show Tilt And Direction" checkbox in Options->Cursors. - Fixed a bug with artifacts (white dots) when applying the "Transform" tool. - Added "Mask Follows Color" feature in the "Color Wheel" panel options - if color mask is enabled, it will move towards the selected color when picking colors from the canvas. - All panels can now be quickly invoked under the cursor by pressing the corresponding hotkey. - Added batch reset of all brushes to default values. - Reduced time for deleting brush categories. - Fixed various bugs. ### 2.49 — 2022-08-18 - Quick mask selection mode - Added "intersection" mode for all kind of selections tools - Added the "reselect" feature - Ability to put layer into closed folder - Custom panel: every of them are now (fast) and calls under cursor by hotkey - Graphs panel: added copy-paste of graphs - Realtime mode added to the reference & navigator panels - Lasso tool: new "detach" mode - Added possibility to change opacity of the selection contour - New document panel: added soft light blending mode in a canvas texture choice. - Graphs panel: You can now copy-paste graphs. - Additional hotkey to reset canvas zoom to 100% without centering canvas - Added button to reset symmetry to default position - Last one folder in a layers selection group now won't unfold by themselve - layers panel: after duplicating layer(s) or folder(s) active would be new one(s). ### 2.48 — 2021-12-03 - Timelapse video recording function. You can find it at Menu->File->Timelapse video. - Layer panel mode — toggle solo layer . Will allow you visually isolate by visibility any selected layers/folders from all others. - Layer panel mode — toggle highlight layer. This mode is in some sense similar to solo-mode, but it leaves all other layers as semi-transparency. Should be useful for line art. Also you can change the transparency level of this mode at the right corner gear of Layer panel. It calls there - "highlight's opacity (for solo layers)" - Animation tool added. You can find options for this feature at Menu->Other->Animation Settings - Hierarchy guides — it's the Layer panel properties, for visual organization of layer panel. And will allow you to see a more clear hierarchy structure of layers and folders, especially in complex hierarchy. It also has a conjunction with layers colors. - Auto color folders — it's the Layer panel properties, will automatically generate colors for all folders and layers inside it structures. - Added ability to create unpaired quantity of the rays in the symmetry tool but only in asymmetric mode ### 2.47 — 2021-03-25 - Crop tool was improved. Now it support: delete cropped pixels, automatically applies to active selection, magnetic binding, square form on shift - From now when you flip group of layers or folders they will do it by whole group bounding box. - New function image rotation added. It supports 90, -90, 180, flip horizontal & vertical, and do physically change orientation of whole canvas. - Now you have ability to flip content inside reference panel by same hotkeys as was to reverse canvas. Also there are few options. - PNG files will saves with BG texture now too. - Files format of long files name will shown on the tabs - Inactive menu items in Edit and Selection menu will be colored to grey and non-pressable - Bugs fixed ## Apps similar to Paintstorm Studio Lite | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Paint book - Drawing apps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paint-book-drawing-apps/id1630711420) | 4.3 (146) | Free | Entertainment | | [JUMP PAINT by MediBang](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jump-paint-by-medibang/id1230936997) | 4.5 (1,659) | Free | Entertainment | | [Pocket Sketchbook: Digital Art](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocket-sketchbook-digital-art/id1592072815) | 4.3 (109) | Free | Entertainment | | [pixiv Sketch](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixiv-sketch/id991334925) | 4.7 (212) | Free | Entertainment | | [Amaziograph](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amaziograph/id586076398) | 4.9 (6,657) | $1.99 | Entertainment | | [Animation Desk® Draw & Animate](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/animation-desk-draw-and-animate/id946346179) | 4.2 (15,764) | Free | Entertainment | ## More apps by Sergei Komarov - [Paintstorm Studio](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paintstorm-studio/id1077984099) All apps by Sergei Komarov: https://appshunter.io/developer/1060632106 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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