# SageBrush: AI Painter — Paint with the power of AI

> AI-powered interactive painting and sketching tool for all skill levels. (iPhone/iPad app by Apposite.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sagebrush-ai-painter/id6472820126 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Apposite](https://appshunter.io/developer/481890610)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.67/5 from 6 App Store ratings · 7 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 32 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2023-12-27
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sagebrush-ai-painter/id6472820126/reviews.md

## What is SageBrush?

From the creator of Polychord comes SageBrush: AI Painter – the simplest way to create with AI. 

Designed for everyone – from the complete beginner to the seasoned artist – SageBrush offers a unique interactive experience that blends human creativity with Generative AI.

Simple, Intuitive Interface: Enter a prompt, pick up the digital brush and start sketching on the canvas. Whether it's a rough doodle or a detailed sketch, SageBrush is ready to bring your vision to life.

AI-Powered Transformation: Watch as your scribbles and strokes are interactively transformed into beautiful, AI-generated imagery. Turn up the prompt strength and SageBrush will take more creative liberties. Turn it down, and the AI images will become closer to your sketch. 

For Every Skill Level: SageBrush is the perfect companion for all artists. If you're a beginner, explore the realms of digital art without any pressure. Professional artists, designers, architects, and more, will find countless opportunities to incorporate SageBrush into their workflow.

Human Centric: More than just a drawing app, SageBrush is an interactive art partner. Collaborate interactively with the AI, guiding the creation process with your personal touch.

Supports Light & Dark modes, as well as left and right hand orientation. 

SageBrush runs AI processing on a GPU cloud provider, and in-app purchase of tokens or a token subscription is required. Terms & Conditions apply. 

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- AI-powered image transformation
- Interactive sketching and painting
- Prompt-based image generation
- Supports light and dark modes
- Adjustable AI creativity levels
- Human-centric art collaboration

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4,500 Tokens / month | $9.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1,800 Tokens | $4.99 | one-time |
| 225 Tokens | $0.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (7 of 7)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sagebrush-ai-painter/id6472820126/reviews.md

### 1/5 — All Paywall, No Options, No trial, No way.

*2025-02-21*

I rarely leave reviews, but this one left a bad taste in my mouth. Instead of offering a free trial, or having some advertising – driven method of acquiring their currency tokens, or even offering a few rudimentary tokens just to give the option to see if the app is any good, it was a paywall right from the start. And from the look of it, the entire drawing toolbar is merely the iOS markup toolbar with standard fair on it. I’m sure the AI is great, but trust such as that is earned, and not hard to achieve. I wish you luck in the future. As this was a fail.

**Developer response:** Sorry the paywall was a disappointment for you — as a small company, it's not feasible to offer GPU tokens at a loss at this time. That's what the $1 token pack is offered — it's the cheapest in-app purchase possible, and at least lets you try it out to see if it's of value to you.

### 1/5 — Poor

*2024-12-29*

Still poor, screen drawing area is tiny. Why when there is so much space available? Continually fails to connect but never clear what is failing? Managed to start 2 drawings&both triggered some sort of safety warning that wouldn’t display image. No easy way to contact developer. At least Apple refunded me quickly.

### 1/5 — Unacceptable

*2024-06-24*

Forces you to pay for tokens but it’s unclear what you get for what you’re paying for. I paid 99 cents to try it out which it burned through in less than 2 minutes. I was barely able to get one drawing even started before the app started asking for more tokens. And the results I started to see weren’t even close to my drawing.  While if I was willing to keep paying, it might eventually get me something useable, this “trial” was unacceptable.

**Developer response:** Hi, thanks for taking the time to review and sorry that you had a bad experience! Our backend GPU costs make it unfeasible to offer a free-tier type trial, but we're looking into providing a manual update mode that should make it less stressful when you want to compose your drawing without going through tokens as fast (and the real-time updates are less important to you.)  Hope you'll give it another shot, and thanks again for the feedback!

### 5/5 — fast response

*2024-03-27*

The author is active in support channel. I particularly like the fact that Sagebrush shows the token needed and the fast response time.

### 5/5 — Eureka! Super simple et rapide!

*2024-03-15*

Enfin une app de génération d'image qui est rapide et efficace! Ce ne pourrait pas être plus simple. On décrit ce qu'on veut voir et on dessine vaguement le positionnement des éléments. Encore mieux: on peut déposer une image pour calquer dessus!

Les descriptions en français ne sont pas aussi efficaces, mais il suffit d'utiliser la fonction "traduire" (on sélectionne le texte, on appuie une fois sur le texte et puis flèche de droite).

Chapeau!

### 5/5 — Super fun

*2024-02-12*

This app is super fun it’s really nice to see my drawings come to life it makes me feel like I have the same capabilities as Picasso.

### 5/5 — Concept mood board images in seconds!!

*2024-01-03*

Unbelievable, I was able to refine my prompts to get the right ‘mood images’ for presentations And communicate my ideas with my team. Kudos!

## Frequently asked questions about SageBrush

### What is SageBrush AI Painter?

SageBrush AI Painter is an application that allows users to create art by sketching on a canvas and having AI transform their drawings into unique images. It's designed for both beginners and experienced artists to collaborate with generative AI.

### How does SageBrush AI Painter work?

You enter a text prompt, pick up a digital brush, and sketch on the canvas. The AI then interactively transforms your strokes into AI-generated imagery, with adjustable prompt strength to control the AI's creative input.

### Is SageBrush AI Painter free to use?

SageBrush AI Painter is free to download and use. However, it requires in-app purchases of tokens or a token subscription for AI processing, as the AI runs on a GPU cloud provider.

### What are the subscription options for SageBrush AI Painter?

The app offers a subscription plan for 4,500 tokens per month at $9.99. This provides a set amount of tokens for AI processing.

### What devices does SageBrush AI Painter support?

SageBrush AI Painter is available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Reality devices. It also supports both light and dark modes, and left or right-hand orientation.

### What is the age rating for SageBrush AI Painter?

SageBrush AI Painter has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users. The app was last updated on August 28, 2024.

### Does SageBrush AI Painter have ads?

No, SageBrush AI Painter does not contain advertisements. The monetization is based on in-app purchases for tokens or a subscription.

### How often is SageBrush AI Painter updated?

SageBrush AI Painter was last updated on August 28, 2024, with version 2.6. This indicates a relatively active development cycle for the application.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.6 — 2024-08-28

Subscribers can now access the new Flux image model! 

Version 2.6 also includes a frequently requested feature: you can now turn off real-time canvas updates, for when you want to manually generate images rather than having them appear automatically. This will be really helpful for thrifty token savers who would rather fully complete their drawing before spending tokens on image generation. 

The new Flux model is accessible to subscribers, from the AI settings menu under the top nav. Flux is a high quality model, and takes on average 30 seconds or so to process an image. Please keep in mind that also means that Flux images consume tokens at a much faster rate than the classic SageBrush model. (Token price is displayed next to the clarity/steps slider.)

That's why when Flux is enabled, real-time canvas updates are automatically turned off and you'll need to tap the 'generate' button on the AI canvas in order to process images. If you return to the 'classic' image model mode, you can switch real-time updates back on again from the same top nav AI settings menu. 

The Flux settings may evolve over time, but for now here's some pointers:
+ ControlNet strength lets you control how much the AI follows your brush strokes. Set all the way up, the AI will do little imagining. All the way down, and the image won't look very much like your drawing. 
+ Img2Img strength is very sensitive, and works best with drawings or input images that are already very detailed. Try turning this all the way down if you're getting AI images that look too similar to your drawing. 
+ Control Style has two modes 'edges' (often called 'canny' in AI Art terminology) and 'depth'. Edges works best for sketches, and depth is good when your source drawing or image is more realistic. 

Remember that if you're hitting the safety filter a lot, you can tap the seed 'dice' button to randomize the seed. Sometimes that will change the generated image enough not to trigger the filter. You can also try changing your prompt slightly. 

Looking forward to seeing what you all create!

### 2.5 — 2024-03-15

Enhance!

Want to take your AI Art to a new level of detail and resolution? Once you've generated an image, an enhance icon will appear in the top corner. Tap it and follow the onscreen instructions. Enhance will upscale your art to 2048x2048 pixels, and add detail based on how high you set the 'creativity' control. The button will tell you how many tokens will be used (which will vary depending on the amount of 'creativity'.) Depending on the settings and server load, it can take between 30 seconds to a few minutes to enhance – but the results are worth waiting for! 

Oh, and if you love SageBrush, don't forget to give us a rating and review! And share your work online and let people know you made it in SageBrush!

### 2.1 — 2024-02-20

SageBrush – the simplest way to create with AI – is now available for iPhone! Same great app, now in the palm of your hand. Great for doing a quick sketch on the go! Out on a walk and have an idea? Import a photo, finger paint on top of it, write a prompt – and get a beautiful AI interpretation, super fast! 

Inspired by the smaller form factor, SageBrush now supports pinch to zoom on the drawing canvas – one of the most frequently requested features. 

Subscribe for the best value on tokens!

### 2 — 2024-01-17

Styles, ControlNet, and more! Explore a range of new options in the settings menu that will supercharge what you can create in SageBrush. 

Turn on ControlNet and SageBrush will follow your brush strokes more accurately than ever. And when ControlNet is on, you can crank up the 'prompt strength' without losing the shape of your composition – and gain a ton of imaginative AI detail. Since ControlNet adds an additional AI model to the process, SageBrush will consume tokens slightly faster while enabled. 

With the new styles available in the settings menu you can quickly experiment with a ton of different looks for your art – from classical drawing styles to solarpunk, emulsion photography, and a whole lot more! These get you to an interesting image very quickly, and work _with_ your prompt – so you can get as creative as you want. Whether you're totally new to prompting, or just want to quickly explore the latent space without having to do a lot of repetitive typing, styles are a lot of fun. 

And SageBrush now remembers where you left off! Rather than opening up to a default state, SageBrush will remember your prompt, settings, etc – so you can pick back up where you left off. 

In addition to all the new features, SageBrush's interface got another round of improvement. For those times when you really need the keyboard open, the AI canvas remains visible and the prompt window adapts intelligently to different device orientations. And even though most people would probably never notice, typography and buttons throughout the app got more attention. It's the little things – they add up to a more beautiful experience.

### 1.5 — 2024-01-02

Exciting update: more value for your tokens! 
The default quality level is now 20% cheaper per generation, so you can draw even longer for the same number of tokens.

Image import / Background colors:
You can now drag images directly onto the canvas – including from the AI generation window! You can also import from your Photo Library via the new 'layers' menu, as well as quickly set a background fill color. Get farther with fewer brushstrokes! 

Quality settings:
You now have control over the number of quality 'steps' the AI takes in generating an image. The slider will tell you how quality affects token cost. Quality is subjective – lower step counts can sometimes give the best vibe for a particular image! 

Simpler, cleaner UI:
Both light and dark modes received design polish in this update. Iconography that's easier on the eyes, easier to access controls, and a cleaner overall app. 

Bug fixes:
Fixed issues around device rotation messing up imagery, and inconsistency around when tools appear and disappear.

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