# Tayasui Watercolor & Painting — Sketches: Art and Drawing

> Realistic digital watercolor painting and sketching app with advanced tools. (iPhone/iPad app by SKETCHES SRL.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tayasui-watercolor-and-painting/id671867510 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [SKETCHES SRL](https://appshunter.io/developer/1789604467)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $7.99)
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 5,019 App Store ratings · 706 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 283 MB
- Languages: Russian, Vietnamese, American English, Dutch, European Spanish, Italian, Korean, German (Germany), European Portuguese, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) and 4 more
- Released: 2014-12-31
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: subscription
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tayasui-watercolor-and-painting/id671867510/reviews.md

## What is Tayasui Watercolor & Painting?

Tayasui Watercolor and Painting is the ultimate watercolor-focused drawing tool, with realistic brushes and an easy-to-use interface. We’ve created tools that feel like real ones, ensuring your watercolor paintings and sketches always look amazing.

Tools and Features

- Drawing Tools and Enhancements: With over 20 tools that mimic real-life drawing implements, Watercolor and Painting includes an array of options such as watercolor—featuring both dry and wet brushes that behave just like real paint on paper, pens, Rotring, felt pens, pen brushes, oil pastels, acrylic brushes, airbrushes
- Tracing Projector: allows users to project their sketches onto any surface, facilitating tracing. This tool significantly enhances the creative workflow by enabling broader applications of the artwork.
- Precision Tools: The application offers various rulers and magnetic shapes, including straight, arc, circle, and spline rulers, alongside symmetry and cutout shapes—perfect for laying out detailed watercolor compositions or adding structured elements within freeform washes.
- Color Management: The app includes a color eyedropper, mixer, and support for color palettes (.ase).
- Layer Management: With full layer support, users can build up watercolor paintings gradually, just like on paper. Export transparent PNGs or layered PSD files for further refinement in other software.
- Cloud Sync and Organization: All your watercolor projects are backed up and synchronized across devices. Sync settings can be managed per folder, and projects can be neatly organized into custom folders or digital sketchbooks, keeping your watercolor works easy to access and beautifully presented.
- Stylus and User Interface: Apple Pencil is fully supported, capturing pressure, tilt, and stroke width to simulate natural watercolor strokes. The minimalist interface stays out of your way while you paint, letting the focus remain on your watercolor expression.

With its advanced watercolor simulation and the unique tracing projector, Tayasui Watercolor and Painting stands out as a powerful and versatile tool for artists, illustrators, and creative professionals who want to bring watercolor to life in the digital world.

Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following:

- Length: monthly, yearly
- Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase
- You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase
- Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period
- The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period
- When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription

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

## Key features

- Realistic watercolor brushes (wet/dry)
- Over 20 drawing tools
- Tracing projector
- Precision rulers and shapes
- Full layer support
- Cloud sync and organization

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Weekly premium | $3.99 | per 7 days |
| Yearly premium | $69.99 | per year |
| Weekly premium | $3.99 | per 7 days |
| Yearly premium | $69.99 | per year |
| Yearly premium | $9.99 | per year |
| Yearly premium | $9.99 | per year |
| Monthly premium | $2.99 | per month |
| Monthly premium | $2.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Olivia's Coloring book | $1.99 | one-time |
| Carl's Coloring Book | $1.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Tayasui Watercolor & Painting?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Streamlined and usable
- 🎨 Terrific for rendering beautiful artworks
- 👍 Amazing, intuitive, and user-friendly
- 🎨 Wonderful app for iPad Pro
- 👍 Great art app
- 🎨 Best coloring app
- 👍 Complexity and challenge
- 🎨 Excellent for sketching and painting
- 👍 Clean, uncluttered drawing experience
- 🎨 Best watercolor feature
- 🎨 Awesome artistic app
- 👍 Meditation-like experience
- 🎨 Gorgeous app
- 👍 Terrific drawing app

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
- 🐛 Laggy and unresponsive
- 🐛 Glitches and freezes
- 🐛 Pixelated lines
- 🐛 Inability to rotate canvas
- 🐛 Eraser tool issues
- 🐛 Watercolor drying issues
- 🐛 Unreliable and deletes drawings
- 🐛 Subscription model is anti-customer
- 🐛 Inability to paste or delete drawings
- 🐛 Unstable after updates
- 🐛 Buggy fill tool
- 🐛 Slow performance and bugs

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes when adding layers
- Layers turning black after update
- Undo/redo buttons not working
- Cut/copy tool issues
- Inability to delete drawings
- Sync and iCloud issues
- Drawings getting deleted or corrupted

**Most requested features**

- Clipping masks
- Ability to customize canvas size
- Improved selection tools
- Batch export to PNG
- Ability to rotate canvas
- More brushes and customization options
- Improved palm rejection
- Ability to organize drawings into books/notebooks
- Text input option
- Smaller and more precise brushes
- Improved blending tool
- Ability to make perfect shapes
- Airbrush tool

## Recent user reviews (10 of 706)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tayasui-watercolor-and-painting/id671867510/reviews.md

### 5/5 — .this is amazing

*2026-08-16, version 36.2.1*

:AMAZING there so many things to do

### 3/5 — Same issue...has not been resolved

*2026-08-04, version 36.2.1*

Jagged lines on every stroke on only one side of iPad screen. This was not fixed In the recent update. This doesn’t seem to happen on any other sketching apps. Please fix, don’t see the point on having paid for this app if it doesn’t really work the way it is supposed to.

### 4/5 — Love the app - need min 300 dpi canvas and export at min 300 dpi

*2026-08-03, version 36.2.1*

fantastic app

but …

useless at 240 dpi canvas

pro level artists need a min of 300 dpi canvas resolution AND export at min 300 dpi for commercial work

we are your customers 

for licensable work/export to POD we need absolute min of export at 300 dpi layered psd 

please - work on this 

else - I am waiting on Rebelle for iPad (could take a while)

love your app - please do this

would also love to see more hard edged watercolor brush and granulation (flow of granulation towards edges ;). - but again need 300 dpi export first (or these upgrades won’t matter 😕

thanks  :)

### 5/5 — Love the app

*2026-08-01, version 36.2.1*

Amazing drawing app, lots
Of options for blending and a variety of tools to use

### 4/5 — its great

*2026-07-30, version 36.2.1*

just really wish i could rotate canvas while drawing

### 3/5 — Missing some basics

*2026-07-26, version 36.2.1*

This is a great app but when changing the page size for example, it doesn’t stay. ? You cant make a custom pen which would be great and you cant copy from one drawing into another easily which is odd.

### 2/5 — Not as good as the original Sketches.

*2026-07-23, version 36.2.1*

My version of Sketches Pro was downgraded to Watercolours last week, for no reason that I could see. As I’d originally paid for Pro, I’m annoyed I can no longer access it without paying again. Watercolours is more fiddly and complicated to use, so I’m not a fan; Sketches was excellent for doing what the title suggests and became a handily visual notebook.

Watercolours does allow me to access and download my Sketches drawings  (as a folder) done in Pro but be aware that nothing other than Sketches seems to open the files, including any online converters that I tried.

I’m disappointed that a useful and engaging little app has gone. I’ll have to search for an alternative.

### 5/5 — Brilliant

*2026-07-20, version 36.2.1*

Very much improved, this app is an elegant tool to support the chaos that creation can be, and yet it can lend itself to structure and subtle detail with ease.

### 4/5 — .

*2026-07-17, version 36.2.1*

This app is really nice but I didn’t but the plan so things are a bit limited but still it’s a really good app I like it a lot

### 1/5 — Glitch

*2026-07-11, version 36.2.1*

Deleted my drawing

## Frequently asked questions about Tayasui Watercolor & Painting

### What is Tayasui Watercolor & Painting?

This app is a digital art tool designed to simulate the experience of watercolor painting and sketching. It offers a wide array of realistic brushes, drawing implements, and features to help artists create detailed and expressive artwork.

### What are the key features of this watercolor app?

Key features include over 20 realistic drawing tools, a tracing projector for easy tracing, precision tools like rulers and magnetic shapes, full layer support for complex compositions, and cloud synchronization for managing projects across devices.

### How does the app handle subscriptions and pricing?

The app operates on a subscription model, offering monthly and yearly plans. Payments are charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings. Unused free trial periods are forfeited upon subscription.

### What devices is this painting app compatible with?

The app fully supports Apple Pencil, capturing pressure and tilt for natural strokes. It is designed for use on Apple devices, with cloud sync ensuring projects are accessible across your devices.

### Who would benefit from using this watercolor app?

This app is ideal for artists, illustrators, and creative professionals who want to explore watercolor painting and sketching in a digital format. Its realistic simulation and advanced tools make it suitable for both beginners and experienced digital artists.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 36.2.1 — 2025-04-16

Bug fixing and stability improvements

### 36.2 — 2025-04-10

Introducing new watercolor-focused brushes for even more realistic and versatile painting experiences!

### 36.1 — 2025-02-27

Bug Fixing and Stability Improvements

### 36.0 — 2024-10-24

Bug Fixing and Stability Improvements

### 35.0 — 2024-08-07

Bug Fixing and Stability Improvements

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