# Wafer - 3D Texture Paint — Stylized Texturing

> Stylized Texturing (iPhone/iPad app by Sparseal SL.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wafer-3d-texture-paint/id6759056701 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sparseal SL](https://appshunter.io/developer/1603313874)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Developer Tools
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.94/5 from 17 App Store ratings · 7 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 52 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-02-24
- Data updated: 2026-11-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wafer-3d-texture-paint/id6759056701/reviews.md

## What is Wafer?

Drawing Tools:
- Brushes with full pressure and tilt support
- Lasso clips, gradients, wet painting and blur
- Stencils, decals and stamps
- Custom brush tip shapes and alphas

Layers:
- Full layer system with canvas and procedural fills.
- Paint on layer masks for multi-layer painting and non-destructive workflows.
- Color blend modes and opacity controls.

Painting System:
- Paint on the 3D mesh or the 2D UV view
- 3D brush falloff with no seam artifacts
- 3D and 2D symmetry with configurable pivots
- Configurable unlit, shaded and PBR viewport rendering.

Multichannel Painting:
- Paint color, roughness, metallic at the same time with any tool.
- Standard PBR channels or custom shader domain inputs per layer
- Apply complete materials with masks and fill layers

Performance:
- Brush speed stays the same regardless of texture resolution or layer count
- Texture resolution and layer count only limited by device memory.
- Supports 16K textures on any compatible iPad, to 24K on iPad Pro 3rd gen 2018.
- Energy efficient for long painting sessions

Scene and Exporting:
- Multiple meshes and texture sets per document.
- Configurable exporter to pack channels into any texture setup
- Configurable over resolution, format, texture content and packing.

Extras
- Built-in image reference board
- Influence system to control tool effect by normals, topology, UV islands or custom maps
- Asset library with stencils, triplanar projections, brush alphas and decals

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Exporting and Saving Documents | $19.99 | one-time |


## Is Wafer safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Wafer.

## Is Wafer legit?

Wafer - 3D Texture Paint appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Wafer is 63 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## Recent user reviews (7 of 7)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wafer-3d-texture-paint/id6759056701/reviews.md

### 4/5 — A good start

*2026-10-09*

It needs brush presets like Procreate. It needs better viewport control. Like when you click FRONT dont zoom the whole model. I would say mimic Blenders control gizmo. Still worth $20 IMO for on the go painting.

### 1/5 — Keeps crashing

*2026-07-21*

When you import a model it just crashes, the same model loads perfectly in Procreate and Nomad. M4 iPad Pro.

### 3/5 — how do you PAINT ON THE MODEL?

*2026-06-24*

try to make a stroke, nothing, 
i mess with stuff and make a stroke, nothing

### 4/5 — Good App, Some Backseat Suggestions

*2026-06-15*

Recent update fixed the import crashing issues on 9th gen ipad. Some things that would make it perfect:

- Color: Using reference images for color isn’t a convenient workflow, and that method uses up the window which should be used for something else. GPL format import/export support. A floatable palette dock with a collapsible/resizable window and color icons would be ideal. An addable palette panel under the Tool and Layer Inspector so colors can be quickly accessed when Layer is a fixed window. Ability to add currently selected colors quickly to active palette. Maybe even extract colors from model/object/uv map and add them to a palette.

- Custom Brush and Erase Tools: Clone/save all attributes of a modified brush/eraser (Settings, Paint, Alpha, Stencil, Influence) in a Wafer format, give them names, custom icons (or draw a stroke to define a icon), and save them directly into the asset browser/or a dedicated sub folder. Maybe the ability to add Presets to the Toolbar so they can be accessed quickly when the Tool Inspector is collapsed? Tap the icon in the vertical toolbar and a collapsible submenu could pop up featuring selected presets of that tool type? Easy way to keep workspace minimal on smaller screens and have access to different brushstrokes between projects, without having to manually edit brushes each session.

- Tool Library: Panel to the left of the Preset brush panel in Tool Overview. Links/references the brushes saved or manually imported into the asset browser. Each individual brush/eraser preset can be referenced by multiple libraries, letting users build custom preset groups for their own workflows. Selecting a library changes the available brushes/presets in the Presets panel. Let us set a default library (or it can default to the current preset brush settings)

- Toolbar Edits: The ability to rearrange and resize the toolbar items to fit more on small screens. I use the select tool a lot and being able to move it towards the top of the vertical toolbar would be ideal.

* Window Resizing/Cropping: Currently can’t resize windows which makes things like reference images awkward and take too much screen space on smaller devices. Using references as a background image layer.

### 2/5 — Crashes

*2026-06-13*

I really wanted this to work but nothing I do makes it load. I have a 2020 ish I pad pro and it crashes anytime I import any model, even if it’s 200 tris

**Developer response:** Fixed in 1.3.4

### 4/5 — Very good, not quite there

*2026-04-21*

Intuitive texture painting on iPad. Works very well for cartoon styles that don’t need a lot of precision. Definitely the most promising app in the App Store for this purpose, so I am excited to see how it develops.

For my workflow, it is missing a few key features and has one or two bugs that prevent me from using it effectively.

- The fill tool does not have an option for bleed. The color comes right up to the edge of the UV islands and no further, so you get visible seams especially if you scale the texture down or use mipmaps.

- by default, the navigation is set to track ball, which is disorienting. Fortunately it has a setting for turntable style navigation like you would see in blender, but it is broken right now. It locks at 0° and -180° on the X axis instead of +90 and -90.

I also really need to draw straight lines or circles, but I understand if this is not a feature that everybody needs.

That said, it’s a very well-made app and is the most promising for texture painting on iOS so far.

### 4/5 — Future Workflow Winner

*2026-04-02*

Considering most apps tend to go the subscription route, I’m glad to see more developers creating standalone 3d solutions for ipad that have an up-front purchase instead.  I think this will make for a great way to texture paint in future, but at present, it’s a little difficult to navigate with no way to separate apple pencil and touch gestures.  For other 3d apps like Nomad Sculpt, one of the built-in options is being able to isolate touch gestures for navigation only (zoom, rotate, etc.) and only use apple pencil for actual sculpting. In this app currently, it is startlingly difficult to avoid making random paint marks on your 3d object while trying to zoom out or rotate it, because the use of touchscreen and apple pencil completely overlap. I’m not sure how this issue could be solved or minimized for purely touchscreen users, but to be honest, I think most professionals working with 3d on ipad will be using some sort of stylus—official or no—if/when working this app into their 3d pipeline. Regardless, I think it’s a great app and will be well worth the money with a little more polish.

**Developer response:** Touch screen and Apple Pencil do not overlay by default. Touch moves the camera and Apple Pencil activates tools. You can enable using tools with touch (in case you don't have a Apple Pencil available) with the toggle in the thumb shortcut bar. You can also disable touch for camera navigation in settings. Last, you can move the camera with Apple Pencil using keyboard shortcuts (space by default).

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.3 — 2026-10-21

* Fix crash when using stencils with some GPUs

### 1.4.2 — 2026-10-19

- Add camera control gizmo with auto perspective
- Improve font rendering
- Add separators between inspectors
- Add colored layer to the demo project
- UI layout fixes

- Reduce the peak memory usage when loading and saving files
- Optimize undo/redo operations when creating and removing layers

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-14

* Fix performance on high end CPUs
* Add new dithered blending system that reduces artifacts/banding on 8bit textures with soft gradients.
* Support resizing the viewports by dragging the split separator.
* Add option to quickly export a domain from a single layer.
* Add tracing pattern brush module to constrain strokes to lines, waves, quads, triangles and circles, with direction, scale, aspect ratio and endpoint options.
* Add enable toggles to the jitter, stabilizer and wet paint modules, disabled by default.
* Update App Store backend to make it more reliable
* Update UI theme.
* Update core libraries version.
* Optimize UI animation transitions
* Support importing .gltf files
* Importer fixes and more precise diagnostics for unsupported meshes.

### 1.3.7 — 2026-06-26

* Fix value filter using saturation.
* Fix domain fill color picker bug with black and zero alpha.

### 1.3.6 — 2026-06-22

- Fix crash when switching texture sets in UV view with some scene setups.
- Fix stencil viewport preview on paint operations.

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All apps by Sparseal SL: https://appshunter.io/developer/1603313874

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