Vector Sketch Limited vs BladeDraw

No ads… No subscription… Free. A vector drawing application for the iPad or iPhone that provides a very simple, user friendly interface to draw vector lines, circles, rectangles, and text labels. The shapes can be moved or modified after placement. For example, such as changing the width of the line or the color. A border line is drawn around the edges of the canvas to represent the drawing area of a standard size sheet of paper (8-1/2 X 11 inches). The canvas is initially displayed showing the entire border, and you can only draw inside of this border. You can use two fingers to zoom in on the canvas, in order to create a more detailed drawing. If you zoomed in such that any portion of the border can’t be seen, then you can use two fingers to pan the canvas around. A grid is displayed over the canvas to help with alignment. There are a couple of different ways to display this grid, or you can hide it completely if you would rather have a blank canvas. You can also change the background color of the canvas. This can be useful depending on your needs. For example, if you wanted to draw with a WHITE pen, you would probably want a darker background. Snapping can be turned ON or OFF. When snapping is ON, as you place new shapes on the screen, or move existing ones, the shape is “snapped” to nearest snap point location (on the grid). This allows you to easily align and place various shapes on the canvas. Snap points are invisible, and are located at the intersection of each line in the grid. Snapping can be still be used, even when the grid is "hidden". Drawings can be printed in landscape, on 8-1/2 X11 inch paper.

BladeDraw is the vector drawing studio for iPad, iPhone and Mac – made for Apple Pencil and fingers. Every stroke is a curve, not pixels. That means you can zoom in as far as you like without anything fraying – and everything stays changeable, even weeks later. DRAW • Pressure-sensitive vector brushes: pressure pen, ink, marker, calligraphy, sketch pencil • Texture brushes: airbrush, chalk, charcoal, graphite, watercolor, spatter • Import Photoshop-compatible brushes (.abr) • Auto-straighten lines, line tool with angle snapping • Symmetry: mirrored, fourfold, radial • Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, polygons, star, heart, arrows, speech bubbles CUSTOM VECTOR BRUSHES • Four types: width profile with nib, pattern brush, art brush and pure outline • Apple Pencil pressure and tilt control width and nib angle • Create your own brushes, try them out right away on the test pad and organize them in folders • Searchable brush library with favorites – it also shows which drawings use a brush • Assign a brush to a drawing without copying it IMPORT PDF AND TEXT • PDF pages become real vector paths – and can be rotated before import • Continuous text arrives as a text object, not as a pile of individual letters • Text recognition entirely on device • Document scanning with the camera, also from imported images and PDF pages without text • Insert recognized text or simply copy it CHANGE IT LATER • Tap an element and set a new color, opacity, width and brush in the object inspector • Edit nodes: drag, add or delete individual points • Stretch and distort shapes, images and text at their corners and edges – or straighten them • Smooth or simplify strokes • Freely change the order of elements • Rotate the canvas afterward, swap portrait and landscape • Rotate crooked imported background images by 90° or flip them EDIT • Layers with opacity, lock and visibility • Lasso for moving, scaling, rotating, flipping and recoloring • Paint bucket for filling and erasing areas • Area eraser and whole-element eraser • Text with all system fonts, your own fonts (.ttf/.otf) and text on an arc • Insert images from Photos or Files, crop them right away and cut out subjects automatically PAPER & FORMATS • All ISO sizes (A, B, C), US sizes, plus photo, card, screen and social media formats • Freely selectable resolution up to 16,384 px • Papers: grid, 5 mm dot grid, graph paper, stationery, watercolor paper, aged canvas • Custom paper templates from HEIC, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG and PDF ORGANIZE & SHARE • Gallery with folders, search and sorting – for drawings and for brushes • Save versions and edit side by side in multiple windows • Export as PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PDF (vector), SVG and PSD with layers • AirDrop, Files app, iCloud Drive • Back up the entire library as a single file – drawings, folders, versions, images, brushes, fonts and templates • Light and Dark Mode, automatically following your system setting No ads. No account. No data collection. Everything stays on your device.