Feather vs mioPaint

Feather is a next-generation 3D drawing application built for professional designers, visionary artists, and you. Bring your imagination to life with versatile 3D brushes redesigned for space, seamless and intuitive navigation, and a delicate interplay of light and shadow powered by the Airbreath rendering engine. Feather is the ultimate creative space to unleash your ideas without limits. Draw. Rotate. Create. • All you need is a pen and touch. Freely navigate 3D space, draw from any perspective, and turn your ideas into reality. Editing feels like gaming. • Move, rotate, and scale using the joystick. Tedious 3D editing has never been easier. Liquify the space. • Masterpieces arise from many trials. Use "3D Liquify" to push and pull every detail, letting your imagination roam free. Brushes reimagined in 3D. • Enjoy the classic feel of drawing with pressure-sensitive 3D brushes, featuring styles and patterns for enhanced expression. Every angle tells a story. • 3D artworks are meant to be viewed from various angles. Capture and sequence shots to weave your own story. A creative toolkit for artists, designers, architects, and everyone. • Tools unleash your boundless imagination. Feather is for creators who embrace diverse themes, styles, techniques, and dimensions. Polish it up. • Make your creations vibrant with shading and special effects. • Lighting: Illuminate and cast shadows with a single tap. • Post-processing: Add a finishing touch with grain, depth of field, glow, pixelation, or toon shading. Export to 3D formats. • Your 3D creations have no limits. Export your work from Feather, use it in other tools, and explore new workflows. Features you need. Indeed. • Fully Offline: Use anywhere without an internet connection. • Shapes: Draw straight lines, circles, ellipses, and smooth curves. • Eraser: Works just as you expect. • Live Mirror: Draw symmetrical lines with a virtual mirror. • Import Reference: Insert images or 3D models into your workspace. • Clipboard: Display reference images in a separate window. • Background Image: Add colors or images behind your 3D artwork. • AR View: View 3D creations in real-world settings. • Share: Generate a 3D viewer link to share your artwork. • Folders: Organize drawings into folders for easy access. • Geometric Primitives: Draw on spheres, cylinders, cones, or rings. • Data Backup: Back up your files and keep them secure. ... what if you don’t have a pen? • Turn on "Finger-pen" mode to sketch, paint, and edit using just your fingers. Showcase your work. • Feather Gallery is the best place to view and share 3D artworks. Discover what’s possible and find inspiration. Your journey starts here. • From detailed guides to hands-on tutorials, everything you need is at your fingertips. • Documentation: Learn all of Feather's interfaces, gestures, and features. • Basic tutorial: Follow our videos to draw and learn how to use Feather. • Community: Join Feather users from around the world on Discord.

Long before our grandparents' days, Macs boasted easy-to-use image editing tools (apps) like MacPaint and SuperPaint. However, it seems that these apps have disappeared, replaced by professional apps for artists. Recently, I've found myself wanting to slightly enhance interesting images created using generative AI, but I've been struggling to find a convenient tool. That's why we developed "mioPaint." It's a "rest of us" painting tool that allows even those without artistic talent to easily edit images, including drawing, pen-based retouching, cropping, resizing, text insertion, compositing, cropping, and collages with emojis and generative AI images. It's compatible with iPad and Apple Pencil, iPhone, and Mac. Its built-in widgets allow for quick access to drawings, and keyboard shortcuts increase workflow efficiency. The app features a drawing management function with icons similar to those on the iPad home screen, allowing you to easily manage your work and completed projects. The painting features not only recreate familiar MacPaint-like tools like patterns, fills, and lasso, but also include many new tools like filters, halftone dots, and image and text stamps. Vector data drawing functions for shapes and text are integrated (like MacDraw), allowing unlimited undos while working. Images can be imported from photos, image files, emojis, Genmoji, SF Symbols, AI images generated by Image Playground, videos, and cameras. Finished works can be easily shared with other users via AirDrop. Output files are not only HEIC and JPEG, but also GIF and APNG can be created from multiple images for animation. Other interesting features include image splitting and video recording of the drawing process. While I want even young children who don't remember the old days to use this app and experience the joy of "creating something" on an iPad or iPhone, there's another purpose to developing this app. As longtime Mac programmers, we've continued to develop our products using great apps like MacPaint and SuperPaint as models. When I use recent apps, I worry that the long-standing tradition of Mac development skills and experience may be lost. While AI now allows us to instantly access information about specific features, finding the answer to such vague questions as "What do I need to pay attention to in order to develop an app that works equally well on iPhone, iPad, and Mac?" is no easy task. "mioPaint" was developed by me alone using the Apple Framework, SwiftUI, and UIKit. Using this app as a reference, I plan to explain the key considerations for developing apps for Apple devices, publishing the source code on my website. If you've tried "mioPaint" and are interested in its development process and features, please feel free to refer to project website.