Layer vs BladeDraw

Layer Art- is a studio for layered paper art. Choose a colour, place a shape, and watch a shadow fall exactly where it should. Every piece you place is remembered. When you're finished, play the whole build back as a stop-motion film — pieces springing into place, sliding into position, the artwork assembling from a blank page. It isn't a screen recording. Nothing is captured while you work, so there's no quality loss and no wasted space. The film is drawn fresh from your artwork, which means it's razor sharp at any size and you choose the pace afterwards. Save it, share it, or just watch it. Pick a piece up again next week and the film keeps growing with it. REAL DEPTH, NOT A DROP SHADOW Layer Art works because of light. Every shape you place sits at its own height above the page — measured in millimetres, like foam tape behind real card. • One light source for the whole piece, so nothing ever looks pasted on • A soft depth shadow and a tight contact shadow, the way paper actually behaves • Move the sun and every shadow in the artwork turns to follow it • Three depth styles: Soft, Crisp and Flat • Fine control over shadow size, distance and opacity when you want it HUNDREDS OF SHAPES Nearly 400 pieces to cut from, all vector, all recolourable, all sharp at any size. Ferns, leaves, split leaves, grass, tendrils, branches • Trunks, sticks, logs, driftwood • Flowers, clover, mushrooms • Mountains, hills, pebbles • Clouds, suns, moons • Waves, fish, whales • Birds, butterflies, cats, owls, bunnies • Arches, frames, rings • Stars, blobs, hearts, sparkles WORDS, CARDS AND MESSAGES The full alphabet and numbers, cut from paper in two styles. Not typed text — real letterforms you colour, rotate, layer and lift like any other piece. Which makes something rather good possible: build a card, spell a message, and the timelapse becomes the reveal. The words appear one letter at a time. BUILD FROM A PHOTO Bring in a photo two ways. Trace mode sits it faintly underneath as a guide and never appears in the export. Frame mode makes it part of the artwork, so you can build a paper frame around a photo you love. A GALLERY WORTH SCROLLING Your work lives on a wall, not in a list. Cards keep each piece's real proportions and carry the same paper shadow the artwork does. Tap one and it grows into full screen, where the background takes on that artwork's own colour. THE WALL, USER SHOWCASE Users can submit there artwork for display on the wall, All artwork submitted is moderated for approval before going on the wall, all images uploaded, are kept 100% private and never shared anywhere besides inside the App. Users can report images, all reports are moderated as well, and reviewed. Then action taken. Users can also add there social media link, if maybe they are doing creative tutorials, any form of art channels. Users may wish have a look. Artwork in the Showcase, can be tapped and then watched how that user put it all together. Showcase is designed for showing of created artwork and also a great way for other users to see how it was made. PRIVACY All artwork images , created in the App stay on your device, only exception is if you choose to have your work displayed in the show case then that is submitted to a secure database as a file not an image, all images are sent by file and encrypted. For privacy. MADE FOR MAKING • Curated tonal palettes, because five greens beat five hundred • Merge pieces into one and move them together • Layers you can drag, lock, reorder and unlock • Snapping to centre lines and angles, switchable • Full undo and redo • Autosaves constantly — nothing is ever lost • Send an artwork to a friend as a file they can open and keep building • Export a picture or a film straight to your photos

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.