Tayasui Sketches alternatives

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1. [R1] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Good and bad: Stupid part about this. Is that when you try to make a new artwork you have to pay and get a free trial just to get a new artwork and you have to pay .
2. [R3] Tayasui Sketches 3/5 · US Ok: It’s OK, but I think having to pay for it and subscribeTwo. It is crazy.
3. [R7] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Why Pay Now?: I have had this app for many years at this point, using it for a wide variety of projects. There has always been the option to buy pro, but the free version at least provided a lot on its own. Then I go to use it today (July 6, 2026) after just using it the day before, and suddenly I now have to buy pro to access all the basic pens?! All I want is to use the ink pen (right in the mid
4. [R10] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Subscription only?: I purchased to unlock the app several years ago, but now I have to pay a monthly or weekly subscription to ever use it again. This was the best drawing app, but now it’s unusable without forking over more money which I will NIT be doing to a money hungry dev.
5. [R4] Tayasui Sketches 2/5 · US You deserve better than this cash grab: To have a short story, this app is god awful, crashes constantly, constantly tries to get your money, and art programs from the 2000s has more features. To have a bit of a longer story, this app is the reason I’m an artist. It was the first art program I ever used and really lead me to fall in love with art. The app was very nice about how it got its incom
6. [R6] Tayasui Sketches 3/5 · US Potential: Everything cost money can’t do anything. Laggy.
7. [R28] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Used to be good: This app used to be awesome, now it costs more, constantly needs to connected to internet to work, and freezes and crashes nonstop. Update: purchased “full version” for my daughter for her birthday so she could use it offline, now they’re requiring a weekly “premium” membership for the same offline use. False advertising.
8. [R30] Tayasui Sketches 3/5 · GB Good, but Annoying upgrades: This programme is on the whole really good, but recent upgrades are annoying (you now have to click through all folders one at a time whereas previously you could quickly scroll through). It often glitches requiring you to close it down and restart. Overall it is easy to use for general sketching.
9. [R24] Tayasui Sketches 3/5 · GB paid for before now asking for subscription: I tried to used this app which i’ve had for years and paid for, but now asking for subscription and can’t access the tools i had before. Disappointed that there was no support for this or message. I used it recently and it was fine, now I can’t. I’m annoyed.
10. [R31] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Scam: I purchased this app back when it came out and now they’re charging monthly and requiring “premium” to use offline. I bought the “full version” for like $25+ years ago and apparently that deal is off now? What is a “premium” drawing subscription? What a joke.
11. [R11] Tayasui Sketches 4/5 · US Good: Tayasui sketches is pretty good but i wish there were more marker options
12. [R42] Tayasui Sketches 3/5 · GB Needs an offset: You can’t see where the line that you are drawing is. A cursor offset based on distance and angle from the finger would be useful.
13. [R50] Tayasui Sketches 4/5 · US It’s good.. BUT…..: The game crashes very easily. It’s a very unstable. And I am up-to-date with all of my updates. Oh and the Liquid Glass thing makes it hard for me to save my art, sometimes I just can’t save my art and I need to rejoin, but other then that this is a pretty good drawing app! But I wish you could resize the canvas
14. [R51] ibis Paint X 1/5 · US Uhmmmm why??: I would’ve rated this a 5 but ever since ibis paint x took away the google feature I can’t get the fonts I want to. Please bring that back. I also don’t really know why but it won’t let me view the online gallery. Please fix this and thank you. (This update honestly sucks tho plz bring back the google feature and online gallery)
15. [R53] ibis Paint X 3/5 · US Eh: Good but not good. Too many ads and most good stuff you gotta pay for. Just make it a paid app at this rate.
16. [R54] ibis Paint X 1/5 · US new update: this new update sucks for like half the people that use your app. a lot of us are minors without web browsers and now we can't access our comics. please bring back the in app web browser. idk who told you guys that this was a good idea
17. [R56] ibis Paint X 3/5 · US All the pop up adds make the app more difficult, though it’s easy and decent making digital art.: I don’t like all the pop ups and adds it ruins the experience and makes it hard to use, also you cannot use all brushes and tools sadly. But aside that, it’s great for making digital art!
18. [R59] ibis Paint X 3/5 · US I geniuanlly don’t know: So this app made me crash out a lot of times and it’s so confusing but overall I still like it
19. [R65] AR Drawing 2/5 · US Annoying: So I downloaded this app thinking it was free based of the ad but every time I go in the app or try to draw something “free trail” and it’s being desperate and I don’t like the fact that on the preview it says I can use ai but it’s also free trial if I could remove anything it would be free trial because I tried the 3 day trial and I had to pay to start the trail
20. [R67] AR Drawing 3/5 · US app not bad, but refund me: i downloaded the app to help me sketch, and i decided to try the free trial. i deleted the app and thought the trial would end just like many other subscriptions that have a free trial, it cancels and then you pay if it’s good. but i didn’t know i was getting charged, the app wasn’t installed on my iphone and i was completely unaware of the actual subscription. $9 down
21. [R68] AR Drawing 1/5 · US Overpaid customer: It paid me for everything and it didn’t even help in my own skills
22. [R69] AR Drawing 4/5 · US Awesome sight, needs a little improvement: Awesome site, no ads, only 2 complaints and that is that you should be able to control how bright the flashlight is, and also i have to crop the image in my photos just to get the other half of the images that dont get cropped in
23. [R79] Paper 1/5 · US I used to love this app and decided to try it again: Originally in 2021 it was 11ish for a whole year of pro, which was reasonable bc most people will buy physical journals of the same price yearly. I was so disappointed to find out that the app is now 100 for the year. I don’t have that kind of money it’s honestly such a slap to the face as a consumer
24. [R80] Paper 5/5 · US I love this app: I love this app been using it for years!! But it’s so glitchy!! It used to not be so glitchy and I wish it had better features and more tools!
25. [R81] Paper 3/5 · US Good but could be better: The app overall is good, but my only thing is that most of the tools require pro or a subscription to certain parts. Most things I can’t use, like adding multiple photos to each page, using art tools, etc. Would be so much better if it didn’t all require pro.
26. [R82] Paper 1/5 · US Greedy: I have paid and used this app for years with a single charge and years later they decided to charge monthly… greedy. If I knew I would be able to export years of work, I would have never stored my creations here
27. [R93] Drawing Desk 1/5 · US .: when i tried to draw it made the screen black and i couldn’t see anything
28. [R94] Drawing Desk 5/5 · US How great this is: I absolutely love the app it helped me with drawing. But there’s one on all of the tracing, and after that one, the first you had to buy all of them, which I personally do not like
29. [R95] Drawing Desk 3/5 · US You have to pay: This sucks I have to pay to use and draw things like why can’t I just use all of them and not have to pay monthly for it’s stupid
30. [R99] Drawing Desk 1/5 · US scam: it says u can trace on paper but it doesnt let u at all..im trying to get pictures to put on my wall
31. [R13] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Terrible: Thank you for removing every feature that makes this app good and then putting it behind a subscription service.
32. [R16] Tayasui Sketches 1/5 · US Wish I’d not have to pay for a free app: So I have been wanting to draw battle beast from invincible, I went to redownload the app from my previous phone and guess what you got to pay 8 bucks to use this app. This made me very upset because it was the best drawing app for being free and having things other apps don’t. Why would you do this also why did you make it so you have to pay, there used to
33. [R60] ibis Paint X 1/5 · US I hate it: I will admit it’s very good for making Roblox clothes ON IMAC but on iPad or mobile it’s so freaking anyit gives you ads every 2 secs unless you pay I hate it so much they need to fix the ads too because I put myself as 13-16 and it was giving me ticktock ads when ticktock is 17+ and like it was giving me a ton PLEASE DO NOT RECOMMEND
34. [R88] Paper 1/5 · US Insane prices: The yearly price increase is crazy for this app. Especially in comparison to the yearly payment 3 years ago. Not much has changed in the app services to be charging this much.. I’ve been paying for this app for 5 years and I probably won’t keep paying for it anymore. I like the app but not convinced it’s worth the increased price.