Sketchbook®

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R1] 5/5 · US Best app ever: If you're looking for a good app for drawing and writing i would recommend this app, it doesn't need you to watch an ad or anything like that to draw and if you want you can create an album and there are so many other stuffs that are so good! I can't recommend this app enough!
2. [R5] 5/5 · US Amazing: I have been using Sketchbook since about 2016-ish, and it has never failed me! As a lifelong illustrator, I could not recommend a better app for artists of all skill levels. It is clean, organized, user-friendly, and comes with a diverse toolkit that will surely satisfy any creative soul lucky enough to come across it. All in all, a very reliable, affordable app with the artist’s experien
3. [R7] 5/5 · US Omg buy nowww: Sketchbook is literally amazing. First time. I tried it. It blew my mind of how many brushes there are for free. I mean, you don’t even have to pay for a certain amount of time and it’s just you can do whatever you want. There’s a lot of things that you can do, and you can make, however many, like untitled things you want. So amazing. You should totally buy it. Thank you for not mak
4. [R8] 5/5 · US All-time favorite! Great for beginners and pros alike!: I’ve been using this app for years. It’s features are easy to use and great for beginners. On top of that, they have a wide range of different brushes which can be adjusted to your specific preference(size, blend,opacity, ect.), so it’s perfect for experienced artists as well! My one thing I would add (which may already be in the app but I ca
5. [R19] 5/5 · US Best app ever!: As a beginning artist I recommend this app to anyone who wants to learn how to draw! It is free and has NO ads! I LOVE this app and use it daily. Thank you so much devs! I love this and you don’t need a membership to play!
6. [R28] 5/5 · US Best drawing app: I’m not joking when I’m saying this is THE BEST ART APP. It has EVERYTHING. Layers,different brushes,customization. It also helps you figure out what works for you when making art. You can also save your art and when you want to work on it again later. You can just pick it up from wherever you left off. I love the picture feature so much, you can outline photos,make a collage or
7. [R40] 5/5 · US Great app: I use this a lot on low quality devices that crash even on alight montion and this beast of an app was able to be used without any issue and still working amazing without flaw. And when i do use it on my main devices it works as good as any paid art app. The only flaw is that you can’t download separate layers but who charts really because it dose a lot to make up that fact :D
8. [R50] 5/5 · US Still works on gen 1 really well: I’ve been using sketchbook pro since 2013 when I was a junior in high school. This has been my favorite drawing app and I’ve yet to be drawn away from it. I have a gen 1 iPad pro I’m still using to this day with my gen 1 apple pen and the only issue I’ve had is it draws a lot of power on this old iPad. That said given the age of my iPad Pro (11 years) I’m not surp
9. [R23] 4/5 · US Decent (READ THIS PLS GUYS! :D: PLSS READ THIS. Nothing to say this app is pretty good. 👍 So number one is I can't find how to get my paper (in the game)to stop moving, so maybe have a lock it place button or smt. app is amazing I definitely recommend and there is no adds too!I would add a search bar for the brush but other than that I recommend this! Ok also like if you HAVE an Apple Pencil o
10. [R26] 5/5 · US ITS SO GOOD WITH APPLE PENCIL: I use my Apple Pencil to draw and color and it’s so cool and the pencil helps it draw better and the app is so fun I RATE IT 5 STARS :D
11. [R3] 1/5 · US deleting half my drawing: can u actually make it stop deleting half of my work ? fix it. pls n thank u
12. [R32] 4/5 · US Good could be fixed tho: So basically sometimes it will glitch causing my art to be messed up like pieces of it getting erased in squares like big squares not letting me redo it and making me restart so it’s good but needs fixing.
13. [R49] 2/5 · US Fix this glitch: I love this app so much but recently I started drawing more realistic which is very time consuming and I spent days on them but when finished I decided to color them, I had different layers so it was easier to draw. I moved a layer and the entire screen froze than it glitched and kicked me out I go back in after a few tries and my drawing is completely distorted and messed up I wa
14. [R92] 1/5 · US NO: I HATE Ï HATE IT Ï HATE IT BECAUSE I WAS JUST DRAWING SOMETHING THAT WAS TAKING A LONG TIME LIKE WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT I GOT A PICTURE AND I COLORED MY FACE/ OTHER PARTS LIKE NECK AND SHIRT AND MY IPAD DIES WHEN I WASNT EVEN DONE AND I HAD ERASED THE FACE SO NOBODY SEES IT BUT ME AND THEN WHEN I GET INTO SKETCHBOOK I FIND THAT THE LITTLE UNDO ARROW IS LIGHT GREY SO IT WONT LET ME RETRIEV
15. [R2] 1/5 · US no.: I spent over an hour for it to turn out that i cant fill in paint when i use the fill bucket on something and i made the stuff divided and guess what? STILL NO FILLING, IT FILLS THE ENTIRE THING INSTEAD.
16. [R11] 2/5 · US This app is not working properly: I tried to choose a color and it didn’t work. It gave me random colors and when I tried to use the color picker tool it still gave me random colors.
17. [R24] 3/5 · US Not beginner friendly: I’ve never used a digital drawing app. I am a complete novice. I downloaded Sketchbook because of the reviews and felt optimistic, however, that led to frustration when upon opening the app, there was no tutorial. I had no idea what to do. I started experimenting with using the various tools, but when I needed to erase, there was NO ERASER! Why? It’s such a basic tool. How
18. [R84] 1/5 · US Bad: THERE IS NO ERASER! LIKE WHAT DRAWING APP HAS NO ERASER! this is horrible, imna buy procreate!
19. [R4] 4/5 · US Needs more options: The app is a pretty good app but there arnt all the tools that I need for the my art
20. [R12] 3/5 · US Idk: I like this app but I can’t use shapes to help and shapes are VITAL for me as a person who cant draw😭
21. [R13] 4/5 · US Pretty good! But how do you save it to PHOTOS 🫪: I play Roblox so when I wanted to make a rig on a game called my movie (also a rig is like different pieces for the body so I can move in cool ways)so I turned it into a png and I tried to save it but idk how to and all the tutorials are from along time ago. Overall everything is good, except for that saving thing. Please add a save button in the ga
22. [R20] 5/5 · US Please fix this: Dear Developer/Developers I would just like to say that I love this app and it works really well, but i would love if I can export my drawings in a easier way, maybe make us be able to transport them directly to photos. Please fix this. Sincerely,
23. [R55] 1/5 · US Horrible.: Just horrible. You can’t change the brush size, and it’s so buggy and extremly difficult to use. Not recommend.
24. [R141] 2/5 · US Meh: Nice, but not enough brushes and it's a little hard to use
25. [R143] 2/5 · US Its ok..: Hi, so i really do like this app, don’t get me wrong, but it is really hard to find out how it works, and you can only do one sketch at a time. It also freezes a lot, and I have to reload the app to get it working properly again. It is just overall pretty hard to use.
26. [R21] 3/5 · US Good app but needs some fixing: I really enjoy this app for art especially converting traditional art to digital so i can color it. However a big downside at least for me as someone who records speed pains was the fact the recording on this app also zooms in and moves whenever you do that to your drawing instead of recording the whole cavas. They act like its a perk but it just makes recordings lo
27. [R100] 3/5 · US Recording: The app is a good drawing app in general. I enjoy the brushes and features, but I dislike the recording feature. It has a problem of only sending it to your gallery when it wants to. Because of this, I’ve been unable to keep a recording of myself drawing for 3 days. It saddens me extremely that I couldn’t watch the speed paint.
28. [R10] 1/5 · US Sucks: Everything used to be free like, BACK IN 2016, but now, y’all have just followed the current, greedy trend and made EVERYTHING paid now. Bye.
29. [R93] 2/5 · US Why was I not emails about the Premium settings: After dealing with this very buggy drawing app for mobile and having all the tools I though I need and enjoyed when the app worked and now I had to pay to have those options again? I had to download something to get the app to work and atill have to pay for the features I swore I didn’t need to pay for original and now I have to do it again. I’m dis
30. [R104] 1/5 · US Worst app ever: I wish I could give a 0-star review. It’s impossible to blend and put text elements, and y’all said there were NO subscriptions, but there IS, you scammer.
31. [R105] 1/5 · US Really bad advertisement: I did the free trial and it charge me $21 almost $22. Never downloading this app again.
32. [R29] 1/5 · US Not working.: I don’t recommend you getting this. NONE OF THE BRUSHES WORK! I can’t draw A SIMPLE CLOUD. I might as well go back to notepad.
33. [R17] 5/5 · US I paid for the premium…: …but not cuz I needed any of the features, though they do add some handy stuff that I’m happy to have. I paid for it because they deserve the money. This is by far one of the best drawing experiences ever made, and it’s free. Couldn’t be happier to give them a few bucks.
34. [R18] 5/5 · US I love this app!!!: Though there is a payment for the pro it is tottaly worth it!! Only three dollars for a whole bunch more stuff!!! They have a lot of brushes and a whole site for help!! Super good!! Both beginners and experienced artist can really enjoy this app and I know I do!!!
35. [R182] 1/5 · US False advertising: No clipping mask, no eraser, bad coloring and etc. in the photos it clearly shows a clipping mask but most things are stuck behind a paywall.
36. [R418] 3/5 · GB Needs adjustment: First of all, it’s a really good app however we don’t know when the rubber is. secondly it’s amazing, you can also put as many pictures as you want Thirdly, you need to make it easier to draw and you need to save it and be easier to make me a picture
37. [R34] 4/5 · US Great: The app is good and all, but it won’t let me bring the pictures I draw into my photo app so I can’t print them that means and so but the app is good in general
38. [R57] 1/5 · US Waahaaaaah: This app doesnt let me export to photos
39. [R59] 3/5 · US No Animation Feature on iPad Pro?: I don’t understand why they don’t have the animation feature on the iPad Pro version. Pro Create has that feature, Clip Studio, Adobe, and now even apps that out right suck. I like this app’s tool and brushes the most. I just miss the animation feature, since I had projects I was working on before I lost access to the desktop version.
40. [R121] 3/5 · US Why can’t I access flipbook on mobile?: Pretty good not that bad but I wish I could access flipbook on mobile
41. [R130] 1/5 · US No animation: There’s no animation on the mobile version, which is weird because the PC version *does* have animation. I’d love to give this game five stars, as it’s perfect in every other way, but I love animation and can’t really see why I’d use this over ibis.
42. [R200] 3/5 · US Animations!: This app is good,but can you add animations feature?bcuz is fun:) so ummmmmmmmm