MediBang Paint for iPhone Reviews

by BlastIsCool

I’ve used Medibang for years, it was originally ad free, eventually ads are added, but not so intrusive software is unusable, so it’s fine, make the money, I get it. Now they added banner ads to iPad, this means you lose canvas space as the banner isn’t removable, not to mention it wasn’t optimized at all, so now we have the inclusion of many bugs that never happened before, layers can’t be scrolled through, I had a bug where after a short time any finger contact would act as me selecting transparency as my color, now the same bug happens but instead of the transparency your fingers just don’t work at all, the software was completely and utterly busted for the sake of something already inconvenient. A year ago I would recommend this software hands down. Heck, two WEEKS ago I would have done so. But it’s all over now. Software has in one update become practically unusable. I would have even payed as long as it was a one time thing just to get my software usable, for the years of usage I can’t deny they deserve my money, but they rubbed salt in the wound by removing their one time payment option, changing to exclusively a subscription model. It’s ridiculous. Going to look for new programs. I suggest you don’t get too attached if you came for free quality software.

by Tarsay Reamerday

MediBangPaint is good for the most part and is very easy and fun to use for my art, but there are a few things that ruin it. first, it takes FOREVER to save. this wouldn’t be as much of a problem if it were exclusive to that, not only does it take forever to simply back up, but it also does automatic back ups, which would be fine except that it takes forever to do those. it’s annoying. especially when i didn’t want to back up yet. the worst problem is that when i exit MediBangPaint for even a few seconds it restarts MediBangPaint . this used to be ok, as when i clicked continue it was right back to what i was doing, regardless of whether i backed up. now, if i didn’t back up before i left MediBangPaint for even a few seconds, usually to look at a reference, and i go back, it deletes so much of my progress. why is the continue button even there if things like this happen? i try to back up often but i forget a lot and could always count on my progress still being intact as long as i clicked the continue button, but now that is not the case. this is ridiculous, i hate losing so much progress because of a simple miscalculation. if this happens again i will probably be switching to another program.

by Killuazoldick

I thought MediBangPaint was great before! but turns out it isn't and it's programming is FAULTY. I purchased the no ads add-on and it was working well for awhile... i noticed i was getting ads again (i was logged in, and everything) so I went to "restore purchase". kept going but kept failing. their ads are absolutely INTRUSIVE and ANNOYING so i wasn't going to put up with them again after i paid $5.99 for it. I planned to leave a review, asking about the problem. To my surprise i was completely unable to leave one because I, did not "own/download MediBangPaint ".... as a last resort, i deleted, and reinstalled MediBangPaint , hoping that would solve the problem with the ads.. and it did! but unfortunately, to my dismay, years of art left in my Internal had been flushed down the drain. I thought the point of having my account connected to MediBangPaint would allow me to recover any art left in my gallery. I guess not. Unless you guys fix the problem, you've lost my trust.

by Masquerad

I had used Medibang about 3 years now as a Windows and IOS user.
I loved using this program as it provided best features for me to work on my art. While it has its cons, such as the ads coming in right after I save and leave my artwork, I couldn’t ever be more disappointed.
Ever since the recent update, where the cloud system gained a storage limit of 3GB, not only I lost access to my own artwork within that storage, I also have to buy the premium just to get more storage and actually get it back??
Basically holding it hostage until I pay??
I didn’t even know about this change within the update was gonna happen until I wasn’t even able to save my own work since last month it happened. I even tried to remove some artwork within my cloud and it still didn’t even change a thing.

While back then in the past, I would’ve paid for this if I ever had the chance, now this convinced me to not even buy anything at all for this application, even the premium.

As much I would feel bad that I would let go of a good program like Medibang go, the update won’t do for me.

Maybe do actually let any of the users know beforehand with your updates and actually extend the space within the cloud. I do get trying to get support and all for this program to work, but that wouldn’t really justify keeping our own artwork away from our grasps.

by Pinkie The Gypsy

Ok, I’ve loved MediBangPaint ever since it came out, I’ve been using it for 6+ years. I was ok with the addition of ads, even when they would crash MediBangPaint repeatedly. I was ok with some of the less used items taken off for subscription users only. But this late august update, that came without warning, locking users away from their saved art in the cloud space due to changing it to 2gbs is something I can’t ignore. I understand the company needs to make money, you can tell through the years through their addition of ads, but this is just scummy. Your holding people’s art sabotage in efforts for them to pay to get it back is very unfair. I was lucky enough to have downloaded all my works before the update due to a random instinct, but others weren’t so lucky . Although the cloud portion is the only part of MediBangPaint I disagree with, I’m leaving a two star review for how they just up spit in the face of old time users who used cloud. At this point I wonder if I can even trust this company anything else. What shouldve happened is that the art that’s been saved in the cloud before the update should have the option to download. Or do what MEGA (cloud storage) did and make the update only cater to new users

by ꧁HaikyuSimp꧂

I got MediBangPaint thinking it was really good for drawing comics. When I tried to draw a comic I didn’t understand how anything worked so I went to the tutorial thing. The only thing remotely close to the comics was how to make speech bubbles for them. I didn’t understand where anything was all it said was “select a section then add a border” I don’t know how to do any of that at searched everywhere on MediBang for a tutorial on how to do that that has more of a description. I also tried to draw to see how well that works and, keep in mind I tried many devices to see if it was just my phone, and whenever I try to draw it cuts it off. I’ll be trying to draw a head for example and halfway through the chin area, it’ll just stop the line and make a new one, creating a space in between two lines. I kept my stylus on the touchscreen and never lifting it so I know it isn’t that. I also used different kinds of things like my finger and other brands of stylus. They all do the same thing. Honestly this would have been a good app but all it has caused me is frustration.

Hopefully finding help, -Chloe

by Blackberrycows

There is nothing else I can say... everything I think about MediBangPaint are already in the positive reviews.
PLEASE HAVE BETTER LINE TOOLS FOR LINE ART- The only thing that will set this apart from other drawing apps on MediBangPaint store is better curve tools that allow for adjustment of pressure, etc. I hope that can be added, because that is one function that I can only get if I switch to a desktop application, which makes it quite annoying. GLITCHES- Also, sometimes MediBangPaint crashes when dealing with bigger canvases, plus I cannot load png files from the my photo library, they turn into jpeg (?) (where there should be transparency there is just a white background, it doesn’t preserve the transparency)- I have to put the png on google drive and then download the pngs from google drive into MediBangPaint for the transparency to be preserved. I hope this gets fixed, but other than that, it’s a amazing app for drawing on the iPad :)

by TheRareBiscuit

I’m very disappointed with the choice of having the user pay $8.00 just to use the “layer swap” feature. Sure, it includes ad removal, but ads don’t bother me, so this is absolutely useless. I hadn’t updated my app in quite a while, but I was dissatisfied to see that I couldn’t move my layers around freely anymore! It was free before, so why isn’t it free now? I understand that as MediBangPaint creators, you need to make money, but I don’t feel like this is how you should do it. I’m not sure how long this fee has been in place (since, as previously stated, I only have updated MediBangPaint as of today), but I really don’t like it. It’s much harder to draw without it, and it takes more time to do even a simple doodle now.

The only reason I’m giving this three stars, is because I LOVED MediBangPaint before I updated it. Now, the main screen looks weird and the loading circle thing looks too clunky!! It looked clean before, but now it doesn’t have the same charm as it used to. Please fix these issues. :(

by Dragon_fruito

I think that it’s unique and definitely a good idea to make a drawing app for a smart phone. Not everyone, like myself, has a tablet so it’s a bit difficult to find art apps to draw on. The problem with MediBangPaint is that I was in the middle of coloring when I tried to use a certain color that wasn’t in a grey scale. But the color was turning out grey anyway. I check the opacity and it was definitely not translucent. I tried exiting MediBangPaint , changing brushes and even changing colors, but nothing worked. It kept turning out grey instead of the color I would have preferred to use. I also would try to make newer layers and put them underneath the line art layer, but I t wouldn’t budge. I was wondering if there’s something I’m doing wrong or if it’s a bug that needs fixing. Thank very much for taking the time to read this and I hope to hear your reply.

by ErraticDeterminator

I started using MediBangPaint about a few weeks ago and I seem to get a hang of it. The tools were a bit confusing but I played around for a bit so that’s ok. I do have a little problem though. See, sometimes when I draw something, I want to rotate the object if it looks a little misplaced and make it look better. I pressed some rotation tools, but all it did was rotate just the canvas which wasn’t helping me quite a bit since the whole drawing moves and not the specific one I want. I tried to select it and rotate but still it rotated the whole drawing. I don’t know if there is an option on it but if there is, I would love to know where to find it. But if there isn’t one, I would suggest making a tool that rotates areas that you’ve chosen. Also this is one of the reasons why I gave it 4 stars since it’s all good but the rotation bugs me a bit.

Thank you for reading this review and I hope MediBangPaint improves in the future updates.

by Aura Blackwood

For being a free Art program it does its purpose incredibly well. I really enjoyed using MediBangPaint for what was most likely three years straight and was happy with it the whole time. I’ve noticed that the text took isn’t that good though, so if you’re planning on making comics with this program, this isn’t the art program for you. The only reason I’m not giving it five stars is due to a more recent thing I’ve noticed. I’ve recently had to switch to my phone for drawing, and unfortunately I can no longer use the line tool or the tool that lets you move stuff around. This has been incredibly detrimental to my art process, and as such I unfortunately can’t use MediBangPaint to its fullest anymore. So don’t use MediBangPaint if you’re drawing on a phone. Other than that, MediBangPaint is incredibly well made and I’d recommend it to any new digital artist.

by Msvijts

Personally I think this is a fairly good up. It contains most of the tools and option some of those paid painting apps. But some of those missing components that it needs is the mirror tool. It is where u Create a point in the canvas and whatever you do on the other side of the point also applies to the other so it is mirrored. This is I think is a great way to create a perfect figure without some distortions. Another is the duplication of some area you chose with the magic wand. For example if I was making an eye and too lazy to create the other side I should have the option to duplicate it into another layer(the selected area) and flip it to create a finished pair of eyes. However when you try to flip the canvas, all the canvas comes along with it, and flips. I would like that option to be a separated on each canvas. Lastly is the blending option, although this can be substituted with other brushes that were implemented, it’s just the conveniences of it would I suggested this. These are some of my suggestions that could make this even more of an awesome app, it is just a suggestion that I would like to be thought over for, it is entirely up to you developers to decide whether this is beneficial. :D thank you for listening.

by #WarriorCatLover

So I wanted to find an app to do art on that had many choices of tools, colors, and other stuff. I always saw digital art and wondered how people made it, and I decided MEDIBANG was a good first start. It’s really amazing! So many choices of everything, even things you wouldn’t even think of at first. I know this probably isn’t that descriptive of a review so sorry about that. It’s an amazing app and you won’t regret getting it. Also, to anyone wondering like I was at first, you don’t have to draw anime. You can draw whatever you want! I personally am bad at drawing people in general, especially anime, I usually stick with animals, plants, or landscapes. MEDIBANG is good for all of those things! I have had a good experience with it so far and I have only had it for about a month. If you’re into this kinda stuff, then you should totally get it!

by Furzoia

I love everything about MediBangPaint , it has a lot of features a digital drawing app should have, like selection tool, different types of brushes, layers, etc. what I also really like about MediBangPaint is the color thingy looks different. I like how it’s original and it doesn’t look like that trendy color wheel (I wish I had the same color thingy on my iPad because I don’t want mine to be a color wheel..).

I rated this review 4 stars and it’s because there’s a small bug that kinda annoys me a lot and that the undo button doesn’t work that well on my phone (using 2 fingers to undo). I know I can just use the undo button, but I’m just more comfortable using 2 fingers to undo. Please fix this!! It works fine on iPad, but on my phone it doesn’t work really well.

by Echo05

I love MediBangPaint so much. In my experience I’ve gotten clearer results with this than with sketchbook pro, and the creators of MediBangPaint are generous enough to make it free. I love using the mobile app as well as the version meant for pc. A couple of features don’t translate to the mobile app, but it’s power when drawing and coloring is outstanding. Airbrushes don’t look pixelated and staticky, and the brushes are pressure sensitive. Truly this is the best art application I’ve ever used. It’s been about 2 years now since I’ve had it, and have not found a better competitor that’s free and as easy to use with this level of quality. I’ve been drawing all my life, and this program has saved a lot of paper for me, I wish I could give it ten stars.

by Jetsam2

This is, by far, the best software I’ve used for digital art; the brushes are good, the layout is easy to follow and awesome, and everything’s user friendly and easy to find.

My only suggestion is that it could have an animation function, or even a separate app just for animation. I want to get into animation, but all of the apps I’ve seen for it have rather crappy brushes, and it’s difficult to navigate. If we could have the same layout as medibang with the addition of the option to add slides and set them in motion, my life would be complete.

MediBangPaint is awesome though, and I love it quite a bit. I’ve tried other fancy programs but I always find myself back here because it’s simply my favorite. It’s the best in my opinion, I just wish you could animate with it as well.

by Idcciwf

I have always had difficulty finding art programs for mobile, especially for smaller devices such as the iPhone. MediBangPaint allows you to draw with a wide variety of tools, filters, unlimited layers, and even has a stabilizer! While it has recently added in app purchases, they are in no way mandatory or needed to get in order to draw unrestricted! The only problem I’ve ever experienced is with editing the brushes. In the edit tab, the sliders don’t accurately show the percentage or number which you’ve chosen. You could tap the plus sign on any of them twice and it would go from, say, 50 to 54. But considering MediBangPaint is nearly completely free, one could deal with this minor issue. (I also wish they had an animation feature, but MediBangPaint is already so jam packed with features!)

by Quin-Arts

MediBangPaint is amazing! Ive been using it for about a year and absolutely love it! Now i use an iphone and the design of MediBangPaint is amazing, its easy to use and pleasing to look at, however i watched my friend use it on their samsung, and its not as pleasing and the setup is different, i tried using it and was very confused. So i kinda wish the setup was the same i guess, otherwise i find it amazing! Though sometimes when im coloring art, itll delete what i was working on coloring, and i have to start over (not completely) and it can be frustrating. And on samsung, i dont know if its their app or phone, but it keeps crashing on them and they have to restart their art or the majority of it. I give it five stars because it has never failed me like other apps have, and everything on it is free! You get tons of brushes and can make quality art for free!

by BeardedDracon🐲

I’ve been using MediBang for 4 whole years and it’s been amazing! I love the features and I’ve had tons of fun using it BUT! One issue-
Recently [as in within the past two weeks] it’s started freezing up and then crashing constantly, and worse, the crashing has erased all my work on a current project multiple times :[
obviously this is a big problem for me because starting over from scratch multiple times is very demotivating, so I’m writing this review in hopes that it’ll get fixed soon! I’ll definitely come back to edit the review once the issue is fixed because this is by far my favorite art program and it has a ton of amazing and easy to use features I love!! Thank you so much for all your hard work and everything you do!

by DonutBuysThings

Okay, so currently I’ve moved from drawing on Tayasui Sketches to this, but I’ve used GIMP and a few other programs before it, and let me just say, this one is staying. Fricking. Amazing! 😆

It’s so close to Photoshop that it actually baffles me, and once you get used to the layout (it’s a tiny bit confusing at first) and start messing around with all the different brush choices, you so quickly fall a bit in love. There are so many different options as to what to do, it’s actually a bit overwhelming sometimes. You can even add in brushes, patterns a/o manga tones of your own!!!! 😍

Highkey the only problem is that once in a while it takes a toll on my computer because it’s a slight bit beefy, and that posting art on their site(?) is sort of impossible for me?? But that’s about it! 10/10, would recommend ✨☺️

by Draco Anonymous

To preface, it’s awesome that this program is free and works as well as
it does. I’ve purchased ones that weren’t nearly as good as this. That being said, if it’s possible, I would like to see a few things change. Such as the brush size limit. It’s upsetting that my brush size can’t be as big as I want it to be unless I’m using a very small canvas. In addition, I’m sure this is for optimization sake but the brush spacing can be abysmal sometimes with no way to make the spaces small enough to fix this. Another thing about the brushes is that (and maybe I’m doing something wrong) the brushes just feel a bit rigid compared to other programs, namely the pro version. It would also be nice to have more in depth tutorials on the brushes themselves. I think that would help a lot.

by Numbuh 444

This is still the absolute best paint app for iOS, but with the last few updates, I've noticed that my phone has been quickly heating up as I use it, and it's also making my battery drain rapidly. That's becoming a serious problem, especially since I have many projects to do, including commissions, and I can't keep taking breaks every couple minutes to let my phone cool off, or to frequently charge it, plus I don't want my phone damaged. If there's any way you could fix this problem, that would be awesome.

I use an iPhone 6 with 9.1 software if that helps any.

EDIT: I've discovered that keeping my phone on low power mode helps tremendously with the overheating and battery drain problem, but MediBangPaint lags a lot when I'm zooming in and out.

by Montanna3182005

If you’re a digital artist, aspiring or not, Medibang is 100% MediBangPaint you wanna get. Simple and aesthetic interface, user-friendly, a ridiculous amount of features to use at your disposal to draw with, etc. But my favorite feature has to be the fact you can transfer from your computer to your phone or tablet, and vice versa.
And the best thing is? Medibang is a free software, aside from receiving advertisements after you exit a file, they’re not annoying and plastered everywhere like most apps in general. Just a pop-up similar to ones you would see on FireAlpaca once you boot it up, for example. But if you have the money, and you like MediBangPaint , support the creators by paying to remove the ads! I feel they deserve it for this amazing app.
A downside is the fact that if you’re attempting to create an animation or GIF, Medibang is intended for still illustration, so unless you’re a huge fan of painstaking processes and don’t have access to FireAlpaca... dunno what to tell you.
All in all, I recommend Medibang for anything related to digital art, it’s highly unlikely I’ll be switching to another program anytime soon. If you currently or previously used IbisPaint, switch over ASAP.