Linea Sketch Overview
What is Linea Sketch? Linea Sketch is an app that allows users to draw and take notes with ease. It offers a minimal UI, easy colors, elegant layers, ZipShapes & ZipLines, move/transform, watercolor brush, annotations, time-lapse, grids & templates, and is a universal app for iPad and iPhone. The app also offers tools, colors, layers, templates, backgrounds & paper textures, exporting, and project organization.
Features
- Minimal UI that puts the focus on your creations
- Easy colors with a wide range of pre-defined colors and autogenerated tints & shades
- Elegant layers that can be easily rearranged, merged, locked, or adjusted
- ZipShapes & ZipLines that automatically create perfect versions of lines, rough squares, circles, or triangles
- Move/Transform that allows users to lasso part of their sketch and move, rotate, flip, or resize it
- Watercolor Brush that creates rustic & artistic effects by painting with organic pigment in three modes: Simple, Wet, and Cloud
- Annotations that allow users to add labels, notes, and callouts to their sketches using iOS Scribble or a keyboard
- Time-Lapse that records the creative process as users sketch and saves a video of the result as either a compressed 30 second clip or a full length movie
- Grids & Templates that offer a wide range of traditional grids, 3D isometric lines, storyboards, and templates for iOS screen or icon design
- Universal App that seamlessly syncs sketches via iCloud to all of your devices
- Tools including Technical Pencil, Art Pencil, Felt Tip Pen, Marker, Watercolor Brush, Fill, Blend, Eraser, and Pencil Plus!
- Colors that are always on-screen & easily available, with tints and shades that are automatically generated in six variations
- Layers that are flexible and can be dragged, merged, or cleared, with the ability to import any image from Files, Photo Library, or clipboard
- Templates that offer traditional grids, hexagonal, circular, and isometric (3D) grids, notepads, to-do lists, sheet music, app user interface and icon design, and storyboards in 16:9, 1.85:1, and 2.35:1 ratios
- Backgrounds & Paper Textures that include White Bond, Butcher’s Paper, Black Construction, Blueprint & many more, with adjustable custom background colors and paper grain that can be toggled on or off
- Exporting options that include saving as PNG, JPEG, PSD, and PDF, saving entire sketches or cropping a portion, and exporting to Slack, Dropbox, AirDrop & more
- Project organization that allows users to organize drawings in project folders, share, rename, or move drawings within projects, and export PDF of entire project
- General features such as two-finger tap for Undo, three-finger tap for Redo, pinch to zoom and rotate canvas, tap Compass to lock, flip, or reset your canvas, supports portrait & landscape orientations, and supports split screen and drag & drop.
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Product Details and Description of
Draw and take notes with ease. Linea Sketch gives you the right balance of power and control to capture thoughts and ideas effortlessly. The focus stays where it belongs: on your creations, not on the tools. Why Linea Sketch? ⁕ Minimal UI - Every control is designed to stay out of your way until you need it. Linea's elegant interface puts the focus on your creations. ⁕ Easy Colors - Choose from a wide range of pre-defined colors, or create your own with a single tap. Autogenerated tints & shades save time and effort. ⁕ Elegant Layers - Simplified set of layers that can be easily rearranged, merged, locked, or adjusted. Use the file browser and photo library to import images for reference and tracing. ⁕ ZipShapes & ZipLines - Simply hold still for a moment after drawing a line, rough square, circle, or triangle and ZipShape automatically creates a perfect version for you. You can then adjust final size, placement, and corner radius. ⁕ Move / Transform - Lasso part of your sketch, then move, rotate, flip, or resize. Transform one or more layers quickly & easily. ⁕ Watercolor Brush - Create rustic & artistic effects by painting with organic pigment in three modes: Simple, Wet, and Cloud. ⁕ Annotations - Add labels, notes, and callouts to your sketches using iOS Scribble or a keyboard. Fonts, colors, placement, and more can be adjusted effortlessly. ⁕ Time-Lapse - Record your creative process as you sketch! Save a video of the result as either a compressed 30 second clip or a full length movie. ⁕ Grids & Templates - A wide range of traditional grids, 3D isometric lines, storyboards, and templates for iOS screen or icon design. ⁕ Universal App - Linea Sketch is a universal app for iPad and iPhone. Your sketches seamlessly sync via iCloud to all of your devices, wherever you go. …………………………………… What do you get? Tools: • Technical Pencil - Hard lead, thin lines • Art Pencil - Soft lead, thick lines • Felt Tip Pen - Thin solid lines that vary in opacity • Marker - Fat solid lines • Watercolor Brush - Paint with organic, artistic pigment • Fill - Roll out wide areas of color or tap to flood fill • Blend - Smudge or soften strokes • Eraser - Clean up with your finger or Pencil • Pencil Plus! - Create additional effects using Apple Pencil pressure and tilt Colors: • Always on-screen & easily available • Tints and shades are automatically generated in six variations • 11 predefined color sets for various types of drawing • Create custom colors for branding and consistency • Drag & drop color swatches with other apps Layers: • Five flexible layers that can be dragged, merged, or cleared • Import any image from Files, Photo Library, or clipboard • Lockable to prevent accidental changes • Adjust opacity or double tap to toggle visibility on/off Templates: • Traditional grids displayed with lines & dots • Hexagonal, circular, and isometric (3D) grids • Notepads, to-do lists, and sheet music • App user interface and icon design • Storyboards in 16:9, 1.85:1, and 2.35:1 ratios • Adjustable intensity and can be hidden quickly Backgrounds & Paper Textures: • White Bond, Butcher’s Paper, Black Construction, Blueprint & many more • Adjustable custom background colors • Paper grain can be toggled on or off Exporting: • Save as PNG, JPEG, PSD, and PDF • Save entire sketch or crop a portion • Export to Slack, Dropbox, AirDrop & more • Presentation Mode shows just the canvas via AirPlay - perfect for classrooms Projects: • Organize drawings in project folders • Share, rename, or move drawings within projects • Thumbnail previews of drawings save time • Export PDF of entire project General: • Two-finger tap for Undo, three-finger tap for Redo • Pinch to zoom and rotate canvas • Tap Compass to lock, flip, or reset your canvas • Supports portrait & landscape orientations • Supports split screen and drag & drop Terms and Conditions: https://linea-app.com/terms Privacy Policy https://linea-app.com/privacy
Top Reviews
By Walt Stoneburner
Quickly turning into my favorite sketch app
Linea strikes a perfect balance of features and usability. It has just enough drawing tools that I don't t feel stifled and not so many they feel like a gimmick. The interface feels comfortable, so that drawing with the Apple Pencil is responsive, the pressure is well represented without force, and erasure with a finger is natural as rubbing something off the page. This is so much better than toggling between modes. Likewise, if my wrist rests on the display, it doesn't mess up my drawing. The app offers layering, importing of images for reference or tracing, blend modes, and a clever draw-and-hold to get straight lines with a repositionable endpoint. Exporting is trivial, making this tool a nice solution to any step in a workflow.
By caseyliss
So Good. Intuitive and Clever.
My preschooler is always asking what is above/below him in our two-story house. I got the idea of taking rough measurements of our rooms and sketching them out in Linea, using layers, to show him. Linea made this easy by having the grid template, and its intuitive ZipLine feature, which allows you to make perfectly straight lines by holding at the end of a stroke. Eventually I realized I needed to shimmy the entire “house” a little bit to make more room. I used the scissor tool to select my drawing on the current layer, expecting to have to repeat that very carefully for all other layers. Linea was smart enough to automatically select all layers, and offer convenient checkboxes to turn off layers I don’t want to move. All of Linea is so intuitive, and as a fellow iOS developer, I don’t understand how they can get so much functionality out of so little chrome. What a phenomenally well done app; Iconfactory knocked it out of the park.
By johnfmorton
My go-to sketchbook just got even better.
It feels like I’ve tried *every* sketching app on the iPad. Linea is the one I keep coming back to because it’s the most intuitive I’ve found. During version 1, there were some missing pieces, but even with those missing tools, it was my chosen app. Version 2 just added the missing pieces I was looking for. It sounds simple enough, but the addition of a selection and move tool makes an already-great app even better. Thanks and congratulations to the development team.
