‎iArtbook Reviews

I'm surprised that this is actually pretty decent! There's a bug(?) I've run into that I think may just be due to how old my ipad is, but masking layers on animations cause this weird glitchy thing to happen to the bottom layer that makes it look like someone scribbled on top of it with an eraser tool??? It's pixelated and it changes when I make changes to the masking layer and it will render like that too. I tried it on my phone and it doesn't happen there so I think it's just an iPad thing.
I don't get why the weird calligraphy stabilizer is on by default? Most drawing software don't and it took me a while just to figure out how to turn it off.
Some of the tools are named weird too, the "tracing frames" in the animation should be onion skinning and "design settings" should probably be just settings or ui settings. Also one of the brush's name is in Russian..? I get that iArtbook is still newish and the dev may to be fluent in English and that's fine
A few suggestions: Merging "frame" layers, make the inside of the circle color wheel into a triangle (the circle is hard to use), tinted tracing frames/onion skinning, importing audio for the animation .D.

In my baby artist days, I wish I had come across iArtbook. I was broke (still am) and my parents had recently gotten me an iPad and Apple Pencil. I couldn’t afford any high quality apps such as Procreate and I didn’t want to get an app that gave me a free trial, or a free edition. Those limitations weren’t the best. So I settled with Autodesk Sketchbook. A very good free app, but it didn’t really suit my needs. Before I go further, I’d just like to say that just because you get a professional drawing setup or a high quality app, doesn’t mean your drawings and animations will automatically improve. I expected a lot from an iPad and an Apple Pencil, but my art looked the same. It’s not about the quality of the medium, it’s the way you can improve upon your art and look at it with a critical eye. (Not too critical!) Anyway, Autodesk sketchbook didn’t have the kind of brushes I liked, and it wasn’t very sensitive to pressure. Then I got procreate. Don’t get me wrong, Procreate is AWESOME. It’s a huge step up. But iArtbook? this app? It’s a game changer. Similar controls to procreate, but free. Of course, there are ads. How else could you support an app like this? It’s awesome for beginners and professionals alike! (I’m not professional, I’m somewhere in the middle.) Again, though, everyone has different preferences. I love iArtbook, but it may not be for you! Just please try it out. :)

So, me being a little kid and I’m an artist, I absolutely adore iArtbook so much! It’s definitely one of the best digital art apps! Although I have one problem with it, if you know how to fix it, please respond to this review developer(s). My problem is, the background layer option when drawing or sketching on a canvas doesn’t work for me. If you can fix it, or if it’s a glitch and you can tell me how to fix it, please do developer(s)! And, I am definitely not complaining, I love iArtbook! Anyone who says anything bad or mean about iArtbook, and saying a lot of mean stuff to you, show them who is boss! iArtbook is amazing, and I have basically said the same thing like 4 times. Please keep working on this, and people will BLOW UP about iArtbook (in a good way) because you are super talented! I could never accomplish something like iArtbook you have created, owners and developers. I bet you work extra hard and it is super inspiring! For others who might not be developers or owners of iArtbook, just looking at the reviews for this, I promise, iArtbook will not let you down! (What you’re about to read is to the developer(s)). Please fix the layers, and keep my compliments in mind, please. I hope they give you faith and courage! -Miley (not Cyrus although I do intend to sing everyday)

iArtbook is one of my favorites ! Ever since I’ve downloaded it, I’ve discovered lots of my creative side that I haven’t seen before. 😀 It has so many cool brushes and textures like grass🌱, leaves🌿, crystals💎, galaxies and stars🌟, and I love making art on it. I love how you can create animations, too, and how you don’t have to unlock or pay for certain brushes. You can just paint freely with all the brushes. I love it. There’s so many cool features and I create pictures on it nearly every day. What I really like is that you can create your own brushes🖌. Though I don’t really use it that often (I’m really happy with all of the brushes you have now!), I think it’s probably really convenient for other users. 💜

iArtbook makes me feel happy about my art, and makes me confident to keep making art. I love it! 💕 this app is so brilliant and astonishing, just like art, and I’m sure that the developer(s) worked really hard. Thank you for your hard work! 🤩 And if you aren’t a developer, I think you should get iArtbook now, even if you don’t really make art. You’ll love it. You’ll find it’s really relaxing. 😊

Did I mention that I love iArtbook? 💖❤️💗

I LOVE iArtbook. My kids play it all the time, it’s just like procreate and it’s free? Like get it so we don’t have to pay, it’s an awesome. I recommend it so much they can improve their skills, drawing, and other things it’s amazing. I don’t understand how people are finding it boring? It’s so amazing! Maybe a little bugs for their devices, but overall 💯 approved. Make more awesome updates! 😚 you guys made my children more productive and actually learn how to draw! My daughter is a professional artist, she draws realistic people thanks to iArtbook you guys did amazing work and made her awesome mat being an artist. 👩‍🎨 you guys did better than her art teacher. 😂 Some of these things are not really useful but their amazing for my yt videos! I post yt videos of my kids being awesome drawers and yt made them blow up. My kids have 100k subscribers cause of you app! On Facebook it’s blowing up! 😳 it’s all over my friend Bethany's page. It’s awesome she gained 50k followers on face book and 10k on instagram! 😯 it’s amazing 😊 Thanks for being an awesome app, and all you kids reading this, down load and use iArtbook!

-From Karen Kelly Smith.🥰

Ok I definitely recommend iArtbook for drawing and artists that like to use more of a complex art app, It’s very settle and amazing I love how they start you off with maybe four images and there all so beautiful, I love iArtbook very much and I definitely enjoy drawing on it! Just a few suggestions, one is to add a better blur tool(smudge) and maybe add more brushes? Like a digital brush, and more helpful brushes, my favorite thing is the weather brushes, and the random stuff brushes, like the crystals and stuff, but maybe you should add like cars? And maybe bikes? And some vehicles! And maybe a bourse brush? Idk if I’m being to unique or to much but if I am I’m sorry! I just really love this art app and wanna see more beauty in it and just more wonderful brushes and different updates to it, please don’t mess with iArtbook to much it’s outstanding, I also love how you can animate on it aswell and now just draw, that’s wonderful, definitely suggest iArtbook ! (And love how big the brushes/erasers can get!!) also don’t do the blur or any type of brush kinda like blur to much it'll cause a crash and just lag, I learned my lesson.

i absolutely love using iArtbook, its an amazing free alternative for those who can't afford drawing apps like ProCreate. I don't mind the ads since they only pop up once in while when i exit my drawing and i would deffinitly give this a 5 star if it wasn't for this one crucial thing... one day i openedup this app and i was drawing and i made a mistake and went to go tap the undo button but it was missing, i tried everything i could think of to try and get them back. I searched it up and couldn't find anything. I was really desperate so i decided to delete iArtbook and re-download it which didnt work and i was really sad because i had to get rid of all my drawings and stuff when i deleted iArtbook . i really hope im the only person with this issue or im just dumb and the solution is simple (btw im on a phone so it migjt be that idk) but im really disappointed because i love iArtbook and now its basically un-useable for me... hopefully i can update this saying i found the solution because i really love iArtbook and i think this might just me but i thought i should say something so- ya... hope this gets fixed (*˙˘˙)

I love iArtbook! I’ve always been able to draw and animate easily off of iArtbook, and it has never caused me problems! I got the controls and features down easily, and I love how iArtbook is so simple, yet has so many features! I’ve never been able to understand how to work the other apps, but this one has always been my #1 drawing app!

Even so, animating is easier and more convenient than all the other apps I’ve tried to far, except for the fact that I can’t add audio. As far as I’ve been able to tell, I can’t find any feature that enables me to add audio as for my animation. It’s really difficult to synchronize an animation with sound without it being in iArtbook . It’d be really helpful if you could add an audio feature.

In summary, I love iArtbook, but I feel like it needs an audio feature, and I really don’t want to resort to the other more complicated apps with the audio feature, that I just haven’t been able to work. Thanks so much!

iArtbook is wonderful, I really like how everything pixelates when you zoom in for details. iArtbook came in handy when I wanted to try using another app other than Ibispaint. There’s just two things missing: A folder system and bucket tool. When I draw on my phone, I would like draw in an organized fashion, I tend to make multiple layers and need to keep track of them. My first drawing on iArtbook is coming out good, but the layers are a little off for me. I know that layers aren’t really noticeable, but I would like to have that mindset when I’m drawing. And, you could just simply scribble in the color into the needed gap, but I think it would be much simpler to use a paint bucket tool. That way, you don’t need to resize any brushes. You also wouldn’t have to worry about erasing as much either. Those are the only two things I think iArtbook needs. Other than that, the whole things great, and very easy to use. :>

I had drew this piece nothing special not even that good I was and am proud of it but the next day I went to do some touch ups and outlines and I kept getting kicked off (I’m on a ipad if that’s helps not sure what version tho buts it up to date) each day I check it it needs an update (never dose) and I’m so frustrated cause it’s the first one in a set of fan art and I really have been gettin into digital art recently and I’m so frustrated by this and I really needed it too cause I’m going to a hotel tmmr and I’m not going to bring my markers and sketch book and such and make a mess please fix this Details it will let me draw for like 1-3 minutes the kick me off it saved my progress but still I’ve been drawing on iArtbook for a year and never had this problem I also watch stuff on a mini screen on the side while I draw

I NEVER write reviews, but I’ve been using iArtbook for a while now and wanted to recommend it via a review. The UI is extremely nice to look at and not overwhelming, as well as you can customize it with settings. It’s really smooth to draw with and has really nice brushes! I really like that you can change the color of the background. I usually don’t continue using a drawing app very long (this is my fourth major one, and I’ve briefly tried a bunch others) but I can’t really bring myself to start using a different one now. I love that there’s unlimited layers and an easy-to-use animation feature! One suggestion though: make an option on the fill tool to fill through multiple layers, or more importantly, animation frames. But despite that, THIS IS THE BEST DRAWING APP! (For me, at least, my friend’s a bit confused with the UI. (She uses procreate)

So at my school, I decided to take a digital art class. It was mainly to get my art credit for high-school, but I really enjoyed the class. We where supplied with Laptops and a year long access to Adobe Illustrator. It was great.
I really enjoyed the class, but couldn’t take the laptop home and was limited on when I could use it. Because of this, I went searching for a new app, and found this app.
I’m definitely not close to advance digital designing, but I can definitely say iArtbook is perfect for anyone who’s starting out. You don’t have to pay to use it, and there aren’t even that many adds. It has all the ability’s of other art apps, but for free and is much more accessible. iArtbook is Perfect for anyone who’s starting out, or even has been doing it for a while, and I’d definitely recommend it!!!

The drawing software for iArtbook is amazing it’s the animating one that I’m worried about first I would like to address the fact that you cannot add audio to what you were trying to animate and so if you were trying to match something to an audio then you’d be going out to blindly the second thing I’d like to address is the layers on the background in the overlay the background in the overlay should be able to have multiple Windows but the only option for it so far is one single window and I find that kind of inconvenient also the third thing I’d like to address is the fact that if you lower a single layers of Pasadena it doesn’t affect the rest of the layers so you have to go back through and change the opacity for all of the layers in that section I would like an update with features like this but the main thing I’m worried about is the animation audio one you may not see this but if you do see this please address the issue.

Hi, ever since I found iArtbook I IMMEDIATELY FELL IN LOVE WITH IT! I love how it looks and feels so similar to Procreate! I love the features of it and love the look of it, especially in dark mode. Although, when I try to import a brush into iArtbook , it’s not allowing me to do so or ends up not saving but crashing. Now as it says in the title, I have two suggestions to make in case you plan on more, I would really love to make animations on iArtbook. As an artist and animator still learning to improve, I would really and absolutely love this in iArtbook . I would also love to see a circle tool for when I do backgrounds in my pieces of art instead of having to draw it slowly and carefully. Anyways, I hope you read this and place my suggestions in future updates. Thank you!

iArtbook clearly is a work in progress. However I do believe iArtbook itself could end up better than other apple store drawing apps such as Procreate, Sketchbook Autodesk ,and etc. More updates need to be made for that to happen, first being able to delete unwanted canvasses , two ; auto select , three; being able to adjust canvas size. Four being able to make own brushes from photos and such as that. These are few unwanted but manageable problems ,other than that, this is my go to app,
Even if your styles doesn’t have pressure sensitivity you can mess with the setting to give it the same affect a pressure sensitivity stylus would have which is amazing,not to mention blending,coloring is quite easy. Overall iArtbook is amazing and I’m hoping to see more updates!

I am a little drawer and I like to collage a lot, and for me (idk if other people do this but) I have to use selection and transform.

And since I saw this wonderful app, with excellent pens and airbrushes, the selection must be good as well!

Once I used the selection tool, errr... let’s just say it wasn’t as good as I thought-

You can only use the lasso which is not really helpful because I want to select the whole thing, not just a circle of the portion.

I have done suggestions,
1. Add some other tools under the selection category.
2. (I don’t know if we can do this or not) Be able to rename your drawings.
3. Add other things to the pens.

Explaining my suggestions:

1. I said this because I want to be able to select one or the whole part of the drawing if I want to bucket fill them.

2. I said this because I can’t really find a way to rename my projects, but I don’t know if anyone else are having this problem.

3. What I mean by this is to be able to make sharper lines, (I know you have that info thing on the pen) but if you can show previews if what they do, that’ll help a lot!

P.S: sorry if this seems like a lot, so you can do one of my suggestions or just choose which one will help your app succeed the most!

I’m mad actually…was doing great! I was a digital, learning fool! Then the update…loved the look, loved everything about it….then a few days ago….I was drawing, enjoying myself….and pop…iArtbook closed, now I’m doing an app called Sketch A Day….so I’m busy…..I opened iArtbook back, which was something normal, art was always ready to start where I left off……..NOPE, START OVER ! 4 paintings… when you aren’t doing small little things and you are in the middle of the project…starting over is a stab in the dang heart! It just happened again, for the 5th time…..it makes me feel so angry, frustrated, bummed….etc. I just want to scream and punch someone! I don’t want to start over! Especially when I don’t feel good, on prescription cough meds, and other meds for severe cold and upper respiratory infection….and I’m trying to keep my daily streak! I chose your app over all the others…..you were great, please make it great again!

I don’t know what updates were there or what update caused this, but it’s not the same and I don’t like it. I used to use iArtbook a lot because it’s so fun and I myself love to draw. I like to use the thing that you can press the color and drag it to full paint, and back then it worked normally and it was really helpful. But I think earlier this week, something is not right when you use it. I don’t know how to explain it.. Imagine you have a circle and you want to color the inside of it. You can draw with your hands or you can use the color dragging thing. You would use the dragging thing to save time, but when you use it, there’s some parts that are not colored or some parts that go out of the line. Just.. the outline looks very messy. I hope you read this and fix it somehow because I use that tool a lot and I might consider getting a replacement app. But overall it is a fine app and I love it. Thank you for your time!

I absolutely love iArtbook but it could use some features. Fist of I would love to have a magic wand tool for selecting large areas, along with settings for the fill tool. Secondly I think that having a clipping mask option for layers and liquify tools would be great. The last thing i believe would be great is the ability to upload and share brushes! The things I absolutely need to put in is that iArtbook is great! My favorite aspect of it is it’s brush system because of the different options. I’ve been looking for an app to do a comic on and this would be perfect, it would also be great for painting, all at the same time! I understand this is a pretty new app but it both has room for improvement and is great!

So I’ve been using iArtbook for a while. And I like it, I really do. Except, unnecessary changes keep being made to iArtbook and it’s mechanics— for example, changing iArtbook name from Pixtiss to this app, or the removing/merging of tools in iArtbook . I usually just try to adapt to the changes, but, today, I saw that the pull/blur tool (the finger) had been removed from the toolbar. I’m a little confused because I use this tool a LOT for shading and blending, and my pictures just kind of don’t feel... complete without it, I guess? Sorry if this is inconveniencing, I’m just frustrated without the tool, and I might have to switch to Procreate instead (and, again, I REALLY don’t want too, I love iArtbook, but the blur tool might be a deal breaker).

Hello, I m a big fan of your app but I also have ideas for new update, we really need more brushes for specific things like mixing colors , also I know this is really big step for iArtbook and it’s probably more hard work , we Need a animation update! For an artist and an animation lover I would prefer draw my project and animation it , it’s gonna be great more people will rate your app it will be more helpful 👍 also with fixing a little bit of mixing and setting which is add more hand setting like double click on top will make a circle or a straight line 😍 ! Thank u I hope you’ll do anything from what i said it will make us very glad agin thank u for your hard work 💕

Hi! I am a young artist. And I really wanted iArtbook called 'Procreate' But I noticed it has payment in some ipads. Then I found iArtbook and I noticed its the exact same app! Exept thay change the prize and the name, anyways what my problem is I have this Ipad ( which I'm using right now) which is omly until ios 10.3.3 since I really want iArtbook, I tried to download it but then it said 'its only for 13.0 or later' so I was sad because I really liked it but i can't download it. So if you can make it '10 or later' It would make my whole life! And I will appreciate it! But, I still rate it 4/5. But anyways Thank you! if you saw it!

I love iArtbook! It’s very similar to Procreate, but I don’t enjoy using the brushes. I think the rest of the things are good though! The brushes... where do I start... so, I think the variety of brushes are great! It gives me lots of options! But there are barely any normal brushes, most of them are more textures and etc, like in Ibis Paint, there are lots of normal brushes mixed with textured brushes. This is a little annoying because I would have to use textured brushes for lineart, which I find difficult. There are a few normal brushes, but other than that they are not good for lineart.

The setup is super similar to ProCreate! I do wish that inserting pictures were a bit easier, I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how. So far I’ve used iArtbook and I enjoy it! I will definitely use it a lot.

Not to mention, when you select an area, I hope the rotation is a little more like Ibis Paint and ProCreate? You can only rotate it to a certain degree that they have for you. I find this SUPER hard.

Otherwise then, I really love iArtbook! Probably will switch around using this and Ibis Paint.

I haven’t heard of this drawing app but I stumbled upon it when I found out that PROCREATE was no longer free I tried iArtbook for a few days know and I thought it was perfect. It only needed that option that let’s you press and hold on a color to get it to be perfect. I can not recommend iArtbook enough if I mention all the amazing features in iArtbook then this review would be a three part novel. So I hope you found iArtbook and this review help full. And if the the creators are reading this please consider adding that feature that I mentioned earlier in the review. And again I love iArtbook please download iArtbook.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

As a small animator I think iArtbook is amazing, especially if you can’t spend any money on your art, but there are a few things that could really help iArtbook ! Ok, I love the different colors and textures and all of that, but I think it should be a little easier to add shapes to your drawing. What I mean by that is, it’s a little difficult to get the right shape with it always changing to a straight line. Second suggestion and probably last, can you please make it easier to draw a glow effect, whenever I try to use one I have to use a ton of different apps because it’s really difficult for me. That’s all! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

iArtbook may be a free version of procreate; but as a drawer, an animator, I have looked for many many many many many many many MANY apps to satisfy me. And I found it just a few months ago.
I have made over ONE HUNDRED drawings on this app, and I got iArtbook in December!
It may seem a little hard at first, but just do a bunch of tests and whatnot or look up an online tutorial and you’ll be making the Mona Lisa.
You guys can hate it all you want, but at least look at the brushes. I recommend the rough pencil for sketching, the pen of outlining, 0% calligraphy in the glossy section for coloring, and the very soft airbrush for...well a lot. Those are just the main four I use, but I’ve been using more different ones.
But fair warning, phones have some lag. And there are a few ads, but you could be lucky and have no lag or any ads!
Also, one suggestion to the developers, maybe make a tutorial in-app or adding sound to animations. (But the animating feature did JUST come out so I’m not expecting it by next Thursday lol)

This is the first digital art app that I haven’t deleted within the first week of having it. This only has occasional adds, and a large variety of tools even without the pro version, it also doesn’t constantly pressure you into buying the pro version. I love that you can add photos from your photo albums, it has helped me a lot when doing character design. So thank you for creating this incredible app! My only suggestion, is maybe allow for the undo button to be used after iArtbook is closed out, and then reopened, but that’s it. Keep up the awesome work!

I love iArtbook! It’s great when you can’t buy Procreate. The one problem I have is- since I’m an artist, I try to make separate layers for shading and lighting. But the problem is that iArtbook kicks me off if I’m at a “high” amount of layers. I’ve noticed it resets whenever I’ve selected a layer or after I deselect a layer. Sometimes it does it even if I have a small amount of layers. What annoys me the most is the fact that it sometimes doesn’t save the latest amount of progress if I DO get kicked off. I love iArtbook believe me, I just don’t want to keep having this problem.