Inkwell Reviews

I finished the tutorial & was really excited to see what I could do with Inkwell.
It crashed almost immediately and I have not been able to open it since
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Inkwell is very fun and has potential BUT the actual drawing interface needs a lot of work. For one the undo button can lag for so long that if you hit the undo button 10 times to quickly erase some brush strokes you might have to wait a whole minute or two while it is stuck undoing before you can interact with the interface again. In general a lot of the features are glitchy, slow and get stuck/force you to stop while Inkwell catches up. Another thing that would be nice is better palm detection. Lot of time if you lay your palm down on the tablet before the pencil tip it wont draw. As far as layers, maybe this is a feature you have to buy, but it would be nice to be able to add more layers, and move layers. A color history would also be nice. Theres a few other complaints i have but overall it is a fun app and i can see the purpose of keeping your tools a little more limited for learning purposes but theres certain basic features that are lacking and it is very laggy.

I’ve always been wanting to improve my skills, but I never know where to start, and it always feels like I’m not going anywhere when I try. I found Inkwell and I was finally starting to see hope. Everything about Inkwell was everything I was looking for in my journey. After completing the tutorial although, Inkwell is just not working, literally not working. After the tour, I went to sign up, and after putting in my info, Inkwell just goes out. I would press on it and it would boot up, or start logging me in, but then it just turns off.

I really like Inkwell and I really want to start improving my skills, I don’t know what’s broken. :(

This is really an amazing app with great lessons and having the motivation to come back to it is easy with the reward system of unlocking brushes and trying to keep a streak going. Would be 5 stars but every time I try do something even remotely detailed Inkwell lags and then eventually crashes. The piece eventually becomes one I don’t want to finish because it takes 3 minutes to open back up and then crashes 5 minutes later because it can’t process the drawing anymore.

Seems great and I really want to sign up. However, I can no longer hear any audio out of Inkwell. The developers are responsive and trying to find the cause of the issue. Before I encountered the audio bug, 8 found Inkwell to be very good

Fun app for drawing! Very easy to use and lots of options for art. Really enjoying it so far

Hi! It’s a very fun and relaxing drawing/social media app for artists. I love the concept and the community. It has a promising future, I believe, and it gets me inspired to draw. A couple things I like about it are that it offers user submitted photos that give you a different kind of inspiration than you would get on just google or pinterest images. They’re more authentic and personal a lot of the time. It also has a simple but effective digital art program inside Inkwell itself that focuses on the basics of art without too many specialized tools. [edit: now there are also challenges, coloring pages, and unlockable extras, and the small team responsible are regularly improving and innovating it]. I like that you can stamp the canvas with a photo of your choice too, in case you decide to draw in your own art programs (or traditionally) and post that on this app. I have a couple simple ease of use suggestions:

1. Double tap apple pencil to swap between eraser and current brush. This is a standard shortcut for ipads and if it can be implemented, it would be great.

2. [edit: This suggestion has been implemented (finger rejection)! Thanks to the devs for all their constant work!] Turn off capacitive touch as tool. For those of us who only draw with the apple pencil, the finger/palm sometimes registers by accident and makes an unintended mark on the canvas since capacitive touch is also set as a tool. I would like to disable this. Maybe the finger touch could be customized to work another tool of choice like to pan the screen with one finger swipe. Or just a toggle to disable/enable finger touch registering for different artist preferences would be fine. I gave a 5 star regardless because I believe in Inkwell and the team behind it and wanted to give a review in support.

I am not an artist; I have always envied those who could, seemingly effortlessly, express themselves and their thoughts in such a profound way. Art, in some sense, breaks language and cultural barriers - it evokes feelings and memories and yearnings in us no matter our age, nationality, gender… it is such a wondrous gift. A gift, sadly, that I felt I might never experience, even in a limited manner. After many frustrating and demoralized attempts on my own over the years, it occurred to me that maybe I could attempt some sort of lessons- something that would enable me to decide if wanted just to relax and color, learn basic drawing skills in guided lessons, experiment on my own, or even see what other fledgling artists are doing and exchange support and receive advice from them. I found all of this and more on Inkwell. I use it daily, even if it’s only to spend 5-10 minutes on an ongoing project. It’s wonderful to have that flexibility. I also need to mention the support from the designer, Trevor. Usually, if you try to get help on other apps, you never hear back, or they give you the run around, or they take weeks to respond. With Trevor, I got a response in 10 minutes!!! He has been very supportive, offered advice, even asked if there were things that they could add to Inkwell that would appeal to me. I am amazed by Inkwell, its developers and artists as well as the others who have also joined this community of learners. I can’t recommend this enough. Try the free version, there’s a lot to experience and explore and it gives you a good sense of what it has to offer. If you’re like me, it took less that 3 days for me to go all in on the full version. (Did I mention this is a good way to decompress from a hard day at work and relieve stress?:). )

If you want to learn to draw, see fun art or even get drawn. Come on in!

A phenomenally realized idea for such a small team!

Really enjoying Inkwell so far. Looking forward to all it has to offer.

I’m a novice as an artist. I was looking for an app that would help me learn to draw, and this one was the best that I’ve tried. Cool community of artists as well… would def recommend!

Very an an informative. Been playing around with it, since downloaded it this afternoon. So tarI'm hooked'.

I really love Inkwell! It’s been so much fun to learn and improve my drawing skills and the platform is easy to use. A supportive community where you can share and get feedback on your work and just something I keep going back to open whenever I have downtime. Definitely would recommend!

Its my favorite drawing app, has layers to get more detailed and lots of brushes and tons of photos to draw, but most of all I love the community of artists, newbies and seasoned ones.
Drawing here relaxes me and helps me create fun sketches for my future acrylic paintings.

Loved Inkwell and I am having something handy now to practice and improve my skills. I never wrote anything about an app before but i had to for this! Will recommend to all my friends ❤️

I have been painting with acrylics, oils, and most recently, watercolor. This was my first exposure to digital art. So much fun! There’s no such thing as a mistake because you can command them to disappear…no other art medium gives you that freedom.
Everyone is an artist!

Of all the learn to draw apps I've tried, this one is my favorite. Once I learned that you need to use Discord for support, I have no complaints. It is a fun, easy to use app. I feel I have learned a lot already, and I've only been using it for a couple weeks.

I have never had a better teacher than Inkwell has been for me. The lessons are amazing and for the first time I am having more confidence in my abilities! Easy to follow directions, awesome follow along lessons. They are short but provide so much in learning how to use the tools. His teaching skills is special. Thank you

I love this app but that NEEDS more free stuff bro