Brushstroke Reviews
5/5 rating based on 100 reviews. Read all reviews for Brushstroke for iPhone.
Brushstroke is paid iOS app published by Code Organa LLC
Found better more versatile apps
sooperstaar
It’s ok. Decent. A lot of the filters look VERY similar. I’ve found other apps, for free, that I like better. But I know it’s all personal preference. Wasn’t a fan and wish I didn’t spend the money.
Lots of control
Stumped1139
Easy to use. I wish this app was available for the Mac. Also wish I had direct access to the files folder on my iPad.
Doesn’t make sense
Cstraume
When I select the picture and go to add effects it’s starting with the oil painting effects. How do I start with the original picture? That makes no sense whatsoever. Also when you are going through the effects are you adding onto the previous one or is it changing from the original? Are there any instructions on how to use the app?
Excellent!
Elisatx
Excellent app to play with a variety of painting styles! Inspiring for creatives of all ages!
Froze on 4th photo
Nj08054
I just bought the app and started using it and it froze on the 4th photo I tried to make a painting of. I closed out of it and went back in but the same frozen photo is still there. This app is a waste of money.
Create Artwork for a your Home
1234#@
I take photos and transform them into paintings...I love them and so do all my friends who now have the app. It’s fantastic!!!!
Long Time User
Ladylonglocks
Update 9.18.20 Nothing has changed in this app for years, not a single added feature or significant improvement to the ones they have. This was one of my favorite apps for years, now I hardly use it as other painting apps far surpass it in functionality, control, realism and usability. Some filters introduce ugly unnecessary noise. Many (most) of the filters are so bad they are unusable. You can't even save presets. Worst of all, it STILL doesn't save at full resolution. Promises made, promises broken. If you like to play with photos, by all means play, but serious artists will do much, MUCH better elsewhere. Support developers who care about constant improvement, there are several out there dedicated to their products and customers. You're not going to find that here. Update 9.8.18 Despite working directly with these guys to help them improve the app, as far as I can tell virtually nothing has changed, not even the noise on S3 or the hue slider I was specifically told would be included. Huge, HUGE disappointment... and waste of my time. __________ I'm a professional artist and I've used this app for years. It doesn't get updated often, and even more rarely does it get any new painting or color filters, so purchasing it to encourage development for new features is not going to work out for you. More of an issue however, is how well what it does do works, and what the app inexplicably lacks. - Work on several of the painting filters needs to be done as so many of them are of a completely unusable quality at any intensity (including a full half of the illustration add-on filters). - To render many of the passable filters usable, the "thickness" setting has to be set very low or off entirely, the "brushstrokes" in these filters are heavy-handed and not very realistic. - S3, my go-to painting filter, leaves dark specks (not so fine as grain) on work when viewed at high resolution and adding a paper texture at any intensity doesn't do much to hide it. I have to use my desktop version of Photoshop to fix it every time I use it, which is often. - Speaking of resolution, after all these years this app still does not support original resolution. This is a major issue and one all Brushstroke's competition resolved long ago (unless this was finally added in today's update, which seems unlikely but was the one thing I forgot to test before writing this review). - The color palette filters and paper textures have the ability to be turned off completely, but for some inexplicable reason the same is not true of the painting filters. The color palettes are the best feature of the app and should be usable without being forced to use a painting filter at all. - A hue slider in the editing feature seems like a no-brainer for an app that's saving grace is its color functionality, yet one has never been added to the app. I move every image that goes through Brushstroke to a secondary app to adjust individual hues, but often an image could have been adjusted in app with a hue change applied to the entire image. - There is no way to save favorite filters in any category nor cross-category presets so you are forever forced to scroll through all the options to get to what you already know you're going to use. - Shadows and light can only be removed, not added. The slider setting needs to start in the middle of the scale so adjustments in both directions can be made. Secondary app to the rescue once again. - And an unusual (probably) direct development request: please consider adding a painting filter that paints with minimal texture and color changes so it can be specifically used to reduce pixelation from enlarged artworks without otherwise significantly changing the look of the original image. Painting apps are often used for this purpose but surprisingly no developer has thought to create a filter designed to make minimal changes to the original, so the "almost good enough" filters in a range of painting apps have had to suffice.