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Available exclusively on the App Store, meticulously designed to be beautifully powerful and painstakingly engineered for iPhone — Inspire delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.
Category Price Seller Device
Graphics & Design $4.99 snowCanoe iPhone, iPad, iPod

Our proprietary painting engine Sorcery™, based on OpenGL, takes full advantage of the GPU to render brush strokes with brilliant 64-bit color, laser-sharp sub-pixel precision and insanely fast speed. While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with just a bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors on the canvas together to create new ones.

Whether you're a beginner, expert, or somewhere in-between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of the most intuitive and compelling illustration app for iPhone, Inspire.

Brushes
• 80 high quality brushes to choose from, divided into 8 useful sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Basic Shapes, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Markers, Chalk and Textures
• 70 more brushes are available in the Inspire Shop, divided into 7 sets: Complex Shapes, Paint Splatter, Spray Paint, Shape Outlines, Charcoal, Patterns and Pastels & Conté
• All brushes can be used as a Wet Brush, Dry Brush (Blending) or Eraser
• Over 20 different settings are available to customize brush strokes with powerful versatility and variation

Painting
• Sorcery™, the fastest 64-bit painting engine on the App Store
• Full-fledged pressure sensitive painting with 3D Touch
• Create a canvas of any size up to 6K (24MP)
• Dual-texture brushes
• 64-bit color
• All device orientations are supported all the time — switch from portrait to landscape painting with ease
• 1000 levels of undo and redo are available
• Touch and slide hotspots can be used to quickly change brush size, opacity and pressure without opening a menu
• The eyedropper tool can be used with a touch and hold gesture to select paint colors from the canvas
• The canvas can be moved around, rotated and zoomed in and out up to 6400%
• Use your Apple Watch as a companion to perform actions, select colors and quickly glance at how long you've spent on a painting
• Create a painting right within the Messages app, starting from a blank canvas or an image from your Photos

Canvas Playback Video Recording
• Brush strokes are automatically recorded as you paint without any delay
• You can play the video of your artwork being created stroke-by-stroke directly in the gallery
• Exported videos are high quality HD at up to 1080p resolution

Color Picker
• Choose any paint color you can dream of with the intuitive color picker
• HSB and RGB sliders accompany a large color circle, color square and opacity slider
• Your latest colors are saved to a palette automatically while you paint
• You can also save your favorite colors to a palette with drag and drop

Visit snowCanoe.com to check out more screenshots, videos and artwork.

Reviews

My Go-To Painting App
Dida61

I have many painting apps - ArtStudio Pro, Affinity Designer, ArtRage, Paintstorm, Procreate - yes, I play with the big boys. But when I’m ready to settle down and get things done, Inspire Pro is my go- to painting app. Its ease-of-use is the primary reason but come on...look at all those brushes, and the blending capabilities are above an other app! You should really give this app a try if you’re serious about painting!


Best of many
Hercules2513

This app totally rocks


Great design MAJOR FLAW
K0GGLE

DOESN'T SUPPORT MULTIPLE LAYERS


Wow!
BigBoiDownUnder

Such an amazing app! I used to use the free version of ibis paint but when I really got into art I met complications along the way so I decided to change to a new art-making program and that puts me here. The first piece I made was two planets both with one moon in a galaxy and I have to say that the vast arrangement of tools Inspire offers made this quite easy while keeping it looking good and fresh! You got a new user! -J


Fun!
mariabgood

Great way to play with art


One-of-a-Kind Blending Engine
silentminja

While many apps out there essentially do the same thing with brush patterns (pro-create, etc) There is nothing that compares with the blending effect of wet-on-wet you get with this app. This is the app that I go to for that traditional oil painting look.


Wow
Loncfgdrgsfcdhjgj

This is my first art app and I love it so much and I thank you the creators


Amazing Painting App
JCsReviews

Amazing app!! Very enjoyable. It blends old school artistic techniques and tools with new digital painting techniques and tools. The recording of all brush strokes is the icing on the cake. It’s fun to watch the painting appear from a blank screen and it’s a great teaching tool. Great job!! Love the app!! Thank you for creating it!!! Adding layers would be awesome.


Good
Ivanxx3

I need to try it but looks good


The best
Austin Marshall

This is the best app for painting. I love this app!


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