Zen Brush 2 Reviews

Why limit color to black and red?

badzny5

I would like to draw flowers like wisteria, animals like birds, and landscape but the color limit of two makes it impossible. Suggestions: Increase undo, redo levels. Ability to specify size of paper.

One Of My Favorites

Gitarzz

I've been using this app since the first Zen Brush hit the App Store. Zen Brush 2 added some cool features but maintained its dedication to Chinese calligraphy. And now you can use it in the messages app. If you're into Chinese calligraphy, this is great. But if you're just an artist then this is still fantastic. It places limitations on you and forces you to get creative. You don't have a pallet of colors. You essentially have black, sometimes brown, white, and a third color which varies depending on what background are using. If you like graffiti art, this might be a great app for you. If you like cartooning, that's me, then this will be a great app for you. If you just like drawing using lines of different thicknesses, This app is for you. It's consistently updated with the latest stylus updates. Many different stylus' are supported. Hit the buy button. It's great!

A fantastic and simple paint application

YanGa

The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars was that it doesn’t save your artwork in iCloud. I have several devices with this application and it would be nice to have all of my works consolidated for access throughout all of them.

It would be amazing with layers added

JDo999

This is a great app for those who want to emulate a realistic ink brush used in East Asian calligraphy and art. I feature I would love to see is way to add layers and import pictures so that we can customize our artwork into specific designs and boundaries. This is an amazing app to have!

Fabulous Upgrade

John Joyce

Zen Brush was always a wonderful app, true to its name simple and yet subtly powerful. This is a fine upgrade, perhaps to many fiddle options, but the price is excellent and the support for various stylus choices is lovely. Also as in the original: The extra bits are discoverable. It does not really need directions.

Great app but use too much battery

zyz.zyz

Run the app for 15 min drained my battery by 20%. (Brand new iPad Pro). Pls fix. Would love to your app more often.

Amazing program, I really enjoy it, but...

DJ.Badhair

I didn’t use the original Zen Brush, so I can’t speak to that version, but this is a really strong painting program. I really love the “feeling” of the brush distortion as the the pressure changes with the Apple Pencil. I have been looking for a program like this for a while, even with ProCreate available. THings I would like to see included in the next update would be having the addition of a pre-wet paper option, to allow the ink to drift a little or interact with the other strokes on the paper. Also, I appreciate the original colors being red and black, but what I would love is a small pallet of colors, like a medium box of crayons, maybe 16/24 colors each with the 3 options of opacity. Later on in a further iteration, adding mixing for custom colors, but now just adding a wet paper option and and a couple dozen colors would be fantastic. Great overall app.

Almost perfect

Ivso

Need more color feature. Need layering feature. Everything else is perfect. Love it.

Essentially a toy

Jankadoodle

Only two colors, really? And you can't adjust the canvas size--so it is more of a toy, not a professional app, which is a shame since the brush is so nice.

There should be more Chinese elements.

maxzzhy

Zen Brush is a really really amazing writing and painting app, it is easy to use, pictures looks cool and so on. But I remember “Zen” culture is supposed to be created by Buddhist philosophy of ancient China, and in fact, there are only Japanese elements inside the app. Some paper types are called “Japanese Paper”, but which is just rice paper. I am not sure about culture issues but I believe there should be more Chinese elements in Zen Brush apps.

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