Alternatives to ibisPaint
A mobile drawing and painting app for illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ibisPaint
A mobile drawing and painting app for illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ibisPaint.
Procreate
A digital painting and illustration app for iPad, sold as a one-time purchase.
Procreate is a one-time-purchase iPad painting app with a separate iPhone version, so moving means leaving Android and paying up front instead of freemium.
Clip Studio Paint
A commercial drawing and painting app for illustration, comics and animation across desktop and mobile.
Clip Studio Paint is a paid, closed-source app for illustration, comics and animation that runs on desktop as well as Android and iOS tablets and phones.
MediBang Paint
A free painting and comic creation app for desktop, tablet and phone.
MediBang Paint is a free comic and manga painting app for iOS and Android that also runs on Windows and macOS, though its website now focuses on Paletta.
Infinite Painter
A painting and sketching app for Android and iOS with natural brushes and realistic blending.
Infinite Painter is a freemium Android and iOS painting app with natural brushes and realistic blending, focused on sketching and painting rather than manga tools.
Sketchbook
Drawing and painting app for sketching and illustration on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Sketchbook is a freemium sketching app with a clean canvas on mobile and desktop, with separate desktop and mobile products and less focus on manga.
Adobe Fresco
Adobe's free drawing and painting app for iPad and iPhone, built for stylus and touch.
Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app with thousands of brushes and animation tools, but it runs only on iPadOS and iOS.
Tayasui Sketches
A drawing and painting app with realistic brushes for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android.
Tayasui Sketches offers realistic watercolor and acrylic brushes on Android, iOS and Mac, with iCloud sync that only covers Apple devices.
ArtRage
A natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending and textures for desktop, tablet and phone.
ArtRage is a paid natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending, available on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, with low-cost mobile and Lite editions.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
FireAlpaca
A free, lightweight digital painting program for Windows and Mac with new brushes each week.
Procreate Dreams
iPad app for 2D animation, combining frame-by-frame flipbook drawing with keyframes and video editing.
Concepts
Infinite-canvas sketching app where every stroke is an editable vector, for iOS, Android and Windows.
Drawpile
Draw and animate together on a shared canvas.
MyPaint
A distraction-free painting app for graphics tablets, with an infinite canvas and deeply configurable brushes.
