Alternatives to Tayasui Sketches
A drawing and painting app with realistic brushes for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Tayasui Sketches
A drawing and painting app with realistic brushes for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Tayasui Sketches.
Procreate
A digital painting and illustration app for iPad, sold as a one-time purchase.
Procreate is iPad-only with a separate iPhone version and is sold as a one-time purchase, so Mac and Android users lose access compared with Tayasui Sketches.
Sketchbook
Drawing and painting app for sketching and illustration on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Sketchbook adds a Windows version alongside macOS, Android and iOS, with layers, blend modes, guides and rulers, though desktop and mobile versions are separate products.
Infinite Painter
A painting and sketching app for Android and iOS with natural brushes and realistic blending.
Infinite Painter runs on Android and iOS with natural brushes and realistic blending, but drops the Mac version and iCloud sync that Tayasui Sketches offers.
ibisPaint
A mobile drawing and painting app for illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery.
ibisPaint is a freemium Android and iOS app aimed at illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery, but it has no Mac version.
Adobe Fresco
Adobe's free drawing and painting app for iPad and iPhone, built for stylus and touch.
Adobe Fresco is free on iPad and iPhone with thousands of brushes and animation tools, but it has no Mac or Android version.
MediBang Paint
A free painting and comic creation app for desktop, tablet and phone.
MediBang Paint is free and adds Windows alongside macOS, Android and iOS, with a focus on comic and manga creation rather than natural watercolor media.
ArtRage
A natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending and textures for desktop, tablet and phone.
ArtRage is a paid app for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS with realistic paint textures and blending, including low-cost mobile and Lite editions.
Clip Studio Paint
A commercial drawing and painting app for illustration, comics and animation across desktop and mobile.
Clip Studio Paint is paid after a trial and runs on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, adding comic and animation tools beyond sketching.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Tayasui Sketches as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Concepts
Infinite-canvas sketching app where every stroke is an editable vector, for iOS, Android and Windows.
Tayasui Sketches offers realistic brushes, unlimited layers and guides on iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android, but has no Windows version and does not keep strokes as vectors.
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.
Procreate Dreams
iPad app for 2D animation, combining frame-by-frame flipbook drawing with keyframes and video editing.
Kleki
A free painting tool that runs in the web browser for quick sketches and drawings.
Rebelle
Painting software for Windows and Mac that simulates real color mixing, wet diffusion and drying.
Rnote
An open-source vector drawing app for handwritten notes, sketches and annotating PDFs and pictures.
