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About Adobe Fresco
Adobe Fresco is a drawing and painting app designed for stylus and touch devices. It offers thousands of brushes for sketching and painting and also lets you animate your work.
Adobe presents it as a professional painting app that is completely free to use. It is distributed for iPadOS and iOS. It is a separate product from Photoshop and Illustrator, and suits people who draw on an iPad with a pen rather than on a desktop.
Strengths
- Thousands of brushes
- Designed for stylus and touch input
- Includes animation tools
- Free to use
Limitations
- Only for iPadOS and iOS
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree for all users according to Adobe.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Adobe
- Platforms
- iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Illustrators who paint and sketch on an iPad with a stylus
- Categories
- Image editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Adobe Fresco
Compare allSoftware that can replace Adobe Fresco for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Procreate
A digital painting and illustration app for iPad, sold as a one-time purchase.
Procreate also targets iPad painting but is a one-time purchase instead of free, with a separate iPhone version and free learning material for beginners and classrooms.
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 but adds Windows, macOS, Android and Chromebook versions, plus dedicated comic and animation tools alongside illustration.
ibisPaint
A mobile drawing and painting app for illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery.
ibisPaint is a freemium app that adds Android to iOS, aimed at illustration, manga and animation, with an online gallery and tutorials on its website.
Sketchbook
Drawing and painting app for sketching and illustration on macOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Sketchbook runs on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS with customizable brushes and guides, 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 is freemium and runs on both Android and iOS, offering natural brushes and realistic blending plus a community site for sharing artwork.
Tayasui Sketches
A drawing and painting app with realistic brushes for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android.
Tayasui Sketches adds macOS and Android with realistic watercolor brushes and iCloud sync between Apple devices, using a freemium model.
MediBang Paint
A free painting and comic creation app for desktop, tablet and phone.
MediBang Paint stays free and adds Windows, macOS and Android, with tools aimed at comic and manga creation.
Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
Krita is free and open source under GPL-3.0 but runs on Windows, macOS and Linux desktops rather than iPad, with over 100 brushes and comic panel tools.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
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.
ArtRage
A natural-media painting program with realistic paint blending and textures for desktop, tablet and phone.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe's raster image editor for photo retouching, compositing, painting and generative AI edits.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe's vector graphics application for logos, icons, illustration and typography.
Krita AI Diffusion
A Krita plugin for generating, inpainting and outpainting images with AI inside the painting program.
