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About Tayasui Sketches
Tayasui Sketches is a drawing app built to feel like working on paper. Its tools include a wet watercolor brush where colors flow and blend, acrylic brushes, color mixing, gradients and pattern fills, each with a stroke preview.
It supports unlimited layers, symmetry, guide layers, canvas rotation with two fingers and a Zen mode with a reduced interface. Drawings are organised in folders and can sync between devices through iCloud. On iPad it supports multitasking, with drag and drop of layers between apps.
Strengths
- Realistic watercolor and acrylic brushes
- Unlimited layers, symmetry and guides
- iCloud sync between Apple devices
Limitations
- No Windows version
- iCloud sync only covers Apple devices
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumAvailable through the app stores; the product page does not detail pricing.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Tayasui
- Platforms
- macOS, Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Sketching and painting on an iPad or phone with natural-looking brushes
- Categories
- Image editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Tayasui Sketches
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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
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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.
Tayasui Sketches as an alternative
Listings that name Tayasui Sketches as an alternative.
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.
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Kleki
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Rebelle
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Rnote
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