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You can export to a range of formats, including JPG, PNG, PDF and SVG, and there are over 100 brushes available, in styles including paints, pencils, inks, pastels and gouaches. In short, this is one of the few drawing apps for iPad that's squarely targeted at the professional market.
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We also loved the UI – find out more in our Affinity Designer for iPad review.Īffinity Designer supports both CMYK and RGB, and has a full Pantone library in the colour swatch panel, meaning it's ideal for creating both digital and printed art. Our testing appreciated the fact it can support huge multi-artboard canvases with as many layers as you could possibly want, and you can zoom to over one million per cent.

Fresco may not have text or animation options, and we missed the option to use paper or canvas textures, but it is still one of the best digital art apps available. With the likes of the highly-anticipated Live Brushes that adapt to a variety of drawing styles (though we did feel they were a touch limited), Fresco gives users a sleek and smooth drawing experience. When we tested it (see our Adobe Fresco review), we felt it's like Adobe's answer to Procreate (see above), but it's part of the Adobe Creative Cloud (opens in new tab) subscription. Fresco supposedly is the digital equivalent of the traditional analogue drawing materials.
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Download Adobe Fresco for free (in-app purchases) (opens in new tab)įresco is another iPad app from Adobe's roster.Photoshop for iPadĪ leader among drawing apps for iPad, the new Adobe Fresco offers a buttery smooth user experience (Image credit: Phil Galloway) (opens in new tab) But you can seamlessly transfer your work to and from your desktop app to your iPad app, which is a big positive. Unfortunately, the app is only available on a subscription model and it's not compatible below iOS 14.
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We've found that when you combine the Illustrator app with the new iPad Pro (M1, 2021) and the Apple Pencil 2, then you get a sleek, controlled and enhanced digital art experience (make sure you check out the iPad Pro deals and the Apple Pencil deals if you haven't got the devices already). And if you're still not convinced, then why not read more about it over on our Illustrator for iPad review?
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The app takes the best features from the desktop app and pops it into this handy portable version of the app. While the app is free, it does require some in-app purchases, but with features like radial, grid and mirror repeat, its worth the money. Just like Procreate, Adobe Illustrator is incredibly popular in the digital art community.
