WIP List of unique drawing apps with potentially specialized tool or workflow, not just random app.
A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management.
Free open-source suite with advanced photo retouching, composition, batch processing, plugin extensibility, custom scripting, and wide file format compatibility.
Essential digital tool for comic and manga artists, offering specialized tools for shortcuts like panel layouts, inking, vector support, and 3D model import.
Toon Boom Harmony Network is the industrial animation software for studios worldwide.
Open-source 2D animation software offering raster and vector support, advanced node-based effects, and plug-in extendibility, free for all uses.
Callipeg is a 2D hand-drawn animation app available on iPad, iPhone (Callipeg mini) and Android. It offers both frame-by-frame and keyframe animation tools in a workspace suitable for a range of projects, from simple scenes to complex sequences.
Multi-award winning app offers professional tools and flexibility for creative illustration on iPad and iPhone with features like layering and brushes.
Simulates watercolor, acrylic, and dry media artwork with real-world color blending, wet diffusion, paint drying, custom brushes, and textured canvas.
Wigglypaint is a juicy, jiggly drawing program built with Decker, with notable similarities to Shake Art and KidPix. Pick a tool, make a doodle, crop it as desired, and save a GIF. Feel free to share your creations below!
PaintTool SAI is high quality and lightweight painting software, fully digitizer support, amazing anti-aliased paintings, provide easy and stable operation, this software make digital art more enjoyable and comfortable.
Sketchbook drawing software features an artist-friendly, gesture-based user interface that is so fast and intuitive even new users can be productive within minutes.
Browser-based open-source tool for making games, animations, and interactive projects with vector graphics, scripting support, asset import, and no feature restrictions.
A simple yet secretly powerful painting app! Focus on pure colors and shapes with a streamlined interface. Ideal for plein air painting, color notes, sketches and studies.
ibis Paint is an easy yet powerful drawing app made with tools for sketching manga right at your fingertips.
Kleki is a multi-platform web app for painting and editing. It features: 4 different brushes; pressure sensitivity for Wacom tablets; up to 8 layers; numerous filters with real-time preview; import to PSD, PNG, JPEG; export to JPEG and PNG; upload to imgur.com; local storage.
MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.
MediBang Paint is a lightweight software for illustration and making comic books on Windows and Mac OS.
NPainter is a free fast and simple painting software created from scratch. the most important goal is provide a powerful and lightweight tool for beginner and amateur art artists as well semi-professional artists.
AzPainter is a full color painting program for Linux. It's a lightweight tool with tablet pressure support, and provides basic functions such as selection, layers, filters. you can use it for painting, image editing, or pixel art making.
KRESKA.art is a free online drawing and painting app that lets you create art directly in your web browser. It offers a simple interface, diverse brushes, and unique features like auto-color tracing. You can use it to sketch and paint without any downloads or installations.
Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.
Clipnote studio is basic animation software and a spiritual successor to the now defunct Flipnote studio by Nintendo. Clipnote allows you to create basic animations that you can share with your friends.
Magma is where artists draw, collaborate, and grow together. Join shared canvases, follow favorite creators, and take part in live Art Jams.
Experience natural painting with a vast brush collection on stylus and touch devices. Merge vector and raster brushes, customize UI, and enjoy real-time watercolor effects.
Pastela is a drawing app designed around the motto: "Draw out your creativity for the world."
Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art.
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