Inks and Pens AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Digital Painting Tools

The best Digital Painting alternative to Inks and Pens is Procreate. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try MediBang Paint or Concepts. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Inks and Pens and eight of them are Digital Painting Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Digital Painting Tool alternatives to Inks and Pens are Artrage, Flow by Moleskine, Sketch Club and Clover Paint.

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Inks and Pens is a natural media drawing app. It reproduces the feelings of drawing tools: B&W pencils, coloured pencils, felt-tip pens, ball-point pens, fountain pens, oil pastels, inks ans brushes ….

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Inks and Pens alternatives page was last updated May 22, 2019
  1. Procreate icon
     153 likes

    Procreate is a versatile, award-winning app for creative digital drawing and painting on iOS. It delivers a robust, professional toolset with hundreds of configurable brushes, a powerful layering system, vector graphic tools, and comprehensive design capabilities, ensuring desktop-level flexibility and power.

    57 Procreate alternatives
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    License model

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Top Procreate Features

    1.  Apple Pencil support
    2.  Texture for brushes
    3.  Custom Brushes
    4.  Drawing 2D
    5.  Digital Painting
    6.  Love
    7.  Digital-painting focused
    8.  Digital Drawing
    9.  Dark Mode
    10.  Ad-free
    11.  Free hand drawing
    12.  Sketching
    13.  Texture painting
    14.  Support for Layers
    15.  No registration required
    16.  Color Picker
    17.  Support for 4K
    18.  Works Offline
    19.  Drawing Tablet Support
    20.  Support for styluses
    21.  Open PSD files
    22.  Tablet support
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    • Procreate is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Inks and Pens.

    • Procreate is the most popular commercial alternative to Inks and Pens.

    • Procreate is Paid and ProprietaryInks and Pens is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. MediBang Paint icon
     112 likes

    MediBang Paint is a lightweight software for illustration and making comic books on Windows and Mac OS.

    76 MediBang Paint alternatives
    Great for anime or comics

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Multi-choice brushes
    2.  Pressure Sensitivity
    3.  Digital-painting focused
    4.  Color blending
    5.  Pen Stabilization
    6.  Keyframe Animation
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Support for Layers
    9.  Drawing Tablet Support
    10.  Custom Brushes
    11.  Category Filters
    12.  Texture for brushes
    13.  Blending brushes
    14.  Comic templates
    15.  Image Smoothing
    16.  Image Masking
    17.  Social posting
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    • MediBang Paint is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Android Tablet alternative to Inks and Pens.

    • MediBang Paint is the most popular free alternative to Inks and Pens.

    • MediBang Paint is Freemium and ProprietaryInks and Pens is also Freemium and Proprietary
    • MediBang Paint is LightweightInks and Pens is not according to our users
  3. Concepts icon
     27 likes

    Concepts is the digital design sketchbook of the future. It’s powerful, flexible and smart, so you can go from quick sketches to beautiful and precise illustrations in a single app. Enhance your creative capabilities with our infinite canvas, flexible multi-touch shape guides...

    37 Concepts alternatives
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    Top Concepts Features

    1.  Custom Brushes
    2.  Support for Layers
    3.  Vector strokes
    4.  Infinite canvas
    5.  Smooth lines
    6.  Support for styluses
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  No registration required
    9.  Sketching
    10.  Auto Correction
    11.  Gallery management
    12.  Apple Pencil support
    13.  Import Images
    14.  Image and PDF export
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  4. Artrage icon
     66 likes

    A simple but lovely natural media painting and sketching program. Art oriented, but capable of loading/saving photoshop files.

    65 Artrage alternatives
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    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    Top Artrage Features

    1.  Support for Layers
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Support for 4K
    4.  Drawing Tablet Support
    5.  Apple Pencil support
    6.  Texture painting
    7.  Multi-choice brushes
    8.  MultiTouch
    9.  Color blending
    10.  Upload directly to Dropbox
    11.  Sketching
    12.  Colour control
    13.  Support for styluses
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  5. Flow by Moleskine icon
     2 likes

    Creating great drawings and getting your ideas down on digital paper is all about your headspace. Flow pages seamlessly expand as you draw and develop ideas, which means you keep your head in the clouds instead of managing documents.

    36 Flow by Moleskine alternatives
    Flow by Moleskine screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Flow by Moleskine Features

    1.  Sketching
    2.  Apple Pencil support
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  6. Sketch Club icon
     1 like

    Ranging from professional illustrators and concept artists to students and hobbyists, creative people from all over the world join together in Sketch Club to create, share, and inspire!

    12 Sketch Club alternatives
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    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Sketch Club Features

    1.  Sketching
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  7. Clover Paint icon
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    Clover Paint is a feature rich painting app with deep complexity. With Clover Paint, you are bringing a sketchbook with customizable canvas size, highly sophisticated brush and layer system, plus custom hotkeys and shortcuts for productivity.

    35 Clover Paint alternatives
    Clover Paint screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    Clover Paint Features

    1.  Support for Layers
    2.  Open PSD files
    3.  Sketching
    4.  Support for styluses
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  8. PaperColor icon
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    PaperColor is an excellent painting application which is imitating the real paintbrush to draw and doodle,graffiti. Easy to painting, learning to paint, learn to draw.

    36 PaperColor alternatives
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    +7
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    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet

    PaperColor Features

    1.  Sketching
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