ArtPose Pro

Very solid posing tool, easy to pose with and lots of unique props to place in your scene. As the models have very superhero-like proportions, this app probably suits comic book artists the most. Some options to pose the hands would be useful, you’ve only got a bunch of about 12 presets to choose from for the hands and no way to customise them. But overall a lot to like about Art Pose Pro.

Pros: This is absolutely fantastic if your wanting to draw or sculpt characters. For example if you were to bend your forearm in real life, your bicep muscle would begin to bulge. Or if you raise you arm above your head your chest muscle would stretch. This is possible within this app, it not only allows realistic poses but realistic muscle stretching and movement within those poses. You have an array of objects like weapons and environmental and default poses to use and your scene which is great for telling stories. your default character either male or female can be altered through size and body mass from skinny to bulky, so your getting a reasonable amount of customisation. Even default hair and facial hair options as well as hand poses. Even able to see the muscle anatomy options for better understanding of the body. Cons: While this is the most realistic reference I believe available on the AppStore, It does have some limitations. You can only have 2 characters on screen and no more. It would be fantastic to have as many as possible to fill a scene. It would be great if it had fully customisable hands and finger’s instead of just default hand poses. Would love a more advanced lighting effects then just two light sources perhaps even changing the colour of objects and characters to see how to light reacts to said colours Controls do feel a bit odd to use compared to other reference apps which feels most natural and easier.

The app is good and everything, but it would be great if there was a skeleton figure as well to study off of.

Every time I open the app it crashes straight away

Badly optimised for an iPhone 12 screen, buttons positioned too close to edges of screen and don’t react to touch half the time. Please fix soon.

Works well, simple and totally useful. Awesome illustrating utility. Be good to see it develop, More saves, more than 2 models? Gets faster to pose as you get used to the controls. Great job!!!!!

I love this app so much! It honestly is a godsend for artists in the world. What would make it better though, is to have couple poses options. That would be beyond amazing.

I absolutely love using this app! It's certainly artist friendly and very fun to use. However, I feel it doesn't have enough to work with. I wish there was an age slider to pose from child to adult or elderly. Or from muscular to chubby. I just feel it isn't complete as of yet. But with what we have so far, it's great. Not perfect, but great. Would love to see an update to have more variety for body types!

I have been searching for such a long time for an artist-friendly posing app which has reasonably accurate muscle deformations on posing... there were lot of anatomy apps for medical students but it was just mot cutting it for me as a developing artist cuz i cant pose them or animate them and look at the deformations in 3D... but this app does that SOOO GOOD! I am so excited... If u r an artist looking for a good pose tool with muscular deformities to understand how it all works and also want to see a slim and hulk built body in the same pose... look no further! This is the first time i have written such in-depth review. Dont worry about the male and female seperate ones... this pro version has got it all in one package! 😎 If there is anything i can suggest to improve this app is to add some realistic constraints (or an option to have it enabled or disabled) so the body parts will not move or bend unrealistically! Also perhaps the stretching of the polygons and hence the texture map of muscle fibres in some extreme poses can be optimized... but these are definitely not deal breakers as i have given 5 stars already! These will be great to have... especially my first recommendation! 😇

I’ve had the app for a few years and it’s been great just wish the updates would include some other models and background building things