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title: "FocalPaint - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "FocalPaint's unique brush engine simulates thick paint and real pigment mixing with accurate physics models.  Features: - Realistic color blending behaves like real paint! - Real canvas texture and pa"
---

# FocalPaint — United States
> mark-making machine

![FocalPaint App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/8d/d8/76/8dd87648-b093-8d4d-c394-0a656fe95329/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-P3-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [brien dieterle](https://apptail.io/developer/brien-dieterle-JCzc)
**Category:** Graphics Design
**Rating:** 4.2/5 (13 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.focalpaint
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 4.1.1 (released 2026-08-08)
**Original Release:** 2022-10-17
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1532688085)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/focalpaint-jpKc/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/focalpaint-jpKc/united-states)

## FocalPaint Description
FocalPaint's unique brush engine simulates thick paint and real pigment mixing with accurate physics models.

Features:
- Realistic color blending behaves like real paint!
- Real canvas texture and paint thickness
- Transparent Ink simulation
- Open Source GPU shader code library for reference and customization
- Write your own custom brush with Metal GPU or Javascript code
- Write your own custom layer modes with Metal GPU code
- Apple Pencil Pro support with hover
- 16 channel "spectral" color model (256 bits per pixel)
- Wide color gamut (P3)

Please note: Apple A12 GPU or newer is required

Terms of Use:


Privacy Policy:


Special Thanks to:

Scott Allen Burns
Troy James Sobotka & Friends
colour-science.org python library
MyPaint painting software team
Anna Timm (@anti-art)

## FocalPaint Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/a6/c6/d5/a6c6d5a2-d3b1-f763-ca03-3ec81738a70b/0x0ss.png/1242x2688.png)

## FocalPaint Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 9 (69%)
- 4 stars: 2 (15%)
- 3 stars: 0 (0%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 2 (15%)

## FocalPaint Reviews in United States

### ***** "Love this app"
Looking forward to its development and. Success.
-- Wdi0, 2026-06-09

### ***** "Nothing else like it"
I love having an app that I can approach like I’m painting traditionally. I would encourage anyone from a traditional painting background to give it a try.
-- MisterMollusk, 2026-05-03

### ***** "i wish more apps were like yours"
This app is awesome!! its sorta like a physical-modelling painting app that still feels digital in an endearing way. some very unpredictable or rather unexpected behaviors in some tools. ui is kinda clunky and confusing, some buttons not so responsive and it gets laggy and buggy now and then but i love the concept, i love the execution, i love it! i wish u would never leave this behind and i hope i get to see it bloom into a flushed out mature app some day
-- haaaraam, 2025-10-21

### *---- "Caused my iPad to shut down"
Okay, this is an interesting app. It's a tweaker's delight (if you're a person who spends days tweaking the sound of a synthesizer but never actually make music, this is the art app for you).…The brush settings are amazing, in an overwhelming tech way. Color mixing here is wonderful, maybe better than Adobe Fresco's live brushes.…The canvas size is small. I tried creating a large one and that caused not only the app but my device to shut down. As soon as I rebooted I deleted the app. Bummer. So much potential. Great ideas. Someone else needs to get involved with the development to make this a useful painting app.
-- M. Myshack, 2025-07-25

### ***** "Unique and color-accurate app from an indie developer"
This app is absolutely a labor of love! I am a programmer who likes to paint and also works in the computer graphics field. I happened upon this app in the first place through a blog post about technical programming concepts and how to program light physics. Any one star reviews you see should be taken with a grain of salt; there are no apps I know of that would do accurate CMYK colors using Apple’s underlying graphics APIs, enabling the ability (like procreate) to make custom shaders and brushes. The user experience is pretty good all things considered, and might have a couple bugs to iron out (which is inevitable when you code an app from scratch as a personal project and not have the teams of resources that Adobe has). 10/10 would recommend to try out.
-- Camelback_, 2024-09-12

### *---- "WHY??"
The brushes don’t work. I’m deleting it.
-- nillyx243, 2024-08-31

### ***** "Fantastic- but,,"
/why/ does it interrupt one’s drawing every time the canvas is flipped - that unskippable pause and full screen grey out - :(  - no option to turn it off. 
- 
Other: not able to set eraser to a different brush then what is selected for drawing & painting - wanting charcoal texture eraser for oil and vice versa 
-
Accessibility: high contrast mode - it’s hard to tell sometimes what’s being clicked out the change in hues is so fine 
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Good work with this - your brush engine is chef kiss - some tweaks with flow improvement could make this a main drawing app for us
-- oooooboi, 2024-04-05

### ***** "Love the originality and uniqueness of this app!"
I am just playing around with it and I’m not even sure how I stumbled upon it but since it was free to download and I thought why not? And I’m super impressed! It is not your average drawing/painting app. It’s very minimalistic but the tools are impressive. There are multiple color picker options meaning multiple ways to choose whatever color which I found was super unique and I played around with that alone for a good 5 minutes. I love that you can save in very high quality. The background/textures that you choose from are fine and I like that you can customize how your strokes interact with the canvas texture you have set as the background. I do wish I could save without a background/paper texture. For nearly all the digital art I do, I always save in full transparency PNG format and I can’t seem to do that here so that’s really the main qualm I have and it’s a big one, for me at least. I couldn’t even get a perfect white paper background no matter how hard I tried. They were all off white and so I uploaded a picture of my own to use but still not great as I had to crop and edit it down just for it to be able to load into the program but anyways, now I’m just rambling. I will continue to play with it. I hope they don’t let it go to waste although I know developing and maintaining an app can be costly. All in all, I would definitely recommend giving this a try, especially if you’re a traditional artist and want more of a ‘realistic’ look or feel. I hope they can keep up with this app, the developers have done great 👍 😊
-- MoMacs, 2024-01-30

### ****- "App tech issues"
Hi I was just trying out this new app I discovered on my iPad when I downloaded and went into the app the screens were blank therefore I can’t see the canvas or anything paint settings to show on the screen I also did a few strokes with my apple pencil and it ended up glitch me back to the Home Screen, so I tried it on my iPhone and it did really well as it was supposed to be shown when I download but I was hoping if The app can be fixed for iPads Because this app seems interesting to test out as an Artist and looking forward to what it can do, thank you for your time 👋🙂
-- colorful Inc, 2022-11-15

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## FocalPaint In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Huge Tip | $9.99 |
| Big Tip | $4.99 |
| Generous Tip | $0.99 |

## FocalPaint Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Mexico | Graphics Design | #186 |
| Top Paid | Netherlands | Graphics Design | #212 |


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