Graintouch

overall i’ve spent several hours in here and enjoyed it! i definitely had to watch the video for controls. the palette and single-color layers do a good job of forcing you to think in ink “layers”, and the ink offsets can make some cool gif effects. my biggest tiny issue is that scale/transform is not part of the undo stack. it’s easy to move by accident and really hard to put back in place. it’s also mentally disorienting- i might make several moves, try to undo, but then it erases a line that i drew many steps ago. also as i saw in another comment, some smoothing/stabilization would go a looong way. i’m all for minimal feature settings but wow the brush is SO sensitive! anyway i’m having fun ty i don’t think it needs to be able to import images but maybe supporting split view (for the same purpose) would be nice

I think it would be really finished if you can add the ability to add photos to the laters for reference, and to speedily take art we have made and re make it in here easier I also think the pinching and rotating with the grain where you move it to adjust lighting needs to be redone so it doesnt mess up 9/10 times that you use it. Other than that its a great app

I spent a few hours on a drawing and went out of it, I made a duplicate of the drawing and once I went back into the original all of my layers were jumbled around. I tried to fix the drawing but the back space doesn’t count towards layer adjustments and the whole thing got ruined. Super disappointed.

This app is super fun and gives drawing a very toy-like experience that I haven’t seen before. I’m really enjoying drawing in this app for the most part, but there are a few things that I feel like are keeping me from developing a good workflow with it. I understand keeping everything visual with the controls and it does make the app very approachable, but I would really appreciate the ability to turn on numeric indicators for brush sizes and other variables so I can keep my tools consistent. Perhaps a “pro” toggle in the home menu that would turn on numeric indicators?

This app is amazing and is 100% worth the mere 10 dollars you pay for it. The UI is smooth and fun to work with, making it feel less technical (like photoshop, clip studio, or even procreate,) letting you focus more on the drawing. I love the constraints it places upon you, letting you explore more you can do with mixing and dithering colors. Super great drawing app :) However, as an artist who sells their art online, I wish there was a way to export a transparent-background PNG of your designs. I’d love to be able to print some of my stuff on t-shirts and stickers, but I find myself having to go to remove.bg, and the end product never looks as good as the base file. This app is amazing for artists who only put their art online, but, sadly, it’s not good for prints yet :(

I’ve been enjoying playing with this app. The colors, textures and gradients are gorgeous and fun to use. It simulates risograph print beautifully and even allows you to play around with some of the unpredictable qualities of risograph. I would love to seem some features added with future updates. I was very disappointed that there’s no ability to import a reference image. One of the first things I tried to do when I opened the app was import a sketch I wanted to work with and was so frustrated that I couldn’t. That immediately limited the scope of this app for me. Also, I wish there was some sort of toggle to add line smoothing. I sometimes like working with very clean and smooth lines and shapes so it would be great if there were some options for stroke stabilization. And also a ruler to draw perfectly straight lines. Another thing I would love to see added are percentages for the brush size and density sliders. Having to play a guessing game every time I want to choose the density or brush size with precision is frustrating. Overall, it’s a beautifully designed app that is a pleasure to use. I can tell the devs put a lot of thought and care into it. I look forward to seeing how it’s improved with future updates!

I’m so excited to see a new app from this developer and just thrilled it was a painting application to boot. IORAMA AB, always creates and offers the most unique artistic apps and Graintouch is no exception to this in my opinion. I think if you’ve used the developer’s animation application, Looom, which is also wonderful I’ve found and I highly recommend you check it out too. That you will feel right at home pretty quickly inside of this new program. Still, I didn’t understand how to create new color layers when I first jumped into Graintouch. So, like with Looom, I figured the developer had made a good starter tutorial video to help users and they had. If you click the settings gear icon in the top right of the canvas. You’ll then see “User Manual” listed at the bottom of the screen. If you’re wanting tips like I did, I highly recommend either checking out the guide screenshots on that page. Or, I would also recommend watching the very helpful I thought, 4-minute introduction video, on that same page. After watching that tutorial I was right up to speed on how to use Graintouch. Along with creating the new color layers that I was originally stumped about. I also learned pretty much everything else the app offers and now I’m even more thrilled that I bought this app. Many thanks to the developer for always offering that kind of help and for that thoughtful consideration. I want to go over more about the app but honestly I’m too excited to get back into to it and to start creating :D! I believe that if you want a well built, unique, fun and powerful painting application then you should definitely check out Graintouch. And, again, I highly recommend checking out the User Manual information before you start drawing. It helped me out immensely and I’m so eager to start making some drawings in this app after watching it and learning how to use everything. There are quite a few really great painting/drawing applications on iOS. But, in my opinion, nobody makes and offers ones as unique and original as this developer, IORAMA AB. Many thanks for giving me something very fun and new to create with. I still thoroughly enjoy creating animations in Looom and I know I’m going to be spending so much fun-filled time in Graintouch as well. Also, thank you for always selling your superb artistic applications, ethically, for one fair price. I’m always grateful for that consideration. Thanks for everything you do and offer us and God bless.

I’ve only had this app for 10 minutes and I have to say, I am frustrated with the controls. I have to use my finger to hold open the color wheel while I use to my pen to scroll through the limited colors, but even then as I am scrolling, it doesn’t stay open any longer than a second and that’s with me pressing into my iPad. Don’t get me wrong, love the texture of the pen and the background as well as the fading options, but I can’t get over the controls and how difficult they are to keep open as I’m choosing the colors, changing brush size + eraser size, etc.. There isn’t much to go off on and it would be best to add a tutorial as to how to work things on the app.