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ArtRage
  • Price
    $2.99
  • CategoryEntertainment
  • First releasedSeptember 27, 2010
  • Versions10 archived
  • Installable10 of 10
  • AvailabilityStill on the App Store
  • SellerAmbient Design Ltd.

RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of December 11, 2024
     
161 Ratings

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The most advanced simulation of real paint on iOS! Get creative on a digital canvas with smearing, blending oils, delicate watercolor, and much more! Ever wanted to try painting your masterpiece but were put off by the mess and expense? Now you can!

ArtRage isn't just about color: It knows how much paint you've used so you can smear it around to spread it over the canvas. It knows how wet your paint is so you can blend it with other paints. It even knows about the roughness of your paper so your pencils can be used for soft shading.

It's not just a special effect either - ArtRage is a live simulation of the properties of real artistic media that lets you can get creative with colors and textures using tools you already know how to use!

ArtRage takes full advantage of the features of your device like larger canvases on iPad Pro, Apple Pencil support for pressure & tilt, and 3D touch on your iPhone.

Join the ArtRage community: Forums: forums.artrage.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/artrage

Features:

Real world painting tools: Oils, Watercolors, Paint Rollers, Pencils, Crayons and more. Each tool has a range of familiar properties such as how much thinner is applied to the paint, or how soft a pencil tip is. Tools apply texture as well as color, and blend under the brush.

Add Layers to your painting and work on individual elements without damaging others. ArtRage supports a wide range of Layer Blend Modes, and layer contents can be scaled moved and rotated independently.

Import images, converting them to oil for smearing or as Reference Images pinned to the canvas as a visual guide. Load photos as Tracing Images which are overlaid on the canvas, and have ArtRage select colors automatically as you paint.

The interface has been designed to maximize your creative space without hiding away critical functions such as tool and color selection. As you paint, it gets out of the way so that you don’t have to stop and manually adjust panels.

Record your paintings! The ArtRage Script system lets you record strokes while you paint for playback in desktop versions of the product at higher resolution.

Import and Export using external services such as Dropbox, and iCloud Drive. Share your images on Facebook, Twitter, and any other sharing app on your device.

Tools:

• Oil Brush, Watercolor, Airbrush, Palette Knife, Paint Roller, Paint Tube, Inking Pen, Pencil, Marker Pen, Chalk, Crayon, Glitter Tube, Gloop Pen, Eraser, Flood Fill.

• Paint simulation monitors the physical properties of your paints to allow natural blending, smearing, and other real world behavior.

• Preset support to save your favorite settings for later use.

• Supports the Apple Pencil's Pressure and Tilt properties, and 3D Touch where available to add realism to the simulated paint strokes.

Layers:

• Unlimited layers with Photoshop standard blend modes, visibility and opacity controls. Scale, rotate, and position layer contents independently.

Utilities:

• Record your paintings as Scripts then play them back in a desktop version of ArtRage.

• Unlimited Undo / Redo. Load photos as References or Tracing images. Store color samples for later use.

Files:

• Create paintings up to 2048 x 2048 or 4096 x 4096 on iPad Pro.

• Control the texture and color of the canvas to create different effects. Canvas presets can be stored to save your favorite settings for later.

• Export PTG, JPG or PNG to services such as Email, iOS11 Files, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dropbox, and more. Share images on Facebook or Twitter. Import photos to a new file or a layer, with camera support.

Interface:

• Easy access pods provide functionality without getting in the way. Elements vanish as you paint so you can paint underneath. Multi-Touch shortcuts for canvas manipulation, Undo/Redo, and Brush Size.

• Adapts to suit iPhone layouts.

Stylus & Input Support:

• Apple Pencil Pressure & Tilt. • Supports 3D Touch. • Includes support for Wacom, Adonit, Adobe, and Pogo styluses.

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1.0.0
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
September 27, 2010
9.1 MB Install Download
1.0.2
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
October 10, 2010
9.1 MB Install Download
1.0.5
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
8.9 MB Install Download
1.1.5
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
May 27, 2011
8.0 MB Install Download
1.6.0
Requires iOS 4.3+
Non-Retina
September 2, 2013
15.1 MB Install Download
2.0.1 (4)
Requires iOS 8.0+
Retina
October 15, 2015
25.6 MB Install Download
2.1.0 (15)
Requires iOS 8.0+
Retina
32.4 MB Install Download
2.1.10 (3)
Requires iOS 8.2+
Retina
March 23, 2017
29.9 MB Install Download
2.1.11 (1)
Requires iOS 8.2+
Retina
May 2, 2017
29.9 MB Install Download
2.3.3 (0)
Requires iOS 10.0+
Retina
December 13, 2017
34.3 MB Install Download

Bundle Size Over Time

Bundle size over time9.1 MB — September 27, 2010. 9.1 MB — October 10, 2010. 8.0 MB — May 27, 2011. 15.1 MB — September 2, 2013. 25.6 MB — October 15, 2015. 29.9 MB — March 23, 2017. 29.9 MB — May 2, 2017. 34.3 MB — December 13, 20178.6 MB17.2 MB25.8 MB34.3 MB9.1 MB — September 27, 20109.1 MB — October 10, 20108.0 MB — May 27, 201115.1 MB — September 2, 201325.6 MB — October 15, 201529.9 MB — March 23, 201729.9 MB — May 2, 201734.3 MB — December 13, 2017Sep 2010Dec 2017

Chart History

Top Paid · Entertainment · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #6 (January 7, 2011) · 28 archived captures · Jan 2011 – Sep 2021
Top Paid · Entertainment View chart ›
Peaked at #48 (August 10, 2021) · 12 archived captures · Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 22 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
October 4, 2010 — — 28 $6.99
April 15, 2011 1.0.5 — 181 $6.99
January 13, 2012 — — 400 $4.99
January 11, 2013 — — 793 $2.99
December 9, 2016 2.1.8 — 1,021 $4.99

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Fantastic
     
by Steen a Dane · March 13, 2021

Unfortunately, it seems the devs have abandoned this app, - no update in two years. The app Apple is pushing is better in some areas and still behind this old dog in other areas. I have been using this on my iPad for years. Having tried most of the competition this is still my favorite. Has features the app Apple is pushing still lacks.

Save or you will lose everything
     
by Greystation11 · June 28, 2023

This would be a great app if they updated it. Crashes a lot and if you don't SAVE...it's gone. They basically rugged and left the app in limbo

New Purple Version?
     
by targetedscapegoat · November 26, 2024

From the top review of the “new” version with a purple icon it sounds like there is no difference between it and this version. Is this becoming legacy with a major update coming to purple icon ArtRage, or should I hang onto this app that I’ve been using for so long that I feel like the 1st Apple Pencil had just come out. It’s a 4-5 star app for its capability to give you a semi manual painting experience with existing photos which procreate doesn’t seem to match - the original Fractal Design Painter for desktop computers had a clone color function (and much less complication, but lacked layers - only a thing called …. wait for it …. floaters) that ArtRage reminds me of and does very well.

Lost all art with IOS 18?!
     
by LianeF1963 · December 26, 2024

All artwork is showing as the ArtRage icon after the IOS 18 update :(

So much lag!
     
by Xoamishnjb · October 22, 2020

With so many free painting apps, this has to be better. Instead it has so much lag and completely nullifies the “natural feel”. I have used this in PC so know it’s features. This was my 1st app installed and was excited but its useless. No wonder they don’t offer a trial coz, no one would buy it if they try

Could be better
     
by Crystalcleer · January 26, 2020

This has potential, but I don’t like the UI, and it can only go to 4096 X 4096. I’m not sure what it is, but the art in general doesn’t look good made with ArtRage.

Still my favorite
     
by ZPKP · September 25, 2019

Absolutely amazing and still my favorite painting pp.

Love it, but there are a few bugs...
     
by Just look at me now · November 16, 2019

I just love this app, I’ve been using it since 2012. But lately there have been a lot of things that have caused me a lot of trouble with it. One is that it keeps on resetting the thumbnails so I can’t see what anything is. I used to be able to see the drawing before I opened it, but now it’s just an artrage logo rather than a picture. This makes it very hard to find what I’m looking for as my titles tend to be vague and I have a lot of paintings. Occasionally, the app will crash for no reason and my work will be lost, which forces me to save constantly. I implore you to fix these, it’s severely hindering me in what I can do with ArtRage (I use it for school and a webcomic, and I hate losing progress and taking forever to find things.

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.