ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting

• Price: $4.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

3.7 49 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Why this new version?

   ArtRage has always been a go-to for realistic digital painting especially for those who like a UI that’s familiar to fine artists, with a tray of brushes and media tools instead of a Photoshop-like interface. I’ve used AR for years but when I saw this new version I thought finally they updated this app which has never really changed in over a decade. Nope…still the same. It looks and behaves exactly like the original app. So what’s “Vitae” about it? Head scratcher. Still good and worth using but wonder why it exists unless purely to dupe original users into buying. Guilty!

   artlife1 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 3/5A good start … maybe

   We’ve waited a long time for an ArtRage Mobile update. And we get this as a new program... not an update. Ok, you so maybe it was a re-write from the ground up. FWIW I use the desktop version and frankly it’s outstanding. This one ... lackluster.... I use a 10.5” IPad Pro with Apple Pencil I. Pros: ~somewhat larger canvas spaces ~Being able to make the tools larger than 100% also a con, see below. ~Option for real color blending on the color picker ~More settings for individual brushes ~More layer settings ~. Theres the clone tool which some may like. It doesn’t really do much for me. Overall - felt more like an update than a new version. Should have been transparent about that. Cons: ~Need a slider for the tool size that goes all the way up to the 500%. The slider going up to 100% then having to type in the tool size >100% is cumbersome. ~maybe it’s just me but I wasn’t getting much tilt response. I use the Apple Pencil. ~Need the saved files to appear in Files folders like other art apps. ~Of all the things to bring over from the desktop version we still can’t create our own custom brushes. ~ I understand there are some new touch gestures but I could figure them out. Maybe some help documentation would clear that up. Summary: It’s not horrible for the price paid for it, but it’s a little underwhelming from a company that produces such a good product for the desktop. I’m going to be optimistic and believe that this is a step in the direction of a really solid final product.

   Paul T O · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5Good. (No nevermind they gotta update this)

   You may have to go to preferences to adjust some things though the painting is by far the most realistic. This version is the same as the other one but it has an option to turn the colors metallic I think. You may wanna get the cheaper version if you don't care for that. It doesn't auto save like most apps, so when you exit it, it resets (edit: Yeah no art rage really tests my mental strength because I put in thirty minutes of work and I exited for one moment and it all dispeared) I'm going here every time I get angry at art rage cause sometimes I leave for another app or something for reference and when I come back an entire layer that i painted is gone cause ArtRage didn't save it it happens often. Also with with high resolutions it does this thing where it zooms in a bit and you can't zoom out and another thing I was painting and somehow the reference just disappeared from my screen even though it was on the tab. Ok I left for one second after I spent hours on a a painting and it being gone happened again I'm deleting this app I'm hitting my hand hurts from hitting the table and this is 5 dollars wasted

   KiitCatt · 31 Jul 2026

4. 5/5essential item in art toolkit

   Glad to have ArtRage on an iPad pro. The tools are great but for me, ArtRage’s main feature is subtlety. Zoom in as much as you like, and you really don’t see pixels, just the transitions among color and intensity. None of my other great art tools do this. I’d like to see selections added to the iPad OS version..iPhone, too. The iPad version suffers from unreliable palm rejection, often resulting in the brush size widget appearing as you’re drawing, forcing you to scale the brush size up, then down, in order to dismiss it to resume seeing what you’re drawing. Would hope the devs would address this.

   drawcat · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5You get what you pay for…

   …except imo some free-with-ads alternatives are better. Art Set 4 is more realistic looking and easier to use (possibly has more features than Art Rage, but this looked bad enough that I bounced off fast before I could explore it). Even alternatives not trying as hard to look realistic like Procreate, Ibis Paint, Artstudio Pro, etc., have more features and look better. My main issue was how bad and pixelated some of the brushes looked? And then they did not behave at all realistically. It basically just did not meet the two main expectations I had. Smart of them not to add a demo option, otherwise I would have never bought this, I guess.

   P.H.Q. · 31 Jul 2026

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