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- What it is
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- At a glance
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- $1.99
- In-app purchases
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- Education
- Productivity
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Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Family Sharing | Yes | Unknown | App Store | Store published |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Limited free | — | Store published |
Screens
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Pricing & paywalls
App Store
- Price: $1.99
- In-app purchases
Ratings & reviews
App Store
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5/5Artist’s dream
This app is probably one of the best apps I’ve EVER downloaded!!! Hands have always been so hard for me, for years I’ve struggled with them, until I found this app. Being able to to pose the hands however I want at whatever angle I want has proven to be beyond useful, I’m finally able to grasp the hand anatomy the more I study these models!! I honestly don’t know what I’d do without this app, I didn’t realize how much I use it until I opened my app recently and was told I’ve opened it 100 times! (I thought the message was so cute!). Not only hands, but the head models I can pose have saved me. Being able to adjust the lighting allowed me to better understand how to shade my characters faces! Overall I am so utterly grateful for this apps existence!!!! To all artists out there, if you don’t have this app yet - get it!! You won’t regret it!
Constellic · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Literally the best art reference app I’ve ever seen
Art is something that truly helps me out in life, but recently, I had been struggling to find the drive to finish anything I started. This singlehandedly fixed that. If you have any interest in drawing humans, I suggest you get this app immediately. The only issue I can think of is that it’s pretty intensive on your battery, but as long as you can charge your device while using it, that won’t even be an problem. Beyond that, everything is near flawless. All of the features are virtual lifesavers when it comes to specific references and even just general understanding of your subject. The interface is intuitive and responsive, all of the menus are easy to navigate, and the developer support is great, too. Easiest five star rating I’ve ever had the pleasure of giving.
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5/5Great for artists
This app has been so helpful. Not only does it help with anatomy but it also helps with lighting. It’s great for reference and it’s come to a point where I cannot live without this app. Although the app is perfect in my opinion, I do believe there should be new things added. I think it would be great to add even more light sources and to be able to position them on a xyz plane. And most importantly, it would be amazing to if there would be full body models that we can position. I would happily pay for these features. Other than that, this app is amazing. It’s definitely worth the money.
The App for artists · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Wonderful app!
I was introduced this app by my partner and have used it for just about every drawing since then. I haven’t seen anything even come close to the level of customization this app has, definitely my all time favorite reference tool! My only complaint would be with posing, I had an issue today manipulating a skull on top of the mannequin head where I couldn’t anchor the skull down to be center aligned. This is really a small issue in the grand scheme of things and it definitely wont revoke any points from my rating though!
mercymuttt · 31 Jul 2026
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4/5Amazing app. Wish it had an undo button
First off, Thank you so much for making this app. It’s like a Swiss Army knife for artists. Only issue I really have is the lack of an UNDO button? There were so many times when I accidentally swiped the screen or used the wrong node (especially with 3 hands), or realized I made a mistake and cannot figure out how to get back to where I was. I am using the save function, but there are still moments in between and lot of retreading. Also, the support form on your website seems to be broken. I tried submitting got back a formspree error message: ‘make sure your form has method=“POST” attribute’
Flamingsword1 · 31 Jul 2026
Privacy & accessibility
App Store
Privacy
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Accessibility
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Versions
App Store
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2.0
NEW FEATURES AND STUFF IN 2.0! - Now includes a 3D MALE HEAD model, for all your tricky angles and lighting reference needs! - Can now customize your light rig! Rotate each light individually and easily change it's color and intensity! - Like that customized lighting and hand position? Save it! - Bunch of new poses! - Major re-write fixing a lot of bugs, bad deformations, and wonky looking fingers
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2.1
- A female hand! - A female head! - Fixed a bug with the saved light rig lists that could cause a crash, and an additional bug that could cause them to order incorrectly in rare situations
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2.2
- Happy Halloween! I got you this HUMAN SKULL - New hand poses! - Some small fixes and optimizations
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2.3
Fixes to the female and male hands.
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2.3.1
Fixing an bizarre flickering issue with iPhone4 / Touch4
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2.3.2
Re-implementing the fixes to the male & female hand rigs. If you experience any odd problems with this version please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected] ! And happy new year!
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2.4.1
Light 1 now does cast shadowing. I'm working on getting cast shadows for all lights, but because of rendering technical limitations it's a bit involved. So until then, I figured I'd update with the one light. Handy is also in the middle of some restructuring for better lighting/material systems. I appreciate all your patience and support!! Help keep Handy going by leaving a review!
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3.0
- By popular demand, [male] foot now available as IAP - Two finger touch and drag will now move model around the screen - Lots of minor bug fixes. Also lots of re-writing stuff! So hopefully things are still running smoothly. Please leave a review and let us know what you think of Handy !
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3.1
NEW FANCY HEADS graciously provided by AnatomyNext - Female Erin - Male Planar - Male Topology - Male High-Res - Skull High-Res ANIMAL SKULL PACK [IAP] Great for animal/creature reference and inspiration! - Cow - Dog - Cat - Goat MISC STUFF - A bonus simple planed head for simplified light/shadow reference - Fixed some awkward geometry on the old male head, and up-res'd it a bit - Big improvements to the controls when two finger pinch-zooming and panning - Direct camera controls! Now you can adjust the zoom and the FOV easily with on-screen sliders - Skulls (those with a lower jaw anyways) now have on-screen sliders that allow you to open the mouth Thanks for using Handy! Your reviews help not only what needs to be focused on, but also keep Handy alive, so keep em coming!
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4.0
- Hand / Foot pose-ability ! - Ability to screenshot and save to device gallery or share it - Landscape view layout support - iOS Split View multitasking support - Can now save head positioning - Rotation sensitivity is now adjustable in settings
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4.1
- HUGE update to the Animal Skull Pack: Now includes a Chimpanzee, Boar, Raven, Turkey, Opossum, Sabertooth, Tufted Deer and Bear skull! - Two additional human heads: Female Planar and Old Man - Can now save transparent screenshots without a background - Localization! Currently available in Japanese (Chinese Simplified, Korean, French, German, and Spanish will come very soon in an update the following week) As always, thank you for using and supporting Handy!
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4.1.1
- HUGE update to the Animal Skull Pack: Now includes a Chimpanzee, Boar, Raven, Turkey, Opossum, Sabertooth, Tufted Deer and Bear skull! - Two additional human heads: Female Planar and Old Man - Can now save transparent screenshots without a background - Localization! Now available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, and Spanish! NOTE: There is currently a possible graphical glitch that can appear in the shadowed side of lights (like a weird glowing circle). A fix for this is currently in the App Store submission process.
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4.1.2
New in 4.1.2: - Quick fix to a graphical glitch that would appear in the shadowed sides of lights. New in 4.1: - HUGE update to the Animal Skull Pack: Now includes a Chimpanzee, Boar, Raven, Turkey, Opossum, Sabertooth, Tufted Deer and Bear skull! - Two additional human heads: Female Planar and Old Man - Can now save transparent screenshots without a background - Localization! Now available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, and Spanish! As always, thank you for using and supporting Handy!
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4.1.3
Fixes splotchy shadow rendering errors occurring for iPhone 8/X users
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4.1.4
Fixing a crash that would occur on iOS 11 when saving a screenshot
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4.2
Female foot now available! It's automatically included alongside the Male Foot IAP, so if you've already grabbed that you'll get the female foot for free!
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5.0
Welcome to the Handy 5.0 Update! Some new additions to this version include: - You can now load multiple models! - Upgraded lighting and rendering methods to PBR standards and with sub surface scattering effects - New category: Props! Knife, Pistol, Pipe, Sword, and Katana - Material Editor! Want to turn off the model's textures? Or edit the material to be more shiny? Or just want to color tint it? No problem - iCloud sync now enabled for your Saved Scenes and Light Rigs across devices! - Darker skin variants for hand / leg limbs - 2 new high res fully textured head busts added - Dynamic rendering quality for lower-end phones - Some expanded camera controls like being able to lock the light rotation to the camera rotation, or lock the axis of rotation (when in landscape mode) - Localization fixes. Better fonts for Japanese & Chinese Simplified languages
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5.0.1
5.0.1 Fix for iPadOS screenshot sharing not working Welcome to the Handy 5.0 Update! Some new additions to this version include: - You can now load multiple models! - Upgraded lighting and rendering methods to PBR standards and with sub surface scattering effects - New category: Props! Knife, Pistol, Pipe, Sword, and Katana - Material Editor! Want to turn off the model's textures? Or edit the material to be more shiny? Or just want to color tint it? No problem - iCloud sync now enabled for your Saved Scenes and Light Rigs across devices! - Darker skin variants for hand / leg limbs - 2 new high res fully textured head busts added - Dynamic rendering quality for lower-end phones - Some expanded camera controls like being able to lock the light rotation to the camera rotation, or lock the axis of rotation (when in landscape mode) - Localization fixes. Better fonts for Japanese & Chinese Simplified languages
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5.0.2
Reworked the selection outline effect for better performance
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5.0.3
Reworked the selection outline effect for better performance
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5.0.4
- Fix added for rotation getting stuck when using iPad OS gestures - Fix for some characters in Japanese & Chinese languages not appearing correctly
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5.0.5
- Fixed an issue where images would sometimes fail to save to Photos with transparency. - Slight improvement to the Save Scene/Light Rig UX flow - Minor bug fixes Thank you for your support!
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5.0.7
- Emergency bug fix for purchases suddenly locking up Handy Thank you for your support!
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5.1
Handy users, thank you for your support! Here's a general update to dust off Handy and keep things working - Re-tooling the iCloud integration behind the scenes to hopefully make it much smoother and no longer cause long load times - Fixed an issue where links would no longer be able to opened in iOS18 or later - Fixed an issue where the rotation UI would not be aligned correctly on certain devices with skinnier aspect ratios
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5.1.1
· 5 Nov 2025
YIKES! Well, we really apologize for that last update that was causing Handy to crash on launch for a lot of you folks. Despite our rigorous testing, we're still trying to diagnose and figure out what exactly is going wrong there and reproduce it on our end. In the meantime we are reverting Handy back to the previous 5.0.7 version (Apple still makes us call it something new, so it's technically 5.1.1 yada yada). Anyways, very sorry about that. If YOU encountered the crashing, and want to help us diagnose and figure out what might be going on via some TestFlight beta testing, PLEASE reach out to us at [email protected]!
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- Last verified
- 31 Jul 2026
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