HiPaint- Sketch & Paint

• Free to download
• In-app purchases

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

• Free to download
• In-app purchases: $0.99 - $19.99 per item

Last verified 31 Aug 2026

4.6 2915 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5This is making me really mad 😡😡😡

   So, the first time I got on HiPaint I started to learn all the stuff and the brushes and opacity and stuff, and then I learned how to get a reference and etc. etc. But then I got a notification so I went out of HiPaint and checked and went back to finish my drawing and it was in like the gallery thing, and I tried to click it and it WOULDN’T LET ME. So I just sat there aggressively tapping my art trying to continue it, and then I favorited it and then somehow it then let me click it? Weird but the point is, when it let me click it my artwork was GONE. So then I just did my artwork again, thinking nothing of it until I did it a second time went out of the app, went back into it and it wouldn’t let me click it, so I repeated what I did last time and it did the exact same thing and deleted my art. I was so annoyed that it did this cause I worked really hard on that drawing. But other than that, it’s a good app I guess….FIX THIS PLEASE 🙏

   Peppermint ✨🦋 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5Nice app, annoying layer naming

   Found this a while back & decided to try it out. I usually draw my laptop but it’s nice to have options & I use to draw on my ipad before I got my laptop’s drawing tablet. This program is pretty nice to mess with & I like that it allows me to not only save in different file types but allows me to choose some of the brushes for the eraser setting. It’s also interesting to see how many strokes I did in the art at the bottom of the screen. My only complaint is how the layers are named, it’s a small nitpick but I can’t ignore it. The layers by default are numbered(you know, you have layer 1 with a new canvas & add a new layer gets me layer 2 & so on) but if you rename it or delete a layer it keeps counting. By this I mean if I have two layers(number of layers doesn’t matter this is jus an example) & deleting layer 2 or renaming it then add a new layer instead of the new layer being called “layer 2” it’s now “layer 3”. This goes on & no amount of closing the app nor renaming changes this. This luckily only happens with each canvas so each canvas has it’s own layer count(so canvas 1 has a 7 layer count, canvas 4 has a 9 layer count but new canvas have it reset) but it’s still really annoying. Again it’s a nitpick & not that big of an issue but it’s something that I dislike.

   Illusion Shark · 31 Jul 2026

3. 3/5This would be great but the bad things are so bad, it’s not.

   It’s crashes on me, a lot. I have ample amount of space on my iPad and tried exiting out of all my other apps I was using and that didn’t help. I’m so confused why when you click on things with your Apple Pencil it immediately goes away, like if you’re choosing a brush for instance, you have to click the pin just to be able to find a brush without it disappearing after a split second when you move your pencil away, this is the same for a lot of the tools. If you go to click a color, good luck finding one in the split second it lets the color window open for, when you’re not hovering over things, it always has them disappear.. I’m not sure if this is only for the 6th gen iPad Pro because it has hover feature or what but at the end of the day.. the app unusable for me at least. I did want to like it. I tried making a screen recording to show the issues and within 2 minutes it crashed. I see a lot of good reviews so maybe it’s just my iPad or perhaps the glitches and issues are more recent idk.. If this was a brand new app, especially for IOS, I would have never given it the green light to be released and we’d be back to developing.. Good luck.👍

   MoMacs · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5app is really good, but only 2 problems

   I love this app, it’s pretty much a free procreate just with some differences. One of these differences bothers me and it is the animation feature. The problem is the fact i can’t have 2 layers on a single panel (not sure if that’s the correct word to use so apologies), if I try to make another layer I just end up with another panel and it’s annoying because I want to be able to sketch out my animation and color it and such. Hopefully they improve this. Another problem is the imported brushed group, how are we supposed to import brushes??? There’s no explanation nor no way I can find to import brushes so if there’s an actual way to let me know, but if there’s no way to then what’s the point of that imported brushes group??? Hopefully this also gets improved. Other than that the app’s pretty good, not a big fan of the default brushes and am having difficulty making a brush to my liking because I’m pretty sure the settings are sorta of limiting or at least for me they feel they are, but I might just not understand them too well.

   gutzip · 31 Jul 2026

5. 5/5Exactly Like Procreate

   When I say this app is almost exactly like Procreate, I’m meaning it wholeheartedly. I mean, yes, it does have it’s weaknesses but every drawing app does. Everything in the app is free besides getting rid of ads and they don’t even play ads during the time you’re using the app, they only pop up when you open the app. They have a lot of different brushes and settings to play around with. In my opinion the stabilizer is literally perfection, my lineart has never looked so clean and crisp. Unlike Procreate you can only have at most 33 layers, and all I ask is at least maybe 40 but otherwise this app is perfect in every way, but of course everybody will have their own opinions you’ll just have to try it out yourself 😊

   Kn33capD3m0n · 31 Jul 2026

4.3 61396 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   ok i like it

   Aarav Deb · 1 Aug 2026

2. 1/5

   this is way too buggy and it messed up my art piece bad drawing app to use

   qoi nana · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   I love it but there is one problem sometimes when part of the drawing stays there for too long you can't really rub it out.

   Mohammad Liton miah · 1 Aug 2026

4. 4/5

   can you add a art community with a chat and a searching tagged please? thank you!

   My guest Gaming · 1 Aug 2026

5. 3/5

   more options for luxurious look and for artists skill

   Pushya Varadharaj · 1 Aug 2026

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