Sketchbook®

• Premium Bundle — $2.99

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

• Free to download
• In-app purchases: $2.99 per item

Last verified 31 Aug 2026

4.8 220441 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Good, but kind of glitchy

   This is a great app for anyone who wants to draw! The premium option isn’t forced, so you can go free or premium without feeling like you need to pay anything. And there’s no ads (which is good for a drawing app or any app). It’s just a little glitchy, like when it fills multiple areas that you don’t tap. For example, let’s say you’re coloring in a cat. You use the fill option, tap on its body, and…it fills both the background and the cat’s body. You can obviously try to make the lines less thin and stuff, though. And then there was a weird glitch where I was drawing some Warriors (book series about cats, in case anyone who reads this is curious) fan art, I save it after being zoomed in, and it flips the art to being in a horizontal position when it’s saved after it was originally drawn vertically. Think of when you have a picture that was vertical but your phone is horizontal, that’s how it looks but when my phone is vertical it’s still like that. Basically, good drawing app but a little glitchy or something like that. Have a good day or night, sorry about my whole long paragraph :’) Edit: Found another weird glitch. I import an image and try to draw over it, but it doesn’t show what I drew despite it being in the layers, specifically when I use a different layer from the one that the imported image was in so I can remove the imported image and only have my little bit that I just traced over for fun. Hopefully that’ll be fixed at least, if the other issues aren’t.

   doggosecton · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5The Little App That Could

   Of the three drawing apps I use (Sketchbook, Procreate, and Adobe Fresco), Sketchbook is my favorite. My review is based on simple criteria: ease of use balanced against app size and features. Procreate and Fresco are the powerhouses; big, endless features, brushes for miles and miles, compatible with most file extensions, lots of options, all great to the point of being overwhelming. Sketchbook offers many of these features, but on an intuitive and easy to learn scale. First, it’s small by comparison; it doesn’t take over your phone/tablet like the other two. It has a decent library of brushes you can customize, and there’s a mega brush pack out there you can download. The layout of the workspace has limited customization, and this is probably the apps biggest drawback if you’re used to endless workspace customizing. Sketchbook’s best feature is its ease of use. Once you learn its capabilities AND limitations, you can settle in and develop a workflow rhythm. Sketchbook is good for casual drawing and conceptual ideas that you can work up to a decent level of finish, or you can export as a .psd/.png/.tif and take it into PS for greater refinement without loss of detail. I enjoy the premium features and options of the other two, but Sketchbook hits the right balance between app size, features, and ease of use/learning curve. Give it a try. If you like it, it costs $2 whole dollars to own it outright, and that’s a great deal.

   Looey Dot Dope · 30 Aug 2026

3. 5/5PLEASE READ IF YOU ARE DOWNLOADING 🩷

   Hi I have tried so many other ones but this one is by far the best out there let me explain when I was younger I am 13 rn but when I was younger I wanted to draw but I was terrible until I found out digital drawing but eveything was complicated or you had to pay real money liek what so I was starting to lose hope but my sister had this app and I saw her use it and was liek YESSSSS so I got it for free and the amount of stuff it gives is unreal I have recommended this app to several people and I am not able to do pro cause of rules but if I had it I would bet I’d love it but even though I don’t this app is amazing I can’t belive the things I’ve made and this go I didn’t even think I could do now yes sometimes I have experienced glitch’s with the eraser and a couple others but for me it is rare I get a glitch it is a well functioning app for me now this may be cause I have a good tablet but I used to have a really crummy one but it still worked great on it but anyway it app is epic I total suggest you get it because easy to use I’m self taught for this app and also it’s great and a glitch every now and then rarely and also it’s free plus if your fortune enough to use the premium it’s cheap which ah I wish I had it anyway don’t keep scrolling through reviews jsut download it already (I know this is why to long but it’s hard to stop when your telling of your favorite app) byeeeeeee ✌️

   Maxi-pups rules ❤️🐶🐕 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Amazing but there’s a bug

   I love this app, and I have used it for YEARS even before it was free on all my devices. Never had a problem until now, I’ve been super happy with it. About a week ago while drawing on my iPad, the size and opacity sliders on the left side of the screen attached to the toolbox have started interrupting my drawing. I can’t really use the left side of my screen because if I draw or zoom near the sliders, it thinks I’m pressing the sliders and it changes my size or opacity while simultaneously drawing all over my screen where I don’t want it to. The sliders “hit box” has increased to over half my screen so that when I draw or zoom next to the slider (without actually touching it) it thinks I’m trying to adjust the slider. This makes it very difficult and time consuming to draw, and I’m really considering finding another art app but I REALLY don’t want to. I love this app, I just need this bug fixed. Or at least let me disable the sliders. That would fix my problem! Another smaller problem is sometimes when I’m using the stabilizer tool for my brush strokes, the app will freeze while it tries to smooth my strokes. This can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, and a few times it has crashed completely. This is avoidable by not coloring while using the stabilizer, line work is usually fine. Just wanted to make you aware of this as well. I really love this app, and I don’t want to have to switch to another one. I’ve considered redownloading the app but I don’t want to lose all my drawings and their layers by doing so.

   raintaii · 30 Aug 2026

5. 5/5Love it! But please add tools

   I absolutely love this app! It’s by far the best free drawing app out there... it has so many tools and features, and preset colors are really handy. It’s also really easy to edit with, surprisingly. So it does more than just draw with a little help of copy and pasting of layers. My phone has a pretty small screen, (iPhone 5s) but with a stylus, it’s actually pretty easy to draw real art. And it has so many brushes. And the app runs super smoothly on my phone. And a bonus, no annoying ads. No in-app purchases. I absolutely love that, and is yet another reason why I love this app. I also really love the design of the app, once you get the hang of what it can do it’s so easy. And the clean minimalist appearance is really nice. My recommendation for future updates, there isn’t really a way to just blend colors. Sure there are brushes with that affect, but it would be so helpful if there was a blender that just blurred the colors together instead of smearing them; a brush that isn’t supposed to resemble any real-life brush. If you could add that it would be so helpful! Also when I save a drawing to my camera roll, the quality is reduced from what it was in the app, So normally I just screenshot my art instead. But if you could fix this issue I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for this amazing app. I definitely recommend.

   Emmimid · 30 Aug 2026

4.1 705758 ratings · Google Play

1. 1/5

   i can't manage I don't understand

   S · 1 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   no adds whatsoever!! i love this app so much, easy to navigate and it works offline too!! any art craz like me would love this app so much like me!! 100% recomend, GET IT!!

   Ollie Wilber · 1 Aug 2026

3. 3/5

   it's a good choice if you want something free, but my files constantly corrupt or something, and I can't get into them even after I restored them in my phones picture files. it's also kind of hard to find a good brush. you have to edit already existing ones instead of making your own based on your needs.

   Silas · 1 Aug 2026

4. 4/5

   so perfect is like you can make a real drawing in real sketch book love it.

   Alejandrina Belbar · 1 Aug 2026

5. 1/5

   Dumb app

   Pieter van Heerden · 1 Aug 2026