Tayasui Watercolor & Painting

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Last verified 6 Aug 2026

4.6 5012 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5PLEASE JUST LET ME SHARE MY ART!

   I’ve had sketches for a while now, and I have enjoyed it so far. The tools and brushes are good, and it’s easy to use and has a nice layout. I’ve seen all the inspiring art in the ‘community’ section, and so I decided to try it out for myself. It was going pretty good, but the problem was I had to wait FREAKING 24 HOURS for my post to actually be shown. I’m not exactly sure why this is, but it’s extremely frustrating. And another thing, WE CAN ONLY POST ONE THING PER DAY!?! All I want is to share my art with other people, is that so much to ask? A few days back, I decided to post this cute corgi that I had worked HOURS on, but then when it posted, I realized that I had forgot something, so I took it down, and made the little edit. But then when I tried to put it back up I got ‘You already posted this’ or some junk like that. So to fix this, I made a copy, and tried to post that, but NO, apparently you can’t post stuff like that, because Sketches thinks that if it’s not the original, or if I just imported a picture, it isn’t art, and it won’t post it. I just hit ‘Ok’ without reading it, and waited THREE DAYS for it to post, eventually, I finally just took it down and tried to post it again, but I got the message again. Now, I have to wait two more days for my art to even be shown to the world, when if you didn’t have all these stupid rules, it would be shown a week ago already. Really disappointed with this, because all I wanted to do was share my art. Sketches, please, just let me post my art. That’s all I want. It would make me so happy.

   jugyjrdrhtdudrturtd · 6 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Best all around art app I have found.

   NOW THAT THERE IS a way of seeing it on a graph I can confirm that I spend most of my time lately with this app. It is not without a few annoying. Bugs. I find the layers feature far too complicated to use for my purposes but I can’t seem not to stumble over it at every turn. But inadvertently created layers can be erased What I hate most is when the screen freezes up its usually when I am making rapid changes that this happens and I have lost hours of work. But you have to set it to “auto save’ to avoid most catastrophes (check every now and again even if you think it’s on. There seems to be. A ghost in my machine). Otherwise., for variety off tools and for the sheer number of ways I can tweak those tools to nearly do all the things I could do with their analog counterparts, I give this app my highest possible recommendation. Unlike other competitors, some of which are too basic (no smudge?) or so complex I feel like I have to take a post-graduate course to figure out how to use, this app is mostly intuitive. I never reading instructions ], as is my stubborn way, until I was already quite comfortable using the app., doing so on the Tayasui website has helped me get even more out of it. I had to leave off a star because it is. Too easy to lose ones work. Other I could hardly imagine a more useful and beautifully designed tool or creative outlet. And it’s not expensive. I recommend the Pro version over the free if you are obstructing more serious or. Complex graphics or design systems or making art,

   Stephen879 · 6 Aug 2026

3. 5/5Keeps getting better

   I’ve used this app since it came out in the AppStore and then the devs made a Pro version, not sure why but I’m not complaining. I use Procreate a lot but I enjoy the ease of use with Sketches and the brushes have some really nice effects. Through the various iterations they’ve added layers and canvas sizes and myriad other upgrades. I particularly enjoy the watercolor brushes and the ability to add water to the color to soften and blend. I just spent a couple of hours playing with each and every brush and it’s variations as I haven’t done that for awhile. The new pastel crayon is pretty neat and mimics an actual pastel stick. This is a robust art app but you have to take some time to play with all the brushes and textures, and I like the fact you can modify every color by press and hold the color. The pen tool is one of my favorites, it is akin to an ape tel brush pen with pressure sensitivity. There isn’t another one like it and I use it frequently. I am using this app on a iPhone 13 Pro Max, a 2020 iPad Pro 12.9” and an older iPad Pro 9.7”. No issues at all with bugs or crashing on any of them and I use it fairly often. It’s a terrific all around easy to use app for creative people and I’m so thankful they keep updating it to make it even better. Highly recommend!! 🎨

   luna noire · 6 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Love this app! I have used it for years!

   When I went to write this review a very old review of mine propagated in the field. In the old review I talked about how I love the app but it sometimes blacks out and needed clipping masks. It’s crazy how far this app has come! It no longer crashes, there are now clipping masks and even overlay layer mode! Yay!!!!!! Also the line smoothing/stabilization is great! I am an artist who usually works in clip studio paint and I use this app for sketches when I am in a waiting room or riding in a car. There is just enough features for an experienced digital artist to not feel limited, but not so much that it is overwhelming. I highly recommend this app for those new to digital art because it will get you used to the basic needed features of more complicated programs! Also going into this app after working in clip studio always boosts my creativity because it forces me to go back to my roots (I started digital art with this app) and focus on the basics! I go here when I have massive art block and struggle to draw things I know well. This app helps me get over those slumps! Thank you for keeping it up for so many years! It is very underrated and needs more attention. ❤️💕❤️

   Anput and Bast · 6 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Warning: total data loss

   I had used and loved this app for years. But what happened to me, as far as I can deduce, is that the developer at some recent point implemented iCloud sync as an feature that could not be turned off. Having many sketches saved over the years, this filled up my iCloud storage seemingly overnight, causing problems like my iCloud mail not working. I went into iCloud settings on my Mac, which showed Sketches Pro was using over many GB of storage. Not finding any way to view or remove single files from iCloud, I hesitantly used the "delete all data" button in the setting there. I thought this would just clear Sketches Pro's data from iCloud—it said "iCloud sync" after all. But no; doing so deleted all my files and all my folders from all my devices with the app. Everything I'd ever made there. I desperately tried to undo it, but Sketches Pro's recycle bin was empty; iCloud Trash and Recently Deleted Files were empty; the Sketches folder in the iCloud folder in my Time Machine Backup on my Mac had just a precious few recent files which I recovered. I called iCloud support, and even they said they saw no files deleted in their systems. This was all after trying to contact the Tayasui Sketches Pro devs; they had been responsive to another problem I had in the past, but I never heard back. I understand this app is a great utility for a very reasonable prince. But I'm heart broken over this and haven't wanted to draw again in weeks. I don't know if I even can if it will fill up iCloud storage again.

   St. Dox · 6 Aug 2026

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