Draw and take notes with ease.
Linea Sketch gives you the right balance of power and control to capture thoughts and ideas effortlessly. The focus stays where it belongs: on your creations, not on the tools.
Why Linea Sketch?
⁕ Minimal UI - Every control is designed to stay out of your way until you need it. Linea's elegant interface puts the focus on your creations.
⁕ Easy Colors - Choose from a wide range of pre-defined colors, or create your own with a single tap. Autogenerated tints & shades save time and effort.
⁕ Elegant Layers - Simplified set of layers that can be easily rearranged, merged, locked, or adjusted. Use the file browser and photo library to import images for reference and tracing.
⁕ ZipShapes & ZipLines - Simply hold still for a moment after drawing a line, rough square, circle, or triangle and ZipShape automatically creates a perfect version for you. You can then adjust final size, placement, and corner radius.
⁕ Move / Transform - Lasso part of your sketch, then move, rotate, flip, or resize. Transform one or more layers quickly & easily.
⁕ Watercolor Brush - Create rustic & artistic effects by painting with organic pigment in three modes: Simple, Wet, and Cloud.
⁕ Annotations - Add labels, notes, and callouts to your sketches using iOS Scribble or a keyboard. Fonts, colors, placement, and more can be adjusted effortlessly.
⁕ Time-Lapse - Record your creative process as you sketch! Save a video of the result as either a compressed 30 second clip or a full length movie.
⁕ Grids & Templates - A wide range of traditional grids, 3D isometric lines, storyboards, and templates for iOS screen or icon design.
⁕ Universal App - Linea Sketch is a universal app for iPad and iPhone. Your sketches seamlessly sync via iCloud to all of your devices, wherever you go.
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What do you get?
Tools:
• Technical Pencil - Hard lead, thin lines
• Art Pencil - Soft lead, thick lines
• Felt Tip Pen - Thin solid lines that vary in opacity
• Marker - Fat solid lines
• Watercolor Brush - Paint with organic, artistic pigment
• Fill - Roll out wide areas of color or tap to flood fill
• Blend - Smudge or soften strokes
• Eraser - Clean up with your finger or Pencil
• Pencil Plus! - Create additional effects using Apple Pencil pressure and tilt
Colors:
• Always on-screen & easily available
• Tints and shades are automatically generated in six variations
• 11 predefined color sets for various types of drawing
• Create custom colors for branding and consistency
• Drag & drop color swatches with other apps
Layers:
• Five flexible layers that can be dragged, merged, or cleared
• Import any image from Files, Photo Library, or clipboard
• Lockable to prevent accidental changes
• Adjust opacity or double tap to toggle visibility on/off
Templates:
• Traditional grids displayed with lines & dots
• Hexagonal, circular, and isometric (3D) grids
• Notepads, to-do lists, and sheet music
• App user interface and icon design
• Storyboards in 16:9, 1.85:1, and 2.35:1 ratios
• Adjustable intensity and can be hidden quickly
Backgrounds & Paper Textures:
• White Bond, Butcher’s Paper, Black Construction, Blueprint & many more
• Adjustable custom background colors
• Paper grain can be toggled on or off
Exporting:
• Save as PNG, JPEG, PSD, and PDF
• Save entire sketch or crop a portion
• Export to Slack, Dropbox, AirDrop & more
• Presentation Mode shows just the canvas via AirPlay - perfect for classrooms
Projects:
• Organize drawings in project folders
• Share, rename, or move drawings within projects
• Thumbnail previews of drawings save time
• Export PDF of entire project
General:
• Two-finger tap for Undo, three-finger tap for Redo
• Pinch to zoom and rotate canvas
• Tap Compass to lock, flip, or reset your canvas
• Supports portrait & landscape orientations
• Supports split screen and drag & drop
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I downloaded this app because on the web it said that this was an easier version of procreate. It is easier, but there are lots of things that this app needs to have or change. 1: More brushes. There are only like 7 or 8 brushes and that is not enough at least in my opinion. At least put a tab where you can import brushes or make your own. 2: Change canvas color feature. I made an outline with white (because that was the color i needed to draw ripped jeans) and I couldn’t see it AT ALL. I just need a tool that says “change canvas color” so i could change it without having to start COMPLETELY OVER. 3: Change the premium. If you ask me, I would only put “More brushes” and “Import brushes” into the premium. WHY DO YOU HAVE THE TEXT OPTION IN PREMIUM??? The pictures/videos that you make to advertise are just casually using the text feature without saying it’s premium??? I can literally just take a screenshot, import it into ibisPaint and add text for FREE.Please add these thing to your app.Sincerely, someone who wants to use the text feature 😒
Developer Response
One of Linea's most important features is its simplicity. We're not trying to be Procreate so if you need lots of options for brushes, Linea isn't going to do what you need and Procreate is great. We've included a basic tool set that lets you sketch and concept quickly and without fiddling with brush options and controls, and that's what we're shooting for. Hope you can understand. You can change the canvas color at will at any time. Tap the bottom icon in the layers palette (background) and then select custom background from the list to pick a custom color for the canvas. Hopefully this helps, we appreciate the feedback!
Near perfection
Erik P. Hansen
UPDATE: Version 2.0 added every feature I said I’d like to have added to the app. And they did it without mucking up the clean UI and wonderful user experience. The people making this app are reading my mind. — Not only is this the best general-purpose drawing/sketching/writing app for people with iPad Pros, this app is an example of great UX design. Everything works like I’d want it to and expect it to. For example: - Drawing with the pencil and erasing with your finger is great. - Tapping with two fingers to undo is great. - The way zooming and rotating works with two fingers is completely natural. - Being able to reset the zoom/rotation with a quick pinch is great. - Double tapping a layer to hide it is great. - Rearranging layers by holding and dragging is great. - The color selector that gives you various light and darker variations of a hue is great. - There are just enough variations and options in the tools, but not so much that it’s overwhelming. The best compliment I can give this app is that it has not annoyed me or done something that I thought was stupid, ever. And I can, and do, find problems with pretty much everything. I’d like there to be more variations in the paper guides; more dot grids and some simple lined paper options would be nice and could be added without cluttering up the UI. Being able to define your own guides and/or import an image to use as a guide would be amazing. Portrait mode would be nice for when I’m using the app to write. A selection tool to move stuff around would be awesome. I’m pleased that little birdie named Twitter has told me at least some of these additions are coming soon. I seriously love this app.
Developer Response
Erik, we *really* appreciate your review more than you know. It's great to get constructive feedback because it helps us know where to concentrate our efforts and improve the experience for the user. We use Linea almost every day ourselves and so when something annoys us, we are pretty sure it's also annoying you. We're gratified the 2.0 update gave you so much of what you needed. Thanks again and thanks for using Linea Sketch. More great stuff is coming, the trick is adding it and still keeping the app dead simple to use. We enjoy a challenge tho!
Still my go to drawing app
lynk;)
Update:This is and will always be my favorite drawing app. I do almost all of my client work in here because it just works the way I expect it to. I forget that I am using an app because it just feels so much like a real sketchbook. over half of my client work is completed using this app because the output matches my style so well. not to mention the addition of layer masking has eliminated the few pain points that I still had with the app. if you’re not using this as an artist my only question is why not??original review:I am an artist and illustrator and I find that no matter how many different drawing apps I try I always come back to this one. The pencil and blender brush are great and the fact that they finally added text and a watercolor brush make it indispensable for me as an artist. I know subscription fatigue is real but if I really like the app supporting it’s development is ok by me. And it’s is only 99 cents a month … most people spend more on a cup of coffee daily. I know this is an overly glowing review but it truly is one of my favorites.
Saved my art
Alder N
For my whole life, I struggled to draw well. I have dysgraphia and low motor skills and I never figured out how others casually make a masterpiece. Here enters Linea. When I entered a new school in 2021, they happened to try giving us iPads same year. They lacked a drawing app until one day, this appeared in our manager. My drawings looked choppy when I first tried it unsurprisingly. Then I found the roller brush. Making lineless blobs and creating distinct shapes without the sloppy struggle of lines and buckets. And the app was easy to learn, too. As other reviewers say, less is more here. Throughout the year I warmed up to the new art form and found a style and technique that for once, made me feel proud of my work. I downloaded Linea on everything I owned after the discovery, and my art has evolved a ton. Fast forward to now and it’s my last year at this school. But ill still be using this program for everything the rest of my life. Ive even used it to make assets for my video games.Thank you, roller brush. Thank you, Icon Dev team.
Support for iOS 26 / Liquid Glass, redesigned transformation controls, the ability to skew ZipShapes, selections and text annotations, a new brush size hover state, crash fixes plus much more.
NEW FEATURES
- Linea's user interface has been updated for iOS 26 / Liquid Glass
- Apple Pencil shows the size of the selected drawing tool on hover
- Hardware support for the SonarPen 2 corded stylus
• ZipShapes / Transformation
- Transformation handles have been redesigned for clarity
- It's now more discoverable how to rotate / scale a selection
- ZipShapes now support creating left, right and equilateral triangles
- ZipSquare corner radius controls have greater flexibility & precision
• Skewing
- Tap and drag the center side handles of a shape
- Drag horizontally or vertically to skew along that axis
- Skew ZipShapes, lassoed selections and even text annotations
- Skew freely or in 15º increments when snapping is enabled/toggled
IMPROVEMENTS
- Importing from the photo library is now faster with fewer permissions
- Improvements to how Apple Pencil pressure & tilt render ZipLines and ZipShapes
- Apple Pencil double-tap actions are now disabled by default to avoid confusion
- Added "undo" as an option for Apple Pencil double-tap actions
- Added the ability to export debug logs to assist in troubleshooting
- Tapping a sketch from the Files app launches Linea & displays the sketch
- Added periodic reminders to subscribe and support development!
- 'Set Canvas as Default' now includes the canvas's size and orientation when saving, plus canvas info is listed and a confirmation dialog is presented to cancel if needed
- Added Settings > Canvas > New Sketch Defaults where you can see current canvas defaults and/or reset them
BUG & CRASH FIXES
- Bug fixes and improvements to the in-app purchasing system
- Several important iCloud bug fixes and improvements
- Fixed a bug causing an incorrect layer icon state to be displayed
- Fixed a bug where the share extension wouldn't work properly
- Fixed a rotation bug that always triggered snapping even when off
- Fixed incorrect rotation when importing a portrait image via the share sheet
- Fixed a bug where Apple Pencil Pro haptics would trigger incorrectly
- Fixed a problem causing incorrect canvas sizes on some devices
- Fixed a low memory crash in the smudge tool
- Fixed a crash when reordering collections
- Fixed a crash at launch with collections that had a cloud conflict
- Fixed a crash that could happen when iCloud Drive access changed
- Fixed a crash with file access errors when creating / deleting a project
- Fixed some crashes that could occur when picking colors
- Fixed crashes that could occur trying to create an impossible ZipShape
- Fixed a potential crash if a sketch was closed and re-opened quickly
- Fixed a crash when a shape or text was deselected mid-drag
- Fixed a potential ZipShape crash when creating ellipses
- Fixed a crash when reordering a project's sketches while syncing w/ iCloud
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to open two project folders at the same time if you tapped carefully and quickly enough
- Removed the "Show transform handles for ZipShape" setting
Version 4.4
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