This update focuses on stability, smoother Apple Pencil drawing, and better collaboration. - Fixed a crash that could happen with textured ink and raster brushes. - Improved long Apple Pencil stroke handling during intensive drawing sessions. - Cleaned up live collaboration presence so inactive users no longer appear active. - Improved the collaboration panel layout. - Improved purchase and restore reliability. - Lifetime Unlock and Creator Verification now have lower early-access pricing.

Artivate 1.5.2 makes the app faster to try, smoother to draw in, and clearer for collaboration. What’s new: - Start drawing before creating an account with the new guest-first canvas flow. - Free now includes local drawing, core layers, 3 saved projects, community browsing, and watermarked 1080p exports. - Collaboration is now part of Activate Pro, keeping shared canvases tied to signed-in users and paid creative sessions. - Activate Pro unlocks live shared canvases, unlimited projects, cleaner exports, cloud-backed collaboration, voice chat, and up to 6 collaborators per project. - Studio supports larger creative sessions with up to 20 collaborators, 8K exports, expanded mural access, and class or team workflows. - Lifetime Artivate Unlock is available as a one-time option for paid collaboration, project, community, and export features. - Live collaboration has been tuned for faster remote stroke previews and cleaner final stroke delivery. - Canvas startup is lighter, with fewer unnecessary cloud calls before drawing. - Brush defaults, autosave behavior, thumbnails, and tool switching have been polished for a more responsive creative flow. Thanks for helping test Artivate. Please focus feedback on drawing feel, collaboration delay, account creation, upgrade clarity, and whether remote strokes appear in real time.

What’s New in Artivate? We read your review, and we made some bold changes! Thank you for your feedback! This update focuses on making collaborative drawing feel faster, smoother, and more reliable. Real-time drawing is now more responsive, with major performance improvements for shared canvases, remote strokes, cursor updates, and live collaboration sessions. We also reduced background work during active collaboration so you can stay focused on creating instead of waiting on the canvas. Whether you are sketching solo or drawing with others, Artivate now feels lighter, quicker, and more comfortable to use. Thanks for creating with Artivate. More improvements are on the way.

Bug fixes and optimization

68 professional brushes, no assembly required. Artivate now ships with a curated set of 68 real-media brushes built right in — no imports, no downloads, no finding a file you definitely saved somewhere. Open the brush picker and they're already there. The collection covers the tools most artists actually use: • Graphite Kit — 21 graphite pencils with tonal range and authentic grain • Pencil Brushes — 11 pencils from hard technical to soft shading • Crayon Brushes — 20 crayons with waxy buildup and edge bleed • Magic Markers — 12 markers including Copic-style and chisel tips • Pen Brush — clean, pressure-sensitive technical pen • Real Ballpoint Pen — ballpoint with ink drag that actually feels like a ballpoint • The Perfect Combo — 2 versatile all-purpose brushes for when you can't decide The brush picker now opens to your library. Less scrolling, more drawing. Bugs fixed. Various issues resolved so the app gets out of your way faster.

• Faster, more responsive drawing with reduced Pencil and Ink lag. • Better airbrush performance with smoother, softer feathering. • Improved pencil behavior, including darker strokes and better tilt shading. • More natural eraser behavior with continuous erasing plus hardness and feathering controls. • Blend and Blur now affect only the area you draw over, not the whole layer. • Blend now behaves more like smearing/mixing existing artwork instead of darkening it. • Watercolor, marker, pencil, ink, and Sharpie tools were refined for a more natural feel. • Custom brush import is easier to discover, with clearer guidance in the brush panel. • Undo/redo was improved so canvas actions happen in a more reliable order. • Layer feedback was improved for locked or hidden layers. • UI polish added across the canvas, brush panel, color controls, and tool presets. • Eyedropper was moved closer to color selection where it’s easier to find. • Added performance diagnostics to help track input and render latency during testing. • Improved profile/project artwork loading reliability.

What’s New in Artivate this time in 1.2.7, MORE REFINEMENTS! • A bunch of squished bugs, the invasive kind. Clean up was no fun. • Improved project and profile thumbnails so artwork previews load reliably across devices and user profiles. • Enhanced drawing and painting tools with more realistic brushes, CUSTOM brush imports that work in the Art Tools panel in the bottom navigation bar, and improved stroke rendering. • Added stronger autosave, artwork recovery, and project version history to protect your work. • Improved real-time collaboration with live participants, shared layers, messaging, and communication tools. • Expanded project organization with visual previews, duplication, exporting, and easier project management. • Added community murals, artist discovery, creator profiles, follows, likes, comments, and notifications. • Improved layers, canvas controls, custom color palettes, image imports, text tools, and artwork editing. • Fixed entitlement handling, account verification, synchronization, and general stability issues. Smashed a bunch of bugs!

What’s New in Artivate this time in 1.2.6, MORE REFINEMENTS! • Improved project and profile thumbnails so artwork previews load reliably across devices and user profiles. • Enhanced drawing and painting tools with more realistic brushes, CUSTOM brush imports that work in the Art Tools panel in the bottom navigation bar, and improved stroke rendering. • Added stronger autosave, artwork recovery, and project version history to protect your work. • Improved real-time collaboration with live participants, shared layers, messaging, and communication tools. • Expanded project organization with visual previews, duplication, exporting, and easier project management. • Added community murals, artist discovery, creator profiles, follows, likes, comments, and notifications. • Improved layers, canvas controls, custom color palettes, image imports, text tools, and artwork editing. • Fixed entitlement handling, account verification, synchronization, and general stability issues. Smashed a bunch of bugs!

What's New? Daily Mural Canvas Every day, a new prompt sparks a global creative moment — one shared canvas where thousands of artists leave their mark in real time. When the day ends, the masterpiece is archived forever in the Community Gallery. Apple Pencil Quick Tools Double-tap your Apple Pencil (or squeeze on Pencil Pro) to instantly open a floating tool panel right where your pencil is on the canvas. Switch between brush types, pick a recent color, and adjust brush size and opacity — all without lifting your hand from the drawing area. Thumbnail Fix Project thumbnails now correctly display all stroke types in both light and dark mode. Pencil tool strokes that previously appeared invisible in thumbnails are now rendered accurately. Profile Grid Fix Artwork thumbnails on profile pages now appear cleanly below the Artworks / Liked / Collaborations tab bar, with a proper grid layout that works consistently across all profiles. Bug Fixes & Performance General stability improvements and rendering optimizations across the canvas. Some UX Design changes, new colors. Default mode is set to dark, but the option for a light interface is still available.

What's New? Daily Mural Canvas Every day, a new prompt sparks a global creative moment — one shared canvas where thousands of artists leave their mark in real time. When the day ends, the masterpiece is archived forever in the Community Gallery. Apple Pencil Quick Tools Double-tap your Apple Pencil (or squeeze on Pencil Pro) to instantly open a floating tool panel right where your pencil is on the canvas. Switch between brush types, pick a recent color, and adjust brush size and opacity — all without lifting your hand from the drawing area. Thumbnail Fix Project thumbnails now correctly display all stroke types in both light and dark mode. Pencil tool strokes that previously appeared invisible in thumbnails are now rendered accurately. Profile Grid Fix Artwork thumbnails on profile pages now appear cleanly below the Artworks / Liked / Collaborations tab bar, with a proper grid layout that works consistently across all profiles. Bug Fixes & Performance General stability improvements and rendering optimizations across the canvas.

• Fixed an issue where marker strokes would disappear and reappear like the disappearing act after switching layers or tools • Undo now works correctly across all brush types, with a deeper history... • Background color changes now update instantly on the canvas • Blend and blur tools improved — smoother results, especially at canvas edges • Simplified pricing: Free, Pro ($5.99/mo), and Artivate Forever ($25 one-time)

New in 1.2.2: Smarter eyedropper with live loupe, timelapse exports now save directly to Photos, and improved oil & acrylic brush feel throughout. Major fixes to the art tools for a smoother user experience. Bugs squashed and fixed. Please leave a rating and review.

Voice Chat (Agora) • Each canvas now gets its own isolated voice room (using the canvas's unique project ID) • Removed the video button from the collaboration panel • Plenty of bug fixes! Audio Feature: • Fixed microphone permission error message to show correct guidance • Live cursor when you collaborate with others on the canvas Exporting Images: • Free tier exports now include a "Made with Artivate" watermark • Pro and Studio plan feature lists updated to highlight watermark removal

Eyedropper fix The eyedropper tool had a hiccup—it was picking up data from the wrong UIKit view layer and wasn’t capturing anything. I’ve updated it to directly composite from the canvas data model (PKDrawing + raster layer images), so it now accurately samples the committed strokes from all visible layers. Live collaboration improvements • Remote cursors are now broadcast and appear on the canvas in real time, with other users’ cursor positions animated as colored dots with name labels. • Live presence badges are displayed on project cards in the projects list, showing “● 2 live” to indicate active users. • The toolbar Invite button now directly takes you to the invite sheet, bypassing the full collaboration panel. Fluid simulation/Improved Art tools: I’ve added viscosity and wetness diffusion to the Stable Fluids paint engine, so strokes now spread and blend more naturally for watercolor and paint tools. The enhanced art tools are much more advanced than before. The art tools have been overhauled greatly. Some added features to the Free version of the app, but highly recommend the Pro subscription to try out the collaboration tool with other users. Spread the word, share it with your fellow artists, or even beginners, children who like to draw! It's fun for everybody!