Four Treasures of the Study
Brush, ink, paper, inkstone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A new character to trace every morning, and a finished piece you can sign, seal and send by lunchtime.
Four Treasures of the Study is a writing desk, not a drawing app.
Open it and the paper is already laid out with today's character, printed faintly in vermilion the way a copybook has been printed for centuries. Trace it. With Apple Pencil, press harder and the stroke thickens. With a finger, a slow stroke is the thick one. Move faster and the brush runs dry and leaves flying white. Then sign your work, press your seal, and take away something worth keeping.
WRITE
· A brush that behaves like a brush. On Apple Pencil, pressure, tilt and azimuth drive the tip. With a finger, slow is thick and fast is thin. The paper answers: raw xuan drinks the ink and blooms, sized xuan holds a crisp edge.
· Wolf, goat and mixed hair, pine-soot and oil-soot ink, ten papers, the four famous inkstones. They are not filters; each one changes how the ink actually behaves.
· Grind the ink yourself, add water a drop at a time, and watch the well thicken.
· Undo, redo, and play your writing back at the speed you wrote it.
TRACE
· 42 sheets, starting with yong - the one character that contains all eight fundamental strokes - through single characters, couplets and lines from Wang Wei and Su Shi. Ten of them, plus the sheet of the day, are free.
· Type a name or a line and the bundled kai shows a double-hook preview for free. Laying that sheet on the desk is part of the Complete Studio. The face is not a historical stele model, and a missing character is named rather than replaced.
· A new sheet every day, the same one on every device, chosen so it never repeats within a pass through the book.
· A mizige grid to place the character in, and the model disappears from the finished piece.
FINISH
· Sign it, date it, and cut your own seal: relief or intaglio, four seal-script styles, four shapes.
· Choose a format - central scroll, vertical banner, square sheet, horizontal panel - and the proportions, signature position and seal placement all follow. These four formats are free.
· Export at full resolution with no watermark. Silk mounting is part of the Complete Studio.
CATALOGUE
· A catalogue of the objects on the desk, with sources: the Palace Museum, the National Museum of China, the National Palace Museum, China's intangible heritage registers.
· Where the evidence stops, it says so. No date is guessed, no recipe is invented, and a precious material never becomes a performance bonus.
Everything happens on your device. Four Treasures of the Study has no account, no network connection and collects nothing.
FREE FOREVER
Writing, the ten starter sheets and the sheet of the day, four formats, signature, seal, a preview of your own text, and full-resolution sharing with no watermark.
THE COMPLETE STUDIO (a one-time purchase, not a subscription)
The other 32 copybook sheets, laying a sheet of your own text, the handscroll and album formats, the mounting workshop, the seal-carving workshop, and print-size export.
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Finishing a piece is one screen: sign it, seal it, and share it. The red model is an outline you write into. A shared piece stays in Works on this device, and the next time you open the app today's sheet is waiting if you have not changed that piece since. Apple Pencil uses its own pressure; a finger gets thicker when you write slowly. Simplified Chinese shows the filing number.
The developer, 明 齐, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- 明 齐
- Size
- 13.4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Complete Studio $14.99
- Copyright
- © Ming Qi
