Bristle Canvas: Draw & Paint
Paint with brushes you invent
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
iPad
Describe a brush in one sentence and paint with it seconds later. Gold chains, fire, lightning and strokes that keep moving. Made by an artist, for artists.
I'm an artist. I built Bristle Canvas because I wanted brushes nobody else has.
Type what you imagine – "gold cuban chain", "wall of fire", "pink heart gem row" – and Bristle builds the brush in seconds. Tweak it, save it, paint with it. Your library grows with every idea.
BRUSHES THAT DO MORE
• Chains, fire, drips, lightning, clouds, glitter and stickers that follow your stroke
• Living Layers: strokes that keep moving on your canvas – flames flicker, water ripples
• Brush Studio to fine-tune shape, grain, pressure, tilt and color jitter
• Import and export .brushset and .brush files
PAINT THAT FEELS REAL
• Oil: wet paint mixes right on the canvas and builds up a relief that catches the light
• Palette Knife: push and scrape thick paint, smudging drags the relief along
• Watercolor: glazes, darker drying edges, blooms and grain that settles into the paper
• Wet in Wet: washes that bleed softly into each other
• Pencil, charcoal and soft pastel that react to pressure and tilt like the real thing
MADE FOR APPLE PENCIL
• Pressure, tilt and hover preview
• Apple Pencil Pro: squeeze for a tool palette, roll the pencil to rotate the brush tip
• Double-tap to switch tools, just like you set it up in Settings
A CANVAS THAT GETS OUT OF YOUR WAY
• Quick fill: drag a color onto your art to fill it, hold and swipe to set the threshold live
• Layers, groups, masks, blend modes and clipping
• Selection, transform, liquify, adjustments and Snap Shape
• Symmetry and drawing guides
• Reference window for your photo or sketch
ANIMATE AND SHARE
• Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin and sound
• Timelapse recording of every artwork
• Export PNG, JPG, PSD, layered files, GIF and video
THOUGHTFUL DETAILS
• Light and dark interface with Liquid Glass
• Keyboard shortcuts for Magic Keyboard
• Siri and Shortcuts: "New A4 canvas in Bristle"
• Larger text and reduced motion support
• Stacks to keep series, studies and ideas together
• iCloud Backup: your artworks, brushes and palettes come back on any iPad
• No account, no ads, no tracking.
BRISTLE PREMIUM
Painting in Bristle Canvas is free. Premium adds unlimited brush designs, Remix, more ideas per brush, 4K exports signed with your own name and your own brushes on every iPad with your Apple ID.
Questions or ideas? hello@createwithbristle.com
– Desart Destro
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://createwithbristle.com/datenschutz#en
Ratings & Reviews
The Living Update
• Edit Motion: change how a Living layer moves any time, right from Layers
• 9 new motions: Bounce, Jelly, Hearts, Spin, Swing, Shake, Heartbeat, Embers and Dance – plus better Drip, Fireflies and Bubbles
• Boards: collect artworks, photos and notes, sketch with pressure and paint with any photo as reference
• Pro tools: Heal, Recolor, adjustment layers, Pattern Mode, Versions, larger canvases, comics with Webtoon export, tattoo stencils, print-ready PDFs, commission previews and your handwriting as a font
• Brush Designer: Change It for quick variations and complete sets of 6 brushes
• Faster layers: pinch to merge, two-finger tap for opacity, swipe left to duplicate or delete
• Smoother painting with big brushes, oil and watercolor
Some features need Bristle Premium.
The developer, Onur Destro, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Onur Destro
- Size
- 73.8 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.6 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
English and 19 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Lifetime $79.99
- Premium Monthly $4.99
- Premium Yearly $39.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Desart Destro
