Sketchbook Pro 4+
Draw, paint and sketch
Sketchbook, Inc
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- $24.99
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Description
From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.
Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas.
• A full complement of brush types: pencils markers, airbrushes, smear and more that look and feel just like their physical counterparts
• Brushes are highly customizable so you can create just the look you want
• Import brushes created by other artists, and share your custom brushes
• Guides, rulers and stroke tools support precision when you need it
• Layers with a full complement of blend modes deliver the flexibility to build up and explore drawings and color
• Sketchbook opens and creates layered PSD and TIFF files so you can use it side by side with your other desktop creative and productivity applications
• Create traditional-style hand-drawn 2D animations with Flipbook
• Purpose-built for sketching, the interface is clean and unobtrusive so you can focus on drawing
• Customize the marking-menus in the lagoon-UI to access your favorite tools or colors with a flick of the wrist
• Customize your hotkeys to make them the same across your creative tools
What’s New
Version 9.3.12
Flipbook now uses the standard Layer Editor
• Includes all Layer Editor features including blend modes, clipping masks, text layers and layer management tools
• Have up to 20 layers/groups in the foreground
• Have up to 20 layers/groups in the background
• The persistent background layer stack is now accessed through the timeline
• The midground concept is deprecated as you now have more than three layers available! Existing .skba files will move the midground layer to the foreground layer stack
Work on larger canvas sizes
• You can now create Flipbooks up to 4K resolution
• Presets include 4K, 2K, and paper aspect ratios for A4 & Letter
Ghosting (onion skinning)
• 7 preset tint colors to help identify next and previous keyframes
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Revised my review.
I first submitted a review punishing Sketchbook Pro for a lack of updates and even questioned if it were abandonware. The developer does respond to reviews, is clearly trying to update and support the application. While there have been bug fixes, the developers still need to update the software and modernize it. This of course takes time and money to execute and promote. I still use this for daily driving—always drawn back to it despite having alternatives, but there are some things that I would like to see implemented better.
Please modernize and improve dragging images into the canvas. The current process is stuck in 2004, please convert to drag and drop!. The perspective tool is great but limited: please give us presets and let us save our own perspective views. Can you also make it easier to adjust by implementing something like a cube we rotate and adjust lens focal length in addition to dragging the wire pins? Also, with multiple monitors, the program can’t decide where all its palettes are—can you please update so the palettes stay with the window?
Developer Response ,
Our last update to Sketchbook Pro was 5 weeks ago. While we always appreciate feedback, we're not sure what to say about this.
Is the new update coming to mac?
I saw on instagram that you guys updated the app for ios. I thought that meant for all apple products but I guess not... So is the new update coming for mac soon?
Also I keep getting a lot of bugs and glitches. Like when I close the app its says it "closed unexpectedly". Also sometimes the eyedropper tool acts weird and doesn't let me select it on the first tap. Hopefully these issues fix with the new update because I really like this app overall
Developer Response ,
Yes! The next macOS update is in development now. And if you could reach out to us at support@sketchbook.com with info on your Mac and which version of macOS you're on, we'd love to look into the issues you're having.
Outstanding!
This is my go to app for drawing and I’ve used it since it was owned by Alias in 2006 and then Autodesk until recently. The current developer is an artist who has a passion for this program which I find impressive and important because you know it’ll stay around. It’s FAR easier than any other drawing app I’ve ever used. The interface bone simple genius and you can just start drawing within seconds. Plus you can animate with it if you select Flipbook in the File menu… There are tons of brushes to download and It’s very easy to figure it what each tool does. I’ve tried Photoshop, Clip Studio as well as Procreate and many other drawing apps. Bleh… all of their interfaces stink. I also love that I can put it on my Mac, my PC, my Samsung s21 and my iPad. Whoever has given this amazing app less than 5 stars is nuts. Try it believe me you’ll like it. Plus it’s a small company so support independent developers! Adobe doesn’t need your money.
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Information
- Seller
- Sketchbook, Inc.
- Size
- 107.9 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021-2025 Sketchbook, Inc.
- Price
- $24.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.