Charcoal 4+

Visualize Your Ideas

Susanne Volk-Augustin

Designed for iPad

    • 3.7 • 59 Ratings
    • Free

Description

Charcoal allows you to visualize ideas. It’s simple and focuses on what matters: your idea.

• Charcoal is incredibly easy to use: Just create or open a sketch and start sketching. There are no layers or confusing settings. Instead, Charcoal features rich tools and beautiful color palettes.
• Charcoal allows you to export a sketch to use it in your favorite graphics program.
• Charcoal supports modern iOS and iPadOS features like multiple windows and dark mode: use it at night or open multiple sketches, even side by side.

What’s New

Version 1.5

• This update adds several new tools: Crayon, Fountain Pen & Watercolor
• You can now customize Charcoal’s interface
• The settings have been redesigned
• Sketches can be exported at a higher quality
• Charcoal now fully supports the latest iPadOS and iOS versions
• Several bugs have been fixed

Thanks for using Charcoal!

Ratings and Reviews

3.7 out of 5
59 Ratings

59 Ratings

Commenter16261 ,

Nice little app - be a great whiteboard

This app would be perfect as a whiteboard app. The simplicity really kicks-in as super valuable for white boarding. Having a range of simple tools rather than only markers is great for visual facilitation work. All it’s missing is a laser tool and unlimited canvas capability.

There are plenty of sketching apps (aimed at kids and adults who ‘play’) as well as loads of note taking apps - two very crowded markets. As a professional, I’m already using ProCreate, and Affinity Designer for vector work. They both nail pro level art working. A really great whiteboard app the one thing I’m missing.

I’d recommend the developer give serious thought to positioning this app as a simple concepts sketching and white-boarding app. I’d happily pay for one that did those two things well. They both require simplicity in order to work well.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for taking the time to write a review! I'll definitely consider this feedback when developing future updates.

AD_You_Clicked_The_Ad ,

Here is the deal

So, the colour palette is decent, offering a good amount of colours such as pink. What I must ask is, where are the colours that we may need like brown? Anyway, the tools that are offered aren’t terrible, but a couple more couldn’t hurt. The fact that the app is free is great however, and another great perk is the little to-no ads on this app. One other thing that is great, is that we can choose the page we want to draw on. Whether we want it to be portrait, landscape or square is completely up to us. So, overall this is a great app that I personally wouldn’t use for extremely complicated drawings, but is great for someone to sketch or record ideas for future products/drawings/concept art. I can certainly see myself using this in the future for concept art so thank you developers!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the positive review! I'm currently working on an update to the app which will allow you to create custom color palettes. This way, you will be able to add your own browns, for example. I hope to be able to release the update this fall.

Reltish ,

I like it

I love the simplicity of it and the different pastel colour palletes (I think theyre really cute). I only wish there were three changes, you could rotate the canvas, you could change brush size/opacity and when drawing, the lines seem to apply to the canvas in quite a choppy manner, not as smooth as some other maps. Not sure how easy that last one is to fix but it is the only thing stopping me from using this app more. I think it's great!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for writing a review! I’m currently working on the first two and hope to be able to release an update with the features this fall. The performance will also be improved and I’m always trying to make the app more stable and responsive.

App Privacy

The developer, Susanne Volk-Augustin, 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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