HiPaint 4+

Found this a while back & decided to try it out. I usually draw my laptop but it’s nice to have options & I use to draw on my ipad before I got my laptop’s drawing tablet. This program is pretty nice to mess with & I like that it allows me to not only save in different file types but allows me to choose some of the brushes for the eraser setting. It’s also interesting to see how many strokes I did in the art at the bottom of the screen.

My only complaint is how the layers are named, it’s a small nitpick but I can’t ignore it. The layers by default are numbered(you know, you have layer 1 with a new canvas & add a new layer gets me layer 2 & so on) but if you rename it or delete a layer it keeps counting. By this I mean if I have two layers(number of layers doesn’t matter this is jus an example) & deleting layer 2 or renaming it then add a new layer instead of the new layer being called “layer 2” it’s now “layer 3”. This goes on & no amount of closing the app nor renaming changes this.

This luckily only happens with each canvas so each canvas has it’s own layer count(so canvas 1 has a 7 layer count, canvas 4 has a 9 layer count but new canvas have it reset) but it’s still really annoying. Again it’s a nitpick & not that big of an issue but it’s something that I dislike.

I love this app, it’s pretty much a free procreate just with some differences. One of these differences bothers me and it is the animation feature. The problem is the fact i can’t have 2 layers on a single panel (not sure if that’s the correct word to use so apologies), if I try to make another layer I just end up with another panel and it’s annoying because I want to be able to sketch out my animation and color it and such. Hopefully they improve this. Another problem is the imported brushed group, how are we supposed to import brushes??? There’s no explanation nor no way I can find to import brushes so if there’s an actual way to let me know, but if there’s no way to then what’s the point of that imported brushes group??? Hopefully this also gets improved. Other than that the app’s pretty good, not a big fan of the default brushes and am having difficulty making a brush to my liking because I’m pretty sure the settings are sorta of limiting or at least for me they feel they are, but I might just not understand them too well.

It’s crashes on me, a lot. I have ample amount of space on my iPad and tried exiting out of all my other apps I was using and that didn’t help. I’m so confused why when you click on things with your Apple Pencil it immediately goes away, like if you’re choosing a brush for instance, you have to click the pin just to be able to find a brush without it disappearing after a split second when you move your pencil away, this is the same for a lot of the tools. If you go to click a color, good luck finding one in the split second it lets the color window open for, when you’re not hovering over things, it always has them disappear.. I’m not sure if this is only for the 6th gen iPad Pro because it has hover feature or what but at the end of the day.. the app unusable for me at least. I did want to like it. I tried making a screen recording to show the issues and within 2 minutes it crashed. I see a lot of good reviews so maybe it’s just my iPad or perhaps the glitches and issues are more recent idk.. If this was a brand new app, especially for IOS, I would have never given it the green light to be released and we’d be back to developing.. Good luck.👍