Atelier Easel
Photo editing simplified
Free
Paint, draw, and edit images with layers, brushes, and filters, by touch or with Apple Pencil on iPad.
Easel is an image editor for iPhone and iPad. Paint with your finger, or with an Apple Pencil on iPad that responds to pressure and tilt. Work in layers with masks and groups, and edit photos directly from the Photos app.
Files
- Open Easel images, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, Photoshop (.psd), and Pixelmator Pro (.pxd) files
- Save as an Easel image, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or Photoshop (.psd) with layers, masks, and groups
- Export presets that save a format, a quality, and a maximum size, and export several at once
- Edit a photo from the Photos app's Edit menu
- Preview Easel and Pixelmator Pro images in Files
Painting and Drawing
- Brushes, an eraser, fill and gradient tools, and an eyedropper
- Round, pencil, calligraphy, airbrush, and chalk brush tips, with paper grain
- Save your own brushes by name, alongside a few built-in ones
- A ruler you move, turn, and stretch with your fingers, so you can draw straight lines along it
- Vector shapes, lines, and arrows, plus a pen tool, node editing, and combining shapes by unite, subtract, intersect, and exclude
- Text, including text along a path
- Symmetry drawing: vertical, horizontal, or both
- Swatches saved with each image
Apple Pencil on iPad
- Pressure and tilt shape each stroke
- Shade with a tilted pencil, and turn the calligraphy nib as you lean it
- See the brush outline under a hovering Apple Pencil or pointer
Retouching
- Smudge, blur, mosaic, heal, and clone
- Liquify to push and pull pixels
- Fill a selection from its surroundings
- Remove the background, keeping the subject
- Adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, vibrance, temperature, tint, hue, sharpness, and vignette
Selecting and Transforming
- Rectangle, ellipse, lasso, color-based, and object selection, including selecting a subject
- Move, crop, rotate, and flip
- Distort a layer in perspective or warp it on a grid
- Guides, rulers, and snapping to help line things up
Layers
- Layers with blend modes, groups, and masks
- Filters and adjustments on a layer: black and white, sepia, saturation, brightness, contrast, levels, curves, color balance, gradient map, mosaic, noise reduction, and Gaussian, motion, zoom, and lens blur
- Change the canvas size, and place the artwork by an anchor, scale it to fit, or stretch it to fill
Shortcuts
- Resize images, convert their format, and remove their background with Shortcuts actions you can chain together
Working Faster
- Keyboard shortcuts with a hardware keyboard to copy, paste, nudge layers, size brushes, and zoom
- A history panel to go back to any step and compare with the original
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The developer, Justin Xin, 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
- Justin Xin
- Size
- 16.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Justin Xin