Ekakiba: Manga & Pixel Art

Sketch, ink, tone and animate

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Three places to draw in one app: draft manga with panels, screentone and balloons, animate pixel art into GIFs, or paint freely with 50 brushes and layers. Ekakiba is a drawing app where you choose where to draw: Canvas, Pixel Art or Manga Draft. On iPad with Apple Pencil, pressure and tilt shape every line. On iPhone, draw with your finger. ■ Manga Draft Start from a panel layout (4-panel strip, 3 or 4 tiers, big panel, 2 tiers, or none), or make your own: draw a line to split a panel (slanted lines work too), or drag out a rectangle to add one. Gutters are spaced for you. Every page begins with a Sketch layer and an Inks layer, and the brush switches for you: a light-blue pencil for sketching, a black G-pen for inking. Fade or hide the sketch with one tap to check your inks. • Balloons and dialogue: tap to place a balloon and type the lines. Round, box (narration), burst (shout) and cloud (thought). Drag to move. Japanese text sets vertically. • Screentone: tap an enclosed area to apply dots or hatching. It stays inside the panel border. • Lettering: gothic, mincho and rounded Japanese fonts plus 15 display fonts, with text color and outline. Import your own .ttf or .otf fonts. ■ Pixel Art Draw one pixel at a time on grids from 16×16 to 128×128, with pen, eraser, fill, line, rectangle, ellipse, eyedropper and mirror. Add frames to animate, with the previous frame shown faintly underneath, then export an animated GIF. ■ Canvas 50 brushes for sketching, inking, painting and manga: pencils, charcoal, G-pen, brush pen, watercolor, gouache, markers, crayon, pastel, solid black, white-out and more. Each brush remembers its own size and opacity. • Bucket fill: tap inside your lines and the color goes underneath them • Airbrush: soft or spray, with pressure-controlled density, plus a soft-edged airbrush eraser • Shapes: line, rectangle, ellipse, circle, regular polygon, polyline and curve, stroked with your current brush and optionally filled • 19 filters: color adjustments, gradient map, line extraction, blurs, mosaic, outline, glow and more, previewed live • Free transform and mesh warp. Stroke layers stay editable strokes • 30 materials: patterns, traditional Japanese motifs, focus and speed lines, stamps and frames • Animation: each layer is a frame, with onion skinning • Grid overlay for blocking in shapes • Layers: visibility, opacity and order, plus blend modes (multiply, screen, overlay and more) and clipping to the layer below • Photo import for underdrawings and tracing, and a floating reference window • Perspective guide: 1-point and 2-point. Lines snap straight toward the vanishing points • Flip view, lasso, eyedropper and ruler ■ Feels like a drawing tablet • Two fingers to move and zoom • Two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo • Double-tap Apple Pencil to switch to the eraser (follows your system setting) • Turn on "Draw only with Apple Pencil" so fingers only move and zoom • On iPad, tools sit in a vertical dock on the left so your other hand can adjust size and opacity • Settings for the current tool (eraser type, shape and so on) stay visible in a bar ■ Daily prompts A new theme appears in your gallery every day. Draw it on consecutive days to build a streak. ■ Save and export Your work saves automatically. Export PNG, JPEG or PDF, with a transparent background or each layer as its own image. You can also make a time-lapse video that replays your strokes in order. Save to Photos or Files (including iCloud Drive), or share to other apps. ■ Unlocking brushes Pencil 2B, G-pen and watercolor, plus the manga sketch pencil and inking G-pen, are always available. Other brushes unlock for the rest of your session when you watch an ad. ■ Premium (one-time purchase) • All 50 brushes, any time • Up to 12 layers (3 without Premium) • 64×64, 96×96 and 128×128 pixel art, and up to 24 animation frames (4 without Premium) • Screentone, perspective guide, blend modes and clipping • Burst and cloud balloons • Animated GIF (pixel art and canvas) and time-lapse video export • Saved palettes • No ads Ads never appear while you're drawing.

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• Open PSD files, keeping layer names, opacity and blend modes such as Multiply • New export formats: HEIF, AVIF and WebP • Export animations as animated WebP or MP4 video, with an audio track • Alpha lock: repaint a layer's colors while keeping its transparent areas untouched • Symmetry ruler: mirror your strokes left-right, top-bottom or in four directions

Version 1.2

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Information

Seller
Kusama Yoshiki
Size
10.1 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and Japanese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
© 2026 qusamulab
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