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Color to Your Heart’s Content

An artistic way to unwind.

Looking for a way to relax while supporting illustrators from all over the world? Scribble your way through Lake.

What we love: With haptic feedback, you can feel each brushstroke as you move your finger across the screen. Realistic brushes let you play with textures and layer colors as you would on a real-life canvas. And the creation process is low-stress—undo up to 20 times as you get your piece just right.

Lake’s daily coloring journal creates a custom palette based on your mood.

Quick tip: A subscription unlocks all drawings as well as tools for fine-tuning your art. Tweak opacity for the perfect shading, adjust brush sliders with greater precision, and more.

Meet the creator: Lake was founded in 2016 in collaboration with 11 illustrators. Today the artist roster numbers over 100. The app won an Apple Design Award in 2017 and is the only app of its kind to offer a revenue-sharing plan for its artists.