The iPhone’s touchscreen is one of the best around when it comes to responsiveness, and this has given rise to great sketching apps and products for designers and artists. Here are five of the best you’ve never heard of. --Craig Grannell
Yu Nejigane · $1.99
Pixel art remains charming and popular, and creating delicate artwork of this kind seems suited to an iPhone’s small screen. Tiny Pixels enables you to pick a canvas size, draw and undo, and export, email, or tweet finished art. Pan/zoom is a little awkward and there’s no flood fill, but this app’s otherwise first-rate. Pixel art fans should also grab Minipops ($.99) for celeb-based pixel-art fun.
Once, most digital artwork was created pixel by pixel!
Code Line · $9.99
Designers tend to have an eye for color, but having a color wheel handy makes it much easier to create exciting and interesting color schemes. Color Expert is a versatile and feature-packed digital color wheel that rivals desktop-based apps that are priced significantly higher. The app includes a swatch library, and you can make schemes using a photo or the interactive color wheel. When you’re done, the app exports your palette in various formats.
If you think the app looks great, wait until you see the beautiful emails it sends.
Hansol Huh · $1.99
There are plenty of sketching apps available for your device, such as Layers and Brushes, famously used for New Yorker covers. While impressive, they’re also much like any desktop drawing tool. By contrast, Type Drawing is original and very slightly bonkers. Type a sentence and then drag to draw with your chosen letters. Faster drags enlarge the size of the letters, and you can also adjust the background, font, and type color.
Draw with letters and make typographers cry out in pain.
Shawn Roske · Free
Saturation is both an art toy and a great inspirational tool for anyone who works with color and graphics. The app draws themes from the online Adobe Kuler project; select a theme and then pick a visualizer to see how the colors interact. Two are available in the initial release (more are promised): one provides a grid of dots that divide when tapped and the other is a trippy and hypnotic 3D lightshow.
The second of Saturation's visualizers is excitingly hypnotic.
Büro Destruct · $0.99
If you’ve ever felt the urge to become a Swiss designer, this odd little art toy might satisfy your appetite. Using a set of rules and a bunch of circles and squares you can create limitless sleek designs that can subsequently be saved and shared by email. Manipulation of your creations is done by gestures and tools--shake to randomize everything, or fine-tune the grid, shapes, colors, transparency, and harmonization to your heart’s content.
Uniqure drawing with circles and squares from the Swiss.
swatkins01
February 01, 2011 at 6:51am
Has the option to print the article disappeared or am I just missing it?
brigosx
January 31, 2011 at 12:55pm
Working with shifts? Is sometimes a bit hard to remember all your duties? You would like to buy a tool for making this job for you without spending lot of money? If the answer to all these questions is YES then Duties Watcher is the app for you. Born from the same necessity to make our working life easier. You may find at the App Store.
With it's smart scheduler Duties Watcher is the app!!! You will never regret buying this awesome product.
July2009
May 19, 2010 at 8:12pm
Here are top 20 of our favorite free iPad apps to get you started from the App Store.
http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/ipad/best-20-free-ipad-apps.html
kylerwalker
May 12, 2010 at 3:15pm
every math teacher would love the ipolygon app.but i like the doodle cart app sauce lifter pinball dreams and cluck it
tb
May 07, 2010 at 7:12pm
We just released an iPhone app that allows users to keep a photographic food diary and email their day's log to anyone (themselves, a personal trainer, nutritionist, diet buddy, etc.) It's called dietSNAPS. You can check it out at http://www.dietSNAPS.com.
