Built in the open

Built by artists, for artists.

A powerful drawing app for concept art, sketching and illustration — and growing. Buy once. No subscriptions.

Paintform — the drawing app in action
Buy once
No subscription, ever
Yours forever
Free updates as it grows
Your files
On your machine, no login
What's inside today

A real tool, not a toy.

Everything you need to take a piece from blank canvas to finished illustration — already in your hands.

Authored brushes

Round and textured tips — charcoal, chalk, bristle, spatter — with size, rotation and scatter jitter. Import your own, too.

Layers & clipping

A full layer stack with clipping masks — clean shading and color, with undo and persistence baked in.

A color picker that thinks

SB square, hue slider, hex entry, recents and saved swatches that stay put between sessions.

Crop & canvas size

An interactive crop tool with live handles and a thirds overlay, plus precise canvas resize with anchors.

Save & export

Native .pform documents that keep your layers intact, plus PNG export to share the finished piece.

Eyedropper on hold

Hold to sample any color from the canvas, release to keep painting. The small things that keep you in flow.

Own your tools. The way it used to be.

No monthly fee hanging over your art. No login wall on your own work. You pay once, the app is yours, and every update lands free.

Where it's headed

One tool for the whole journey.

A drawing app today — built toward taking an idea from first sketch all the way to finished animation, without leaving the app.

Shipping now
  • Concept art & sketching
  • Illustration & painting
  • Layers, clipping & brushes
  • Crop, resize, save & export
In the works
  • Storyboarding
  • Richer export options
  • More authored brush packs
On the horizon
  • Frame-by-frame animation
  • The full sketch-to-screen pipeline
  • Whatever you ask us to build