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Best Digital Painting Apps for iPhone (2026)

33 apps ranked S through F · · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Part of Drawing.

ibis Paint X is the top-ranked of 33 digital painting apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.7/5 from 300,410 ratings.

  1. 1
    ibis Paint XS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 300,410 ratings · score 97
  2. 2
    Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint AppS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 62,177 ratings · score 95
  3. 3
    Tayasui SketchesS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 54,201 ratings · score 95
  4. 4
    Sketchbook®S
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 220,562 ratings · score 92
  5. 5
    MediBang Paint for iPhoneS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 16,977 ratings · score 91

What belongs in this list

Paint and sketch with brushes and colors on a phone or tablet canvas.

Not here: a coloring book alone; a pixel art editor alone; a photo filter alone; a drawing lesson alone; a virtual makeup tool alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

S
ibis Paint XAdobe FrescoTayasui SketchesSketchbook®MediBangHiPaintSketch Pro
A
Picsart ColorInfiniteDrawing Pad -Doodle MagicPaper
B
ibis PaintDrawing ▫iArtbookTayasui Watercolor & PaintingTayasui Sketches SchoolDrawing AppArtstudio Pro
C
Procreate PocketNeon DrawSketch ClubProcreateDoodle BuddyDrawing Pad procreate SketchSketchBook
D
Art Set 4Drawing AppsDrawing Desk
F
Sketch TreeJoy DoodleDrawing PadDrawingEZ

Compare every app

  1. 1
    ibis Paint XS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 300,410 ratings · score 97 · best in class
  2. 2
    Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint AppS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 62,177 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  3. 3
    Tayasui SketchesS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 54,201 ratings · score 95 · best in class
  4. 4
    Sketchbook®S
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 220,562 ratings · score 92 · best in class
  5. 5
    MediBang Paint for iPhoneS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 16,977 ratings · score 91 · best in class
  6. 6
    HiPaint- Sketch & PaintS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 3,060 ratings · score 90 · best in class
  7. 7
    Sketch Pro: Draw & Create ArtS
    Free download · ★ 4.7 · 11,569 ratings · score 90 · best in class
  8. 8
    Picsart Color: Draw & PaintA
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 22,388 ratings · score 89 · excellent
  9. 9
    Infinite PainterA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 10,181 ratings · score 86 · excellent
  10. 10
    Drawing Pad -A
    Free download · ★ 4.3 · 99,177 ratings · score 84 · excellent
  11. 11
    Doodle Magic: Glow Art DrawingA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 53,514 ratings · score 83 · excellent
  12. 12
    Paper: Sketch, Draw & CreateA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 73,015 ratings · score 83 · excellent
  13. 13
    ibis PaintB
    $15.99 · ★ 4.7 · 4,104 ratings · score 79 · good
  14. 14
    Drawing ▫B
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 15,184 ratings · score 75 · good
  15. 15
    iArtbookB
    Free download · ★ 3.8 · 11,649 ratings · score 74 · good
  16. 16
    Tayasui Watercolor & PaintingB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 5,086 ratings · score 73 · good
  17. 17
    Tayasui Sketches SchoolB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 9,068 ratings · score 73 · good
  18. 18
    Drawing App: Doodle Draw PadB
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 46,216 ratings · score 73 · good
  19. 19
    Artstudio Pro: Draw, PaintB
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,074 ratings · score 72 · good
  20. 20
    Procreate PocketC
    $5.99 · ★ 3.8 · 12,725 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
  21. 21
    Neon Draw - Glow Doodle ArtC
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 6,237 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
  22. 22
    Sketch ClubC
    $2.99 · ★ 4.8 · 2,612 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
  23. 23
    ProcreateC
    $12.99 · ★ 4.4 · 50,784 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
  24. 24
    Doodle Buddy Paint Draw AppC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 15,803 ratings · score 65 · situational
  25. 25
    Drawing Pad procreate SketchC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.1 · 67,151 ratings · score 63 · situational
  26. 26
    SketchBook -drawing & paintingC
    Free · ★ 4.4 · 27,747 ratings · score 62 · situational
  27. 27
    Art Set 4D
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 28,730 ratings · score 56 · weak · provisional
  28. 28
    Drawing AppsD
    Free download · ★ 4.4 · 5,177 ratings · score 56 · weak · provisional
  29. 29
    Drawing Desk paint,draw,papersD
    Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,544 ratings · score 51 · weak
  30. 30
    Sketch Tree - Art Drawing PadF
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,896 ratings · score 48 · avoid · provisional
  31. 31
    Joy Doodle: Movie Color & DrawF
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 139,308 ratings · score 43 · avoid · provisional
  32. 32
    Drawing Pad - apps for DrawingF
    Free download · ★ 4.3 · 6,886 ratings · score 39 · avoid · provisional
  33. 33
    DrawingEZ: Draw, Color, MoveF
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 2,575 ratings · score 39 · avoid · provisional

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Questions people ask

What is the best digital painting app for iPhone?
ibis Paint X, S tier, ranked #1 of 33, rated 4.7 by 300,410 people.
Which digital painting apps are free?
29 of 33 are free to download: ibis Paint X (S), Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint App (S), Tayasui Sketches (S), Sketchbook® (S) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which digital painting app has the best App Store rating?
Sketch Club at 4.8 from 2,612 ratings.
How many digital painting apps reach S or A tier?
12 of 33. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.

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