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Paint it once.
Mix your colours.
Turn the page.

For the sketches you make to learn, not to frame. Load your brush, put the paint down, and let each page be what it is.

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Pleinbook on iPad: a page of thick, textured brush strokes in blue, green, yellow, red and pink, mixed into each other, with the toolbar along the top and the tool rail on the right.

Blue and yellow make green.

Most apps blend colours like light, so blue and yellow turn grey. Pleinbook mixes them like paint, everywhere paint meets paint: on the page, in smudges, on the scratchpad and over toned paper.

Mixed in other apps
Mixed in Pleinbook

Every mark is a commitment.

Pleinbook takes away the digital crutches that make painting tentative. The fastest way to confident marks is by removing the guardrails.

No undo

Strokes can't be taken back. Use the scratchpad to practise and test out brushes. Once you're on the page, commit.

Fixed to the glass

No zoom, pan or rotate. The whole page is always in view. Turn your device like a traditional sketchbook.

One layer, always wet

Paint never dries, so everything on the page stays blendable. No more experimenting in new layers, just paint.

Want a safety net while you learn? Easy Mode adds a single undo step.

Brushes you can take apart.

Every brush opens in a full editor: tip, spacing, scatter, texture, and curves for pressure, tilt and speed. Build custom kits to keep around your Pencil tip.

Dry

Stamping brushes that lay paint down: pencils, inks, gouache, bristle and texture.

Wet

Brushes that pick up paint and drag it, mixing as they go.

Lasso

Draw a shape and it fills as you go: flat, graded or textured.

Double-tap Apple Pencil and your kit appears around the tip, with the colour picker in the middle.

Imports Krita brush bundles and Photoshop brush tips, and exports brushes back as Krita bundles.

A book of pages, not a folder of files.

Build a sketchbook

Picking a sketchbook for a traditional artist defines the format for a whole set of work. In Pleinbook you configure sketchbooks to give a consistent format throughout a series of paintings.

Paper is cheap

The scratchpad automatically creates new pages for every sketchbook page allowing you to test paint and mix colours before touching your work. Ran out of mixing space? Just grab another scratchpad page!

Beyond Pleinbook

Export your pages as PNGs or as a Krita file with separate paper and paint layers. Share an entire sketchbook as a PDF with information about each piece.

Free to paint.

No subscription. Everything you need to paint is free, and one purchase unlocks some extras.

Free Forever

  • Unlimited sketchbooks and pages
  • Standard paper and book covers
  • Pigment mixing workflow
  • Full brush editor and custom kits
  • Import and export your own brushes
  • Drawing guides, value and mirror checks
  • Export pages at their native resolutions

Pleinbook Unlock

£7.99

One-off purchase per Apple Account

  • Replay video of any page, from blank paper to the finished painting
  • Whole sketchbook as a PDF art book
  • 8 premium sketchbook covers
  • 6 premium paper textures
  • iCloud sync of your sketchbooks, brushes and settings across your devices

Coming to a device near you.

Pleinbook is in testing now and coming to the App Store soon.

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