FocalPaint4.1.1 - App Store

FocalPaint's unique brush engine simulates thick paint and real pigment mixing with accurate physics models.

Features:
- Realistic color blending behaves like real paint!
- Real canvas texture and paint thickness
- Transparent Ink simulation
- Open Source GPU shader code library for reference and customization
- Write your own custom brush with Metal GPU or Javascript code
- Write your own custom layer modes with Metal GPU code
- Apple Pencil Pro support with hover
- 16 channel "spectral" color model (256 bits per pixel)
- Wide color gamut (P3)

Please note: Apple A12 GPU or newer is required

Terms of Use:
https://www.focalpaint.com/p/terms-of-use.html

Privacy Policy:
https://www.focalpaint.com/p/privacy.html

Special Thanks to:

Scott Allen Burns
Troy James Sobotka & Friends
colour-science.org python library
MyPaint painting software team
Anna Timm (@anti-art)

Version History Fixed Eraser mode that caused a crash
Added a brush inheritance field to allow brushes to be based on a common brush
Enhanced bristle and bristle cluster settings to allow much more fidelity in brushes
The next release will have a huge update to the brush library! 4.1.1 Aug 8 - Brush Tag menu system. Brushes grouped by keywords added in the brush editor
- Major Performance improvements
- Rendering problem with tiny brushes fixed
- New Light Sketch brush added 4.1.0 Jul 15 - added additional canvas textures
- added preference option to disable brush cursor
- updated slider style to more modern thumbless look 4.0.5 Apr 13 - per-layer custom shader code editor (make your own special FX or custom layer modes)
- brush updates and fixes
- removes donation links (removes in-app purchases) 4.0.4 Feb 16 Set a maximum canvas size of 25 megapixels, to avoid problems with excessive memory usage. 3.8 08/04/2025 Now you can adjust the size of tool windows; color wheel, palette mixer, and color editor. Just click the gear icon and slide the UI Scale slider to your personal preference 3.7 07/14/2025 Fixes bugs:

- bristle count too high caused a crash
- metalFX upscaling had a rendering artifact 3.5 12/16/2024 - Even more realistic brushes with variations on each bristle
- New default oil brush
- Bug fixes for saving modified brushes 3.4 12/09/2024 At last pinch/zoom/pan work as you might expect! 3.3 11/03/2024 - dedicated smudge brush mode to complement normal and eraser modes
- fixes for brush lists odd behaviors 3.2 09/22/2024 Eraser Mode can use and remember a different brush than Painting Mode
Apple Pencil Pro Squeeze support
Palette Mixer panel can be color picked with a finger now while mid-stroke
Brush Updates
Fixes to the Travel Distant input
Avoid crashing when picking color outside the canvas 3.1 09/09/2024 - Improve window resizing when rotating device or split view
- Fixes a problem with zoom getting stuck 3.0.3 08/03/2024 - fixes brush preview cursor (don't use multiply mode) 3.0.2 07/11/2024 - Makes brush cursor turn into a regular cursor over other UI elements
- Fixes a default brush
- Disabled MetalFX Upscaling by default for better performance 3.0.1 07/11/2024 - Brush Cursor / Preview
- This previews the brush shape and orientation, including barrel roll!
- Makes using an external monitor more pleasant
- Fixes for various display issues, Display Zoom, etc
- Brush Updates 3.0.0 07/10/2024 New Brush Input! Barrel Rotation (Roll Angle), for Apple Pencil Pro on iOS 17.5 or newer! 2.7.0 05/12/2024 - Fixes an issue drawing near edges of the canvas
- Make sliders easier to use
- Fix a background texture/canvas loading issue
- Import Photo as Layer now scales and rotates the image to fit the canvas 2.6.6 04/14/2024 - Maintenance updates for supporting new iOS versions
- Fixed default brush eraser 2.6.3 03/03/2024 Update smudge paint algorithm for thickness
Update brushes
Add optional tip / contribution links to in-app purchases, so you can support FocalPaint if you enjoy it 2.6.2 02/18/2024 - fixes an issue where smudge erases at the beginning of strokes
- new color picker UI based on color history
- brush editor fix for special characters in brush name
- brush updates, new custom brush to shift color/value 2.4.0 01/29/2024 - fix an incorrect calculation for Direction Changed brush input
- updated brushes 2.3.4 12/16/2023 - New color picker square model (similar to HSV Square)
- Adjust colors mid-stroke for smooth gradients and faster workflow
- Revamped canvas rendering for larger canvas support and better performance
- Updated brushes 2.3.0 12/15/2023 Fixes an issue with iOS 17 and non-m1/m2 iPads. MetalFX is not supported on these devices but was enabled automatically. Alternatively to updating, one can disable MetalFX in FocalPaint preferences 2.2.1 09/24/2023 - Background improvement, don't apply bump map to background image, which makes it look strange and lumpy
- Reduce specular highlights more, avoid more halo artifacts 2.2.0 08/27/2023 Small fix to avoid halo artifact 2.1.2 08/23/2023