As an artist I've been looking for a painting app with a natural feel and this is the best I've found! Very easy interface to use and this paint app has blending! Most of the art apps out there I've tried are missing this feature. The customer service is incredible. Thanks for the great app KiwiPixel! Looking forward to the future of this app :)

Definitely the BEST painting app I've tried in the store so far. The blending you can do with a dry brush is really fun to play with and the palette knife looks amaaaazing. Once you get used to the painting menu, it rocks - read the Tips & Tricks!

Nice blending and painting! A direct competitor to another app called Brushes. Some comments... This app should incorporate 2 features found in Brushes. First, a color transparency setting which would allow for even more subtlety and, second, the ability to immediately recover your previous color selection when using the color picker (Brushes allows you to simply tap on "old" to recover your previous color). Inspire 1.0 suffers from an annoying UI design: if one of your short painting strokes is misinterpreted to be a "tap" then the settings icons will suddenly appears directly on top of your drawing...very annoying. To be fair, this accidental "tap-to-menu" issue can also occur when using Brushes, but with Brushes at least there are no icons under your finger to accidentally press with a second tap. A better UI design for Inspire would be to show (in a very discrete way) an area in one of the screen corners that the user would tap to launch the tools/settings. Inspire also forces you to watch an annoying and unnecessary launch screen at every launch...get rid of that! But for only version 1.0 it's still an impressive effort that deserves at least a 4 stars rating.

The application closes out if your trying to change brush types or color, etc. It closes and takes you right back to your home screen. You have to keep saving your work so that if it does close you can pick up where you left off, maybe.

I read the reviews for inspire. They sounded quite good. i didn't want to waste my money, so I read the reviews through again and again. Finally, I bought it. It is a must have. If you switch your brush or color, it doesn't exit out! This application blends and paints like a brush! Also, the brushes are awesome. There's a normal brush, a fan brush, a pallet knife, and a round brush. You must get this!

This app is right on par with programs like Brushes and Colors! in terms of abilities though there are some tweeks needed. The eyedropper tool should be more brushes like, allowing you to simply hold down to activate the dropper. The controls for the brushes are a little odd. You select the brush type and size in one window, and the rotation, paint load, and other aspects in a totally separate window. It could save time to have all brush controls in a single area while you paint. The other issue I have is the lack of TRANSPARENCY. It really needs this to be a completely usable app. I do love this apps brushes though and especially the dry brush effect that allows you to smear paint together in a fairly natural manner. Nice work.

This app is right on par with programs like Brushes and Colors! in terms of abilities though there are some tweeks needed. The eyedropper tool should be more brushes like, allowing you to simply hold down to activate the dropper. The controls for the brushes are a little odd. You select the brush type and size in one window, and the rotation, paint load, and other aspects in a totally separate window. It could save time to have all brush controls in a single area while you paint. The other issue I have is the lack of TRANSPARENCY. It really needs this to be a completely usable app. I do love this apps brushes though and especially the dry brush effect that allows you to smear paint together in a fairly natural manner. Nice work. UPDATE: now that Layers, Brushes, and Sketchbook Mobil all have layers, this app has fallen behind a bit. For an update, layers and a more professional looking splash screen and UI would catch this app back up. Still a great app though, just not quite as good as the top any more.