Rindraw is a drawing, painting, and animation app for iPad, iPhone, and Mac, sold for a one-time $12.99 rather than by subscription. Its central idea is to retain each mark as an editable stroke path, including pressure and tilt, instead of permanently flattening it into pixels. Artists can recolor, bend, scale, or export strokes at larger sizes while keeping them sharp. The app aims to combine the texture and behavior of painted brushes with some of the editability associated with vector tools; finished exports are still image files. A browser demo lets visitors draw, reshape a line, and compare zoomed results with stretched pixels.
The app includes more than 300 brushes, wet-paint mixing, symmetry, layers, masks, blend modes, filters, animation, timelapse, and painting on 3D models. Multiple comic or storyboard pages can share an infinite canvas and export as a PDF. It supports Procreate and Photoshop artwork, brushes, and palettes, and can export formats including PSD and 16-bit TIFF, with CMYK options for print. Drawings are saved as strokes are made, undo history remains after restarting, and damaged files are protected from being overwritten. One purchase covers all three Apple platforms, with libraries able to sync through iCloud Drive. Rindraw works offline, requires no account, and says it collects no personal data; it is not available for Android or Windows.
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