For digital artists and manga creators, ranging from hobbyists to professionals, who value mobile portability and social sharing of their creative process.
Empowering digital artists with professional-grade illustration tools and a social ecosystem for sharing the creative process on mobile.
Target audience
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ibis Paint
v14.0.1
3mo ago
Primary focus
Mobile digital illustration and manga creation tools
Scale
indie
Target audience
Digital artists and manga creators, ranging from hobbyists to professionals, who value mobile portability and social sharing of their creative process.
Maintains an active development cycle with 9 updates across its 2 flagship titles in the last 6 months, with the most recent major release occurring 15 days ago.
2 apps analysed
47,000-brush library creates a high-value asset barrier
Distributed across 11 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 1 of 2 apps with localized market data — more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
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Positive apps
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Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
87/100
Avg sentiment score
A new specialized animation tool from the Procreate team that disrupts the 2D motion market.
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
A peer that focuses on the animation use-case that ibis Paint only supports via process recording.
A high-velocity rival that leverages Adobe's Creative Cloud ecosystem and unique 'Live Brush' technology.
The mobile port of the world's leading desktop comic software, offering professional-grade parity.
The most direct feature-for-feature competitor in the Manga and comic creation sub-genre.
A long-standing, widely recognized tool for sketching and conceptual design.
A powerful alternative known for its advanced brush engine and perspective tools.
Occupies the design and architecture niche with an infinite vector canvas.
A high-velocity vector design tool (18 releases in 6 months) targeting the marketing and branding audience.
Rapidly gaining traction by focusing on high-quality AI-assisted asset generation for digital artists.
Aggressive release cadence and integration of generative AI video tools represent a disruptive shift in creative workflows.
A rapidly emerging threat that clones the Procreate experience for both iOS and Android users.