Zen Brush App Reviews

I loaded this app thinking I would love to see Jot Touch palm rejection working. I could not get it to work; half the time I couldnt get my finger or pen working on the paper; so frustrating! Wish I could get my money back.

Palm rejection does not work with this app!

Not bad. I wish they would add more earthy color tones. The limited ink color is a bit limiting. But I guess its more traditional. My palm feature works with my new Jot Touch.

i have only used zen brush a few times but it is now one of my favorite drawing apps.

For sketching letters this program is top notch. Really feels like a brush.

Love the app! One of my favorites out of the 100+ apps Ive purchased. As an aspiring Shodo student I use it on a daily basis to practice, review, and conceptualize. One request however, please add more ink colors! Red, orange, and other colors would be very very helpful and greatly improve the value. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to all the future updates and hopefully some new apps too!

I tried this out with the new Jot Touch Pro. Zen Brushes does a great job of supporting Palm Recognition with the Jot. I would like to be able to save drawing to a gallery or iCloud. Also it needs the ability to zoom in. It would be nice to change colors of the ink also. Otherwise really good feedback in their tools. I would love for them to do a full drawing app.

I use this to practice my Chinese calligraphy. A purist would complain its not the same as the real thing, but it sure is a lot easier than hauling out the brushes, pouring the ink, folding the paper, etc. (To say nothing of having to hike downtown to Chinatown to buy the supplies.) I use Zen Brush on the train with a brush stylus and it does a good job of mimicking real calligraphy, right down to the ink bleed. Highly recommended.

If I were able to upload a picture to use as a reference so I dont have to switch in between applications this would be way more awesome

Love this app! Maybe different styles of brushes and/or different ink colors would be cool. Other that, love it!

I love this simple yet effective app. I actually use it for a practical purpose - to gather digital signatures from a group of people in a class - very simple yet does the job. Also find it useful to practice symbols that I need to remember. Would love to see the ability to use different colors in the next update. Thank you.

This app is excellent for drawing with the feel of Rembrandt ink drawings and of course Chinese landscape. I wish the washes with a bigger brush size could be done "drier" working with the paper texture and the addition of another increment of grey, but overall this app is my favorite for drawing. Works really well with Jot Touch 4.

Very well done but I really thought it was like a zen board where the lettering fades. If it did that, Id rate a perfect 5.

Zen Brush offers what is the best implementation I have ever seen of painting with a Japanese brush that I have ever encountered, on any platform. It is simply superb. Unfortunately the package has one fatal flaw. While you can save your images, you can not load them back in, so you continue to work on them at a later point. I am baffled and quite frustrated by the omission of such a basic feature, which to some may render a otherwise brilliant paint package useless.

This isnt a typical drawing app. It works best when you use minimal brush strokes, hence the zen moniker. The brush is expressive and gives a varied line weight, and the limited color palette basically begs for you to minimize. The colors are additive-- each time you draw over the same area it gets darker, like drawing with a traditional pen. Im using this app to make quick observational sketches. The simplicity of the app is forcing me to use minimal lines and make critical decisions... As a result Im making crisper, more expressive drawings.

Theres no option to import pictures from my camera roll anymore! I need that :(

Extremely easy to use plus many fun background pages. Some pages give you brown "ink", others black.....basically one neutral color but that really is the beauty of it all. I love this app.

Strangely, this app is better on non-Retina devices than on Retina devices, because the paper has a rougher, more visible texture. Developers, please consider giving the paper a rougher texture on Retina devices, too. お願いします！

This app provides a variety of paper backgrounds, option to vary the brush size from very large to very small, has three values of ink and two erasers which, like the brush, you can also shrink or enlarge. With nearly all the backgrounds there is only the choice of black/grey ink but a few of them have a single different ink such as gold or white. The effect is that it encourages the artist to work bold, reminiscent of work done with a (digital) Asian brush. Some artists have done impressive and interesting work with this app. One of my favorites, for what its worth.

This app is so clean and simple. Its beautifully designed and produces beautiful high resolution images. I have it on my iPhone and my iPad.