SketchBook Ink

One star for potential and decent rendering, otherwise woefully inadequate, not even a fill tool. Needs a line, pen, shape, fill & gradient tools before I'd even consider this worthy of three stars. Not really worth the price considering there are free apps that have at least those options. A working gradient mesh tool would earn 5 stars from me, but it's a long way to that yet. Really, this should be a free beta app.

after try half hour, work effecientcy better than sketch book pro version. need some function that necesseries like fill color for a big area or big brush. And i also love custom preset in sketchbook pro version even it has only 2 things will adjust (stroke wieght and color) in this app. worth money , looking for app like this for a long time :)

Basically all you have is a brush, different colors (thank god) and layer support. One tool for 5 dollars, for an app that totally feels like is in alpha stage. Even the brushes that come with the tool feel like there are only 3 of them: normal pen pressure, reverted pressure and no pressure. STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP.

Brush size can not go large enough to colour big areas. I would really love to see some kind of parity with Sketchbook. The lack of corner shortcuts drives me insane! Not compatible with the eraser end of the Spen.

Good idea but poorly executed... export layer option would be great and if the reference image layer would actually import reference images... This app would be useful. As it stands , this is just another drawing app no different from the thousands of other drawing apps in the store.

This could be a great 5 star app if I could get support to respond to my email. I bought the app from google play and tried it but can draw on it at all. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. I heard there was a version for my device but could only get it from Samsung's app market but when I checked there was no such app. I hope Autodesk can work this problem out for me.

Asinine alert tells you repeatedly that 'pen only mode only works with pen' if you touch it with your hand (happens all the time). Seriously - let me turn the sodding alert off. Apart from that really like it ;)

I paid for it. Had high hopes. PLEASE UPDATE IT AND FIX THE ABILITY TO EXPORT. It WAS exporting on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A but all of a sudden without warning it doesn't anymore!!! I EVEN HAVE VIDEOS OF ME ON YOUTUBE USING IT SUCCESSFULLY WHAT HAPPENED??? EVERY TIME I GO TO GALLERY IT CRASHES.

Working on the Note 8.0, the new pressure pen support is a godsend. Unfortunately, while you can disable everything but the pen, it will still pick up long holds with your hand, fingers and palm which force the program to bring up the palette selector. This makes it awkward to draw with you palm to of the surface.

I'm using this app on a first generation Galaxy Tab 10.1 along with a Galaxy Note 10.1 and I have yet to experience any of the issues other users are mentioning. This app is very responsive for me on both tablets, not once have I experienced any lag. I would like to see import/export to Pro and I'm hoping that will come soon, but in the meantime I save to device then open in Pro. As far as the app lacking brushes and a bunch of other features it says right in the description that there's 7 presets with different weight and behaviors so I knew what was in the app before buying it. It's perfect for line work and illustrations, now if I'm looking to create great detail and gradients I use Pro. I am very happy with Sketchbook Ink and I always look forward to using it...

I demand a refund as the app is non responsive and extreamly buggy! I have a screen shot of what I see everytime I open the app. I havnt even been able to draw a thing, im using galaxy tab 3 so please fix this FAST or refund me the money ive paid for nothing!

Laggy on 10.1 2014, pen settings can't be adjusted. It does some rendering after EVERY. STROKE. Please update or at least be more clear in the product description.

(nVidia Shield Tablet) I already own Sketchbook Pro and just picked this up the other day. The plan was to do my pencil work in Sketchbook and then send a photo of it into this to do the inking and coloring. Unfortunately it will not import any photos into the app as promised. I've tried looking in settings and reinstalling to no success. Please fix this or advice me on what I need to do to import photos. As it is now it is a worthless app and I have just thrown away my money : /

Has great potential but not as developed as Sketchbook Pro. Missing rulers and basic shapes, and any kind of vector editing. UI settings are nonexistent. It is impossible to draw a dot. Nags every time you touch the screen with one finger when using a pressure sensitive pen. No calligraphic pens. No full-line eraser, limited undo, no masking.

I really like the idea, but it needs tweaking. The brushes need to be bigger and the on screen colour palate should have a hide option, it gets a bit annoying. The on screen palate ought also have a swatch picker option so you can swap to popular colours without hitting the full menu.

App crashes if you shut your screen off. Its minimalistic. Pressure sensitivity is either not there or implemented horribly on this app. I do like the app.

wish the underlay layer could be resized and rotated. also would be nice to share back and forth from sketchbook more easily. Some sort of export to vectors would be nice as well. Also please support the eraser function on the s-pens that hsve thst feature.

I wanted to sketch over a picture, but the import image for underlay feature fails silently (using nexus 7). Also reported by other users on get satisfaction.

I paid for it. Had high hopes. Hopes were dashed when it failed to export 5 times. Didn't think a pay-for app would be this terrible. How do I get my money back? And when it does export all there is, is a blank 1kb .png! How can Autodesk charge this much for something so full of bugs? PLESS UPDATE IT AND FIX THE ABILITY TO EXPORT.

Every time i tap the gallery button i get a message "ink has stopped". And the whole thing crashes. Its no good to me like that. And i already have "do not keep activities" box unticked (in the 'settings'-'developers options'). I have emailed autodesk a few weeks ago but i've gotten no reply. Its very disappointing cause it look like it could be a lovely app. I have sketchbook pro, it works fine i'll continue to use that. Pity 'bout ink though.

I use it on my note 8 because of the options i have that make comic draws easier than with the pro version. However, its not good enough for pro drawings. My major problem is that when i zoom in and color it, then zoom out, theres color missing in lots of places. Very very extremely annoying. And of course the major lags that were mentioned before. I've been using it for 5 months and no update to fix this has been made. Very disappointing for an app with so much potential.

In spite of some negative comments I decided to purchase it anyway to compare it to Adobe Ideas. Unlike Ideas this is available for Android which is my device of preference. It has more brush options and is much easier to change sizes and colors than Ideas and at a much better price. The addition of a paint bucket tool would be nice. For quick and rough drawing this app is okay and for more complex work I will use Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. I hope Autodesk pays attention to these comments, suggestions and requests that have been posted.

I paid for it. Had high hopes. Hopes were dashed when it failed to export 5 times. Didn't think a pay-for app would be this terrible. How do I get my money back? And when it does export all there is, is a blank 1kb .png! How can Autodesk charge this much for something so full of bugs?

Great ui design, features. Lags horribly on cintiq hybrid after creating multiple layers. No pressure sensitivity on Shield tablet (pressure sensitivity works on other autodesk apps). Fix those two problems and rating would go up.

Hey guys, the more I use the app the more I realize what a powerhouse it can be for ink work. Right now its not preforming well in android. Panning and zooming causes a slow down and makes the image blur and causes major lag. And I'm using the tegra powered cintiq. If the app was tweaked I could see myself using it all the time. Would love to see the brush engine tweaked to be a bit more natural, but I wouldn't want you guys to sacrifice the feel now. Full pressure support for all brushes is badly needed, and the ability to have more controls of the brushes. Would be great to also have it work with the cintiq companions to use its controls. Also, if we work in HSB it should stay on HSB instead of having to always click to go back. Really hope you guys don't overlook the power of this app , its just fantastic and could be the go to app for inking in mobile. I would use it constantly if I had these updates, and I know others at the top of the field would as well. Very excited for the future of sketchbook ink.

I love it, its perfect for what i need... but i cant save ANY of the art i do. Export just yields a blank white pic. Hm.

Lacks the ability to upload to drive or social networks. Almost impossible to draw a dot (it treats a dot as the action to activate the color picker)

(Is this app abandoned?) This could be a great. The line quality is good but can not tap to make a dot. Instead the color picker activates. Exporting high-resolution images is fantastic but a few more file options would be nice. Rulers, lasso, more brushes and flood fill, to name a few, should be added. Has the potential to be a professional app but needs an update desperately.

The app was sort if limited but made for really nice lines and there are still no good vektor art apps so it held its own. But it just stopped workin for me at all.

I love this and it has great potential to be a good comic making app, but I wish there was a few more brushes like a basic pencil brush and a box and/or a shape maker brush. Love the no touch option so I don't make squiggles with my fingers! There's a little lag when I move around a drawing, but it's definitely improved from when I got the app. Those problems aside, I think it was worth what I paid for it. Keep improving it!!!

So disappointed and utterly disgusted that I bought an app which won't work on my tab... what is the point in this? I don't even know if I can get my money back!

Come on guys, where is the eraser tool? Pretty basic requirement for any sketching/drawing app. Can't believe developers overlooked it. Fix please.

Feels like a beta sometimes. Vector file export and custom (re-sizable) canvas size would make it more useful.

Pressure sensitivity doesn't work for me on Galaxy Note 8.0. Impossible to export to a vector format. Otherwise it's a nice sketching application, but somewhat primitive (not quite worth the money).

I love ink! The crisp lines and minute detail i can achieve with this program is fantastic. I mainly use it for the concept stage of my drawings before exporting and creating a much more polished idea on my PC tablet. The only things i would change about this program is the incorporation of a translate/scale tool so i can move objects on layers and an upload to deviantart options like SBP. other than this i think this program is fantastic!

The tools are all line oriented. There is no way to do a background wash. A brush tool would be good.

Really awesome for "ink" work. Combined with the high resolution export options make this a professional sketching/drawing tool. If only this had a couple of rulers and some panel tools then it would be perfect for making comic books.

Seems like this should have more of the features that are in Sketchbook Pro, and laid out the same way.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE INTRODUCE INK TRANSPARENCY AND IT WILL BE EXCELLENT! it is far better then non existing Adobe Ideas. Good job!

I love the potential of this app but it lacks basic functions I expected. For loose work such as the sample images show, the app works well enough. But for precise work such as logo designs that need vectors over bitmaps or city scapes that require sharp lines, it sucks. Mainly because there are no basic shape tools. There isn't a line too. There's no fill tool, no gradient tool. There isn't a way to select and manipulate points. Disappointing. 2* until some basic features are supported.