Sketchbook®6.2.8 - App Store

From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.

Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas.

. A full complement of brush types: pencils markers, airbrushes, smear and more that look and feel just like their physical counterparts
. Brushes are highly customizable so you can create just the look you want
. Guides, rulers and stroke tools support precision when you need it
. Layers with a full complement of blend modes deliver the flexibility to build up and explore drawings and color
. Purpose-built for sketching, the interface is clean and unobtrusive so you can focus on drawing

Purchase the Premium Bundle to unlock more...
. Import and export brushes
. Create your own custom brushes
. Resize your canvas or image
. Set canvas resolution in px/inch or px/cm
. Clipping masks
. Additional layer adjustments including blur, sharpen, brightness/contrast, greyscale, and invert
. Additional color harmonies
. Additional custom gradients
. Select color from reference images
. Extract color palettes from images
. Import and export color palettes
. Layer grouping
. Layer masking Blend Modes
. Draw Outline tool
. Lasso Fill tool
. Export to PDF
. plus more to come!

Version History • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.2.8 Jun 1 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.2.7 Apr 25 Ability to reorder palettes in the Color Editor
Identification of the active swatch in a color palette
Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in the Premium Bundle!
• New selection tool: Draw Outline. Applies a stroke to the active selection line.
• New fill tool: Lasso Fill. Automatically fills the lassoed area with the active color. 6.2.6 Apr 14 Ability to reorder palettes in the Color Editor
Identification of the active swatch in a color palette

New in the Premium Bundle!
• New selection tool: Draw Outline. Applies a stroke to the active selection line.
• New fill tool: Lasso Fill. Automatically fills the lassoed area with the active color. 6.2.5 Apr 13 • Bug fixes and performance improvements
• See release notes at sketchbook.com/release-notes 6.2.4 Feb 11 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.2.3 10/20/2025 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.2.1 07/28/2025 Premium Bundle addition! New Layer Adjustments:
• Blur
• Sharpen
• Grayscale
• Invert
• Contrast
• Brightness

General updates in this release:

New options in the Layer Menu
• Copy Merged - copies the combination of all visible layers as a single merged image.
• Delete Hidden Layers
• Merge Visible layers
Numeric input for Brush Properties

Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.2 05/23/2025 Steady Stroke tool
• draw smoother lines and curves
New Free Symmetry tool
• rotate the line of symmetry to any angle
Consolidated export workflow for all file types
Bug fixes and performance improvements

New in the Premium Bundle!
Clipping masks
• blend and manage the content of your canvas across different layers more easily
• enable and disable clipping masks in the Layer Editor 6.1 10/08/2024 • Support for Squeeze and Barrel Roll with Apple Pencil Pro
• Brush stamp preview on Hover with Apple Pencil and Apple Pencil Pro
• Updated Album deletion workflow - deleted Albums will now go to the Trash
• Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.0.9 07/10/2024 • Support for Squeeze and Barrel Roll with Apple Pencil Pro
• Brush stamp preview on Hover with Apple Pencil and Apple Pencil Pro
• Updated Album deletion workflow - deleted Albums will now go to the Trash
• Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.0.8 07/08/2024 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.0.6 10/02/2023 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.0.5 03/26/2023 • Bug fixes and performance improvements 6.0.4 01/23/2023 • Bug fixes
• Fixed text encoding for layer and layer group names. Previously applied text may appear incorrect after the update and need to be re-entered, but will then stay correct going forward. 6.0.3 12/11/2022 • Bug fixes 6.0.2 12/06/2022 • Bug fixes
• 2-finger single-tap 6.0.1 12/05/2022 • Add fonts to the Text tool
• Updated Brush Panel with brush history
• Ability to name layers
• Auto-hide the UI while you draw
• Batch export files from the Gallery
• Customize new canvas size presets
• More options for tap and swipe gestures
• Back up and restore your preferences

Purchase the Premium bundle to unlock more...
• Import and export brushes
• Create brushes with your own custom shapes and textures
• Duplicate brushes
• Organize brushes and brush sets
• Randomize brushes in a set between strokes
• Additional color harmonies
• Additional custom gradients
• Select color from reference images
• Extract color palettes from images
• Import and export color palettes
• Layer grouping
• Layer masking blend modes
• Export sketches or entire albums to PDF 6.0 11/23/2022 • Bug fixes 5.2.4 11/17/2022 • Bug fixes 5.2.3 11/08/2022 • Updates for iOS 15
• Bug fixes 5.2.2 10/22/2021 • Updated Color Editor and Color Library
- New quick access to complementary color and 9-swatch color history at the top of the Color Editor
- On the right side of the Color Editor, a new icon lets you toggle from the Color Wheel panel to the new Color Set panel

• Color Sets are a new method of creating and storing palettes of swatches
- If you're upgrading from a previous version of Sketchbook, your custom color palette will populate as a new Color Set
- You can drag and drop colors from the swatches in the top section of the Color Editor to populate palettes
- In the Color Library you can create a new blank set or load one of our presets as a starting point, including a Basic starter set, a Variety collection, and a set of Greys

• Other color updates
- Custom Gradient for generating 9-swatch blends of 2 selected colors
- HEX color values field to allow copying and pasting color across apps
- On iPad, pin the Color Editor from the Color Puck to remain open while you draw
- Removal of Copic library and markers – these had to be removed as they were licensed to Autodesk and that license did not transfer to us

• Removal of iCloud from the Gallery. The connection to iCloud breaks when an app transfers between developers. If you have been saving to iCloud, all your files are still there! There is a dialog explaining what to do to access your files that appears on first launch, and also the first time you go to the Gallery.

• New “Save” and “Files” options in the main menu. Because of the iCloud break, it was necessary to create a way for people to bring those files back into Sketchbook. We took this opportunity to expand where and how you can save and export your files.
- You can now import and export Sketchbook files to your device, iCloud, and other third-party cloud services

• Other data-related changes
- The Import from iTunes option has been retired
- A close button has been added to the Gallery. When the Gallery is dismissed, the canvas reverts to the last open sketch.

• Developer update from Autodesk to Sketchbook, Inc. Updated icon, about box, links to support, and dropping the internal cap in the app name

• Sketchbook no longer collects any personal data, so there is no request to opt-in for personal data usage 5.2.0 09/20/2021 • Bug fixes 5.1.7 01/13/2020 Improvements 5.1.1 11/18/2019 · We removed the splash screen that appeared upon startup, so there is no longer a need or even an option for logging in.
· NOTE: If you are not a SketchBook Pro (enterprise) user and created an Autodesk Account, you may want to delete it. See the article Delete Your Autodesk Account for instructions for how to do this. 5.1.0 11/05/2019