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snowCanoe
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Feb 28, 2023
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About Inspire
Available exclusively on the App Store, meticulously designed to be beautifully powerful, and painstakingly engineered for iPhone — Inspire delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing, and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.
Our proprietary painting engine Sorcery™ takes full advantage of the GPU to render brush strokes with brilliant 64-bit color, laser-sharp sub-pixel precision, and insanely fast speed. While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with just a bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors on the canvas together to create new ones.
Whether you are a budding artist, seasoned professional, or somewhere in-between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of the most intuitive and compelling illustration app for iPhone, Inspire.
Amazing Brushes
• 150 high-quality brushes to choose from, divided into 15 sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Spray Paint, Paint Splatter, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Markers, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastels & Conté, Basic Shapes, Complex Shapes, Shape Outlines, Patterns, and Textures
• All brushes can be used as a Wet Brush, Dry Brush (Blending), or Eraser
• Over 20 different settings are available to customize brush strokes with powerful versatility and variation
The Best Painting App for iPhone
• Sorcery™, the fastest 64-bit painting engine on the App Store
• Create a canvas of any size up to 16K (64MP)
• Dual-texture brushes
• 64-bit color
• All device orientations are supported all the time — switch from portrait to landscape painting with ease
• 1000 levels of undo and redo are available
• Touch and slide hotspots can be used to quickly change brush size, opacity, and pressure without opening a menu
• The eyedropper tool can be used with a touch and hold gesture to select paint colors from the canvas
• The canvas can be moved around, rotated, and zoomed in and out up to 6400%
Canvas Playback Video Recording
• Brush strokes are automatically recorded as you paint without any delay
• You can play the video of your artwork being created stroke-by-stroke directly in the gallery
• Export high-quality videos of your artwork to your Photos
Full-Featured Color Picker
• Choose any paint color you can dream of with the intuitive color picker
• HSB and RGB sliders accompany a large color circle, color square, and opacity slider
• Your latest colors are saved to a palette automatically while you paint
• You can also save your favorite colors to a palette with drag and drop
Visit snowCanoe.com to check out more screenshots, videos, and artwork.
With no subscription fees or in-app purchases, you own Inspire and all future updates forever, with just one purchase!
Our proprietary painting engine Sorcery™ takes full advantage of the GPU to render brush strokes with brilliant 64-bit color, laser-sharp sub-pixel precision, and insanely fast speed. While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with just a bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors on the canvas together to create new ones.
Whether you are a budding artist, seasoned professional, or somewhere in-between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of the most intuitive and compelling illustration app for iPhone, Inspire.
Amazing Brushes
• 150 high-quality brushes to choose from, divided into 15 sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Spray Paint, Paint Splatter, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Markers, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastels & Conté, Basic Shapes, Complex Shapes, Shape Outlines, Patterns, and Textures
• All brushes can be used as a Wet Brush, Dry Brush (Blending), or Eraser
• Over 20 different settings are available to customize brush strokes with powerful versatility and variation
The Best Painting App for iPhone
• Sorcery™, the fastest 64-bit painting engine on the App Store
• Create a canvas of any size up to 16K (64MP)
• Dual-texture brushes
• 64-bit color
• All device orientations are supported all the time — switch from portrait to landscape painting with ease
• 1000 levels of undo and redo are available
• Touch and slide hotspots can be used to quickly change brush size, opacity, and pressure without opening a menu
• The eyedropper tool can be used with a touch and hold gesture to select paint colors from the canvas
• The canvas can be moved around, rotated, and zoomed in and out up to 6400%
Canvas Playback Video Recording
• Brush strokes are automatically recorded as you paint without any delay
• You can play the video of your artwork being created stroke-by-stroke directly in the gallery
• Export high-quality videos of your artwork to your Photos
Full-Featured Color Picker
• Choose any paint color you can dream of with the intuitive color picker
• HSB and RGB sliders accompany a large color circle, color square, and opacity slider
• Your latest colors are saved to a palette automatically while you paint
• You can also save your favorite colors to a palette with drag and drop
Visit snowCanoe.com to check out more screenshots, videos, and artwork.
With no subscription fees or in-app purchases, you own Inspire and all future updates forever, with just one purchase!
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What's New in the Latest Version 4.8.2
Last updated on Feb 28, 2023
Old Versions
This update contains several bug fixes and small improvements as we continually work toward refining the app to maintain its high quality.
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Version History
4.8.2
Feb 28, 2023
This update contains several bug fixes and small improvements as we continually work toward refining the app to maintain its high quality.
4.8.1
Dec 4, 2022
This update brings to you a brand new app icon and logo design as well as several bug fixes and small improvements as we continually work toward refining the app to maintain its high quality.
4.8
Jun 9, 2020
iPhone, iOS, WatchOS
• Full support for the new iPhone SE, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13.5, WatchOS 6.2
Localization
• Inspire is now localized for 12 different languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian
Bug fixes and minor improvements
• Full support for the new iPhone SE, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13.5, WatchOS 6.2
Localization
• Inspire is now localized for 12 different languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian
Bug fixes and minor improvements
4.7.1
Dec 19, 2018
Several bug fixes and UI improvements to make sure your holiday painting, drawing, and sketching goes as smooth as ice and as fun as snow.
4.7
Nov 7, 2018
Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12
• Hey Siri, painting time!
• Add a shortcut to Siri to automatically open Inspire, create a new canvas, and start painting right away
iPhone XS Max
• If you have a shiny new iPhone XS Max, you're going to love it even more with this Inspire update
• The UI fills the beautiful new 6.5” screen
• Paint colors look vibrant and luscious on the new OLED display
• Brush strokes flow on the canvas in stunning detail with the new Super Retina HD resolution
• Paint, draw and sketch faster than ever before with our updated painting engine Sorcery, fully optimized for the new A12 Bionic chip
• As always, the entire app works in both portrait and landscape orientations, with all of the UI adapting seamlessly to the new iPhone XS Max screen
Apple Watch Series 4
• Fully tested and optimized for WatchOS 5
• Support for the 4 new complication sizes and shapes in the new Infograph watch face: corner, bezel, circular, and rectangular
• Hey Siri, painting time!
• Add a shortcut to Siri to automatically open Inspire, create a new canvas, and start painting right away
iPhone XS Max
• If you have a shiny new iPhone XS Max, you're going to love it even more with this Inspire update
• The UI fills the beautiful new 6.5” screen
• Paint colors look vibrant and luscious on the new OLED display
• Brush strokes flow on the canvas in stunning detail with the new Super Retina HD resolution
• Paint, draw and sketch faster than ever before with our updated painting engine Sorcery, fully optimized for the new A12 Bionic chip
• As always, the entire app works in both portrait and landscape orientations, with all of the UI adapting seamlessly to the new iPhone XS Max screen
Apple Watch Series 4
• Fully tested and optimized for WatchOS 5
• Support for the 4 new complication sizes and shapes in the new Infograph watch face: corner, bezel, circular, and rectangular
4.6.5
Aug 31, 2018
Based on your feedback, which we greatly appreciate, we have decided to remove all in-app purchases from Inspire and make those 7 brush sets free, included in the original price of the app. Paint Splatter, Spray Paint, Charcoal, Pastels & Conté, Complex Shapes, Shape Outlines, and Patterns are now all available with this new update.
For those of you that already purchased any of the extra brush sets, we would like to extend a huge thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generous support. We are a very small team from Ottawa, Canada with no fancy Silicon Valley venture capital and so your support has allowed us to keep working on the app and doing what we love. Rest assured you have contributed to keeping an indie developer alive — one that is dedicated to bringing you awesome, free updates to Inspire for as long as we can.
Speaking of updates, we are hard at work on our biggest one ever. Inspire 5.0 will have many amazing new features, including layers. Stay tuned to our social networks @snowCanoe to find out when we will be starting our public beta if you’re interested in helping us test the new update.
Thanks again for your support and we hope you enjoy all of the extra brush sets!
For those of you that already purchased any of the extra brush sets, we would like to extend a huge thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generous support. We are a very small team from Ottawa, Canada with no fancy Silicon Valley venture capital and so your support has allowed us to keep working on the app and doing what we love. Rest assured you have contributed to keeping an indie developer alive — one that is dedicated to bringing you awesome, free updates to Inspire for as long as we can.
Speaking of updates, we are hard at work on our biggest one ever. Inspire 5.0 will have many amazing new features, including layers. Stay tuned to our social networks @snowCanoe to find out when we will be starting our public beta if you’re interested in helping us test the new update.
Thanks again for your support and we hope you enjoy all of the extra brush sets!
4.6.4
May 4, 2018
Several bug fixes.
4.6.3
Feb 7, 2018
Several bug fixes.
4.6.2
Jan 28, 2018
Several bug fixes.
4.6.1
Dec 21, 2017
A few bug fixes with iPhone X support
4.6
Dec 20, 2017
iPhone X Support
• If you have a shiny new iPhone X, you're going to love it even more with this Inspire update
• The UI now fills the beautiful new screen
• Paint colors look vibrant and luscious on the new OLED display
• Brush strokes flow on the canvas in stunning detail with the new Super Retina HD resolution
• Paint, draw and sketch faster than ever before with our updated painting engine Sorcery™, fully optimized for the new A11 Bionic chip
• The gallery now shows the status bar in portrait orientation on iPhone X, in case you lost track of time while painting
• As always, the entire app works in both portrait and landscape orientations, with all of the UI adapting seamlessly to the new iPhone X screen
• If you have a shiny new iPhone X, you're going to love it even more with this Inspire update
• The UI now fills the beautiful new screen
• Paint colors look vibrant and luscious on the new OLED display
• Brush strokes flow on the canvas in stunning detail with the new Super Retina HD resolution
• Paint, draw and sketch faster than ever before with our updated painting engine Sorcery™, fully optimized for the new A11 Bionic chip
• The gallery now shows the status bar in portrait orientation on iPhone X, in case you lost track of time while painting
• As always, the entire app works in both portrait and landscape orientations, with all of the UI adapting seamlessly to the new iPhone X screen
4.5.7
Oct 18, 2017
Along with hopefully the last of iOS 11 bug fixes, we updated the Social menu with a new button that links to our Instagram account. Follow us on Insta @snowCanoe to get the latest news on updates that we're working on and check out some of the newest artwork created with Inspire. Tag your own art with #InspireApp to get our attention, we'd love to see what you're working on and what inspires you!
4.5.6
Oct 13, 2017
Support for iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.
4.5.5
Oct 5, 2017
Support for iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.
4.5.4
Sep 30, 2017
More iOS 11 support with a few bug fixes.
4.5.3
Sep 26, 2017
More iOS 11 support with a few bug fixes.
4.5.2
Sep 19, 2017
Support for iOS 11.
4.5.1
Sep 19, 2017
Bug fixes and UI refinements.
4.5
Sep 12, 2017
Improved Import and Export with iCloud Drive
• We’ve finally let go of our own custom export menu (don’t worry, it got a great severance package) and replaced it with the iOS one that you’re used to in other apps
• The new iOS export menu now gives you access to iCloud Drive, AirDrop and any other 3rd party services via their own apps
• You can also import files and images in the New Canvas menu from iCloud Drive and other 3rd party services now
Bluetooth Keyboard Support
• Added support for over 20 context-sensitive keyboard shortcuts to make performing commonly used actions in the app quicker and easier
• We’ve finally let go of our own custom export menu (don’t worry, it got a great severance package) and replaced it with the iOS one that you’re used to in other apps
• The new iOS export menu now gives you access to iCloud Drive, AirDrop and any other 3rd party services via their own apps
• You can also import files and images in the New Canvas menu from iCloud Drive and other 3rd party services now
Bluetooth Keyboard Support
• Added support for over 20 context-sensitive keyboard shortcuts to make performing commonly used actions in the app quicker and easier
4.4
Feb 21, 2017
What do rocky sand, Italian leather and stretched canvas all have in common?
If you guessed a puzzling exhibit at a modern art gallery, you might be right…
If you guessed a new Inspire brush set called Textures, you’re absolutely right! Congratulations, you win a prize: a new Inspire brush set called Textures.
New Brush Set “Textures” (Free)
• 10 new amazing brushes that can apply beautiful, photo-realistic textures to your canvas
• New Brick, Belgian Block, Broken Stone, Rocky Sand, Weathered Bark, Stretched Canvas, Coarse Burlap, Italian Leather, Wool Carpet, Long Grass
New Brush Set “Pastels & Conté” (Available in the Inspire Shop)
• 10 new incredibly realistic brushes that allow you to draw and sketch with a variety of different kinds of pastels and conté
• Soft Pastel Stick, Soft Angled Pastel Stick, Soft Flat Pastel Stick, Hard Pastel Stick, Hard Angled Pastel Stick, Hard Flat Pastel Stick, Oil Pastel, Pastel Pencil, Conté Crayon, Conté Pencil
Miscellaneous
• iOS 10.2 compatibility — if you haven’t updated yet, your friends have better emojis than you
• Bug fixes
If you guessed a puzzling exhibit at a modern art gallery, you might be right…
If you guessed a new Inspire brush set called Textures, you’re absolutely right! Congratulations, you win a prize: a new Inspire brush set called Textures.
New Brush Set “Textures” (Free)
• 10 new amazing brushes that can apply beautiful, photo-realistic textures to your canvas
• New Brick, Belgian Block, Broken Stone, Rocky Sand, Weathered Bark, Stretched Canvas, Coarse Burlap, Italian Leather, Wool Carpet, Long Grass
New Brush Set “Pastels & Conté” (Available in the Inspire Shop)
• 10 new incredibly realistic brushes that allow you to draw and sketch with a variety of different kinds of pastels and conté
• Soft Pastel Stick, Soft Angled Pastel Stick, Soft Flat Pastel Stick, Hard Pastel Stick, Hard Angled Pastel Stick, Hard Flat Pastel Stick, Oil Pastel, Pastel Pencil, Conté Crayon, Conté Pencil
Miscellaneous
• iOS 10.2 compatibility — if you haven’t updated yet, your friends have better emojis than you
• Bug fixes
4.3
Dec 6, 2016
iPhone 7 and iOS 10
• Fully tested and optimized for the new iPhone 7, 7 Plus and iOS 10
• Improved 3D Touch support so that changes in pressure affect brush stroke size and opacity smoother and faster than ever before
• Haptics now provide tactile feedback throughout various aspects of the UI to let you feel widgets like switches and sliders, actions like dropping a color onto a palette and notifications of success like saving a painting to your Photos
• Improved overall brush stroke rendering performance by up to 1.3x on new devices
Apple Watch Series 2 and watchOS 3
• Fully tested and optimized for the new Apple Watch Series 2 and watchOS 3
• Greatly improved performance while performing actions, selecting colors from a palette and generally keeping in sync with the iPhone app
• Updates now refresh in the background when the app is in the new Dock and at other opportune times
• Complications are now updated more frequently and reliably while painting
• The new extra-large complication is now supported
Messages Integration
• You can now create a painting or drawing with Inspire right within the Messages app
• Start from a blank canvas or choose an image from your Photos to paint on top of
• The painting UI has been streamlined for Messages to fit the smaller space and makes creating a quick sketch faster and easier than ever before
Adjusting Brush Size and Opacity
• The hotspot to reset the zoom level at the top of the screen has been replaced with 2 new hotspots that can be used to quickly change the brush size or opacity / dry brush pressure
• You can now touch and slide to the left or right, starting on one of these new hotspots, to invoke the Quick Change mode, instead of having to use a 3-finger pan gesture like before
• These new hotspots give you one touch access to changing the brush size or opacity of the current brush, without having any sliders always taking up space on the screen and covering your artwork while you paint
• Don’t worry, you can still reset the zoom level using a quick pinch gesture (more below)
Quick Pinch Zoom
• You can now use quick pinch gestures to reset the zoom level or zoom to the previous level
• Pinching your fingers together quickly and then releasing them off the screen, as if you're zooming out, will reset the zoom level of the canvas back to the default — this has the same effect as tapping on the old hotspot at the top of the screen
• Spreading your fingers apart quickly and then releasing them off the screen, as if you're zooming in, will automatically zoom the canvas back to the previous level, centered at the starting location of your pinch — this is the same as what the “Double Tap Zoom” option used to do, it has now been removed since it could not be used at the same time as the “Paint with Taps” option anyway, which is far more useful
Miscellaneous
• Improved the performance of brushes in the Oil Paint set by 20%
• Hotspots have a new look with some improved icon designs and more translucent backgrounds behind fully opaque outlines and icons
• Twitter doesn’t count characters for uploading an image anymore, so you now have 23 more characters to use when writing a tweet for uploading your artwork
• Several bug fixes throughout the app improving reliability and general goodness :)
• Fully tested and optimized for the new iPhone 7, 7 Plus and iOS 10
• Improved 3D Touch support so that changes in pressure affect brush stroke size and opacity smoother and faster than ever before
• Haptics now provide tactile feedback throughout various aspects of the UI to let you feel widgets like switches and sliders, actions like dropping a color onto a palette and notifications of success like saving a painting to your Photos
• Improved overall brush stroke rendering performance by up to 1.3x on new devices
Apple Watch Series 2 and watchOS 3
• Fully tested and optimized for the new Apple Watch Series 2 and watchOS 3
• Greatly improved performance while performing actions, selecting colors from a palette and generally keeping in sync with the iPhone app
• Updates now refresh in the background when the app is in the new Dock and at other opportune times
• Complications are now updated more frequently and reliably while painting
• The new extra-large complication is now supported
Messages Integration
• You can now create a painting or drawing with Inspire right within the Messages app
• Start from a blank canvas or choose an image from your Photos to paint on top of
• The painting UI has been streamlined for Messages to fit the smaller space and makes creating a quick sketch faster and easier than ever before
Adjusting Brush Size and Opacity
• The hotspot to reset the zoom level at the top of the screen has been replaced with 2 new hotspots that can be used to quickly change the brush size or opacity / dry brush pressure
• You can now touch and slide to the left or right, starting on one of these new hotspots, to invoke the Quick Change mode, instead of having to use a 3-finger pan gesture like before
• These new hotspots give you one touch access to changing the brush size or opacity of the current brush, without having any sliders always taking up space on the screen and covering your artwork while you paint
• Don’t worry, you can still reset the zoom level using a quick pinch gesture (more below)
Quick Pinch Zoom
• You can now use quick pinch gestures to reset the zoom level or zoom to the previous level
• Pinching your fingers together quickly and then releasing them off the screen, as if you're zooming out, will reset the zoom level of the canvas back to the default — this has the same effect as tapping on the old hotspot at the top of the screen
• Spreading your fingers apart quickly and then releasing them off the screen, as if you're zooming in, will automatically zoom the canvas back to the previous level, centered at the starting location of your pinch — this is the same as what the “Double Tap Zoom” option used to do, it has now been removed since it could not be used at the same time as the “Paint with Taps” option anyway, which is far more useful
Miscellaneous
• Improved the performance of brushes in the Oil Paint set by 20%
• Hotspots have a new look with some improved icon designs and more translucent backgrounds behind fully opaque outlines and icons
• Twitter doesn’t count characters for uploading an image anymore, so you now have 23 more characters to use when writing a tweet for uploading your artwork
• Several bug fixes throughout the app improving reliability and general goodness :)
4.2.4
Oct 14, 2016
Inspire and iOS 10 are best friends now.
4.2.3
Oct 5, 2016
Inspire and iOS 10 are best friends now.
4.2.2
Sep 29, 2016
Inspire and iOS 10 are best friends now.
4.2.1
Aug 20, 2016
We found some bugs in the app — it turns out they were looking for Pokémon... When we told them there weren’t any here, they quickly fled to the nearest park.
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Inspire FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Inspire in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Inspire.
iPhone
Requires iOS 13.6 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.6 or later.
Inspire supports English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
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