Adobe Fresco: Painting Studio App Reviews

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Forced off of Adobe Sketch. App is all around fantastic make no mistake. The problem is that for those who have just been forced off of adobe sketch, the OS jump and tools to create things you love, is like going from a bicycle to a car at age 10. I personally think the application is great but my girlfriend who has no prior experience with large scale adobe products is left in the dust with the removal of the option to use adobe sketch here. She doesn’t have the tools and simplistic operations to create anymore. Though the application is deep with features, she really misses the simple eraser/brush/pencil/pen options to draw with and is having a very difficult time adjusting to the new application. Because of her difficulties on the new app she is actively discouraged to create any more drawn content and create her designs. I would love to see adobe sketch back on the App Store and fresco be kept for those who intend to do more professional work. Or a side application that is more suited for those with less experience with these products. For myself, as an adobe suite owner, I am disappointed to see that certain products not be kept around for those less fluent in adobe.

Decent. Not bad, but not great. I’ve been playing around with Procreate for a while now and fresco just didn’t match the quality in their UX or execution of brushes. A lot of brushes do not pick up/mix with colors underneath. And the live ones feel more like blending brushes rather than painting brushes because they mix more of the initial color already there than they put new color down. The oil brushes have this odd bevel and emboss effect that reminded me of the early 2000s days of photoshop effects. And only like 4 brushes could tilt. I was impressed with the halftone brushes. They worked very well and is something Procreate doesn’t come with. You can buy brushes from other places for Procreate that work just as well though. The lack of blending brush mode is the most frustrating experience as that is what I use most to create my work. The eraser is just one solid circle. A massive drawback. -SUMMARY- In general the brush selection was underwhelming and not as impressive as one would hope for considering there is another app with a one time payment of $10 instead of a monthly creative cloud subscription for the rest of your life. I’m hoping as time goes by there will be major improvements in store.

Not user-friendly. This app is not ANYWHERE near as user-friendly as Adobe Draw was. The only reason I installed it in the first place was because Draw was discontinued and merged with this one. I thought this would be fine because all of my old files from Adobe Draw were carried over to this app, but when I went to continue a project I was previously working on, the features were completely different and much more difficult to navigate than Adobe Draw ever was. For example, you can't easily use the color picker tool on a single layer without selecting all the other layers you have created, meaning you can't easily create other layers to begin with. The double tap features from Adobe Draw are also completely gone, so if you want to single out or access certain options on layers, you have to go through an entire toolbar to do so. In summary, it's WAY more complicated and essentially a lot less user-friendly. In the end, I made a single mistake on one layer that ended up compromising an entire project, because I couldn't properly merge or un-merge the layers I was working in. Which means I'm now going to have to start over from scratch. I don't know what the purpose was for transitioning Adobe Draw to Adobe Fresco, but I wish we had the option to change over instead of being forced to use this app instead, since it ruined all of my progress on an important piece of work.

Waste of time and money. If I could give 0 stars I would, I don’t ever leave reviews but this time I had to. To start I only got this app because adobe draw was removed and this is the replacement. That being said I really tried to give it a chance, even paid the $10 yearly crap for the pro version and it’s still trash. This app is not user friendly at all if you have time to sit there and google how to do everything then go for it but I can’t believe how difficult everything is when adobe draw was so much simpler and did the same thing! Also I don’t think the quality and flow of the brushes are up to par I use the app from my phone and I never had a problem but now it’s as if I’m using a computer mouse to draw and it comes out with a bunch of jagged pixelated lines instead of a nice smooth flow if that makes sense. Only way I could see this app being useful is if it was on a iPad or something with a pen you can use, even then I’m sure you’re better off with something else seeing as you’d have to google how to do anything since its so complicated to even navigate the brush settings. Don’t waste your time I’ve already found a couple free apps that are 10 times better than this. I literally have the pro version until next year and I’m still removing it because it’s a useless waste of space on my phone.

Now I know how the pros do it.. Hi there! I just recently downloaded this app, (as in, yesterday) and I am a aspiring 10 year old artist. I want to specialize in the Japanese art, anime and this helps a bunch! All though I can draw on paper easily, I’m still trying to find what suits ME, so I went on a adventure throughout the App Store, and came out empty. One day I was watching TV and your commercial came up for photoshop, so I searched up Adobe, and got this. I download the app and it was surprisingly easy to navigate. I thought all the techniques would be hard to use, but I was wrong. It was actually really simple. Everything was easy to use. I kinda wish, and I know y’all have to make money somehow, but I wish it was all free. Like the Manga and Comic features so I can practice that (I also would like to be a author) but it wasn’t free and I’m using my school account so I can’t access it. Going into 5th grade art is gonna be my elective, so this will be really helpful. I wanna be a pro some day, so this is probably gonna be a keeper until I get more advanced. If I have anything else to say, or anymore comments or concerns, I’ll edit… If not then I will leave it. Until then, happy creating aspiring artist like me, or good luck out there ya pros!!! Bye bye!!

My preference over ProCreate, surprisingly. I am really surprised by this, but the more I use this, the more I realize it gives me a better and more accurate ‘feel’ while sketching and painting than ProCreate does. I think the brushes have a bit less lag on my IPad (2020 non-pro version) than I get with ProCreate using the comparable ones. Also the live brushes are just astounding; they are fun to use even if you don’t know a thing about watercolor, oils, or even making art in general. Anyhow, in this app I can sketch with what feels to me to be a more lifelike level of control than I get with ProCreate and that seems to make all the difference to me using this vs a physical sketchbook. The only downside I really can speak of is the lack of a floating reference window like ProCreate has, but I’ve been using VizRef in a side window instead. There is no reason you shouldn’t check this app out. Even if you are super comfortable with ProCreate, this is like trying out a new set of pens and paper to see what works best for you in the long run, and it works great for me.

Good software.. but I'm not taking the bait anymore. Why can they not charge up front for the work they've done & that's it? I refuse to subscribe to this method of payment, although would pay more for apps developed by reputable companies than what is currently the avg. price. I know it sounds crazy but with Adobe's current offerings you could be close to a car payment or mortgage with they're monthly subscriptions. Computers used to be my thing, until this business model came along, now I use pencils & pens more often. Ironically those companies who require digital proofs or samples and insist on me digitizing my traditional work, are not companies I'm thrilled to work with and ultimately I do not submit anything to them. It's worth the extra gas, time, hassle, to drive for me to meet with the company & show them my artwork. I have yet to lose a job in which that was the case. Adobe lost me as a customer. I don't see the incentive for Adobe to innovate & update when they have a constant stream of income every month from mediocre Apps in the appstore. Come to thing of it, how many apps has Adobe abandoned in the Appstore? All the money Adobe funneled to themselves from my account while I worked that much harder in order to pay for it, I stopped & decided less is better, it saves the wear & tear on my body & I have more time for myself to enjoy life. Hell with it, I'm not going to bust my rear just to make them more money.

WOW! why aren’t all drawing apps this good?. I don’t know where to start! This app is so amazing! First it has so many different brushes that you can use for free which is really cool. I’ve used a lot of drawing apps in like 30% of them were not free so I deleted them 50% weren’t even that easy to use and they also have limited ways of drawing and brushes and about 20% of them were just absolutely horrible. When I downloaded Adobe fresco I was not expecting this much it has tutorials on masking which I think is amazing there is tutorials on sections and a tutorial on brushes which was really helpful since there’s so many and I was trying to get the hang on all of them. I also love that you can basically use the lasso select to draw inside or outside of something which is really helpful and I also really love the water colors and how they can stay wet it looks really pretty so yeah as basic as this app gets it’s really cool and I love all the features and the free version is perfect and yeah plus the not free version seems good for professionals and it’s only $10 so maybe I will get that anyways I love this app I recommended it to my friends.

Premium version aside, the free version is great.. I’m getting tired of hearing people complaining about the price when we all know Adobe isn’t going to drop their monthly subscriptions fees from any of their products. It’s just how greedy they are, we get it. Now onto the features for the free version of the app.... in all honestly, it’s great. If they add a non destructive flip view horizontal feature, some gradient tools, sharpen, blur, and a few basic color adjustment features I would have given this app 5 stars. Still for those who don’t want to pay for premium and want a wider range of brushes, stick to your favorite which I’m assuming is procreate. Still, the free version of fresco is great for anyone who doesn’t want to spend a dime on a great drawing app.

A Work in Progress. After hearing much talk about Fresco, I wanted to try it as an alternative to Procreate and was pleasantly surprised. The most attractive feature to me is the pencil brush and how real it feels by default. I have not been able to find something as natural with the perfect amount of noise yet for PC even though I’ve been using it for years. Yes, the default pencil is beautiful so I have been using this for ideation. I am only giving Fresco 3 stars, however, because in 2 days of using this app it has already crashed 10 times. That makes it really difficult to keep a steady workflow. The files aren’t particularly big, which makes me raise my eyebrows. Also, the lack of being able to distort or warp images in perspective, which is essential in both Photoshop and Procreate, makes it difficult for me to use this professionally. I am subscribed to CC so this comes with the bundle, but unless these very basic essentials are fixed, it will be hard to compete with Procreate 5 in my opinion.

Another amazing Adobe app, that will become the standard.. I’m an amateur artist. Have been drawing/sketching since I was a kid. I got an iPad Pro a little a year ago, because I had become temporarily disabled, and needed something to keep me busy, for I would be confined to a bed for a long time. I of course got an Apple Pencil, and started doing the “paint by numbers” apps on here. Then of course, I downloaded the the Adobe Sketch app. It was okay. I literally have no idea what was/am doing, so I was very limited. Then Fresco was released. At first it still felt like the Sketch app, just a bit more customizable. Then when you guys finally released the big update after the 6 month trial, it opened a whole new world for me. Everything became more streamlined, and super easy to understand. Adding Brushes from PS super easy, but still limited. But over time, with more updates, it has become something special and unique. I bought and tried Procreate, several times, but I always end up going back to Fresco. Watching, and experiencing this app evolve, while I’m learning and evolving with it, has been amazing, and with so much time in the future to refine it, and better integrate PS with it, it will become the new standard. I’m so excited to see it happen, knowing I started from the very beginning. Thank you to the whole team over there! SeanieDee

A great start!. I think this program has some amazing potential. The live paint layers provide the best digital watercolor I’ve ever seen on any platform. Working with the flowing watercolor paints feels great and produces some good results. I really hope Adobe focuses on continuing development, because as good as it is, Fresco isn’t a complete package. I had a difficult time getting beyond just playing around, as there is a lot of missing functionality and precision required for a full drawing and painting experience. It’s impossible not to compare this with Procreate, which has a very full feature set. Fresco’s live paint is really it’s only advantage. I can’t imagine who would pay the monthly fee on its own. But Adobe’s UI is pretty solid and there are the bones of something really special. I hope they put the pedal to the metal and evolve this program to fulfill its promise soon.

The best painting experience ( free version ). I am a student and learning painting as a hobby. I have been painting when I was 3 years old, I am not professional however drawing/painting has been part of my life for nearly 4 decades. I am trying to move to digital painting for sometime now and used different softwares like photoshop with stylus, procreate etc. I wanted an app which can provide real painting/drawing experience and adobe fresco fulfills that dream. The live brushes are just amazing. There are reviews which talk about not having many tools but I don’t think we really need them unless you are working on a time constraint production. Real painting is not about having multiple tools, it’s about the experience. I am glad that there is a eraser option as in real media you don’t even have that luxury. I used procreate it’s a great app for digital artists but does not mimic the experience of real painting. So don’t go by the bad reviews and try out this app. I really really don’t want adobe to kill this app just for bad reviews. Also there has been a lot of feedback on high prices, however I think they are just for professionals who are mostly already paying for creative cloud. I just have the free app ( didn’t register for 6 months ) and I have access to all the tools I need to learn and practice. I believe adobe did a great job here and should be appreciated.

Tutorials are awful. Adobe created slide shows; Could not be bothered to have actual beginner video tutorials. Instead, you have to open someone else’s project to see how they did it. No way to identify whether any specific functions you are looking for are in that project. The you tubers are not much better; the one guy who seems to have the most tutorial chapters speaks and moves so fast you can’t keep up. Fresco is very unintuitive. Here is an example. Suppose you wanted to play around with a photo. Absolutely nowhere do they tell you how to even get the photo onto your palate….after much wasted noodling I figured it out, but it involves an icon that has no explanation. Why not put out a video tutorial that explains the workspace? Here is another example: What if you wanted to move a lasso’d part of your pic from one part of the pic to another…you can lasso but no way to move…a very simple thing to do in photoshop. So I am not impressed.

Great when it works. The tools are insanely glitchy. The live brushes frequently pause and then splatter paint, often in random places on the canvas; the eraser tool is great except it also does random erasing where it causes a perfect circle of erased space and if you don’t catch it in time, there’s no undoing it which could really cause issue when working with full color paintings. The pixel pen skips, a lot. Despite these glitches, the app has immense potential and is almost exactly what I need from a drawing app. As an illustrator, I prefer freehand and Adobe illustrator is nothing but a pain in my head, I have used Clip studio on desk top for the last 5 years and it’s been far superior to Adobe until recently. If Adobe could fix these issues of glitching and skipping pens and brushes that splatter paint or cause gaps in my lines, I could give it a higher rating.

So far so good I guess. Great if you haven’t purchased procreate already. Procreate functionality with photoshop is the same as Fresco if you have photoshop on a Mac or Pc with iCloud. Procreate I say is still better for work with raster projects. I was interested in the vector functionality of this app but this does not play nice with lllustrator, making this app useless for me. 95% of my work is vector. If I can bounce projects back and forth from Illustrator to Fresco that would be great. I guess that’s what illustrator draw is for? To sum up, I need better vector functionally and a way to take my excising .ai files to this app and vice versa. For now procreate is still miles ahead. If Adobe can bring me full (actually full x86 app) lllustrator and Photoshop to the Ipad with the new mouse support I would be a very happy camper, and I could replace my Mac with iPad. For now I’m stuck at my desk.

Bring back Sketch. I’m sure this app is great, but this review is my plea for Adobe to bring Sketch back online. I’m a Set Designer in Chicago and when I started working here in 2017, all of the Senior Designers were still using grid paper and pencil to draw their sets. I bought myself an iPad and found Sketch and it changed everything. It was just one step above pencil & paper - very basic and intuitive and had everything we needed to get the job done. Finding Sketch lead to every designer in our company getting a iPad and going digital. Designers who have been in the business for 30+ years, who never thought they’d be able to learn a software, were confidently drawing on their iPads because it was SO easy to use. This switch will be catastrophic as it’s just too complex and the features are unnecessary for what we’re doing. I think the apps are completely different and Sketch is the perfect app for entry-level digital design or basic digital drawing. You can become familiar with a base level of Adobe vocabulary without feeling completely overwhelmed and left behind. Unfortunately Fresco will alienate half of our team and we’ll be forced to find something else :(

Worked good the first couple days.... Got the app on my new ipro, and the first few days it worked great, now it pauses randomly after some strokes. It also doesn’t always register the touch to step back so you keep tapping, it then catches up and goes back multiple steps...annoying. I’m using the same vector brushes and same size artwork I did with Adobe DRAW and never encountered these problems. The other day I discovered that if I hold after a curved line, I could scale and rotate!!!! My mind was blown! ....this option stopped working. HUGE PROBLEM: I spent 2 days working on a piece, went to work on it the next day and MY VECTOR ART WAS RUINED!! All my VECTOR lines became PIXEL lines. I then realized that right above the MERGE LAYERS BUTTON, Is the TURN LAYERS TO PIXEL button......are you kidding me?!? If your pencil slips and you don’t catch it, your screwed. You can’t turn them back once you close the app (possibly even before) if these items were fixed this app would be wonderful, and I wouldn’t feel bad dishing out more $$ to adobe. Also I noticed a new vector brush was added, please continue to add vector brushes, as that was my one original issue. I cant wait to rate this app 5 stars!

Accessible creativity. The demands of work during COVID haven’t left much room for creativity. As an abstract painter in the traditional sense setup and cleanup can be additional obstacles. Adobe Fresco has made creativity for me so much more accessible. That I’m learning a new skill and able to share it digitally in an instant makes it even more appealing. I also love that what I produce in the app can so closely resemble my painted work. Not loving that the use of the best brushes require a $10 a month subscription. It doesn’t seem worth more than $30/year for a brush selection. I’d also like to 1) categorize brushes according to my specific uses and 2) create a library of pre-created lines and shapes for easy reuse. Other than that app is great.

a great and easy to use app tailored for iPad with Apple Pencil but lacking important features. Please please please add perspective grids in Fresco, for me its a necessary feature and unfortunately at the moment I am not able to work with Fresco. I am looking forward to be able to use Fresco exclusively. Heres my request, adding isometric, symmetry, perspective, single and multi point grids as well as a guided drawing option. Aside from this, its amazing. Fresco works near seamlessly alongside Adobe Photoshop and is tailored for use on iOS. On my iPad, with Apple Pencil it is smooth and responsive, easy to navigate, intuitive and user friendly program with great new features providing a simple and seamless iOS experience. I hope to start using Fresco exclusively as soon as possible!

Perfect free drawing app. I’ve been using this app for about a month or so now to create a detailed map for my new dungeons and dragons world. I started using Adobe Sketch and it was so limited, but the Fresco app popped up through the Sketch and I transferred my map right over. The Fresco is so amazing because it has every tools I’m looking for. I am able to draw anything that I am capable to do myself. The lasso is super handy, as well as using the filling option, and being able to copy and paste sections and layers. The app is rather easy to use and figure out, and the interactive walkthrough answers any questions. Lately, I’ve been noticing my files taking longer to load in and even load marks or movements while working on it. I still have 94% data left on the cloud so I know it shouldn’t be a space issue. I have a lot of small details on the map, but that should cause it to run slow.

Good app, bad price. The app is fine as far as a drawing/painting app is concerned. I like Procreate better, but the brush engine for the live brushes is impressive. Adobe’s pay monthly per app subscription model, in addition to having to pay them a subscription for CC connectivity, is the reason I no longer utilize Adobe’s ecosystem for my professional work. If this app, like Procreate or the Affinity apps, offered a $10-$20 one time purchase option (maybe more, just using those numbers because the mentioned apps are in that range) then I would absolutely pay once to add a fully featured painting app to my workflow. But alas, like the rest of Adobe’s products, I have downloaded and played with the trial of this one and cannot find anything that would motivate me to pay a monthly fee for this app let alone to then pay more to be able to have a CC account to save and export my files to. This payment model must be successful for them because they keep doing it, but it’s alienating me and a lot of their other independent/non-enterprise users. To the point where neither I nor anyone I know in my professional circle use Adobes CC products to produce their work. If anything, it has driven the people who want to continue to use Adobes programs to piracy and other ways of getting access to CS6 and the like. Good app, I will continue to avoid unnecessary nickel-and-dime subscription models like the plague.

Okay I guess. When I first got this app it was really nice and I had the ability to do a lot of things I couldn’t do with the other apps I tried. After my school started I didn’t have much time to draw or even use the app so I took a little break and deleted it. Well one day I got bored so I decided to re-download the app, well it saved all the previous work I had which was great and all, but it kept on saying you don’t have any available storage to make art I got really MAD. I already checked my available storage and I had enough to at least make a couple more drawings so I didn’t know what this thing was talking about I cleared most of my files and most of my other thing but I kept on saying “you have no storage” I was really disappointed and confused I expected much more

Should Be Better. What originally attracted me to Adobe Fresco was the easy & familiar interface and vector drawing, but what I didn’t realize is that you have to also have an Adobe Illustrator subscription to be able to export your finished files as vectors! I’ve had a Fresco subscription for about a year now and I’m still waiting for them to deliver the symmetry drawing & brush creation features they’ve been promising for longer than that. Even while working on one of the most recent iPad Pro models, some of the brushes are laggy, some to the point that you have to wait for them to catch up to continue your work. So far no update has improved the usability of those brushes. Adobe on a subscription model can’t seem to provide the kind of basics that Procreate can for a one-time fee of about $10. The brushes are smoother, you can use a bigger canvas, symmetry drawing works great, you can create your own brushes, etc. Adobe is a bigger company collecting more money than Procreate could ever dream of, and yet they fall behind in the basics. Vector drawing is a waste of time if you can’t export your file without an additional monthly fee for Illustrator. I was trying to be patient in hopes that Fresco would give us a bit more for the money, but I’m pretty disappointed with their lack of progress. Due to poor brush performance, I stopped bothering with it.

My issue got resolved by itself. Loving the app so far, Im curious to know if this is what it was promised to be photoshop for ipad and the name was changed. Other than that pretty cool that I have all my cloud documents from adobe sketch and my creative cloud. I pay for the creative suite so having this app with no additional cost is great. Im used to the simplicity of procreate but I understand with all of the features the compromise that has to be made, maybe the layers panel can be a pop up from the top bar, that way the right bar can be removed. It would also be nice to have more photoshop tools, that why I asked if this is a new name of what photoshop was going to be :) The issue that I had with the 3.0GB storage got resolved the next day so I deleted my one star review. If theres still action I should take let me know.

Not Worthwhile. I’ve been around with Adobe since Photoshop CS3. And I’ve read Adobe’s responses to the people who dislike this subscription model. Adobe, you can tell us that $10 a month is ‘worthwhile’ because we also gain access to Photoshop for desktop, but I’m not buying it. You’ve done very little over the past few years to genuinely improve the brush engines in desktop Photoshop for artists or added any new feature that significantly add to the field of illustration or 2D artists. You’ve stopped innovating. While it is true the brushes in fresco are far better than anything in desktop Photoshop, that isn’t enough to warrant a monthly subscription. I will give my money to developers who let me OWN the software perpetually. No strings attached. No what ifs, and no worry if I can’t make a payment one month. As others have pointed out, what incentives DO you all have to make any improvements if people will give you a monthly infusion of cash? Ultimately, I have more faith in smaller development teams who aren’t multi million dollar companies who are out to make as much money as they can. Procreate, Infinite Painter, and Artstudio Pro are far better alternatives to this sub-par software.

Drains battery while not in use.. Great app for drawing overall. It’s really good for what you get for free, and i’s even better if you have a creative cloud subscription. However, the app drains a lot of battery when not in use. I went to sleep with my iPad at 70%, and woke up to it being at about 60%. When i checked my battery settings, I saw that adobe fresco was draining it all night. This never happened to me before. I usually leave my iPad on, unused, for days and it stays at the same percentage. I don’t think you would have such a problem if you closed the app every time you used it, but that’s not very good for the battery’s lifespan. As far as I’m concerned, this stays the best app for realistic oil/watercolor digital paintings, so I will continue using it. Until the problem is fixed, i can’t recommend it to someone with an older device and a shorter battery life.

Enjoying learning the app!. Finally, I bought an iPad and was surprised to learn Fresco was an accessible app in which I could start drawing. I thought of purchasing Procreate but if Fresco works for what I need, what is the need? So far so good; I am still learning. What is frustrating at the moment is the limited file types that can be imported and exported. PSDs are one of the file types that can be opened but I couldn’t verify that. My files are on Drive but Fresco only wants to open them from the Adobe Cloud. Although there are many features that help me get the results I want, I haven’t found a way to import or copy in my existing files. That is what limits my review to 3 stars. I am creating lots of new pieces but I had to continue working on my laptop to work with existing files...so it seems so far.

Forced switch from Sketch. Upon opening my Adobe Sketch app this afternoon and discovering that it no longer exists, I was forced to switch to Fresco, a program advertised every time I had previously opened the Sketch app and I declined adding each time. I was frustrated to open the new Fresco app for a time sensitive project, only to find that it is not nearly as intuitive or user friendly as Sketch, the icons are not obvious, and each icon has many options within that will be time consuming to adjust to and remember. To add to the panic, all of my previous works from Sketch haven’t ‘synced’ yet so I cannot access my previously saved projects from the Sketch app which I regularly open and edit. There was no warning that the Sketch program was being removed, and the platform no longer provides the simplicity of the Sketch app that originally drew me to it. Developers- consider reinstating it or creating a simplified dashboard option on Fresco that is more like the original Sketch offerings that attracted artists to it in the first place.

Great with a huge BUT WHERE ARE THE EXPORTS. I love Adobe products and have relied on this company for all of my professional career. The fact that they would take the time to flesh out a “Vector Based” platform and not include Vector File Format Exports is beyond me. You only have the option to export as rasterized files or send to Illustrator ** HUGE CAVEAT ** on desktop. What is the point of spending all of your time with the limited selection of “Vector Brushes” if you can’t finish the file in the same platform? The reason I am giving this 3 Stars is because it does have potential to be fantastic. This is ONLY if Adobe adds in vector file export options. Ideally, they would add in SVG, EPS, and Ai file export options with full functionality. For artists who are reliant on a tablet, mainly iPad Pro, and cannot afford to buy a new laptop this will not work for them if they are trying to create package ready VECTOR files for clients. Which if I understand the brand identity for Adobe Fresco, was the main purpose. If this matters to anyone, I am 28 and this is the first review I have ever posted on any platform. I am an understanding person who loves a good beta testing platform, but we are out of beta and I am tired of spending 10x the effort trying to get my hard work of Fresco vector files into an actual vector format.

2.6GB Canvas. Response To Developer Reply: I’m not giving you my email address. Why don’t you just explain in your review reply why this stupid feature exists please? I suspect it has something to do with the validity of a user’s email address whenever signing up for an Adobe account. And that’s why you won’t explain the stupid canvas storage space creation problem and why you want me to email you instead, so you can have my email address. You’ve given the exact same reply to every single other person who mentioned this same problem that I did. That’s telling if you ask me and means you’re being dishonest and up to no good I’m pretty positive. I have more than enough free storage space on my device to create a blank canvas that would only amount to a couple of megabytes in default total. The fact that you programmed the app this way says you’re up to something shady. Explain the issue in more detail here. I’m not emailing you and I would advise other users facing this same issue who also got the same copy and pasted reply, to not email Adobe either. Either wait for their explanation here or just stick to your low star rating. Original Review: The app keeps telling me that I need an additional 2.6GB of storage space to create a canvas. I don't understand that for a second. Very bizarre and disappointing app in my opinion. Definitely would not recommend this program to anyone for that reason.

This app is great, except for one thing…. I love this app it has great art tools, different mediums, that you can modify, you can favorite different kinds of mediums to save them, you can create files, delete art, save art to the photos, and more. But the problem is you cannot save your animations. There is a wonderful animation feature, but I tried to save an animation, and when I went to the photos to see if it had worked, it just showed one specific frame of the animation. I tried again multiple times, but it didn’t work. So I recommend this app for drawings or paintings of any kind but not for animation. -Thank you for your concern

Fill refuses to work and crashes at least 10 times a day while I’m using it. Been using Adobe Fresco for more than a year now, as Adobe Draw (my first and still favorite drawing app) was replaced by it. Still very very mad about it, as this is nowhere near as friendly, easy to use or charming as Draw was. But still, it seems like a nice drawing app, free, professional, and had most of the features from Draw. Then, I had to stop using on my phone as I couldn’t even do one drawing without it saying I’m “out of storage”, despite the fact I had 5 open at once on there, The main problems are the storage issue, my program now crashes every few minutes, and it taking forever at times to fill, and sometimes for no reason the fill stops working altogether. Currently having to exit the program as it’s crashed for the 5th time in two hours, after waiting 10 minutes for the fill to work. After I’m done with my projects on Fresco, most likely deleting the program and finding a better.

Good start...disappointing update. So Ive been eagerly awaiting the straight edge/shapes update..and I get that fresco is likely trying to differentiate themselves from procreate, but I think it’s fine to acknowledge/adopt some of the features that just work. The shapes/straight lines are much more intuitive in procreate if fresco’s solution is really this draggable ruler thing...? (Maybe I’m missing something?) I totally understand that a new app should have time to work out the kinks and update their way to a more robust tool. But this ruler interrupts the drawing flow and requires too many taps to get one simple result, tainting what is otherwise a pretty good UI. And we still can’t make a circle/arc so I guess we wait for yet another related but separate tool that could have been solved in one gesture. You guys already won me over with the vector brushes (and I’m already an Adobe user thus nothing beats an interconnected ecosystem) so there’s no need to be different for the sake of being different when the market has already shown us a more efficient solution. Please employ the drag and hold for perfected lines/shapes 🙏

Honestly it’s amazing… but at the same time frustrating & annoying. 1. I love everything it’s a pretty nice upgrade I have to admit, but. I got finished with a 2 HOUR drawing and I go to fill it in and it fills the whole page, so I go in and make sure all lines are sealed. Once that’s done I try again, it does the same thing so I fix it up one last time and this thing pops up saying something along the lines of ‘Cannot Fill in this Type of Layer’ which I get really annoyed at. So I decide to color it in with the brush, and I notice the colors start mixing. I didn’t know I had to disable ‘Water color’ or whatever. So my drawing was kinda a waste of time. So I quit getting really annoyed, though I come back some time later and try again. I start adjusting the drawing a bit and half of it disappears randomly. I couldn’t get it back, and at this point gave up for real. But like I said an amazing app but just so annoying and I wasted my time.

It’ll keep getting better. I love that the market forces Adobe to first come out with a competing product, and secondly, race to be better than the competition just by sheer force. I said this about XD when it came out. It stood no chance against Sketch and now I think it’s getting so much closer to being a peer (in some ways, it’s far surpassed Sketch). Fresco is used by different types of artists, but I like whiteboarding on it with my product team using the vector tools. We can get requirements written up and then draw through flows or UI speedily. Copy and paste an element - form field, for example - and you saved even more time than if you were on an actual whiteboard. It’s been missing features like shape detection, but I’m excited to try the latest set of features which does include creating shapes in a method similar to Illustrator’s.

Depends on you. The app is good overall. I would use it for company business because it has a subscription. Tired of everything asking for a subscription instead of one-time buys. So if you are doing digital art for fun or your own personal solo business get ProCreate, Affinity, Autodesk Sketchbook or some other alternative instead. Usually cheap things, have cheap quality. Thats not the case with most of the alternatives these days. Some have better quality but thats imo. It wont hurt to give the app a try tho, maybe your pockets for some. Also, if you are paying monthly there should be new content coming out every month or maintenance updates every month, which is the case. So the subscription is valid, it just they are milking minor improvements so the subscription can look justifiable.

I love this.... I can finally go a full 5 stars as Adobe has exceeded my expectations. I have worked a lot with photos as art the last 15 years but this particular product has gotten my artful creative juices flowing again so I will be working on getting familiar with this as I have always hated mice as ‘uncontrollable.’ BUT the Apple Pencil and an iPad Pro make this now workable digitally. Why? Because combining great software with the new high-tec devices is putting ease-of-use at a whole new level. I have a couple of other apps I can easily ‘prep’ my photos or even do some pre-processing then zip it into Fresco or Photoshop. I abandoned Windows long ago as I had both a laptop and a Surface and am glad to be rid of same. I didn’t like a Mac, either, so the whole idea of being ‘tied to a desk’ or table was repugnant but few choices to transit to until recently. NOW we need Apple to give us artsy types who like hands-on a 14.7” iPad Pro (I have heard 14.1") and we can take this to a new level. I choose this over Procreate though Procreate has some advantages for simplicity. I wish Fresco was a bit easier to transfer other file types used.

Review from an architect’s perspective.. I have never taken the time to write a review for an app before. I have used almost every sketch, design, digital art focused apps and have easily made the decision that Fresco is the best. As a designer that travels frequently but is required to continue to collaborate and provide design direction for 7-10 projects at a time, Fresco is the most powerful tool I utilize. The combination of Fresco and Apple’s IPad + Pen allows me to sketch with precision while controlling the artistic expressions as I see fit. I am able to integrate information, images and floor plans from my teams Revit models, computer renderings, photos of physical models, or even photos of the site into my design process through Fresco. This is my primary, most powerful design tool as an architect… by far.

Why discontinue Adobe Draw?. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Adobe Draw, which was perfect, was replaced by Fresco. It’s ‘merged’ with Fresco but with almost none of the Adobe Draw features that made it an amazing means of creating art. A few years ago I could grind out over 7 pieces of art a week due to its simplicity and user friendly style. Shortly before the merge I would make at least 1 a week, since then I haven’t made a single piece because of the difficulties I’ve had trying to use fresco. Also it arranged all of my files into separate folders making it a headache to even look through my previous pieces. This is a Hail Mary but please either add all of the features from Adobe Draw or bring Adobe Draw back as it was, otherwise I can’t see myself using this app to make anything. I used to praise Adobe for its diversity in creative apps but now it seems they just mashed 2 perfect apps together to make a confusing photoshop styled mess.

Still Waiting. LOVE Adobe Fresco’s drawing experience!!!!! I admit I have not painted as much as I know a lot of people out there might have by now but I am a comic book illustrator so pencil is where I reside most of my time for producing pages. But only for the figures as the Drawing Aids and in particular the Perspective Assisted Drawing which was teased at the launch of this program, has yet to appear and the ‘Coming Features’ Section is just demoralizing at this point as it’s almost two years of waiting on these features. I guess if I had to suggest a feature, I would suggest a lasso fill tool like in Clip Studio Paint. I LOVE Adobe Fresco!!! I complain about the technical tools because it is the difference between using the app half the time with Clip Studio Paint or stay in one art app. For the amount it costs per month I think it is the least Adobe can do.

Needs Work. Not enough space for brushes, you can't move the icons around, icon placement makes no sense, too many useless functions, don't like brush options. The app is extremely laggy even with full bars of service/wifi. I spent 10 minutes customizing the eraser and it still functions incorrectly, it seems that the proportions of where you touch the screen to where the eraser begins erasing are slightly off of balance. These are only some of the flaws I care to list. The transition from the old app to this one was aggravating. They said that it would be possible to keep the old app and that updates would just stop being made to it, but the old app was removed. Not all of my projects transferred over. The projects that did transfer either have to be redone or trashed because they do not have the same tools that I used to create them, so I can not finish them, or edit them properly. The undo/redo buttons are very small compared to the size of the canvas, which makes it difficult to accurately press the one that I want. Perhaps this is not supposed to be a phone app? I do not see myself keeping this app unless many changes are made.

Great for budding artists!. As an avid user of Adobe Photoshop CC among the other programs, I have always been curious to see what Adobe Fresco had to offer in terms of tools, brushes, filters, and layers. After downloading the app on my iPad, I am pleased to share that I have been nothing but impressed with the what I’ve seen! From the jump, the program offers a variety of brushes including numerous vector, pixel, and live brushes. These live brushes are a joy in particular as they accurately mimic the characteristics of physical water colors, oils, pastels, and the like. This gives the user the ability to ‘mix medias’ in a sense to create truly original pieces. Filters such as color dodge, darken, luminescence, etc., are offered as well, and artiest’s are able to sort and organize layers by creating groups and moving/merging them around. What’s more, you’re greeted with quick tips and tutorials the moment the app is opened for the first. These are thorough and do a great job describing the multiple ‘key commands’ (but with your hands) available. I would definitely suggest this program for anyone looking to get into art! It definitely shares the drawing capabilities of photoshop without all the potentially overwhelming or confusing ‘photoshopping’ elements.

biggest problem is the little storage and how much the app crashes. I love this app and it’s ability to allow me to be creative. but recently, the app began to crash multiple times. it wasn’t saving any of my drawings/artwork after crashing either which is the biggest upset. piece after piece, destroyed, unsaved, back to a blank canvas again. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to completely re-do entire art pieces. then I finally figured out it was because of the storage. the canvas sizes I use aren’t even that big, and I don’t even have many art pieces in my gallery. so that leads me to believe that the cloud storage is just small to begin with. and it’s a bit too much for me to pay $10 a month just to get more storage and free me of worry. the app has great tools and I love the features that allow me to be creative, I really do, but fresco has deleted my hard work one too many times lately. and I don’t see these issues getting fixed without me having to pay for premium. so I’m ending this review in saying I will be playing around with non-adobe apps in hopes of finding something that will always save my work for me.

Adobe knows what we like.. I’m glad Adobe finally fixed the undo/redo issue, now I find myself getting excited to draw on this app again and that’s essential going from start finish on any project. I’m sure using an application others are equally excited over and are also using exposes each individual to that mana artists thrive on for inspiration. It’s nice to be apart of something while drawing, it’s possible that I may get more work done here on this app art-wise than anywhere else, and that’s been the case with me on Adobe products for a long time now. I’m very excited about Fresco once more and moving forward, I may actually start doing more art regularly again. Thanks Adobe, please continue to tighten the app.

Adobe Draw fan. I am a huge Adobe Draw fan and felt like the user interface was so much more intuitive than Fresco. Maybe I am just so used to Draw that Fresco seems harder, but it has still taken me a while to get used to Fresco, and honestly, I’m still having a hard time. I don’t understand why you can’t save colors into your palette in Fresco, that seems like a HUGE failing on Fresco’s part. Luckily my color libraries from Draw have been saved and migrated over. I feel like the toolbar on Fresco should be more customizable, and certain gestures while drawing could and should be moved over from Draw. For example, I really miss the ability to hold down the stylus to fill/paint bucket, and double tapping layers to hide/unhide. Maybe I just haven’t discovered how to unlock those features yet in Fresco, but that’s because it’s a more difficult user interface to navigate. I just wish Adobe Draw wasnt discontinued.

Adobe. Alright im gonna say this now, dont buy this. and to the devs, make this better, period. first off, for all the good brushes, u have to pay. yes, actual money. and its 10 dollars A MONTH. NOT A ONE TIME PAY, BUT A MONTH. im not paying that much for just a drawing software. second of all. the learning stuff when u first open the app, it doesnt help. it didnt help me. it didnt help my friends. third of all, wheres the blending brush? this would be SOOOO much better if we had a blending brush. this app, ALONE, overheated my drawing ipad. thats horrible too! fourth thing, half of the stuff is copied from procreate.... in a bad way! (procreate is so much better tho). fifth, the bucket drop tool leaves white spaces in between!!! EXCUSE ME?! I mean, i mine as well draw on that crappy “paint” software thats always on computes!!!! sixth, everytime i draw a line, it goes on another layer. jesus, i dont expect every time i try to draw i get another layer!!!! and besides, half of the brushes arent even compatible with an apple pen. LIKE?!???!??!?! my god, its not that hard to make ur thing better. please PLEASSSEEE dont waste ur email, money, and time for this, costumers. i dont like this one bit.

Draw files inaccessible - years of work lost. I will start by saying I am a working artist with my income solely from logo work and illustration. All of which I did on Abobe Draw on my iPad. Years of files accumulated. One day recently I went to open Adobe Draw to transport a logo I had drawn up the day before and to do some work on a mural design I was nearly done with - only to find that Adobe Draw no longer exists and that I needed to download Fresco to access my Draw files and continue work one them. When I did.. I found them all scattered and without preview thumbnails to easily assess what was where - just blank file folders to sort through. All out of order so I had to click on each one but still couldn’t find my most recent projects. Loads of drawings that I can’t find - and the ones I do find I can’t open and get “try again later”! What am I supposed to do!? This is insane! Just crying at my desk and preparing to have to redraw months of projects and morn the loss of others. Badly done, Adobe. Help please if you can.

Genuinely surprised I like it so much. I’ve been off the Adobe bandwagon for years, came back recently to explore new features. The Fresco app has come a long way and I find myself really enjoying it. It still has plenty of ground to cover, but I’m really excited to see it grow. I do not have a Fresco subscription, so I don’t have any premium features unlocked, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out. Great for sketching and I love how easy it is to work on the same project in all of the Adobe apps, both iPad and desktop. I have been playing with Fresco on desktop as well, but it is clearly built for tablet use and the experience on desktop suffers for it. I don’t begrudge that at all, I think it makes sense given the principle design direction of the app. Worth experimenting in, especially with the live watercolor brushes.

It’s Great! But Still No Magic😞. Good Afternoon, To All adobe fans. Yes fresco is another great adobe app with killer features and versatility, but once again they created another app where the the selection tool is still to in simplest words, basic. Not sure if there are many who can relate, but those of us who spend quite the time with line art and block out areas freehand and just want that simple, quick, right to the point deletion from an area would probably agree that Quick selection tool and the Magic Wand need to make an appearance. Now I know Fresco is new and there have been some who’ve yet had the chance to check it out, but I think quick ways to delete white space should be available on these awesome programs, meaning I should be able tap the area I want to be deleted and delete that area. Similar to the selection tool in Autodesk Sketchbook which is similar to Photoshop in so many ways it’s not even funny. Just my thoughts.

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Bring back Sketch. Slow to load your work. Not as easy to use as sketch. Converting to Fresco more than doubled my file storage and it tells me I’m out of space and need to pay for more! Bring back Sketch it was uncomplicated and did everything I needed!

Um.... The watercolour is good, but the rest is fairly average - either half-baked or on par with what I was using in 2005. Then there’s the price. Some suit at Adobe has been given the okay to set the price so high it’s laughable. Don’t believe me? Download the app and have a look for yourself. Talk about out of touch with reality. Deleted.

Not worth it. Expensive subscription with very limited features and brushes for the paid version. Even if it packed twice the features it will never catch up to the competition. I strongly recommend Procreate which is reasonably priced and time payment.

Great app. This app has great features but one little thing I would like adobe to add is a blur to blur colours and a more variety of brushes. overall this is a great app to draw and would recommend to anyone who wants to do digital art and have a lovely time drawing.

Dear Fresco. Adobe Fresco, I write this to share my thoughts of your creation and my connection to your creation. I have been using this program for almost two years without watching tutorials, and the discovering adventures are breathe taking, exciting and super dope. Thank you for what you have done to allow my creative expression to bloom n grow into other a-roaches of art form. BKE

Amazing app.. I know procreate is the most popular but I think I like this app better. It’s the only app I can make the smoothest line art with. Best so far for line art compared to Affinity and Procreate. It would be great to be able to have colour palettes. That would make this app perfect in every way. Live brushes are incredible.

BIG problem with app. This app would be amazing and I would give it 5 stars if it weren’t for the insane lag. I have tried everything to reduce it but after using some brushes for about 4-5 seconds they start to insanely lag behind. I hope the developers fix this and reply to this review.

Please make colour palettes better and ability to use colour harmonies!!!!. Procreate has great colour harmonies and colour abilities but I’d like to use fresco more but cannot do much with colour please make changes to this so i can use fresco more!!!

Not for professional use. Still a lot to work on. I’ve downloaded kyles brushes and it’s not coming up! It’s on my adobe fresco but it only appears as blocks!!!!!!!!!!!! Restarted the app back again and No changes. With the default brushes it’s not painting properly... the brush tool, while drawing lines it’s also erasing the lines you’ve already drawn underneath I honestly don’t know if I can continue using this app ...... this is not the first problem Ive faced. The problems I’m facing are affecting my work. I can’t seem to take this app seriously.

Far to complicated for practical use among new drawers. This drawing app is far to complicated for use like newbies like me. Me and my whole friend group used to make animations and draw on the now gone Adobe Illustrator Draw. APP IS ONLY GOOD FOR EXPERIENCED DRAWERS unlike adobe draw which is simple and easy. Please simplify this drawing app or bring back adobe draw.

It just deletes stuff. At first this was awesome but then just at random it deletes my work and some I worked really hard on. Edit: Now it’s not letting me open it?!

I like it?. I’m cautiously optimistic. I won’t pay a sub, I’m done with that system. But, I am loving Fresco. Please make it a one time purchase, I would be happy to support it in that case. I’m no money tree.

Amazing. I love this app 10/10 nothing wrong with it

So much better than previous adobe apps. This may not be as good as other professional apps, but as a free app, this is really good. The only thing I can suggest is a ruler and grid like in adobe sketch. All in all, great app

Snapline. This new feature in Fresco is very limited (straight line only?) compared to the beautiful line smoothing feature that was a key part of Adobe Ideas. Please add that feature into Fresco. So simple, so effective.

Great as it keeps evolving. Fresco seems to be a good drawing app. As a an amateur digital drawers, seems that fresco is slowly adding more functionality and features to compete with already set programs. However, what I truly appreciate is it seamless connection to Adobe Creative Cloud. Allowing me to continue my work in my computer. Whenever a need to do some photoshop adjusting is as easy as saving the drawing, and opening my laptop. The file updates in seconds. This compatibility is worth it all

Great for on the road work. The only thing I wish that this had that Adobe Draw allows you to do is the put your files into projects. I work in collections so being able to file my work into the relevant projects is ideal.

Not apple pencil-friendly, Fresco support unhelpful. For whatever reason, my apple pencil could do everything else in the app except draw a single thing. Contacted Adobe support via chat, and they kept referring me to a different agent several times to fix what is seemingly a small problem. The first couple of times, rather than addressing my issue of getting the pencil to draw, they insisted that there were no Adobe products registered to my account even though I had Adobe Fresco registered and working (besides the pencil). When they finally put me through to someone slightly helpful, they disconnected halfway through, whether intentionally or not I am not sure.

It's amazing. Im new to adobe fresco, (nearly called it draw! I will call it that though, I'm really Sorry!) but so far, it's quite good for beginners as they are new to digital art, I would recommend this for any arts fartsy people

Buggy and slow. At first it seemed really cool with plenty of brushes and tools but as soon as you use any sort of large brush it freezes up and is barely functional, also when I added large amounts of layers it crashed and I lost all my progress, as well as all of that sometimes the zooming feature stops working. Would not recommend, if you want a free art program use sketchbook or if you want something more professional use procreate.

More support for insitu/contextual actions. The UI feels like it’s based off of a desktop experience, rather than being fully conceptualised as mobile first. Take UI behaviour cues from Procreate, far less friction IMHO.

Convinced. I now consider Fresco the best drawing app for iPad. I’ve been using it for several months being appreciative of its regular updates. It is my prime digital drawing app. Fresco has it all (apart from gradients which I’m sure will come in time). And if it’s a great app now how good is it going to be with each subsequent update. Perfection? The one feature I would like to see is the max resolution lifted from 8k times 8k to 10k times 10k or more (poster size) for the iPad Pro (2021 model).

Great app to use if you do not want to pay for drawing application. I love using Adobe fresco. When I did not want to pay for any expensive drawing app. I know it has a premium but it does not make you feel like you need to pay for it. It offers a million different drawing tools and you can add millions of layers. Overall Adobe fresco is good for any stage artists. Hopefully this review was helpful. :)

The Good. The Bad. And the ugly.. Unquestionably, this is the very best vector drawing app for iPad Pro that I’ve come across. I have lost files between crashes. And when reported, Adobe gives me the runaround. So hardware to cloud processing is still in the lap of the god’s. Exporting vector to AI desktop is horrendous. Crashes etc. The workaround is export a PDF from Fresco; open it in AI and save it as an AI file. I think they’re taking advantage of everybody with their subscription model as I only use four apps - Fresco - AI - Photoshop and Lightroom and there’s not a business model that supports this for a struggling artist working on a game. All that said, we’re in miracle days with the software available to us. I just wish it came with a plug in called Empathy.

Disappointing.. What can I say. I hate this app. It’s put me off drawing altogether. That I’m forced to use it because I used its predecessor which was so much more intuitive to use just adds to the pain. No basic shapes to use, no longer can I use the pencil to tap and change to the eraser function. Looking for files I’ve both created in app and from legacy is cause for nightmares. I find other drawing apps less of a pain to use and more intuitive. Worse yet, I know if I keep using this app, by the time I figure out all its ugliness, they will just release a newer one we’re once again, we have to relearn all they ways of doing things. So much time wasted.

Great. This is a great app. I especially love the ruler function. Works very well across photoshop.

Adobe fresco. Adobe fresco is an awesome app and I love it so so much it is one of the most amazing apps .it is just amazing and awesome I can do all the art things I love it’s just amazing!!!

So far so good. Great brushes and workflow.. This could well find itself outclassing that other drawing app - let’s see!

Oh Dear.. I have a subscription to Photoshop and lightroom but fresco wants me to pay 15 bucks a month. So let me get this straight- buy fresco premium for 15 a month and get photoshop mobile, buy a photo plan for 14 a month, get ps mobile and lightroom mobile plus desktop versions but not get premium access to fresco. Adobe you’ve done it again, amazing.

Downloaded then deleted. I am so very very sick of subscriptions. I’ll stick with Procreate, one off payment free updates and a great app. I thought Fresco may be different, but no. I don’t think I’ll ever seriously look at Adobe for anything in the future. Is it possible to give 0 stars?

Almost unusable. I’ve been waiting to paint with my photoshop brushes on iPad and this is the only aspect where Fresco doesn’t let me down. However as a digital painter there are 2 basic functions I rely on heavily. Colour picker and brush size. Adjusting either of these is clunky, especially the picker gesture. Performance is pretty average and file sizes are nuts. I have 2 projects with a few layers about 4K resolution this is using 14gb of my iPad storage but also needs to connect to the cloud when I open it???? Compared to Procreate where I have about 100 projects and only using 20gb Trying to go any higher resolution over 4K on my iPad with my custom brushes is struggletown.

Adobe Fresco ♡︎. I love this app! The only thing that’s wrong I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure you need to pay for layers, and for an art app most people wouldn’t expect to pay for layers. Since layers are really common to use and most artists have to use them. Otherwise stunning app! No bugs to be seen! ♡︎

Great Potential. As a designer that uses their iPad a lot for illustration, Fresco is quickly becoming my go-to for any freehand vector design. It’s controls are easy to learn and resemble Adobe’s desktop programs enough that knowledge can carry over. I must add that some shortcuts could be added to make quick edits easier and more time efficient. No doubt most of what’s in mind will come along in future updates. If anyone at Adobe is reading this, take some notes from Procreate’s extensive list of shortcuts. All up, very happy happy with the product.

Love! Please make a diary/journal/sketchbook like this!. Absolutely love, so fluid and easier than procreate. I would love a daily diary and sketchbook that is as easy to use as this. Lots of page templates and functions like lots of sketch pads on a bookshelf

Great until…. Really awesome illustration app until it crashes and loses several hours worth of work.

How good it is. It is sooo perfect I can draw anything. It has all the tools I want and u can do so much things Down load this now!

Intuitive. Very easy to figure out how to use the different features. Makes drawing an absolute pleasure. I’ve been struggling to get back into creating art for many years and using this app has really opened the creative world back up for me. Working with layers is a dream.

It’s amazing 🤩. I love this app so much it just lets my imagination go wield 🐎!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t think 🤔 of a single problem this app and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in art. I ❤️ THIS APP SOOOOOOOOO MUCH.😁😄😃😋😛🙃🙂.

Keeps getting better. The main drawcard is the stunning watercolour brush engine. Now that Adobe offers a freemium version, there’s no reason not to go with this elegant and powerful app.

Fantastic until today. It’s crashed 5 times, can’t get a work flow going like this… tried restarting iPad. I’ve been loving this app, hopefully you can sort out this bug

Great app but.... This is amazing app I love it it’s got so much to offer but there is one tiny little thing you see when I’m trying to draw something it like ads another layer without consent and it really annoys me but it is a great app but yeah I wish it would change that little thing.

PLEASE MAKE COLOUR PALETTES MORE USEFUL AND USEABLE. I absolutely love this app and I find the paint effects are maybe even better than procreate...however.... PLEASE add a better system for colour schemes. You can only make them in another Adobe app but that is only 5 colours per palette. I want to be able to sample colours in fresco from a picture or whatever and then be able to save many colours within the palette right in fresco and then have many options for palettes just like in procreate and other paint programs. Even if you use the ‘recent’ swatches, they disappear after coming back into the painting or starting another.

Storage hog. With only a few cloud docs downloaded this app starts eating storage by the gig with no discernible logic. I've basically given up on it — with Procreate I seem to manage’ always offline’ for all photoshop and fresco stuff while using literally a fraction of the space. I’m talking 6gb versus like 20+ with fresco/ps/cc and again, no obvious explanation regarding docs being online. I’ve gone through a process of reinstalling the lot a few times now so procreate looks like the best bet

Adobe gouging poor artists. This got me excited enough to think I would pay for Photoshop and Lightroom to have this too (even though it’s not even a fully featured app- against its competition). But of course that won’t work- Adobe needs another billion dollars. I would have been a happy subscriber, but F—K Adobe.

Where’s offline storage?. I 100% DO NOT want my drawing synced to your cloud. I have local storage, and the app even shows me local storage available space but gives me no options I can find to not cloud sync my files. I need that before I use this app.

Over complicated. Took away all the easy to use functions Adobe Sketch offered. Need a degree is astrophysics just to use the water colour feature - which, by the way, is now worse than Sketch. Horrible and over complicated. Sometimes, just sometimes, updating isn’t always the best. Bring back the simplicity of drawing!!

Not worth having when it means I cannot use PSD in Affinity. This app corrupts other apps. Having Fresco on my iPad means I cannot open PSD files in Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo. Something which was perfectly functional before. It’s bad enough I can’t install Adobe CS3 on my new computer because you’ve closed the servers. Meaning a program I purchased and which can actually run on the computer is now rendered useless. On top of that Adobe think I should not be allowed to use both Adobe and other programs on my iPad? This just makes me even less likely to ever buy Adobe software again. If I have to choose, I will NOT choose Adobe, which clearly do not respect customers’ choices to use alternatives.

Requires subscription, nothing special. Fresco has very little to nothing over Procreate, but requires you to pay the equivalent of Procreate’s one-time price every single month to unlock all the features. Please, do not keep feeding this monopolistic and greedy company.

I love this app It’s helped so much with my art though I have a suggestion. If you added flip canvas to it. It would make it even better. And if you also added blur it would also make it better. But other than those I have nothing but praise for this app

Very good. This is a very good drawing app. Love it! It’s a bit trickier to get the hang of than Adobe Sketch, which I usually use, but this has much more variety in terms of brushes and can zoom in far more than adobe sketch when you’re working on intricate details. And also can I just mention the watercolours? I love the watercolours. I can finally make good gradients with the watercolours! Thank you! Maybe you could add a dry button next to the colour-flow-waterflow options instead of needing to click on the layer to get the dry button to come up? And one other suggestion: The colour picking method is cool but it would be nice if you could include an option to use a colour wheel similar to Adobe Sketch’s colour picker, because I know I’m finding it hard to adjust to the new colour picker. All in all, an amazing app! P.s. Thank you for fixing the crashing bug where the app crashed when you try to open it. Big help ;)

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A great tool. Adobe fresco is a wonderful tool with many useful brushes and many other features that a great when drawing. I like to sketch my ideas then import them on to fresco to add color and shading. It might cost money which I can see as problematic for some but if you can afford it it’s most definitely worth it. Thank you Adobe you’ve let me improve and express my art

Subscription model don’t buy!!. Currently uses a subscription model to use. Will not use until they provide a one time purchase to all brushes

Very bad 😞. I deleted almost all of my apps and i barely had anything left and i still had to free storage. This was very annoying, i deleted the app. Would not recommend. 😕

Out of space. so it said I needed to delete some drawings so I did deleted a bunch of files with like a hundred drawings in them no bigie. Until when I was done I had only 4 drawings left and it still said no space i can’t even draw anymore.

On Fresco Mobile. Shapes, grids, and probably other stuff would benefit the author in mobile (ie. phone versions) of Fresco. Such things were standard in Illustrator Draw mobile, and it seems erroneous that they would be omitted from Fresco on mobile devices. Phillip Gallant

$13 cdn a month?!? Lol no....just no!!!. Avoid this like the plague. A nice drawing app, but feels like they released it incomplete. There are nice features that are in the "coming soon" section but again, you don’t get a full app and are asking you to pay. Brushes that are exported IMO were laggy. Save your money and just go with Procreate 5 that’s coming soon, or Artstudio Pro. Both of these apps provide a superior drawing experience to Fresco and are one time purchases. Clip Studio pro is a full sized drawing program and is half the monthly subscription cost that abode is trying to fool you into spending with Fresco. If the “coming soon" features are included in the free model then this apps rating will go up. If they hide these behind the $13 bucks a month sub then no....

An Incredible Art App. This app is amazingly versatile. You can make still images, motion graphics and full animations. It also has vector and pixel layers in the same art board! This allows you to make art with smooth or textured styles simultaneously. The tools within are fantastic and you can download or make custom brushes if you feel the need. Of course, you will need good ideas and the will to create them in order to take advantage of everything Fresco offers! - cbfriesen.com

Do not use this app. Sometimes fresco will randomly rotate your layers, causing them to be cropped and basically deleting half of it. Use this app if you want to waste all the hours you put into your art

Adobe Draw. I personally prefer adobe draw. I do not like the “update” i grew up learning the adobe draw, i’ve used it for everything, it should still be available for people who prefer it. they should not have taken down the app. i’m extremely disappointed

Love it. Love it so much. So easy to use and love all the tips and tutorials. I enjoy creating on it. Fresco it is for me.

:(. The app glitched and now all my progress is gone, the app is good though

It’s a game changer despite its failings. I’m a life long Wacom tablet comic artist and illustrator, I have a Wacom cintiq 22hd that I love. In august I bought my first iPad Pro. It’s a 2017 with only 4 gigs of ram, compared to the latest model which has 16gigs. Fresco has given varoises some incredibly powerful tools to help make creating comics much more efficient. So much so, that I’ve almost abandoned my desktop with 32gigs of ram. Fresco still has some bugs on the major side. Fresco crashes several times per session. -probably due to my older model iPad. Solid drawing program with intuitive settings that take a couple days to master and once you do, you’ll be flying when it comes to the perspective tools, ruler tools, and the much easier and simpler ui, and liquify tool is showing that ADOBE has new tricks that make their software fresh and a must for digital artists on the go.

Horrible update. Why did you change the app. Adobe draw was the best app for drawing. So annoyed.

Good; expensive but not the best. Fresco has received some updates since its release that make it an actually good art app now, quite useable for professional work. Comparisons to Procreate are of course inevitable, and Procreate still boasts the better UI, better features, and is much, MUCH more affordable. Fresco has no right being $12 CAD/ month, maybe $50/ a year would have been OK. Most of us don’t have the whole Creative cloud subscription, and if this had been included in the Photography plan it would be decent value. But Fresco’s main selling point are the live brushes, which are lovely. There are apps that do the oil paint impasto mixing better- Art Rage Vitae is spectacular- but Fresco is the only one with a balance of other robust features. Art Rage Vitae on iPad doesn’t support two finger tap to undo, for example, or layer modes. There’s Realistic Paint Studio which also does a good job of emulating thick oil painting but again lacks important core features. There’s Rebelle and Corel Painter which are also excellent but those aren’t available for the iPad. There are drawbacks, however. You can import Photoshop brushes but some of them lag so much they’re unusable (I doubt it’s my hardware, since I have an iPad Pro). The UI, while decent, isn’t as clean as something like Infinite Painter or Procreate. On the whole though, I think this app has come a long way from when it first debuted on the App Store. If you can stomach the subscription, it’s nice to have and play with, even do professional work in- especially if you use Photoshop on the desktop. I’m only giving it a 4 star rating for the live brushes- if it weren’t for those, Fresco has nothing unique to bring to the table. But those brushes are nice, and I hope Adobe keeps working on Fresco and making it a better art app.

Buggy. Keeps bugging out and closing the app while in use

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It sucks. The pencils are trash. It takes forever to load the app is just horrible it crashes all the time. They keep asking my location all the time. They even threaten me before when I tried to confront them. I’m very disappointed.

Great!. It’s has tons of free features and works amazingly! Great interface. Very user-friendly. I’ve been using this for months and it covers all of my needs! I love how easy it is to animate! Overall 10/10.

Crashes. Finally given up. Crashes when it saves, crashes when I try to colour fill. Soooo slow. Nothing seems to work even after reloading it. Twice I have lost hours of work. Use to love this app but too frustrating and time wasting to stick with it. Too many issues lately.

Smooth brushes. Adope fresco is a wonderful app. I bit hard to use at first but still okay. You can add a picture for reference and the brushes are mwah! just perfect to use for any type of drawing in your own style! I recommend this app 99.9%. There’s just a bit of a wait when saving drawings and minor errors like some progress doesn’t get saved but that on rare occasions. Just one small request to the creator to please to make it easier to use an apple pen because it’s a bit annoying that you need to make the lines short and at a minimum speed so you don’t have to remake EVERY line like it doesn’t add the lines. Other then that it’s a cool app that I use and plus it’s free magnificent! Try it now for free! #Amazing app #Not sponsored LOL

Crashed glitches all the times. Once I worked on something for hours, and then the app crashed and I lost ALLL of my work…. It’s not reliable. If it wasn’t for the crashes, the app is amazing. But you never know when you design becomes too complicated for it….

A little disappointed. Ever since the merger between Fresco and Adobe Draw I’ve been really frustrated because we’ve lost the shapes tool which really helped me out while doing my illustrations. I hope the next update brings the shape tool option for iPhones. Please bring it to iPhones, Adobe.

Really good to use. The tools are great and good

Ok but also not ok. I love drawing on this app, but if I draw too long it restarts the app and sometimes it says is is not a valid PSD file. The watercolour brush, if i make the brush on it’s thickest and draw on the screen, I will glitch, and if I try to save the glitch project, my whole project will appear to be black or sometimes if duplicates my layers and turns them upside down. They even delete my layers if I don’t save my project properly. Otherwise, it’s good. The multicolour swatch is best, thanx for that special tool, with it, I can write 3D words and draw 3D stuff

Fresco keeps lagging, freezing then crashing. Can someone help please? I LOVE this program and have been using it since it replaced Adobe Draw. But over the past 2 weeks it’s begun lagging, freezing then crashing. I lose work which is maddening. I have the latest Apple iPad Pro and pencil with lots of available space. Please help, I’m in the middle of a time sensitive project and need Fresco to work as brilliantly as before.

Messed up getting rid of Adobe draw. What was the reason? The layout and everything about the new fresco app doesn’t compare and is far from the features Adobe draw provided.. y’all gotta ruin everything

It’s fine. I didn’t get to try because it has a monthly subscription but it looks cool

Horrible app.. This app is beyond over priced and sells your data to third parties. Absolutely NOT worth it

Miss Adobe draw. I understand how this app is far superior for artists who want to create more complex pieces and understand all the functions, however for me it is too complicated and missing features I loved about Adobe draw. Adobe draw was much more user friendly and perfect for me, who just wanted the basic functions. Shutting down Adobe draw entirely was a terrible move. Why not just leave it up without updates for those of us who used it?

crashing，crashing. crashing，crashing，crashing，always，always！ and than，cannot open it and delete it， because，that was not “psd” file already，lol

Needs to be more compatible with illustrator. Love the app but it needs to be more compatible with illustrator. I need clean line work to be translated over.

O/10. To annoying to use. The rulers are terrible. The snapping makes them impossible to set were you want them. Always jumping to the set location. But then even when you try the auto straight line, more snapping so you can’t get the lines you want. Go to sketch book they got it figured out so does procreate. Making things difficult just so it’s different, so it’s adobe. Out side of Lightroom it’s garbage. Photo shop same, not up to snuff. Affinity is better, even though it has issues, at least the focus seems to be functionality.

It’s on its way to being one of my most used tablet based design apps. The last few years I’ve been using Autodesk Sketchbook for iPad Pro and then saving out for its desktop based app and then to photoshop to do any prepress work. Just recently I finished a very large project I realized I needed the photoshop design transition to be less problematic and more seamless. Although I think there’s more needed in fresco to make me step away from the other apps (which limit file size and ppi quality) the use of vector drawing tools AND raster drawing tools in this app is immensely helpful and they’re very easy to use. The photoshop-like curve adjustment for brushes is very handy. I can pull my work files into my MacBook Pro for photoshop from the cloud and do whatever I need before I send it to the printers and whatnot. If this app fearured a symmetry tool it would make me seriously consider switching over completely from the other apps. Adobe is the industry standard and since I already use illustrator and photoshop this will be a welcome addition to my work tools.

Wooow. I love this! I think i can even become an artist sooo thank you for adobe. It is the best

Bad for some artists. Why is it bad for some artists? "Oh... because..." Unrealistic experience with brushes. Not lot of control even with Apple Pencil Why are the filled circle in shape list deleted after upgrade?

Underrated. This app is criminally underrated. The Live brushes do an amazing job mimicking IRL oil paint and watercolours. Very intuitiven UI. Traditional artists wanting to make the leap to digital should start here.

Really miss adobe Draw. Colours are not sufficient. I have spent hours importing colours into Fresco. I really am still devastated that Draw is gone. Fresco isn’t an adequate substitute. Don’t understand why the replacement app isn’t nearly as good as the one taken down

Unusable with white lines on fill tool. Gotten to the point where using the fill tool causes white lines on the border to appear which are very noticeable

Bring back Adobe Draw. The app is fine but not as good as Adobe Draw. At least make all the brushes available that were available on Adobe Draw.

Amazing. Fresco works like a dream!

cool app!. this app is HEAVENLY. you can do so many things on this app like picking up where you left off on a different device which is extremely helpful and there's so many brushes you can use, the software is amazing and all for FREE!! credits to all the devs who made Adobe Fresco!!

Advanced Brushes Not Available After Purchase. Tried to buy the extending version with extra brushes but…..NADA. What’s up with this app?

This seems to be the only way I can contact Adobe with a problem!. My issue is with the drawing/circle aide. It has, for some reason, gone askew and I cannot reset it. I have updated both the app and the iPad, even deleted the app and reloaded it. I checked the Adobe community: other members have experienced this, no one has a fix short of a magical reset when the app is updated, there are MANY requests for Adobe to fix this problem! When I tried to report the problem, I have received nothing but a runaround. The app tells me I am not logged in so therefore cannot report a problem but all other avenues tell me I AM logged in. The main website rotates me between the main Adobe Help Centre, the Support link, and the “Contact Us: Real Help from Real People” link (are you kidding me right now?!) I have lost WEEKS of work because I can no longer use an essential tool and Adobe does not have a simple contact solution for issues. This is my LAST attempt at getting help. I am at the point of having to start again with a brand new app or go old school with paper and pencil but I don’t even know if they can contact me through reviews, there may not be enough of my info here.

Adobe sketch. Is there any way to recover old drawings from adobe sketch? I logged in with my Apple ID but my drawings were not recovered. Please help.

A lot of lies and trying to get more people to get this app!. I was very excited to download it until I download it and sign in. I was looking at motion tutorial, and then I saw shine so I made my own, but I didn’t find anything that would make my drawing, shiny and they lied! I am so frustrated! So be warned!

This app is amazing I love it but…. It takes a little to open your pages sometimes and I am still learning for some it might seem complicated or not but I am finding it difficult to figure some things out

This app thinks it’s smarter than you.. Not as intuitive as other image creation apps. The Text tool sadly underperforms with very minimal flexibility for creating image/text based work. Definitely not an app for some one who loves typography. As someone who has used image creating apps for iPads since iPad 1, this is one of the worst.

Fresco update. App crashes every time I choose a pixel brush, can use live brushes and vector brushes. Crashes started after last update.

I need Adobe Draw. I’m incredibly frustrated at the difficulty to access my old Adobe Draw files through Fresco, and I used Draw regularly for my kind of work, and it was perfect. I wish Draw was still available.

it is good or bad. So I have not tried this app, but I have seen lots of people go on this app and make good tik toks and I want to try to make those so I’m just gonna see if it’s good or bad I don’t know because I haven’t even finished installing the app

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Solid, some kinks to work out. Disclaimer: I work for Adobe and received a free license. My opinions are my own and do not represent the opinions of Adobe or it’s subsidiaries or investors. I was pleasantly surprised by Fresco, it’s a solid drawing program. I especially like the live brushes feature which can simulate watercolors or oil paint effects. It saves to the Adobe cloud automatically, so if you’re doing other projects with Adobe products, the integration is pretty seamless. Overall though, I’ll be sticking with Procreate for now as my primary painting tool. Fresco still has some kinks to work out. 1. It frequently misreads the palm of my hand as input, switching layers or colors while I’m working. 2. The UI prioritizes tools over tool options, requiring more taps than I’d like to perform my most frequent actions (brush size, opacity/pressure). Verdict, a cool addition to the creative cloud with easy integration with other Adobe products, but I don’t think it’s going to become my primary digital painting tool. Worth trying out.

Frustrated. I was using adobe sketch and I loved it so much and then it kept telling me to get this one instead and so I did and then adobe sketch just stopped like working/existing? Fresco has too many features that don’t make sense and the features I liked on sketch are now gone and this app is so difficult to use. Getting my projects back from adobe sketch also was so confusing because it just randomly labels them and gives every single one a folder. This app is slow and hard to navigate and use. I hope that I will be able to get used to it or eventually like it more but right now I’m so upset and am struggling to draw at all on this app.

Adobe fresco love🥰🥰😍😍. I love this app my father bought me a new Apple Pencil for my birthday and I started using it I wanted to try doing digital art so I was looking for websites to do Art's and I found a Adobe Fresco when I first opened it it was a bit tricky first but then it is so much easyI laughed all the functions of the app and how easy it was to draw in and color and I was so happy I recommended all my friends this app and they liked it too so definitely give it a five star review because it is so amazing and I love using this app to do digital art😍😍😍😇😇😄

Great but not intuitive. After using Procreate the last year and a half, I was looking forward to seeing what Adobe had in store with Fresco. I saw the demo at MAX last year and was excited for the always wet watercolor feature, Kyle Webster brushes, and other drawing tools. Although the features I mentioned are great, the interface is a little clunky and there’s far too many steps to take for simple tasks and that’s where Procreate succeeds and Fresco fails. There needs to be a feature where your palette can be used over and over again in new documents instead of working from scratch and mixing a new batch of colors each time I start a project. Adobe needs to keep it simple, easy, and seamless.

Adobe Fresco Review. I use Adobe Fresco for album cover and fabric designs as a hobby. I absolutely love the live brushes and the ability to have numerous layers. There are many brushes available and it is easy to learn. I have been frustrated with the cloud and have lost several hours of work because of it. It would save quite a bit of time and frustration of having to switch to photoshop when I need to create a seamless repeat if I could do it in Fresco - especially since the cloud is such a pain. Also, they have been promising the symmetry drawing feature for ages, but it has yet to arrive.

I can't seem to login to suggest features. There is promise to this app, if the price is significantly reduced, but even before that, at the moment it's largely a gimmick. For example the app is missing some really basic functionality like being able to paste into it. I loaded in a psd, which shows up as a group of layers, but I can't access the layers individually. I can group other layers together and access them individually if I wish, but not the ones that come from a psd, which is really odd to me. The modifier is pretty cumbersome to use as well... Anyway this is like version 1.0 so I expect these things to change and improve. And the price... I really can't imagine a world where this app will be so feature rich to warrant $9 a month.

Great start. Firstly, to those wanting to try it out there's a 6 month free trial of all the features/brushes so it's worth trying out. I've been doodling around for the past hour and so far so good. The brushes feel great to use. I really like the fluidity of the live brushes. One thing I'd like more of is more blending tools but I guess I can always import my own or make new ones. Another thing is that it seems it'll be subscription based... If it comes with my CC subscription it'd be better. It's too soon to say if this would become my main drawing application but I can't wait to see what's added in the future!

Excellent with one (typical) caveat. It’s an Adobe app designed for iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. What else is there to say? New features pop up every so often, but as a standard digital painting app it’s pretty solid. The wet brushes (oil in particular) seem to need too much pressure for it to be close to the real thing (or the simulacrum), but it’s not trying to be anyone else’s oil brush. The only real complaint I have, which is typical and a clear nod to the pirating community is the monthly bill for premium features. You really don’t need them, but it’s kind of sussy to charge monthly for any iOS graphics-based pixel/vector painting when Procreate, which arguable does just as much or more, only requires a single one time payment of ~$5.99 with potentially more single one time payments for new features (?). I think Adobe can figure out how to dominate the publishing industry without becoming another monthly bill for people.

Great Brushes, Ridiculous Subscription Model.. I am an Adobe fan, and was really excited about this app. It offers vector brushes, pixel brushes, and incredibly realistic live brushes. It’s still early in design, and I can tell that a lot of work has gone into it, but the subscription model for this leaves a bad taste in the mouth of even a raving fan. When you can get other apps on the App Store as a full purchase with active updates for the same price as one month with Fresco, there is no debate which way I will go. In fact, as much as I like it, the subscription model makes me not want to invest more time into working with it as I know that this model is unsustainable for my interests. Hopefully, Adobe will see things from the customer’s POV.

Good for drawing but limited. Overall, I really like the program. I use it for designing educational materials. I find the text to be very limited. I wish there was a way to use multiple languages other than what you can get from keyboards. Also I wish there was a function for formatting mathematical equations. Subscript and superscript are important in many scientific fields. I wish I didn’t have to jump back and forth between programs. If those capabilities were added I would give this 5 stars. I have terrible hand writing and this allows me to easily merge text and graphics.

Highly Recommend. I’ve been trying to get into digital art for a while, and Adobe Fresco opened those doors for me. The brushes provided are stunningly realistic, I’m not exaggerating. Almost a flawless transition rom analog to digital art, especially with the improved Apple Pencil support. Only thing that bugs me is the “exit” button that I confuse for “undo” all the time, which causes me to save my work accidentally with an error. Is there a way to restore old versions? The aforementioned is probably just me. Everything else is superb.

Clunky but beautiful. So here’s the thing, this app has the BEST digital watercolor experience I have come across. I LOVE it, it feels so close to the real thing. That being said this app is pretty clunky. It takes forever to load my files (regardless of the layer count or size), response time of features are sluggish and the app has randomly crashed on me more than once. So I really want to give this app 5 stars and it would be a real contender for procreate for me but I have come to expect better from adobe. If they could work on the smoothness of the ins and out of this app it would definitely become one of my go tos and get 5 stars. For now, it just much more enjoyable to use procreate on the reg and fresco as a secondary app for the live brushes.

It’s “okay” on mobile. I used to be a big fan of adobe, I would use Sketch & Draw frequently throughout the wk with my adobe subscription, ever since they were removed I found myself using adobe less & less, mostly because I loved the shape tool, it was perfect for making exactly what I wanted vs now, which is hard to hard to accomplish. I may considering renewing my adobe subscription in the future if that was added, but for now it’s just not worth it, it’s not bad, it jus doesn’t compete w/ Sketch & Draw for me, plus deleting the two made using Fresco feel like a forced transition for me

Adobe, alienates customers again. For long term users, Adobe has a knack for ruining work flow. I jump around apps for projects and use different apps for different parts of projects. I used to jump in, do a quick easy sketch to use in a different app. Quick, easy sketch. Now you’ve managed to add layers of complicated nonsense. Did it ever occur to you to keep one app and offer another? That there are different reasons and uses? It boggles the mind how you keep just wiping apps out of existence and replacing them without notifying subscribers. Every time I open an app I wonder, will it still be there? How will they rename it so that it’s impossible to guess and find? That it won’t come up in quick searches? I hope some day soon a company comes to challenge your stranglehold on creative apps. I have a full subscription, but I feel for people and your random over priced monthly app subscriptions. Your pricing is all over the place. I wonder year to year, will you arbitrarily raise your subscriptions? Users, search to see what pricing is available. Check monthly because full subscriptions can vary wildly. When you see a better price, grab it. Who runs your company?

I like it, a few suggestions though. First off, I like this app. I have quite a few painting and vector apps, but this is the one that I use the most often right now. I only have two complaints. The first is with the Apple Pencil integration and gestures. About half the time when I put my hand down on the screen to draw, it undoes my last action. It’s not annoying enough to make me stop using the app, but it IS annoying. The other thing I’d appreciate is the ability to edit an individual stroke when drawing in vector. Right now I can adjust the entire layer, but not individual strokes. Overall, great app, but could use a few upgrades. :-)

No no no no. My husband and I are both active duty and we used adobe sketch to share projects and draw together when we are separated (which is most of the time and for 6-7 months at a time)..... we can’t share projects with Fresco, truly disappointing. We are trying other apps now since adobe has left us with an app that will no longer update and likely be removed in the future. Doesn’t transfer art from Adobe Sketch as advertised, says I’m out of storage but shows 80% free still, not having a lifetime or one-time purchase option is absurd, and some transfers are stored as files, so I have to go through 10 steps to open my art, not to mention there is a whole section with essentially “social media” of art..... if I wanted social media, I’d have it, I want my art and that’s it.... just so disappointed.

Great app for artists. This app has, by far, the most robust painting systems that have the ability to emulate realistic textures of painting. I am in college studying art and have recommended this app to nearly all of my peers, who have been shocked that they have never heard of an app so well-preforming. I even showed a work I made in Fresco to my painting professor who was floored by how realistic the oil painting textured appeared and said she would have believed it was a picture of a traditional oil painting if it weren’t for the bright, neon colors I included. This app has been a great tool for me and I encourage all artists to explore it.

Best yet I love this. I hated that adobe draw didn’t blend. But with these live brushes the effect is fantastic. I always wanted a Corel paint experience on my iPad. I use this with the Apple Pencil and a textured screen protector like elecom. The effect is life improving. I use it to do no mess sketching to practice drawing and sighting. I have tailored the sensitivity to feel like my favorite pencils You can use this to paint photos or to draw or trace. It has actual layered vector export (pdf) and raster (psd) so you can go between hand touches to things that are more easily done on a computer.

Excellent. Between Procreate, IbisPaint, Sketchbook, and Fresco they are all pretty much the same apps with different layouts. Use Procreate for a simple layout and simple animation, IbisPaint for smooth comics, Sketchbook for multi platform work, Fresco for animation and vector lines. None of these apps are much different from one another as far as features go. The different layouts are the really the biggest difference. Sketchbook is free and has most things the other apps have, so honestly go with that. I would like the be able to transform stuff more extensively (like in Procreate) for Fresco. Otherwise I haven’t had any problems with the app itself

Amazing app. I am an Adobe employee with no artistic background (not in a creative field) and I have been amazed at what I can create with Fresco after just a couple of months playing around with it in my free time. I love the brushes and the feel that I am working with paint, while having access to the all-important Undo and Erase functions! (critical for newbies like me who make tons of mistakes). It is much more accessible than most other Adobe products, which I find intimidating (Acrobat excepted). Love it!1

Fresco review. App is okay. I am using an iPad with the pencil and the features overall are OK. I’ve used other apps such as moleskin and I find the pencil and paint tools are a little more clumsy and not as intuitive in the fresco app. I would like to be able to customize the tools that I’m using such as the pixel size and shape, but the only thing available are the presets. That said I’m not a professional artist so I’m just doing things for hobby and small side projects, but the finished products i’ve done so far have turned out really well and quite impressive. My biggest recommendation would be to improve and expand the pencil and pen capabilities in the app.

Amazing for young artists. I got this app a few years ago when I was still new to adobe and using this is a great intro to adobe products! Lots of brushes even in the free version and if you get the full version it’s even better as you get more fonts, brushes and more! The only thing I wish was different was the shape maker...because this is adobe I get it as the app expects you to use the mask feature but it is frustrating as other drawing apps gives you options for shapes, ellipses and more. Overall amazing app and I totally suggest it as your art will come out in a much better quality!

Really great but has its glitching moments. I love love using this but sometimes I’m not sure if my file is just so big or what but it’ll glitch and exit out of the app. Sometimes it’ll freeze up. It has never deleted anything and it has always been saved. It doesn’t do it all the time but on files I know have lots of layers. Other than that I love that it uploads to the cloud and I can use it in Photoshop. Sometimes it’s a little delayed in uploading the file I just saved on the cloud to show up in my Photoshop but it’s not bad. I can’t wait more things that will show up hopefully a saved color palette like in Procreate.

What an elegant user experience!. For a first release Fresco is very polished. Very clean and intuitive user interface. Easy to figure out without a tutorial. So enjoy the feel of the brushes. Especially enjoying the vector tools. Also enjoy playing around with the new watercolor and oil emulation brushes, so realistic! The selection and transform tools are the easiest to use compared to other drawing tools I use. Just love that I can pan/zoom the canvas while having a selection. Other apps I have to first clear my selection and then pan/zoom the canvas. Far less frustrating in Fresco.

Okay I guess. When I first got this app it was really nice and I had the ability to do a lot of things I couldn’t do with the other apps I tried. After my school started I didn’t have much time to draw or even use the app so I took a little break and deleted it. Well one day I got bored so I decided to re-download the app, well it saved all the previous work I had which was great and all, but it kept on saying you don’t have any available storage to make art I got really MAD. I already checked my available storage and I had enough to at least make a couple more drawings so I didn’t know what this thing was talking about I cleared most of my files and most of my other thing but I kept on saying “you have no storage” I was really disappointed and confused I expected much more

Quire serious file loading / saving / exporting problems. I have to say that despite the beautiful watercolor brush drawing capabilities that I love drawing portraits, the fact that I have had multiple projects become either unloadanle and/or unexportable is a quick and severe show stopper for drawing with this app. It doesn’t just load slow, but fully crashes the app during loading. I have video and can reproduce the problem. If you love drawing beautiful art and then never being able to load it again and work on it more, Adobe Fresco could be just the app for you. Otherwise forget all the cloud loading and saving and importing and exporting because I have seen all of it fail consistently at some point now in multiple projects.

Two Things - Shapes and Selections. The brushes, UI, and lifelike feel of drawing, painting is amazing. I do wish some of the Sketch layer capabilities were available. Well...I actually which Sketch and Fresco were just one program. I think myself and many other are missing the selection shapes, magic wand, and shapes tools that can provide so much to our workflow and abilities. I am trying to hold of from getting Procreate, I really am. But they have the tools I am looking for in a program like this. Come on Adobe! For the monthly prices people are paying for the program subscription either for this or CC, give the people what they are looking for AND things they didn’t know they wanted. Don’t hold out because someone else already did it.

Cloud saving ruins an otherwise fine app. I pay for Creative Cloud and would love to use this, but I’m going to try moving to Procreate. Fresco takes unreasonably long to delete files and perform other basic data handling tasks. It also frequently saves over documents with changes I don’t want to keep. The drawing experience is good but when it comes along with this much frustration it just isn’t worth it. I don’t understand why the developer insists on hobbling an otherwise first class series of tools with such a clumsy, one-size-fits-all cloud service. If keeping my data is what I have to pay to play, I can accept that to some degree - but don’t overwrite my work. Even just the option to close a document and discard changes would be a godsend. In any other file editing application, this would be a bare bones feature.

Great start!. Coming from many many years of Photoshop, Digital Painting and also Procreate I have to say that Fresco brings me back on the feeling that I have with Photoshop on my bigger Wacom Cintiq. Also the easy way of importing my brushes is great and they react as you would expect. Since it’s still a new app it has a lot of stuff that’s missing that would complete it for me, like the absence of the smudge tool, curves, color balance etc as well as minor stuff like the color picker that always needs to be dragged from the center and little things like that. I have a lot of fun painting with Fresco and it has my support for future releases.

Im sure this is a good app, but I’ve lost my cool. Hello! I simply downloaded this because Adobe Sketch is no longer running and it asked me to download this. Claiming to say all my artworks would immediately be transferred to this version: not true. Im uncertain if anyone else has experienced this, but I can’t log in. It’s repeatedly telling me that my password im using is old. It’s not. I’m using my one and only password that I’ve ever had. So now, for all I know, I’ve just lost all my artworks because for some reason Adobe couldn’t handle managing Fresco and Sketch? And instead just completely wiped the other and has sent me to this faulty version. Great! I’ll just go cry in the corner now because I’ve just lost dozens of pieces. Thanks Adobe! I’m sure the new brushes will make up for countless of hours all down the drain I spent on those artworks

Adobe Fresco. Adobe Fresco is really the best art app you will find. You get all the brushes, tools, space and you also you can look at others drawing! Other art apps I’ve tried costed money and still don’t beat this! I’ve been drawing since i was still a baby (of course not well until i was about 10). it’s so amazing what your able to do! I use it all the time and it helps a lot with my mental health. I really believe we all should take time out of our day to just draw anything.

could be a lot smoother. i downloaded adobe vector on my ipad pro to replace procreate for an art project that i needed a vector brush for. the vector brush is good, but the program overall gives me such a headache. the program is just so slow. the brushes and erasers lag, the fill tool can take over a minute to do its job, and i’ve had to hold my finger down on the screen for like thirty seconds before in order to pick up a color i was using. i am also disappointed that you can’t name layers, so they become difficult to keep track of. i also am unsure if i can create a custom color palette to keep track of what colors i’m using. i’m usually very good at figuring that stuff out, so if you can, they don’t make it obvious or easy. i live in an extremely rural area, so the lag and slowness could be my wifi. but even so, when i use procreate, all that stuff is instant. i don’t think it’s the internet though, because it happens even when i work on a project i’ve enabled for offline use. the general user-friendliness of this application is okay, but it needs sooo many fixes and upgrades.

A desperate atempt to get where Procreate, Concepts and Affinity are.. Adobe is waking up very late to the iPad pro game. Affinity Designer was ahead of the game when they decided to start working for a full desktop experience with Photoshop Mobile and you just need to use it to understand how bad it is. Inside the iPad Pro cluster there are some apps that rules them all, and Adobe is trying badly to get there. If you already have an Adobe subscription then just use this app, you already are in deep trouble. But if you are outside of the Adobe ecosystem, don’t even download this app. If you want to draw, use Procreate, if you want to draw in vector, use Concepts, and if you want to have all Graphic design tools without the need of a laptop, get the Affinity Suite. It’s that simple.

False advertising. It’s a demo app. Subscription is $120/year. Why not just put this info upfront? Why waste people’s time? They state that it’s a “Free app”. No it’s not, most features are disabled. But annoyingly they’re still visible so every time you tap on something that’s not included, you’re taken to their purchase page. There’s no indication which is which so you’re going to get a very unpleasant experience if you go in thinking you can use this app for “free” But good apps should cost money, and I like paying for apps. I saw that there’s In-App Purchases, and I tapped on it (here in the Apple App Store). It says, “Premium Features $9.99” But that’s a lie. It does NOT cost $9.99, it costs $9.99 PER MONTH. Other apps put that in the description and in this section. I had to download the app, go through the creation of account process, and only then when I tap to purchase it, I am presented with the fact that this app is NOT available for sale, you have to pay per month. Some people are Ok with subscription, others (like me) are not. Put that in the description so we can make our decision upfront, and not waste our time.

Fantastic BUT...😏😏😏. Ok I love this app but there are some things that need fixing.😁Ok 1. Text-we need to be able to put text on the art. Like say we were making a digital card. Some of us are not that good at symmetry. No matter how much we try we just can NOT get the stuff to be the same. Text would make it easier and save us 15 hours out of our lives. 2. MAKE THE APP EASIER TO UNDERSTAND!!! (Sorry for yelling)...- This app is just so complicated most of the time I don’t know what I’m doing🤷🏽‍♀️. Make it like when you first start adobe photoshop sketch. It teaches you all of the tools and stuff and makes you do one project before you are even allowed to do anything. Those are all of my comments on this app so I hope you can find the time to read this! 😊

Great start but disappointing. The main draw to this for me was the engine and ability to use abr brushes. It feels GREAT to use and is pretty solidly built. I didn’t run into any bugs or fussy interface issues. What’s bugging me: - No ability to duplicate, rearrange, or delete brushes. Someone mentioned to me that this can be handled via PS somehow but that’s a major inconvenience and I still haven’t even figured out how. This needs be managed in the fresco app. - Having to hold down to trigger the brush eraser is ok, but it disappears after a stroke and is really cumbersome to use as it slows down the process. The eraser tool in the menu has a fixed round brush option and that’s a bummer. - No blending tool? The cost is outrageous. I’m sure adobe are aware of the frustration here. With the big forthcoming updates to procreate which will also overhaul its engine and allow the use of abr brushes (among a plethora of other impressive things) I cannot imagine that there will be much incentive to stick with fresco given how expensive it is and, at least at this point, how limited it is in comparison. A good and promising start but with some big drawbacks. I’ll be staying tuned to see how things play out.

Creative Inconvenience for Professionals. If you’re looking to doodle for fun, fine. However, even with a few GB of storage left, the app is refusing to load documents which I would’ve never guessed. I now have to delete work, to continue to work and that’s disgustingly disappointing, due to the fact that this wasn’t made very clearly prior to being bothered learning the system. Imagine an app telling you that you need to free up space to not save a drawing, but to simply draw. I’ve tried to give Adobe a chance over the past decade but it’s the fact that they cannot get their basic UX together, while heavily promoting the app because it’s free. It’s not worth it for those who need to draw when the passion hits. This app is a creative block

One little problem 😁. Five star because I’m being annoying and it’s a fun app. So yes I did send like three bug fix report. Sorry. So I have my animation on loop, it plays through and then it starts over, like it is supposed to, it starts to play all the frames again, then around frame 57 it suddenly jumps back to the first frame. Then I think it plays it all the way from there, but the next time it jumps again, I think about every other time it jumps. Does that make sense? Anyway please fix. 😁😁😁 Your app is really fun, the water color is realistic, and the oil paint texture is really cool.

Fantastic for trad artists venturing into digital!. This app (as of Dec 2019) has fewer features than Procreate, but this makes it simpler to use for me as someone who started as a trad artist and is learning digital media. Brushes behave exactly like analog paint. The number one advantage of this app over procreate for me is the ability to draw vectors for immediate use in Illustrator. Everything syncs seamlessly with the Adobe cloud, so no airdropping / drop boxing stuff to yourself. The only thing I REALLY wish this app had is clipping masks as I use them a lot in procreate. But I understand those are on the way!

Plz one time for buy. I think fresco is good app & very nice option abr import & export PSD hq, different brush vector brush & painting brush but some bugs when I create new artwork and crash plz fix it, and I had one problem adobe is good company but fresco in-app every 6 month 9.99 buying not good because all designer they use procreate app and one buy 9.99 and then procreate 5 coming is better than fresco all adobe brush on use procreate 5, plz adobe change your rules and one time for buying this app...& plz support Iranian designers. Don't be racist And I want to thank u for first 6 month free🙏 & fresco is better when is change rules

Enjoying learning the app!. Finally, I bought an iPad and was surprised to learn Fresco was an accessible app in which I could start drawing. I thought of purchasing Procreate but if Fresco works for what I need, what is the need? So far so good; I am still learning. What is frustrating at the moment is the limited file types that can be imported and exported. PSDs are one of the file types that can be opened but I couldn’t verify that. My files are on Drive but Fresco only wants to open them from the Adobe Cloud. Although there are many features that help me get the results I want, I haven’t found a way to import or copy in my existing files. That is what limits my review to 3 stars. I am creating lots of new pieces but I had to continue working on my laptop to work with existing files...so it seems so far.

A great start. I know this is just the beginning for Fresco, but I’m a huge fan. Having an app with unique brushes and vectors all in one is a huge plus for the iPad Pro user. I was solely a Procreate artist but I found the app had a ceiling for crisp art work. One thing I wish this app could improve on is it’s overall enhancements of layers. I suppose I could move it to Photoshop or Procreate just for that before finishing vector work in Fresco, but the potential for this app is trailing behind Procreate because I could do all of it in one. But thanks again!

needs some tweaking. I was excited initially about the integration of adobe sketch and draw, but fresco is still obviously in its beginning stages. one of the first things I noticed is you cannot open the file in CC from the cloud, your only option is to save as a PSD if you want a working document. secondly, I have only been using it for a few days and one of the few files I do have was suddenly corrupted because I can no longer open it, it opens to display the grey “workspace”. finally, I am trying to download more brushes and it will not let me sign in using an enterprise id, it just redirects me to the previous page in an infinite loop... I’m excited to see where this app goes as it is still in the beginning stages.

a great and easy to use app tailored for iPad with Apple Pencil but lacking important features. Please please please add perspective grids in Fresco, for me its a necessary feature and unfortunately at the moment I am not able to work with Fresco. I am looking forward to be able to use Fresco exclusively. Heres my request, adding isometric, symmetry, perspective, single and multi point grids as well as a guided drawing option. Aside from this, its amazing. Fresco works near seamlessly alongside Adobe Photoshop and is tailored for use on iOS. On my iPad, with Apple Pencil it is smooth and responsive, easy to navigate, intuitive and user friendly program with great new features providing a simple and seamless iOS experience. I hope to start using Fresco exclusively as soon as possible!

Awesome app for drawing and animation!. Adobe Fresco is exactly what I was looking for when I needed an app to draw beautiful natural-media-style pictures with my Apple Pencil and iPad. Better still, Fresco’s onion-skin, motion paths, and other animation features make this the easiest solution yet for quickly producing great-looking animated work. Its interface is unique, yet familiar to those who work regularly in Photoshop. Its cloud storage feature makes it seamless to synchronize files with the desktop Photoshop app. Plus, Adobe is constantly upgrading it with new features—and it’s free! This is a must-have tool to improve the workflow of any iPad artist.

nice (IOS). This app is perfect for drawing, what makes this app stand out is the bucket paint button. Instant color over it. I love this feature and wish that other drawings apps had this. The only problem I have with this is the fact that just a little bit of full storage and you can’t even draw anymore. The other app they have is better yet lacks in one thing. The bucket tool. Storage no problem. You can keep on drawing which is PERFECT. Yet that’s what this app is lacking. Storage problems. Either way good app would recommend.

Not comparable to Illustrator.. Adobe Illustrator was discontinued, and as a replacement Adobe offered Fresco. Fresco is nowhere near as easily compatible with Adobe Capture, if at all. I’ve had the application for months now and haven’t been able to properly copy in files from Capture the same way I had been able to with Illustrator. I’ve looked through tutorials that supposedly show how to fix this issue, but every video shows features that are not available on my Fresco application for some reason or another, despite being in the most up-to-date version of the app. This thorough complication or downright abandonment of such a helpful and useful tool has killed my drive to work on art in a digital space, and it has killed my trust in the Adobe brand family.

Little to no lag. This app has fantastic brushes. The default pencil and watercolour brushes are a joy. I love how much control there is when rotating the canvas (can either rotate in app or just turn the tablet and the canvas itself doesn't move while the interface reorientates. Very nice.) However, the app doesn't like lots of layers, starts to go slow and glitchy. I rarely use more than 10 layers, and most of those are rejected sketch layers, so that's fine. Masks are super easy to create and copy/paste to other layers. I'm a graphic designer by day so I have the adobe suite for illustrator and indesign, and this app is fun to play with at home.

I lost some of my work. Procreate had been crashing on me lately, so while waiting to hear back from their support, I turned to this app. I thought it was decent, though not quite as intuitive as Procreate. But I was grateful to have a backup, as I do my work primarily on my iPad these days, as an illustrator. That was, I was grateful until the app froze on me, wiped all of my layers, and when I returned to the home page, it saved this blank copy to my creative cloud. So I lost 2.5 days work. **Update** So, I did report this back to Adobe and they responded quickly. They helped me restore the project to an earlier point, so I only lost some of my work. I appreciate their quick response, but will likely seek to use other apps in the future.

Pretty amazing! But a few minor things.... I’m an illustrator and I was so excited when Fresco was released! I love that it echos it’s sister programs on the computer but is also so iPad friendly! I love that I can import all my favorite photoshop brushes. There are only a couple things I feel like need updates. The layers get so confusing especially since you can’t label them (unless you can and I haven’t figured it out yet). My biggest issue with Fresco is the organization of files isn’t intuitive and user friendly. I wish it was simpler to make folders of work and to select and move your files around in the app as well.