App Detail » Inspire Pro

What's New

This update contains several bug fixes and small improvements as we continually work toward refining the app to maintain its high quality.

App Description

Available exclusively on the App Store, meticulously designed to be beautifully powerful, and painstakingly engineered for iPad — Inspire Pro delivers an incredibly fast and realistic painting, drawing, and sketching experience that you can take with you wherever you go and use whenever inspiration strikes.

Our proprietary painting engine Sorcery™ takes full advantage of the GPU to render brush strokes with brilliant 64-bit color, laser-sharp sub-pixel precision, and insanely fast speed. While the strokes of a wet oil paint brush look beautiful on their own, the breathtaking blending effects of a dry brush will absolutely stun you. Graze the canvas with just a bit of pressure to add a subtle blur to your artwork or use stronger pressure to actually mix existing colors on the canvas together to create new ones.

Whether you are a budding artist, seasoned professional, or somewhere in-between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of the most intuitive and compelling illustration app for iPad, Inspire Pro.

Amazing Brushes
• 150 high quality brushes to choose from, divided into 15 sets: Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Spray Paint, Paint Splatter, Graphite Pencils, Wax Crayons, Markers, Chalk, Charcoal, Pastels & Conté, Basic Shapes, Complex Shapes, Shape Outlines, Patterns, and Textures
• All brushes can be used as a Wet Brush, Dry Brush (Blending), or Eraser
• Over 20 different settings are available to customize brush strokes with powerful versatility and variation

The Best Painting App for iPad
• Sorcery™, the fastest 64-bit painting engine on the App Store
• Full-fledged Apple Pencil support for pressure, tilt angle, orientation, and double-tap
• Smart Keyboard support with over 20 context-sensitive keyboard shortcuts
• Create a canvas of any size up to 16K (64MP) on iPad Pro
• Dual-texture brushes
• 64-bit color
• All device orientations are supported all the time — switch from portrait to landscape painting with ease
• 1000 levels of undo and redo are available
• Touch and slide hotspots can be used to quickly change brush size, opacity, and pressure without opening a menu
• The eyedropper tool can be used with a touch and hold gesture to select paint colors from the canvas
• The canvas can be moved around, rotated, and zoomed in and out up to 6400%

Canvas Playback Video Recording
• Brush strokes are automatically recorded as you paint without any delay
• You can play the video of your artwork being created stroke-by-stroke directly in the gallery
• Exported videos are high quality HD at up to 1080p resolution

Full-Featured Color Picker
• Choose any paint color you can dream of with the intuitive color picker
• HSB and RGB sliders accompany a large color circle, color square, and opacity slider
• Your latest colors are saved to a palette automatically while you paint
• You can also save your favorite colors to a palette with drag and drop

Visit snowCanoe.com to check out more screenshots, videos, and artwork.

App Changes

• June 22, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• June 17, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• May 23, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• May 20, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• May 09, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
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• April 25, 2011 Price increase: $1.99 -> $7.99
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• March 14, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• March 11, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• March 04, 2011 Price increase: $4.99 -> $7.99
• February 23, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $4.99
• February 18, 2011 Price increase: $2.99 -> $7.99
• February 15, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
• February 07, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• January 04, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• December 24, 2010 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $0.99
• December 23, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $2.99
• December 19, 2010 New version 1.1
• December 15, 2010 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• November 29, 2010 Price increase: $3.99 -> $7.99
• November 20, 2010 New version 1.0.2
• November 11, 2010 Price increase: $2.99 -> $3.99
• November 03, 2010 Price increase: $1.99 -> $2.99
• November 02, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• October 26, 2010 New version 1.0.1
• October 22, 2010 Price decrease: $1.99 -> $0.99
• October 21, 2010 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
• October 12, 2011 New version 1.2
• October 28, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• November 02, 2011 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• November 24, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $1.99
• November 30, 2011 Price increase: $1.99 -> $7.99
• December 22, 2011 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• January 02, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
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• February 14, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $1.99
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• June 07, 2012 New version 1.3
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• June 16, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• July 28, 2012 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
• August 06, 2012 Price increase: $0.99 -> $7.99
• September 20, 2012 New version 1.3.1
• September 20, 2012 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $2.99
• September 27, 2012 Price increase: $2.99 -> $9.99
• October 03, 2012 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $7.99
• November 13, 2012 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
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• December 21, 2012 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $3.99
• January 03, 2013 Price increase: $3.99 -> $7.99
• January 27, 2013 New version 2.0
• February 27, 2013 New version 2.0.1
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• April 06, 2013 Price decrease: $7.99 -> $0.99
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• April 17, 2013 New version 2.1
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• April 24, 2013 Price increase: $2.99 -> $9.99
• May 28, 2013 New version 2.1.1
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• July 05, 2013 Price increase: $2.99 -> $4.99
• July 07, 2013 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
• July 12, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $9.99
• July 30, 2013 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $4.99
• August 16, 2013 New version 2.2
• September 16, 2013 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
• September 18, 2013 New version 2.2.1
• September 18, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $4.99
• November 29, 2013 Price decrease: $4.99 -> $0.99
• December 03, 2013 Price increase: $0.99 -> $9.99
• December 13, 2013 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $4.99
• December 18, 2013 New version 2.3
• December 20, 2013 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
• December 28, 2013 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99
• January 01, 2014 New version 2.3.1
• January 18, 2014 New version 2.3.2
• January 20, 2014 Price increase: $4.99 -> $5.99
• January 27, 2014 Price increase: $5.99 -> $6.99
• February 07, 2014 Price increase: $6.99 -> $7.99
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• May 29, 2014 New version 2.4
• June 25, 2014 New version 2.4.1
• July 15, 2014 Price decrease: $9.99 -> FREE!
• July 20, 2014 Price increase: FREE! -> $9.99
• August 02, 2014 New version 2.4.2
• September 22, 2014 New version 2.4.3
• October 10, 2014 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $0.99
• October 18, 2014 Price increase: $0.99 -> $9.99
• December 01, 2014 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $4.99
• December 02, 2014 Price increase: $4.99 -> $9.99
• March 24, 2015 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $5.99
• April 26, 2015 Price increase: $5.99 -> $9.99
• June 03, 2015 New version 3.0
• June 09, 2015 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $1.99
• June 16, 2015 Price increase: $1.99 -> $3.99
• June 22, 2015 Price increase: $3.99 -> $5.99
• June 29, 2015 Price increase: $5.99 -> $7.99
• July 06, 2015 Price increase: $7.99 -> $9.99
• July 15, 2015 New version 3.0.1
• July 18, 2015 Price decrease: $9.99 -> FREE!
• July 28, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $9.99
• August 08, 2015 Price decrease: $9.99 -> FREE!
• August 10, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $9.99
• September 14, 2015 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $7.99
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• December 20, 2015 New version 3.1
• February 04, 2016 New version 3.1.1
• February 07, 2016 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $3.99
• February 16, 2016 Price increase: $3.99 -> $9.99
• March 17, 2016 New version 3.1.2
• July 11, 2016 New version 3.2
• July 11, 2016 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $4.99
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• August 21, 2016 New version 3.2.1
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• November 06, 2016 New version 3.2.6
• November 06, 2016 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $7.99
• December 21, 2016 New version 3.3
• May 13, 2017 New version 3.4
• June 14, 2019 New version 3.7
• June 14, 2019 Price increase: $7.99 -> $9.99
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• June 16, 2019 Price increase: $7.99 -> $9.99
• August 29, 2019 Price decrease: $9.99 -> $4.99
• September 11, 2019 Price increase: $4.99 -> $9.99
• December 17, 2019 New version 3.8.2
• July 15, 2020 New version 3.8.3
• July 16, 2020 New version 3.8.4
• July 16, 2020 New version 3.8.5
• November 12, 2020 Price increase: $9.99 -> $19.99
• August 06, 2021 New version 3.8.7
• September 19, 2023 New version 3.8.10