Made exclusively for iPad, Micapaint is a handy painting app designed to make drawing feel natural and colouring effortless.

What we love: Smoothly create artwork using the pencil, watercolour blending brush, G-pen and blur. Brush strokes perform at up to 120fps, so even 1000x1000 blending brushes run fluidly. You’ll find all the basics here too, including layers, Undo/Redo, image import and time-lapse.

Quick tip: The Slime Brush colours empty areas to the edge without spilling outside broken lines – useful for keeping your images clean.

Meet the creator: Arc, the independent developer behind Micapaint, is an illustrator themselves. Their focus is on building artist-first features not yet available in other tools.