Tayasui Sketches review
A natural-media drawing app with strong brush tools, layers, and PSD export.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Tayasui Sketches is a digital drawing and painting application for casual and professional artists who want natural-media tools on iOS, macOS, and Android. Its toolkit covers realistic pencils, pens, pastels, acrylics, watercolors, airbrushes, ink, and smudge effects, with additional support for color mixing, gradients, palettes, patterns, rulers, symmetry, and straight-line drawing. Stylus and pressure-sensitive brush input make it a fit for users who prefer pen-based sketching on supported devices.
The product’s main strength is the depth of its drawing toolkit. A brush editor provides adjustable brush settings, while wet watercolor supports flowing and blended colors. Layered artwork can include opacity, blending, reordering, and transformations. Users can import photos and export layered PSD files, which supports workflows that move between Tayasui Sketches and other graphics applications. Pattern editing, eyedropper controls, and color tools add flexibility beyond a basic sketchpad, while iCloud drawing synchronization connects supported Apple workflows.
Tayasui Sketches uses a freemium model. The Free plan is a free app with optional in-app purchases; Weekly premium, Monthly premium, and Yearly premium provide premium features; and the Pro Version provides a Pro feature bundle. The published starting price is 2.99, with pricing varying by country, platform, taxes, or subscription offer. Android, iOS, and Mac versions are separate apps and require separate purchases. Choose it for realistic-media sketching, pressure-sensitive input, layered work, and PSD export across Apple and Android devices. Artists needing one purchase across platforms or broader integrations should consider alternatives.
Tayasui Sketches pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Realistic tools spanning pencil, watercolor, ink, acrylic, and smudge
- Layer controls include opacity, blending, reordering, and transformations
- Supports PSD export, stylus pressure, patterns, and iCloud synchronization
- Where it doesn't
- Separate Android, iOS, and Mac apps require separate purchases
- Premium features are split across subscriptions and a Pro Version
- iCloud is the listed integration, limiting broader ecosystem connections
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