Draw expressive characters. Paint faraway places. Bring your ideas into motion and depth — all in one creative studio for iPad.
Free while in beta · iPadOS 17 or later
Draw · Paint · Animate · Explore in 3D
01 / Autumn letterThe imagination collection
A character, a place, a quiet moment. Every idea starts with something worth exploring.
Three ideas
These three normally live in three applications, and something is lost at every hand-off between them.
01 — Paint
The engine stamps a tip along the path your pen travelled, reading pressure, tilt and azimuth at every one. Pack them tight and you have a pencil; fling them wide and you have a spray; give each one a different leaf and you have foliage.
The brush engine02 — Place
Drawings occupy scene space rather than stacking as flat cards. Orbit, and what you drew stays where you put it. Parallax is not an effect here — it is a consequence of the stroke having somewhere to be.
The viewport03 — Animate
Frame-by-frame drawings hold until the next replaces them. Keyframed properties interpolate between them. Both live on the same timeline, and a single layer can be drawn by hand in one place and keyed in another.
The timelineThe workspace
Seventeen tools down one edge. The size and opacity you reach for most, always under your thumb. Panels that tear out and dock where you want them.
The manual covers 748 controls — each with its exact range and default, read from the source rather than described from memory.
Tour the interface
Actual iPad workspace · Imported campaign artwork
In the beta build
The beta is the whole thing. What it needs is hours on iPads that are not mine.
Dynamics, dual brushes, scatter, wet mixing, and a maker for building your own. Imports Photoshop .abr tips.
Cels, keyframes, a graph editor, parenting, camera moves, and generated in-betweens from two drawings.
Groups, masks, blend modes, adjustment layers, and 36 effects that stack per layer the way a compositor expects.
Editable paths that stay editable, mesh-based type with real extrusion, and a deterministic particle system.
A skeleton you build in the app, weights computed for you and paintable by hand, and relief sculpted on the surface you draw on.
PNG and JPEG stills, MP4 and MOV video, PNG sequences, and a project format that carries its assets with it.
And what it is not
“No modelling from primitives, no retopology,
no UV unwrapping. Ever.”
Alekhya is not a 3D modelling package and will not become one. Everything that becomes three-dimensional starts as something you drew — relief sculpted onto the surface you draw on, a solid spun from your own profile lines. The three dimensions exist to serve drawing; knowing where the edges are will save you time.
Make a project, open a canvas, draw a line, orbit. Everything else in the application builds on that one gesture.
