Sketchfy: Coloring Book Maker

This app crashed all the time. I have had to delete and reinstall 8 times already. That’s the first issue and that should be enough for a 1 star but oh no there’s more. Second issue was that I signed up for a 3 day free trial and was billed for a whole week on the second day before I could cancel!! No response from email I sent developer. Avoid this scam 3 day so called free trial bc you will be billed and Apple won’t do a thing about it. Are you listening at all developer??? You scammed me and committed fraud by charging my credit card a day earlier than you were supposed to. REFUND MY MONEY!!

I’ve tried a LOT of apps trying to convert convert photos to scale drawings for transfer to various mediums, since I work in watercolor, pen and ink, graphite, colored pencils and pastels, All the Things, basically. And some are so-so for outlining but not worth shelling out money for. THIS one actually comes through in several areas (note: I do not use any of the live tools or coloring book settings, so can’t speak to them) The artistic presets, for instance fine-line ink drawing, is incredible. You could literally print it out from the app on vellum, trace to Bristol paper and draw over the lines with a finelline technical pen, sign it and frame it without hardly changing any hashmarks. Seriously. Several of the watercolor results for “portraits” I’ve run through it have been surprisingly good too, with the same results possible. If you work in mixed media or illustration, there are 2 very good presets for those. Colored pencil is a tiny bit overdone, but I can correct with little changes. I even had a small issue and couldn’t use the app due to an Apple update problem and felt panicked, reached out to the Sketchify developers, and they had me back up and running by the next day. Overall, I’m stunned with how well this apparently under-utilized app has been my absolute go-to for converting photos into the first step for any art I do, and I can’t stress enough how impressed I am.

The AI drawings come out super clean and detailed, and it’s so satisfying to color them in. The interface is simple, no confusion at all — you just upload a photo and get a beautiful coloring page in seconds. I’ve tried a bunch of similar apps, but this one is definitely the best so far. Highly recommend!”