Scenius 1.6 · 100 brushes · Apple Pencil ready · iPhone too
Scenius 1.6 is a free drawing and painting app with 100 editable brushes, a professional layer workflow, and tools built around Apple Pencil. Paint, adjust, animate, and export without a subscription—then use optional AI only when it helps.
100 brushes and the full core studio are included free. Optional AI tools use credits.
Scenius is a free, professional drawing and painting app for iPad and iPhone. Its 100-brush library covers precise sketching, expressive ink, wet color, textured paint, and more, alongside the layer, selection, transform, adjustment, guide, animation, and time-lapse tools artists expect from a paid studio. AI is built in, but completely optional.
01 / The 100-brush studio
Scenius gives artists 100 editable brushes and a complete professional workflow up front—without turning essential creation tools into a subscription.
Your work, organized
Start at any size, import a reference, organize drawings into folders, find projects fast, and jump back into the exact canvas you left. Scenius is designed around the rhythm of making—not managing files.
100 editable pencil, ink, marker, watercolor, oil, texture, and airbrush presets powered by a responsive Metal engine. Find a familiar tool, then make it yours.
Compose with the tools professional illustrators rely on, from simple stacks to complex masked artwork.
Select, shape, transform, fill, and letter directly on the canvas—with live feedback and familiar gestures.
02 / Guides & adjustments
Build believable space with guides and Drawing Assist, then finish the image with live, non-compounding adjustments. These are the kinds of tools artists usually expect to pay for. In Scenius, they are part of the free studio.
03 / Optional AI
Start with your own strokes. Select exactly what should change. Scenius sends only what you choose for AI processing, then returns the result to your canvas. Your artwork is not used to train AI models.
Lasso a region, describe the change, and blend the new detail into the surrounding work.
Remove an object while reconstructing the scene behind it.
Explore a new direction from the complete artwork while keeping the original close.
Turn a still frame into motion and bring generated frames back into the timeline.
AI tools use credits. Everything in the core drawing studio works without them.
04 / Motion
Switch from illustration to motion without leaving the canvas. Build frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning, generate motion when it helps, or let time-lapse capture the making of the piece automatically.
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05 / iPhone
Scenius is not an iPad-only app squeezed onto a phone. Its interface reflows for portrait, keeping brushes, layers, adjustments, animation, text, and optional AI genuinely usable on iPhone.
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The honest price
Painting, animation, layers, masks, blend modes, adjustments, drawing guides, time-lapse, and export are available without a subscription. AI image and video tools use credits, available through Scenius Pro or one-time credit packs.
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Answers for artists
Yes. Scenius is free to download, and its core drawing studio includes brushes, layers, 26 blend modes, masks, groups, selections, transforms, adjustments, drawing guides, animation, time-lapse, and export without a subscription. Optional AI image and video tools use credits.
All core creation tools: 100 editable brush presets, Apple Pencil pressure and tilt, 26 blend modes, layers, alpha lock, clipping masks, layer masks, groups, QuickShape, full transforms, smudge, ColorDrop fill, selections, text, adjustments, drawing guides, animation, time-lapse, and export.
Yes. Scenius is designed for Apple Pencil on iPad and responds to pressure, tilt, azimuth, and stroke movement. Its Metal-accelerated brush engine is built for fluid, low-latency drawing.
Hue, Saturation and Brightness; Brightness and Contrast; Gaussian Blur; Sharpen; Noise; Curves; Gradient Map; Color Balance; and Liquify with live previews.
Yes. Scenius includes 2D grid, isometric, one-to-three-point perspective, and symmetry guides. Drawing Assist can snap strokes to guide directions or mirror them with vertical, horizontal, quadrant, and radial symmetry.
No. AI is optional. You can draw, paint, animate, and export without using AI or buying credits. AI Repaint, AI Erase, AI Canvas, and AI Animate are available when you want them and use generation credits.
Yes. Scenius runs on both iPad and iPhone. The iPad experience is designed for a large landscape canvas, while the iPhone interface keeps the same brushes, layers, adjustments, animation, and optional AI tools in a compact portrait layout.
Export PNG and JPEG images, MP4 video, animated GIF, and editable Scenius project files that preserve project structure.
Your next canvas is waiting
Download Scenius for iPad and iPhone. Start with a blank canvas—or bring the idea already in your head.
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