Features & Capabilities

Support for Apple Pencil Pro!! Squeeze for quick operation Roll for a more natural touch

Zen Brush 3 is a drawing app focused on the strong yet beautiful feel of the East Asian ink brush which can be used to perform calligraphy, ink painting and more.

The drawing system that brings to life a feeling of silky fluent and delicate painting now allows an even wider range of expression thanks to the addition of "water" and "color". Providing a new simple and intuitive user interface, this app is designed to be optimal for performing Zen art.

Simply start the app and you are immediately ready to draw. Anyone, anywhere, can create superb Zen art with this app’s uniquely rich expressiveness. You can also easily share and edit your calligraphy and images with other apps using the Export functionality. Skillfully use the rich background style templates to create and share atmospheric artwork.

  • The drawing system simulates a 3D model of an East Asian ink brush to enable varied and natural styles of brush handling.
  • The adjustable amount of water makes it possible to create expressions ranging from powerful edge effects to "nijimi" (bleeding) and "bokashi" (blurring) where colors mix.
  • You can also enjoy creating colored-ink paintings as well as watercolor paintings by making use of 30 selected traditional Japanese colors.
  • The layer functionality allows more flexible editing.
  • Import photos to add text to them or use them as background images for tracing.
  • Create fascinating artwork with a rich assortment of background style templates.
  • Traditional Japanese paper templates provide an authentic feel.

Features:

  • 5 main tools (ink brush, color brush, water brush, eraser, blotting paper).
  • 10 levels of thickness.
  • 5 levels of water (not applicable to blotting paper).
  • 10 levels of ink tone (not applicable to water brush and blotting paper).
  • Color palette with 30 colors.
  • 89 background style templates.
  • Drying functionality (fast dry, instant dry, adjustable natural dry).
  • Layers functionality (import image / color adjustment / move / rotate / scale / reverse left and right / white transparency / gradation effect).
  • Guide display (character guides / partition guides / grid guides).
  • Movable toolbar (top / bottom / left / right).
  • Canvas zoom (zoom in and out with pinch gestures).
  • Undo / redo (5 levels).
  • Export functionality (formats: JPEG, PNG, transparent PNG (no background)).
  • Support for Apple Pencil (1st and 2nd generation).
  • Support for 3D Touch (where available: iPhone 6S - XS).
  • Drawing tool selection (finger and stylus / stylus only).
  • Adjustable brush pressure sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only).
  • Adjustable tilt sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only).
  • Gesture functionality (pinch zoom and drag, zoom toggle with 2-finger tap).
  • 3D brush display (enable / disable).
  • Pointer display (enable / disable).
  • 5 levels of canvas resolution with a maximum of 3072 x 4096 pixels (the higher resolutions do not work on devices with lower specs).

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
PSOFT
Rating:
4.40
(55)
Version:
1.19.1 Last updated: 2026-05-14
Version code:
885648135
Creation date:
2020-09-29
Compatible devices:
Size:
225.92MB
Price:
4.99
URLs:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-12
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Developed by:
PSOFT
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Website:
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User Reviews

I love this art app because it’s focused on eastern old world artist tools in water color on different mediums. I find it sometimes difficult to remember how to navigate off a current project & begin a new one as it is not obviously evident how to close one project & open a fresh page. For this I will give it a 3 star rating.
by Al*****, 2026-01-06

I dont get it. Zen2 was great. Then they did 3 and its terrible. They also seem to have 0 support and has this been abandoned? I think unfortunately they’ve just taking in money on the reputation of 2 and created 3 just to look as if they’re doing something. 3 is garbage. Going back to 2.
by we*****, 2025-11-03

Delightful tool to practice, experiment and imagine with - using it is a vast improvement over doom scrolling.
by La*****, 2025-10-29
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