# Inspire

> Paint it. Blend it. Love it.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id315556628](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id315556628)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id315556628`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** snowCanoe
- **Category:** Graphics & Design
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (58 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.8.2
- **Last updated:** 2023-02-28
- **First published:** 2009-05-14
- **Size:** 317 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inspire/id315556628)
- **Website:** [http://snowcanoe.com/Inspire/index.html](http://snowcanoe.com/Inspire/index.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://snowcanoe.com/Privacy.html](http://snowcanoe.com/Privacy.html)

## Description

Inspire Chrome extension delivers a fast, realistic painting, drawing, and sketching experience powered by Sorcery, a GPU-accelerated engine that renders 64-bit color with sharp brush strokes and precise, responsive blending. Create anywhere with smooth pressure-sensitive blending and silky-smooth strokes that feel like real media.

Highlights include 150 brushes across 15 sets (Oil Paint, Airbrushes, Spray Paint, and more), Wet/Dry Brush modes and Eraser, a full-featured color picker with automatic palette saving, high-resolution canvases up to 16K, 1000 undo/redo levels, canvas movement, rotation, and zoom, along with stroke-by-stroke playback and easy export. No subscription required—own Inspire with a single purchase.

## Rankings

- #166,963 — Overall
- #64 — inspire

## Review summary

Inspire is loved for its playback of brush strokes, rich blending, intuitive use, and portability, offering a mess-free, finger-like drawing experience on the go. However, recurrent stability problems, lack of layers, color-menu crashes, and requests for more brushes temper the enthusiasm. Overall, its unique recording feature and painterly blending appeal to beginners and stylus users, but reliability and feature gaps remain key downsides.

### Pros

- Video progress/recording shows brush strokes come to life, serving as a teaching/demo tool.
- Large brush library with strong blending capabilities for wet-on-wet/oil-like effects.
- Intuitive, easy-to-use interface with straightforward navigation, beginner-friendly.
- Mess-free drawing feel that works well with a stylus and is great for on-the-go use.
- Portable, pocket-friendly painting experience suitable for art anywhere.

### Cons

- Crashes and stability issues that can lead to loss of progress or unexpected exits.
- No support for multiple layers; layering feature is a common requested improvement.
- Color menu crashes or restarts the app when selecting colors.
- Limited brush variety; many users wish for more brushes/options.
- Some bugs persist across updates and performance can be unreliable on certain devices.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id315556628)