Features & Capabilities

Over 30 million people use Paper, the award-winning immersive sketching app. Paper’s perfectly-tuned tools make it easy to sketch, collage, paint, draw—wherever your thoughts take you. Wave goodbye to distracting menus and let natural gestures guide you, keeping you in your creative flow.

Create with ease using multi-image pages, mood boards, and storyboards. Organize pages into journals and sync across devices so you can pick up where you left off. Optional Paper Pro unlocks additional tools and journals—subscription is optional and cancellable.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Developed by:
Evernote Corporation
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paper-sketch-draw-create/id506003812
Website:
https://paper.bywetransfer.com

User Reviews

Users praise the app for organized notebooks, a relaxing journaling feel, ad-free use, and strong drawing tools (including the smudge tool) that suit illustrators and kids. However, they repeatedly criticize the steep, recurring subscription costs, data loss and recovery issues, bugs and syncing problems, paywalls blocking basics, and usability frustrations with certain tools.
Pros
  • Notebook-style organization with multiple notebooks for ideas and sketches
  • Relaxing, journal-like drawing experience (great with music)
  • Ad-free/no ads
  • Strong drawing tools for illustrators (smudge tool; intuitive toolbars)
  • Kid-friendly/family-friendly, suitable for kids
Cons
  • Very expensive subscription model with weekly or yearly pricing; demand for a lifetime option
  • Data loss issues: journals/pages disappearing and difficult to recover (no trash/recovery)
  • Bugs and reliability problems including disappearing pages and syncing discrepancies
  • Features gated behind a paywall; limited functionality without Pro (desire for cheaper or lifetime access)
  • Long tutorials and some essential features missing or hard to use (lines, pen sensitivity, layers)
Recent reviews
Spent hours working on something and switched to a different app and the app was just gone and all my stuff was deleted. I think it’s ridiculous to restore stuff you have to pay and the price is too high for me to even consider. Never using again was a waste of my time
by ja*****, 2026-04-30

It only allows me to use the app if I want to pay 10$ a week or 100$ a year, no other free options. I really like the idea of the app i just don’t think it is the one for me
by Nd*****, 2026-04-29

You can barley do any thing if you don’t pay. Still fun though.
by Wd*****, 2026-04-25
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