Overview

Rating:
5.00
(1)
Version:
2.4.1
Last updated: 2026-06-19
Ranking
#874,667 ▼ 535
Overall

Features & Capabilities

This app requires an Apple Pencil or a compatible stylus.

About “1BitPencil” 1BitPencil is all about a high-resolution 1-bit (black & white) canvas. Even the ultra-realistic pencil tool draws in pure black and white.

It’s a high-resolution monochrome drawing app, perfect for illustration, manga, animation, and school notes.

With a uniquely realistic pencil tool, 1BitPencil aims to recreate the feeling of drawing on paper in a fully digital environment. You can flip through pages and switch between files quickly, just like turning pages in a sketchbook. The app supports work up to A3 size at 2400 dpi, and exports your artwork as single-color PNG files. There are no layers, but you can use tracing, clean-up, and merge functions for essential editing.

If you’re looking for a simple yet high-quality drawing environment, 1BitPencil offers a fresh and focused creative experience.

Brush tools

  • Pen
  • Pencil
  • Mechanical pencil
  • Lasso pen
  • Lasso pencil
  • Smudge
  • Dot shading
  • Tone lasso
  • Tone pen

Eraser tools

  • Eraser
  • Kneaded eraser
  • Lasso eraser
  • Lasso kneaded eraser
  • Dot kneaded eraser

Selection tools

  • Rectangular selection
  • Lasso selection

Canvas navigation

  • Move
  • Rotate
  • Zoom in / out

Sharing features

  • Paste from Photos
  • Share
  • Copy to clipboard and paste

Trace box

  • Change drawing color and background color
  • Load an underdrawing
  • Merge and save

Other features

  • Create animation videos (.mp4, .gif, .apng)
  • Export to PDF
  • Timelapse recording
  • Snap to straight line
  • Stroke stabilization
  • Pen tilt sensitivity
  • Smudge or eraser with touch
  • Display gamma adjustment

File management

  • Create new folders
  • Rename multiple files with sequential numbers
  • Duplicate multiple files

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
HALVAL Ltd.
Rating:
5.00
(1)
Version:
2.4.1 Last updated: 2026-06-19
Version code:
887172754
Creation date:
2024-03-12
Compatible devices:
Size:
30.09MB
Price:
6.99
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-08-19
Compare stats and ranking:

Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Apple app. Please use these information below to contact the Apple app developer.
Developed by:
HALVAL Ltd.
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1bitpencil/id6479184970
Website:
https://1bp.hal-val.com/home/home_en

User Reviews

I’m so glad I found this app. The insanely high resolution of your art you create in this and export is amazing, truly amazing I think. I don’t quite get how or why the higher resolution version that I can save looks different from the lower resolution one in terms of the colors in my drawing. The highest resolution export seems so much darker to me. But, still, I was able to create such cool artwork using this app. Plus, even the lower tier resolution that I can export is still pretty darn high and makes my created artwork look perfect when saved I’ve found. The tools are many, varied and really high quality I thought. The User Interface was a breeze and joy to use in my opinion. Plus, I just love and appreciate using the grayscale color palette so very much. That’s always my favorite to draw in really :P. If you’re an artist already, want to become one or just really like being creative and drawing in a top notch art app. Well, I highly recommend, 1BitPencil. Using this app with my Apple Pencil, even on my somewhat older iPad has been a joy and a blast if I’m honest. Taking time away from creating artwork in the app to leave this review is the only challenge the app has given me, hehehe. If I could just get my exported work in the insanely and awesomely high resolution offered here. To look exactly like it does on the screen when I’m drawing it. Well, I’d be 3 or 4 times as thrilled with this app than I am already. I think I’m just slow honestly in understanding the way the higher export resolution works and should probably email the developer to get more information :D. I’ll probably do that soon. There were zero reviews for 1BitPencil when I bought the application. In fact, as of the time of me writing this review there are still currently zero reviews. But, I have to say that I’m so glad I took the chance to buy this app just going off of the great description provided and just how rad I thought the app looked in the promo shots here. I plan to use this app forever if I can to create new, seriously high definition/resolution and just the normal bonkers artwork that I create, haha. I highly recommend this app to other artists, creatives and really anyone at all who loves to or wants to draw and create artwork. I want to extend a huge amount of thanks and praise to the developer of this application for creating and offering one the coolest and most exciting drawing/artwork applications that I’ve had on my iPad in forever. And if you wouldn’t mind providing a bit more clarification on the differences in how the highest resolution exports look compared to how my art looks on the screen before I export using that rad and insanely high definition option. Well, I would be really grateful for that help please, thank you. And just thanks, again so much, for giving us this wonderfully unique and powerful drawing to use and God bless you and yours. I’m a lifelong fan of this app/developer now and most definitely anything else you might offer in the future. But even if 1BitPencil is your only ever app for sale I just couldn’t be more happy and satisfied as a customer than I am right now. Thank you immensely :D 👍🏻👏🏻. Addendum: I’ll have to email and share with you the crazy looking bee drawing I created with this app the other day, haha :D. This app has reignited my imagination, thank you for that!
by Jo*****, 2025-10-09
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