Paint by Moonlight

Make your own paint-by-numbers: from a photo of someone you love, by redrawing every line yourself, or printed to paint with real brushes. Made on your iPhone or iPad.

Paint by Moonlight makes your own paint-by-numbers, three ways.

FROM A PHOTO. Choose a photo of your dog, your garden or a note in your grandmother's hand. Your iPhone or iPad draws it as a coloring book: clean lines, numbered areas and a palette of paints mixed from the photo itself, each with a name of its own, like Corn Husk or Inkpot.

BY HAND. Change the drawing yourself, as an artist would: draw lines with your finger or Apple Pencil, bend them, split and join areas, and pick each paint. Or start from a blank page and draw your own picture to paint. The Tool Guide teaches every tool with a picture to practise on.

ON PAPER. Print the template with a key to its colors, and paint it with real paints.

Then fill it in, one calm tap at a time.

MADE FROM WHAT YOU LOVE • People and pets: the drawing closes their outlines, spends more colors and detail on them, and draws people's eyes. • Handwriting in your photo, like a note or a card, is traced in ink and kept clear of the numbers, so a love note stays readable. • Choose Quick, Relaxed or Detailed in Settings, and each new painting's colors, detail and smoothness are suggested to match. A painting you haven't begun can be made quicker or more detailed in place. • Take a photo, pick one from your library, or open one from Files or another app.

CALM, SATISFYING PAINTING • Tap an area to fill it, or touch and hold, then drag to paint along. • On iPad, Apple Pencil paints while your fingers move around the canvas. • Hint finds the next area of your color; Zen Mode glides there for you. • Peek at your photo whenever you like. • Soft sounds with every fill, and haptics on iPhone. • Dark paper for painting at night, and three line weights. • When you're done, replay your painting from the first fill and share it as a time-lapse. • Turn on The Making-of in Settings to watch your photo become a painting, step by step.

A LIBRARY TO START FROM 44 public-domain pictures are built in: paintings and prints by Hokusai, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Monet, Cézanne and Hiroshige, and photographs of national parks, wildlife and the Earth from space.

SHARE IT YOUR WAY • Print the template, with a key to its colors, and paint it with real paints. • Send a blank copy to a friend to paint in the app, with your photo if you like. • Save or share the finished picture.

FREE TO START Five paintings are free, and a free one comes back each day, up to five. A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited paintings and the drawing tools. No subscription.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every painting is made right on your iPhone or iPad, and your photos stay there unless you choose to share them. No account, no ads, no tracking, and it works offline. Nothing is uploaded except feedback you review and choose to send.

Built for VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion, with keyboard shortcuts on iPad.