5 Best Coloring Apps for iPad

Best Coloring Apps for iPad

Coloring is a good way to relieve stress. Reports suggest that coloring calms the brain and helps your body relax. If you regularly do coloring, you will see improvement in sleep and decreased body aches. It is also a creative way to pass time. Now that our smartphones and tablets can do a lot of things you can also use these devices for coloring. iPad is one of the best devices for designers. The tablet comes with Apple Pencil that lets you draw, sketch, and color effectively. If you like coloring, there are several good coloring apps for iPad. These apps let you color different items and show your creativity. If are looking for good coloring apps for your iPad, keep reading. I have tested several coloring apps and have made a list of the best coloring apps for iPad.

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Free Coloring Apps for iPad

1. Colorfy

Colorfy: Coloring App for iPad

Colorfy is an impressive coloring book app where you get more than 100 pictures to paint. With each update, the app keeps getting new photos to paint. The app offers several brushes, gradient colors, and harmonious colors to use while coloring. You can also draw a design on paper, click a photo of it and then color it using the app. Once you are done coloring a photo, you can use different filters and overlays to make your artwork even better.

This coloring app also has a built-in sharing option to share your artwork directly to a social media platform. The best thing about the app is that it works offline. So, you can use it anytime and anywhere.

Price: Free / Starting at $2.99

Download: iOS

2. Pigment

Pigment: coloring book app

Pigment is an adult coloring app for iPhones and iPad. The app is a great way to reduce stress and pass time. You can color different photos and practice mindfulness. The app gives 29 different pencils, markers, and brushes to color photos. The app is for advanced colorists, Freehand, Automatic, and Advanced modes to provide greater control. You can either use images provided by the app or upload your own images to color. The app has a big collection of images including flowers, mermaids, people, animals, landscapes, anime, mandalas, and more. You can also start with a blank page and use this app as a sketchbook app.

The app is free to download and use but the premium version brings a bigger collection of photos along with more features. Paid subscriptions cost $4.99 USD per week, $9.99 USD per month, or $59.99 USD per year.

Price: 7-day free trial / $4.99 per week / $9.99 per month / 59.99 per year

Download: iOS

3. Recolor

Recolor: Best Coloring apps for iPad

Recolor is another impressive coloring book app where you get several unique images to color. The app has more than 5000 images and it keeps adding 4 images every day. These images include photos of mandalas, flowers, dogs, cats, fashion, and more created by professional artists. You can also upload your photos to color and draw on it. The app has several brushes, effects, and filters. You also get over 70 palettes and dozens of coloring options.

Recolor subscription costs $3.99 weekly, $9.99 monthly, and $59.99 annually.

Price: Free / Starting at $7.99

Download: iOS

4. Lake

Lake: Best Coloring apps for iPad

Lake is another impressive coloring app you can try on your iPad. This app also won Apple design award back in 2017. The app has more than 85 coloring books. It also keeps adding new artists & new coloring books on a regular basis. The app has several tools including an acrylic brush, watercolor brush, spray, fill, and eraser. It has a color picker and a Tap-to-fill coloring option. You can also start with a blank canvas if you want. It also has Apple Pencil and 3D Touch support for an improved design experience.

Price: Free Trial / $2.99 per week / $9.99 per month / $59.99 per year

Download: iOS

5. Colorgram

Colorgram is also a good coloring book app with thousands of photos to color. It brings photos of mandalas, patterns, animals, florals, and other beautiful artworks to color. The app has been designed especially for adults. It comes with 12 magical filter effects for beautiful artwork. The app also supports Apple Watch for making color-picking effective. This coloring book has been optimized for Apple iPad Pro and pencil. So you get pixel perfect coloring experience.

With Premium, you get access to a full artwork catalog and more tools.

Price: Free / Starting at $4.99

Download: iOS

What app do people use to color on iPad?

Colorfy, Pigment, and Colorgram are some good coloring book apps for iPad. You can use any of these apps to color.

Are there any free coloring apps for iPad?

Colorfy, Pigment, and Colorgram are free coloring apps for iPad.

Is there a coloring app for Apple pencil?

Yes. Colorgram and Lake work fine with Apple Pencil.

What free coloring apps work with Apple pencil?

Almost all the coloring apps I added to this article work well with Apple Pencil. Colorgram and Lake are two good recommendations from my side.

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