Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Brushstroke for iOS

Turn your photos into beautiful paintings

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Brushstroke for iOS launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Lucid▲111

   Turn your pictures into art

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   PABLO▲236

   Create light art photos with your iPhone ✨

   2016 · hipablo.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Adobe Capture CC▲87

   Turn photos into production ready assets

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Artisto▲145

   Make your video a piece of art

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   AI Painter▲80

   Turn your photos into paintings

   2015 · instapainting.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Portrayal▲67

   Turn photos into pencil/charcoal sketches and comic panels

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Colorscape▲132

   Turn your photos into coloring pages

   2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Sketch Me Pro▲76

   iOS app for converting photo to sketch

   2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   PaintSnap▲74

   Photo to painting, generated one brush stroke at a time

   2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Switch Art▲60

    Turn your photos into easy-to-update magnetic art (iOS)

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Microsoft Sprightly▲169

    Instantly transform your photos into professional collages!

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Framepop▲124

    Turn photos into framed prints

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Psykopaint for iPad▲78

    The first "3D painting" app

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it▲117

    Around 3 weeks ago, I came across a reddit post from someone who was looking to see if anyone was interested in taking over a 12-14 year old objective c app which hadn't been on the app store for many years. I responded and decided to do it. The app is called Painteresque. It lets you turn photos to charcoal drawings, paintings etc while doing all the processing locally on device: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/i... The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer…

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Trigraphy▲137

    Create cool poly art from iOS camera photos

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Free Webcam Wonders By Museclip▲245

    See your world transform through your Camera

    2024 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Adobe Shape CC▲196

    Capture shapes with your iPhone and save them as vectors.

    2014 · adobe.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    ArtistAssistApp – a web app to paint better with ease▲168

    Hey HN! I want to show my new open-source project ArtistAssistApp. ArtistAssistApp - the web app to paint better with ease. Tools for realistic color mixing based on real paints, tonal value drawing, simplified sketching, and more. Import your own photos, select any desired color directly from the image, and learn how to mix it with your paints. The web app provides a step-by-step guide on how to precisely mix that color using your own paints using atomic or optical mixing. Atomic mixing is the physical mixing of colors together, while optical mixing is the result of placing a transparent…

    2023 · artistassistapp.com · its alternatives →

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    dzook▲131

    Convert photos into illustrated stylish portraits with AI

    2020 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Photoleap Editor by Lightricks▲116

    A creative photo editor for iOS by the makers of Facetune

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    SketchPlus▲83

    Turn your photos into hand drawn works of art

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Painnt▲112

    Turn your photos into masterpieces!

    2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Doodle Morph AI▲97

    Transform drawings into photo-realistic art with AI

    2023 · doodlemorphai.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Glitché▲111

    Turn images into pixelated, glitched-out works of art (iOS)

    2014 · glitche.com · its alternatives →

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