Linea Sketch

New Features

• Annotations: Add simple text labels and notes to your sketches
  • Tap the "Aa" icon to enter Annotation mode, then on the sketch to create a label
  • Edit Annotations with iOS Scribble or tap with a finger to use the keyboard
  • Choose from a variety of fonts & save your favorite as a Canvas Default
  • Easily adjust Annotation text alignment, color, rotation, and size
  • Merge Annotations to a layer to add additional effects
• Watercolor Brush: Paint and fill your sketch with organic pigment
  • Three brush sizes that vary with pressure of Apple Pencil
  • Choose between three modes:
    • Simple - Textured, painterly strokes
    • Wet - Watery strokes with pooled pigment at edges
    • Cloud - Textured splats & speckles for skies, landscapes, or backgrounds
• Lockable Layers: Prevent changes and secure your work
  • Tap on lock icon in Layer palette to lock or unlock
  • Locked layers cannot be edited, merged, or selected with the lasso
  • Layers can still be rearranged, toggled, and sampled with the eyedropper

Improvements

• General:
  • Compatibility with iOS and iPadOS 15
  • Updated tool palettes for the new iPad mini
  • New video tutorials: Settings > More Linea Sketch Tips
• Tools & Backgrounds:
  • New Cotton paper background
  • New larger tool sizes for the Technical Pencil, Art Pencil, and Marker
  • Improved paging for additional brush sizes
• Colors:
  • Reorganize custom color chips by tapping, holding, then dragging
  • Drag colors from other apps (like Pastel) into Linea's custom color sets
• ZipShape Radius Control:
  • Adjust the corner radius of square or rectangular ZipShapes
  • Change all four corners simultaneously with a tap on any green control
  • Tap and hold on a green control to adjust a single corner
• Information Bezel & Transforms:
  • Bezel is now easier to read when transforming selections or ZipShapes
  • Corner radii displayed for ZipShape rectangles & squares
  • Element being adjusted is highlighted in the bezel
  • Transforms snap to sizes (100%, 200%, etc.) & aspect ratios (1:1, 3:4, 2:1, etc.)
  • QuickToggle for snapping: hold down finger while dragging with Apple Pencil
• Time-lapse:
  • Exported time-lapse movies now hold the final frame for five seconds
  • Improvements to time-lapse reliability and playback
  • iPhone can now export 30 second clips

Bug Fixes

• Time-lapse movies can now be exported even after recording is toggled off
• Fixed appearance of eyedropper icon in Recent Colors
• Help & feature videos no longer stop music from playing

Improvements

• Improved accessibility when drawing with VoiceOver

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue when flipping the canvas

New Features

• Universal app for iPad and iPhone
• Time-Lapse: Record your creative process as a time-lapse movie as you sketch!
  • Access Time-Lapse settings and playback via (...) > Present Sketch menu
  • Export a compressed 30 second version or full length
  • Export the entire canvas as a Time-Lapse or just a portion via Crop and Export
  • Pause and re-start Time-Lapse recording at any time
  • Sketches containing Time-Lapses are badged in the Project View for reference
  • Option to turn off Time-Lapse (saves storage space) for new sketches in Settings
• QuickToggle: Put a finger down while drawing on iPad for additional control
  • ZipLine snapping - ZipLines temporarily snap to isometric and oblique angles
  • Pencil tilt - Temporarily turn off tilt when sketching with the pencil tools
• Custom background colors
  • Choose a custom color to use as a canvas background
  • Select custom colors via the picker, recently used or hex values
  • Toggle paper texture on / off to apply over your custom color
• App themes and alternate home screen icons
  • Customize your Linea home screen app icon and interface theme via Settings

Improvements

• Templates: adjustable intensity (light/medium/strong)
• New checkerboard (transparent) canvas background
• Re-organized and improved Settings panel for clarity

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused lagging when drawing with the Pen Tool

Improvements

• Preference to turn off tilt support when sketching with Apple Pencil
• Ability to sort multi-page PDF output by newest or oldest sketches first
• Export as PDF is now available on project folders when no sketches are selected
• Better performance with ZipShapes drawn using the Art Pencil and Felt Tip Pen

Bug Fixes

• Sketches and imported images are no longer blurry when pasted onto the canvas
• Overlay in Crop and Export... is now visible on sketches with dark backgrounds
• Fixed a contrast issue with the button used to close a project
• Fixed a contrast issue with the 3x2 App Icon template
• Fixed a rendering problem with the hexagonal grid

Note

• The "Paper Grain" background was re-named to "White Bond" for clarity

New Features

• Added full support for Dark Mode in newest version of iOS and iPadOS
• Export an an entire project or selected sketches as a multi-page PDF
• Added Set as Default in sketch action menu (⋯) to save your current grid and paper settings when creating new documents

Improvements

• Angles now snap to 0°, 45°, and 90° with ZipLine: can be disabled in Settings
• Larger Pen sizes - swipe the tool's size indicator to page between three sets

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug in color palette hues with Swift 5.1
• Fixed navigation issues on iOS 13

New Features

• Stroke Widths: The Pen and Marker tools now support strokes that are set to a specific width or that vary with pressure. Fixed width lines are great for lettering, cartoon outlining, and graphing. Variable pen widths create a more organic feel and are perfect for inking comics, illustrations, and more.
• New Templates: Circular grids, sheet music staves, and Apple Watch user interfaces were added to grids & templates. Whether you're drawing mandalas, writing your next hit, or working on a wearable app, these portrait and landscape layouts will be helpful! Includes:
  • Sheet Music
  • Watch UI design
  • Circular (for Mandalas, symmetric drawing, graphing, etc.)
  • Reticle and Large Dot grids
  • Desktop Web Design
• Aspect Ratios: Crop and Export is now easier to use with presets for popular formats like 4:3, 16:9, and square. Your settings are also saved, making multiple exports simpler.
• Other changes include the ability to merge selections into a specific layer, improved selection undo, better placement of images dropped into Linea, and more.

Improvements

• PSD export now writes compressed layer data. This reduces file size and works around a bug in Procreate so it handles the transparency correctly.
• Support for exporting as a PDF from the Crop and Export panel.
• When pasting or importing an image into a layer while there's a selection, the new content is centered. Can be used while doing copy/paste to another layer to make a duplicate that's in the same place as the original.
• Reworked early templates to future proof them.
• When undoing after a transform, the selection is no longer dropped.
• Added headers to template groups for improved clarity and organization
• New keyboard shortcuts for selection mode commands: Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate
• ReplayKit Recording has been re-enabled thanks to a bug fix in iOS 12.1.3 or later

Bug Fixes

• Drag-and-dropped images are now dropped in the correct place on the canvas
• Fixed orientation of imported images of certain types (indexed PNG, for example)
• When importing multiple images in succession, each one gets its own undo state
• After merging layers, empty ones are now correctly saved to the document file
• Layer checkmarks now reset to being all-checked between selections
• A document in iPad sidebar multitasking mode no longer displays the Preview bezel without its text visible
• Selected templates are now scrolled into view on the popover list no matter the length

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect undos of some operations

Bug Fixes

• Fixed memory issue that caused a crash in tools
• Blend tool now works on a smaller area when zoomed in

New Features

• Fill Tool - The paint roller fills large areas with color quickly and easily:
  • Tap to instantly flood-fill an area on the selected layer
  • Uses all currently-visible layers, including templates/grids for the fill boundary
  • Draw a shape with the fill tool to enclose a free-form area
  • Supports opaque and additive ink settings
• Blending Tool - The blending stick softens a portion of your sketch or smudges it:
  • The effect uses both brush size and pressure
  • Blur mode - Soften hard edges and lines; create pleasing gradients
  • Smudge mode - Push or pull strokes to create free-flowing shapes and effects
  • Finger blending - Set your finger to blend instead of erase in Settings
• ZipShapes - Draw rough shapes and hold at the end to create a perfect version:
  • Recognizes circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, triangles, and polygons
  • Transform handles let you modify the shape - move, scale, stretch to get exactly what you want
  • ZipShapes work with the pencil, pen, marker, and fill tools
• Versions - Revert a sketch from a previous version to fix a mistake or take a different creative direction:
  • In the Project view tap Select, pick a sketch, then use Versions from the Actions (⋯) menu
  • Revert to a specific version or create a new sketch out of a selected version
  • Versions is only available when iCloud is enabled in Settings

Improvements

• There is now a setting for what your finger does while an Apple Pencil is in use: erase, blend, draw, move the canvas, or ignore.
• New paper background: Mulberry
• Double-tap on the new Apple Pencil can be configured to switch tools, change interface state, enter selection mode, or modify tool sizes
• New template for full-screen tablet that matches 11" iPad Pro aspect ratio
• When recording or broadcasting your sketch, the record indicator and popup are no longer captured
• Refined user interface elements

Improvements

• Pen in blended mode is lighter when using a Logitech Crayon, other non-Apple Pencil stylus, or a finger
• Eraser works properly in blended mode when used with a Logitech Crayon, other non-Apple Pencil stylus, or a finger

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem when creating polygon ZipLine shapes (connected lines)
• Tapping while drawing with finger or non-Pencil stylus results in a dot again
• Predicted path preview of the pen tool in blended mode is improved
• Choosing to resolve conflicting versions of a drawing on iCloud now updates the state of the document correctly

New Features

• Broadcast Yourself - Show the world your latest creation using the new Present Canvas options available from a sketch's Actions icon (⋯)
  • A video of your canvas is created while you draw
  • Recording can be configured to add either audio or video commentary
  • Your drawing session can be saved to the Camera Roll or shared on social media
  • You can also live stream to services like Mobcrush (that support ReplayKit)
• Canvas Sizes - Tap and hold the + button when creating a new sketch for a range of canvas size options including:
  • Current screen size
  • 16 x 9 aspect ratio
  • 3 x 2 aspect ratio
  • 4 x 3 aspect ratio
  • Square
• Send to Linea - A new Sharing extension lets other apps send images to a project
  • Enable "Send to Linea" in the More item of the Sharing sheet
  • Works great after taking a screenshot for markup in Linea

Improvements

• Presentation Mode via Airplay now available from the sketch's Action menu
• Smoother brush strokes when drawing with a finger or stylus (non Apple-Pencil)
• The minimum zoom-out amount increased from 50% to 20%
• Interface tweaks and polishing
• Refreshed app icon

Bug Fixes

• Fixed cosmetic issues
• Project thumbnails update correctly when sketches changed on another device

Bug Fixes

• Importing an image into a non-empty layer no longer sends it to an empty layer if one was available
• Moving a selection or importing an image in an unchanged document now always gets saved on close
• Fixed a problem that in a rare circumstance could cause a set of changes to not be saved
• Fixed a couple of crashes users have seen

New Features

• Custom Color Picker - New superpowers to get the right color
  • Eyedropper that lets you quickly pick a color from the canvas
  • Type in hex colors to match a color from a web site or other design
  • Slider to adjust lightness or darkness of a color
  • Keeps a history of changes making it easy to experiment
• Color Sets - Customize the palettes of colors you use in Linea
  • Tap the Color Sets icon at the top of the palette to access options
  • Each of the three palettes can have its own color set
  • New color sets include pastels, art deco, flesh tones, app design and more
  • Each palette has a set of custom colors: build a color library
  • Recent Colors makes frequent color changes a snap
• New Templates - Now use Linea for productivity and web design
  • Lay out multiple responsive Web Design concepts with or without notes
  • Also works great for mobile apps on multiple devices
  • Monthly Calendar for scheduling in portrait or landscape orientation
  • Checklists for to-do items, groceries, and more

Improvements

• Pencil and pen tools have lower latency to provide the best drawing experience
• Tool size indicators display the current color of the tool

Bug Fixes

• When copying or dragging from a portrait-oriented document, the content is now kept in the proper orientation
• Fixed cosmetic issues

Tip Jar

Developing new features is expensive. Now you can contribute beyond your initial purchase to help fund future updates with the Tip Jar. It’s a subscription-free way to show your love for Linea Sketch.

• Donate at any time using the Tip Jar item in the Settings view
• Tipping is optional and reminders are only displayed after new features have been added

Improvements

• Added an option in Settings to control the polygon part of the ZipLine feature.
• When drawing with a finger, tapping (without drawing a line) now leaves a dot behind (making it easier, for example, to dot i's or write periods when not using an Apple Pencil).

Fixes

• Importing images into portrait documents should now rotate the image correctly.
• Fixed layout of Settings when larger text sizes.

Fixes

• Project views in split screen should now always be sized correctly
• Presentation mode now properly handles portrait sketches

Move / Transform

• New scissors icon in Layers panel - see in-app video for a demo!
• Resize by dragging the orange handles
• Rotate with two-fingers or by dragging the selection box outline

ZipLine

• Quickly create straight lines and polygons - see in-app video for a demo!
• The delay needed to activate ZipLine can be adjusted via Linea's settings

Image Import

• Add images to a layer - see in-app video for a demo!
• Import from your camera, photo library, clipboard, or a file browser app

Portrait Orientation

• Linea now supports portrait orientation for drawings and notes
• New sketches are created using the iPad's current orientation
• Change the orientation by rotating 90º and closing sketch

New Templates & Grids

• Take notes on Notepads with wide and narrow rules
• All templates work in portrait and landscape orientation
• New storyboarding template with 1.85:1 ratio
• App Design templates updated for latest devices
• Added small dot grid

Split Screen

• Linea can now be used while it's side-by-side with another app
• Reference an image on the web or in Photos
• Take notes while researching in Safari or any other app

Drag and Drop

• Drag images from another app and drop them into the active layer
• Drag images out of the Export view
• Turn on the Settings option to drag out from Selection

Other

• Reduced size of the smallest eraser
• Added support for Smart Invert Colors to help folks with low vision