For people who "can't draw"

Level up
your drawing.

LevelUp Sketch turns ten minutes of drawing into an RPG. Time on the canvas pays XP. Level up and you unlock real brushes and palettes. One streak, one character sheet.

For iPad. Coming to the App Store. No spam, one email when it opens.

The Today board in LevelUp Sketch on iPad, showing a Squire character at level 1, the Apprentice's Path challenge, and today's drawing quests.
Real screen, day one

Ten minutes on the canvas

Real Apple Pencil drawing with pressure and tilt, on a PencilKit canvas. Show up, make a mark, look back later and see you moved.

Draw

Waiting for you every day

  • A daily drawing prompt, free forever
  • Seven inks, six palettes, three stroke ranges to unlock
  • Every drawing saved and dated, so you can put day one next to today
  • A Daily Sketch page for each day, and freeform whenever you just want to draw

Ten minutes a day. That is the whole trick.

No talent required. The game makes you show up, and showing up is what makes you good.

1

Show up

Open today's board. There is a drawing prompt and your challenge day waiting. Pick one, or just draw freeform.

2

Earn XP

Ten XP for every active minute on the canvas. Thirty more for hitting your daily goal, fifty for finishing a quest. Streak milestones at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 100 days pay escalating bonuses.

3

Unlock real tools

Sixteen inks, palettes and stroke ranges, earned by levelling. Your toolbar is your inventory. Nothing here is for sale, and nothing you earn can be taken back.

What it looks like

Real screens from the running app, not mockups.

Your toolbar is your inventory

Everything greyed out with a lock is something you have not earned yet. Pen, Marker, Monoline, Fountain Pen, Watercolor, Crayon. Warm Tones, Cool Tones, Earth Tones, Neon Pop, Full Spectrum. You start with a pencil and six colours, same as everyone.

Canvas toolbar, level 1 account

The LevelUp Sketch canvas toolbar. Pencil and Basic 6 are active. Pen, Marker, Monoline, Fountain Pen, Watercolor, Crayon, Warm Tones, Cool Tones, Earth Tones, Neon Pop and Full Spectrum are greyed out with padlock icons.

These are captured from a brand new account, which is why the counters read zero. Nothing has been retouched.

Pick a job. Change it later.

Your job shapes your quests and the order you unlock things, Final Fantasy Tactics style. Start as one of two, earn Job Points, unlock the advanced three.

Squire

Every masterpiece starts with a straight line.

Starter job

Chemist

Mix, test, discover what the page can do.

Starter job
Warrior · Mage · Rogue ·

Tools you have earned stay yours forever, even when you switch jobs.

A 30-day path

Run it, or ignore it and keep drawing freeform.

Drawing

Apprentice's Path

30 days from "I can't draw" to a finished piece: lines, shapes, light, and your first real still life. Day one is a mug, drawn badly on purpose. That is your before picture.

What it costs

The free tier is generous on purpose. A habit app that walls off the habit does not build one.

Free forever
$0

No trial clock, no account required. Everything works signed out.

  • A daily drawing prompt
  • Unlimited saved drawings, and a Daily Sketch page every day
  • Day one next to today, and your streak
  • The whole game up to level 5: quests, XP, jobs and the tools you unlock
  • Everything you earn stays yours
LevelUp Sketch Pro
Founding rate
$49.99 / year

Works out at $4.17 a month

$5.99 / month

Cancel any time

The first 100 subscribers get the founding rate and keep it as long as they stay subscribed. After that, Pro is $12.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Everything in Free, plus:

  • Keep earning XP and levelling up past level 5

Cancel and you keep your level, your earned tools and every drawing. Your XP stops growing until you come back.

Day one is a bad drawing.

That is the point. Get on the list and we will tell you the day it opens.

Founding rate: $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year for the first 100 subscribers, kept as long as they stay subscribed. For iPad.