Smudjo

Smudjo is a painting app for people who like making a mess. Twelve brushes that answer the way real ones do — pencil, technical pen, fineliner, brush pen, marker, gouache, charcoal, chalk, spray, airbrush and two rounds — all of them pressure-, tilt- and speed-sensitive, on a canvas with no edges. Smudge, fill, selections and symmetry. Layers, groups, clipping, blend modes. Undo as far back as you like, and a time-lapse of the whole thing at the end. PAINT TOGETHER The part no other painting app does. Share a six-character code and up to eight people paint on one canvas, live, watching each other's strokes land as they're drawn. Everyone gets their own layer so nobody paints over anybody by accident, and you can follow someone's view or jump to where they're working. On the same Wi-Fi it connects directly, device to device. Anywhere else it goes through a relay that passes along messages it cannot read: sessions are end-to-end encrypted from the code itself, and the relay only ever sees a room number. REAL FILES Your paintings are files in a folder you choose, on your device or in your own cloud storage. Open them, move them, back them up, or stop using Smudjo entirely — they are yours either way. No account, nothing to sign up for. WHAT'S FREE Every brush and every tool, forever. Five paintings, five layers each, exports up to 1080 pixels across, and joining anyone's session with no limits at all. One purchase unlocks unlimited paintings and layers, full-resolution export, hosting a full room, and keeping the paintings you make in someone else's session. It covers every device you own, and it is not a subscription.