Zen Brush 3
PSOFT MOBILE Art & Design
Freely draw beautiful zen art.
- Rating
- 4.4
- 114 ratings
- Downloads
- 4.3K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- $4.99
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Jul 9
- 2026 · v1.19.2
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About Zen Brush 3
The drawing system that brings to life a feeling of silky fluent and delicate painting now allows an even wider range of expression thanks to the addition of "water" and "color". Providing a new simple and intuitive user interface, this app is designed to be optimal for performing Zen art.
Simply start the app and you are immediately ready to draw. Anyone, anywhere, can create superb Zen art with this app’s uniquely rich expressiveness. You can also easily share and edit your calligraphy and images with other apps using the Export functionality. Skillfully use the rich background style templates to create and share atmospheric artwork.
- The drawing system simulates a 3D model of an East Asian ink brush to enable varied and natural styles of brush handling.
- The adjustable amount of water makes it possible to create expressions ranging from powerful edge effects to "nijimi" (bleeding) and "bokashi" (blurring) where colors mix.
- You can also enjoy creating colored-ink paintings as well as watercolor paintings by making use of 30 selected traditional Japanese colors.
- Create fascinating artwork with a rich assortment of background style templates.
- Traditional Japanese paper templates provide an authentic feel.
Features:
- 5 main tools (ink brush, color brush, water brush, eraser, blotting paper).
- 10 levels of thickness.
- 5 levels of water (not applicable to blotting paper).
- 10 levels of ink tone (not applicable to water brush and blotting paper).
- Color palette with 30 colors.
- 68 background style templates.
- Drying functionality (fast dry, instant dry).
- Movable toolbar (top / bottom / left / right).
- Canvas zoom (zoom in and out with pinch gestures).
- Undo / redo (5 levels).
- Export functionality (formats: JPEG, PNG, transparent PNG (no background)).
- Stylus support (styluses natively supported by Android only).
- Drawing tool selection (finger and stylus / stylus only).
- Adjustable brush pressure sensitivity (5 levels, with supported stylus only).
- Gesture functionality (pinch zoom and drag, zoom toggle with 2-finger tap).
- 3D brush display (enable / disable).
- Pointer display (enable / disable).
- Adjustable canvas resolution.
What’s new
Version 1.19.2 · Updated July 9, 2026
- Fixed a problem causing the app to crash at start up on specific devices. Version 1.19.1 - Fixed a bug in version 1.19 where stylus tilt orientation was reversed. Version 1.19 - Fixed a bug where the ink layer's "Erase All" button did not work. - Fixed a bug where already drawn ink sometimes became dark after changing the canvas resolution. - Minor bug fixes.
User reviews
Realistic watercolor effect. It would be good if clear button is placed in the front panel for quick access like zen brush. Thank you for your effort to bring such a wonderful app.
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