Adobe Fresco vs Infinite Painter

Adobe Fresco is a free drawing and painting app for stylus and touch devices. It offers pixel, vector, watercolor, and oil live brushes, plus frame-by-frame animation and motion paths. Artwork can use unlimited layers. Adobe lists support for iPad, iPhone, Windows devices with Intel, Nvidia, or AMD processors, and specified Surface ARM devices. Fresco work can move into Photoshop and sync as a Creative Cloud document. When connected, artwork syncs automatically to Adobe Creative Cloud; offline documents remain local and sync after reconnection. Publish & Export or Quick Export can send artwork to Dropbox or other cloud storage. The free plan includes 5 GB of cloud storage, while a paid Fresco plus Photoshop on iPad plan includes 100 GB. Adobe says paid upgrades add premium Adobe Fonts and more storage. Fresco is available on iOS and Windows, with desktop and mobile apps.

Infinite Painter is a mobile app for painting, drawing, and crafting digital images on Android and iOS. It includes nearly 200 brushes, with options to create and customize brushes, plus layers, shapes, and selection tools. Users can rearrange the interface by docking tools and actions for quick access, and record a painting as a shareable Timelapse. The free version includes three layers at device resolution, built-in brushes and editing, seamless pattern projects, and selected tools. Pro adds HD canvas sizes, more layers, adjustments, live filter layers, layer groups, masks, and more than 40 professional tools. A seven-day free trial is available; afterward, the app remains usable, though some features require a one-time purchase. Projects and assets such as brushes can be exchanged between versions. There is no native desktop version, though the maker notes availability on some Chromebooks and Apple silicon Macs that support mobile apps. Canvas size and layer capacity depend on device resources.