Brusher vs MyPaint Brushes

Brusher offers digital art brushes for Procreate on iPad and for Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint on desktop. Its library contains 3,000+ brushes across 200+ collections. Procreate collections install with a single tap using.brushset files, while Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint use.abr packs on Mac and PC. The app also includes a Vectorizer that converts JPG or PNG images into SVG and a Background Remover that creates transparent PNG cut-outs. Brusher is free to download with free brushes, and its website offers starter packs without an account. Paid choices include app subscriptions and website brush packs; a website brush pack is listed at $5, paid once. Users can create and sell personal or commercial artwork with the brushes, but may not redistribute or resell the brush files. App purchases are sold through the Apple App Store, while website purchases are processed by LavaTop. Brusher says it is for beginners, illustrators, tattoo artists, comic artists, and lettering artists, and is available for iOS, macOS, and Windows.

MyPaint Brushes is a free downloadable brush-data package for MyPaint and other applications that use libmypaint. The master branch contains brushes intended for libmypaint 2.x. For libmypaint versions below 1.5, the project recommends using the v1.3.x branch or a v1.x release instead; listed releases include v1.3.1 for libmypaint 1.3 or later and v2.0.2 for libmypaint 1.5 or later. The brush files use the .myb format, and commercial use is permitted. Application developers can locate the brush directory through pkg-config: C and C++ programs use the MYPAINT_BRUSHES_DIR macro, while other languages can use the brushesdir variable. Building and installing the package uses autogen.sh, configure, make, and make install. Historical SCons scripts are included for SCons 2.x, but do not work with SCons 3. The official brush data uses public domain or CC0 1.0 licensing. Installation scripts and other non-brush-data components use GPL-2+ licensing. The v2.0.2 release note says its changes reduce preview icon file sizes and that v2.0.x brushes generally need libmypaint 1.5 or later to work correctly.