Painteresque Photo to Sketch

About this app

Painteresque lets you make your photos look like paintings, charcoal drawings, colored pencils, lithographic print, vintage, trippy, retro, portrait, etc. Just select a photo from your photo album or camera for Painteresque to revisualize, and a few seconds later the resulting image is ready to save. You can choose from a handful of included filters, or fine tune various settings and save custom filters. It generally produces good results for scenery, still life, architecture, plants, birds, and animals. Results for photos of people can be good or bad since it tends to bring out details rather than hiding them. Your privacy is protected because all processing happens locally on your device and your photo is not sent to any server. This is why the processing might also take a few seconds depending upon how new your device is. All features in the app are provided for free. There are no ads, trackers, analytics, subscriptions or other junk. Small indie developers like us benefit from your support. If you do enjoy the app, we request you pay us a tip from the app to help pay for development cost and constantly improve the app with new filters. The tip will be shared with Brandyn, the original developer of many of the filters over 12 years ago. You can also support us by leaving a review on the App Store :) Original photos in app store screenshots by Raamin ka, Ayo Ogunseinde, Maksim Istomin, Brooke Cagle, Jean-Philippe Delberghe, Dušan veverkolog, Damiano Baschiera, and Hisu lee on Unsplash used under the Unsplash License. Email any feedback to Pran at: pran@pranapps.com

- Now your edited photos will keep the original image's metadata, exif data, location data etc. This behavior can be disabled via the new setting in "Fine Tuning" screen. This is supported iOS 14 onwards. Small indie developers like us benefit from your support. If you do enjoy the app, we request you pay us a tip from the app to help pay for development cost and constantly improve the app with new filters. The tip will be shared with Brandyn, the original developer of many of the filters over 12 years ago. You can also support us by leaving a review on the App Store :) Email any feedback to Pran at: pran@pranapps.com

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1. First observed Aug 8, 2026 · 12:32 AM Free