InkBlot: Folded Ink Art

Free: water, seven inks, white paper and every tool it takes to make a print. The Studio, one optional purchase, adds nine more inks, metallic gold, the mixing dish, ivory and soft paper, signed prints and wallpapers. InkBlot makes folded ink blots: ink on paper, the page folded over, and the surprise when it opens. The ink is real in every way a screen allows. It pools, soaks in, runs into the colour beside it, squeezes out between the pages and is drawn into veins as they part. No two prints are ever the same. SEVEN INKS FREE, SIXTEEN AND GOLD IN THE STUDIO Water and seven inks are free: India black, carmine, saffron, sap green, Prussian blue, violet and sepia, the whole way round the colour wheel. Tap an ink again to thin it, or thin it again to a pale wash. The Studio adds the other nine (vermilion, rose, ochre, viridian, turquoise, ultramarine, oxblood, walnut and Payne's grey), metallic gold that catches the light as you tilt the phone, and the mixing dish: any colour from the inks on the rack, bottled and kept beside them. There's no limit on how much goes on the sheet, or how many colours. A DROPPER, AND WHAT A HAND CAN DO WITH ONE Touch the paper and a drop falls. Hold, and it swells to a pour. Set off at once and the dropper dribbles a line; flick it and it spatters. Draw two fingers across wet ink to blow it along, as through a straw. Drop water into ink and watch it bloom. FOLD, RUB, PEEL Fold the page over and the pages press together. Rub the folded sheet and the ink is pushed where your finger goes. Then peel it slowly, and the ink is drawn into long veins; or pull it open, and it tears short. Folded too soon? Unfold it, and the ink is as it lay. Add more and fold again, as often as you like; tap New layer first and the print dries, so what you add sits on top of it. PAPER Smooth white paper is free. The Studio adds ivory, and soft paper that drinks the ink, feathers at the edges and leaves hardly a vein. THE PHONE IS THE FOLD On iPhone Duo the sheet fills the inner display with its crease on the fold. Close the phone and you've folded the paper; the outer display is the back of the sheet, the ink showing through, and you rub it with your thumb. Open the phone and the page lifts with it, the ink drawn into veins as it goes: slowly for long ones, quickly for short. Everything works on any other iPhone and on iPad too, by folding the page on screen. A DRAWER FOR EVERY PRINT Every print is kept, on your device, the moment the pages part. Give it a name (what do you see?), share the whole sheet or just the blot, with the app's small mark in the corner, or come back to it later. In the Studio, sign your prints with your own name or share them clean, and make any print your wallpaper. AND A GAME, IF YOU WANT ONE Nine pencilled shapes to fill, from a bow tie to a beetle, with a handful of drops each. A rubber stamp says how close you came. Go past the drops and the sheet is yours again, free hand. SHOWN, NOT TOLD The first time you open it, the sheet plays itself: twenty seconds of everything a hand can do there. After that, How it works has a Show me beside every tool. THE STUDIO One purchase, once: no subscription, Family Sharing included, and every ink and paper that comes later. Try the whole Studio on one sheet first, free. If you bought InkBlot before it was free, it's already yours. • Free: water, seven inks, three strengths and smooth white paper • New layer to work over a dry print; Tilt to let ink run • Every print kept in the drawer; share the sheet or just the blot • VoiceOver actions for everything a gesture does; Reduce Motion; sounds and haptics of paper and ink • In the Studio: nine more inks, metallic gold, the mixing dish, ivory and soft paper, signed prints and wallpapers • No ads, no accounts, no tracking, and one optional purchase. Your prints stay on your device; the app sends only anonymous usage statistics, which you can turn off.