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Yes. Every feature is free, with no subscription, no ads and no Pro version.

Any iPad with iPadOS 18 or later. Apple Pencil is recommended, but you can draw with your finger too.

In the Aperto folder on your iPad or in iCloud Drive, whichever you choose. You can find them in the Files app like any other document.

SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG and HEIC. Lines from SVG and PDF files stay editable vectors. Effects Aperto can’t edit yet come in as a flat background on their own layer.

Import the PDF, pick a color and tap any shape. Aperto closes small gaps in the lines so the fill stays inside.

Yes. Start a coloring page and open the PDF, scan or screenshot. Each closed area between the lines becomes a shape you fill with a tap, and a multi-page PDF becomes a multi-page work.

Yes, in coloring pages a brush stroke stays inside the area it starts in, so you can shade with a pencil or marker without going over the edge. You can switch this off in the palette.

Yes. Aperto reduces the photo to a small palette, puts a number on every patch and shows the numbered colors next to the canvas. Choose Simple, Balanced or Detailed and compare it with the photo before you start.

Yes. Pick up to 20 photos and Aperto makes a PDF with a cover and one coloring page per photo, ready to print or AirDrop. It’s made on your iPad; the photos aren’t uploaded.

Yes. Select what you drew and choose Make Sticker. Aperto puts it on a white die-cut backing and shares it as a transparent PNG, or as a vector PDF for a cutting machine.

Yes, with the light table. It shows your page or a photo full screen at full brightness, with an optional grid. Lock it, lay paper on the iPad and trace. Hold the lock for two seconds to leave.

Yes, a library of 20 pages with mandalas, ornaments and flowers. They work offline. You can also draw your own mandala with the symmetry guides and color it.

If you want to sketch and color for free, yes. Procreate paints in pixels; Aperto keeps every line as an editable vector, so you can reshape it later and export it to SVG or PDF at any size.

No. There are no generative AI features, and your drawings are never uploaded anywhere except your own iCloud Drive, if you use it.

Tap Export in the top bar and choose PDF, SVG or PNG. There is also a line-only SVG for pen plotters, a timelapse video of your drawing (also as a 30-second vertical cut for Reels), and printing fitted to A4 or Letter.

English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Kazakh, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).

Check that iCloud Drive is turned on in Settings and that you’re signed in with the same Apple Account on each device. If you deleted it, look in Recently Deleted in the Files app.