You can download the app from the App Store.

While I was creating 8-bit Golf I realised that the editor, which was quite satisfying to use, could quite easily be repurposed to allow a user to draw on graph paper. It really didn’t take long to rework into a standalone app and I published it without really marking the moment and moved on.

I confess in the interim other than occasionally using it myself I’d kind of forgot about it. However I came across an App Store review reporting a bug and figured I’d fix it. Then found a couple more reported in other reviews. While in App Store Connect I noticed it was getting about 1400 downloads per month. An accidental success story - apart from the bugs!

In any case, having fixed the bugs I figured it might be fun to add a few features - not things that would make it more complicated use, but fun and in the simple spirit.

One obvious addition was a blueprint theme. And the other thing I decided to add was a vector editing mode. The original version looks like a raster / pixel editor but actually the edits are building up a vector model internally - like the golf game. I figured it wouldn’t be much work to allow the app to swap into a vector mode with grab handles and stuff and let people edit.

It felt like you might get the best of both worlds. Simple and quick freehand drawing, then the ability to edit it easily. And, yay!, it works.

Its free but not open source. I might release the source at some point but I’d probably have to unpick some of the commercial Font Awesome icons I used.