Sketchar

Sketchar is one of the original augmented-reality drawing apps and is used by a community the company counts in the millions. Its core trick is simple but powerful: your phone camera overlays a chosen image directly onto the real surface in front of you, so instead of guessing proportions from a printed reference you trace along a projected guide. That makes the jump from sketch to finished piece far faster and dramatically reduces proportion errors, which is why the app is popular with hobbyists learning to draw and with working muralists.

Beyond AR tracing, Sketchar bundles a broad toolkit. There is a built-in digital canvas with brushes, layers, stroke smoothing, timelapse recording and a distinctive liquid brush, and you can send a mobile sketch straight to the app on a VR headset to project it at building scale. A library of more than a thousand step-by-step lessons spans anime, portraits, celebrities, animals and landscapes, with a personalised growth plan. On supported headsets such as Meta Quest and Pico, muralists can project their sketch onto a wall in daylight with no projector, cables or grid. A multiplayer mode lets several people co-create on a shared canvas, and the whole library syncs across devices on one account.

Sketchar follows a freemium model: the free tier covers AR drawing with a large set of built-in templates, step-by-step lessons and a basic canvas, while the PRO subscription unlocks projecting your own images, the full course library and advanced canvas tools. It is available on iOS, Android, Meta Quest and Pico, and schools can apply for a free education licence. If you already draw confidently and only need plain image editing, the AR tracing focus may be more than you need; for anyone learning or speeding up real-world work, it is a distinctive tool.