LevelUp Sketch turns ten minutes of drawing or writing into an RPG. Time on the page pays XP. Level up and you unlock real brushes, real papers, real fonts. Two crafts, one streak, one character sheet.
iPad and Mac. One subscription covers both. Coming to the App Store. No spam, one email when it opens.
Drawing and journaling are the same practice wearing different clothes. Show up, make a mark, look back later and see you moved. The app treats them as one game.
Real Apple Pencil drawing with pressure and tilt, on a PencilKit canvas. Not a toy.
A journal that is actually private, that counts, and that you can search six months later.
A double day pays a bonus of +25 XP and +5 JP on top of everything else. Write one line about a drawing you just finished and that reflection is worth +10 XP, up to three a day. Nothing forces you to do both. It just pays if you do.
No talent required. The game makes you show up, and showing up is what makes you good.
Open today's board. There is a drawing prompt, a writing prompt, and your challenge day waiting. Pick one. Pick both. Or just draw freeform.
Ten XP for every active minute, on the canvas or in the editor. Thirty more for hitting your daily goal, fifty for finishing a quest. Streak milestones at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 100 days pay escalating bonuses.
Thirty-five brushes, palettes, papers, inks, fonts, stamps and templates, earned by levelling. Your toolbar is your inventory. Nothing here is for sale, and nothing you earn can be taken back.
Real screens from the running app, not mockups.
Everything greyed out with a lock is something you have not earned yet. Pen, Marker, Monoline, Fountain Pen, Watercolor, Crayon. Warm Tones, Cool Tones, Earth Tones, Neon Pop, Full Spectrum. You start with a pencil and six colours, same as everyone.
Journal backup is its own switch, separate from your drawings. Turn it off and your entries never leave the device. Sharing a sketchnote shares the drawing only unless you say otherwise, and the journal can sit behind Face ID.
Write a real thing about a real day. The bar at the bottom tracks words and active time, and tells you the moment the entry has earned its bonus. Fifty words or three minutes, whichever you get to first.
Every entry is dated, tagged by type, and full-text searchable. The point of keeping a journal is reading it, and most journal apps quietly make that the hard part.
These are captured from a brand new account, which is why the counters read zero. Nothing has been retouched.
Your job shapes your quests and the order you unlock things, Final Fantasy Tactics style. Start as one of three, earn Job Points, unlock the advanced four.
Every masterpiece starts with a straight line.
Starter jobMix, test, discover what the page can do.
Starter jobThe page remembers what you forget.
Starter jobTools you have earned stay yours forever, even when you switch jobs. Bard is the crossover: words and pictures telling one story.
One for each craft. Run one, run both, or ignore them and keep drawing freeform. The first week of each is free so you can find out whether it suits you before deciding anything.
30 days from "I can't draw" to a finished piece: lines, shapes, light, and your first real still life. Day one is a mug, drawn badly on purpose. That is your before picture.
30 days from blank page to a journal you actually kept: start, notice, dig, connect. Day one asks why you opened the app. On day 30 you read it back.
Not an iPad app with a Mac version promised later. One app, one purchase, both machines.
Apple Pencil, pressure and tilt, PencilKit native inks. It feels like drawing because it is drawing, just with a level bar on top.
A real keyboard for the days when you have a lot to say. Same journal, same XP, same streak.
Start a drawing on the sofa, finish it at the desk. Edit the same entry in two places and it forks into two rather than quietly losing a version.
The free tier is generous on purpose. A habit app that walls off the habit does not build one.
No trial clock, no account required. Everything works signed out.
Works out at $4.17 a month
Cancel any time
Same Pro either way. One subscription, iPad and Mac. Everything in Free, plus:
Your daily prompts, your journal entries, your drawing tools, your XP and your streaks stay free forever. Pro is not how you keep the habit, it is how you go deeper into it.
That is the point. Get on the list and we will tell you the day it opens.
$5.99 a month or $49.99 a year when it launches. iPad and Mac, one subscription.