FiftyThree’s top-selling iPad drawing application Paper — winner of Apple’s 2012 iPad App of the Year among other awards — has been given a face lift for iOS 7 with new colors, new icons and typefaces, and improved zoom and dot size functions.
Paper version 1.6.x brings to your tablet faster menus, cleaner icons, custom typefaces, lighter colors, brighter journal covers, and improved readability. Zoom has also been improved to automatically adjust the size of Draw, Color, Erase, and Blend functions for finer control over tiny areas without touching a slider.
What’s more, dot size in the Draw and Erase tools is now affected by how long you press. Just tap quickly to make small dots, or hold down longer to create bigger dots.
You can download the latest version of Paper for free in the App Store. The app can work with your finger or any stylus, although FiftyThree recently introduced its own stylus called Pencil, which is supposedly optimized for Paper. (See reviews by Apple Insider, Macworld, and The Verge.) The Pencil stylus is a bit on the pricey side though, at $50 for the graphite model or $60 for the walnut model. Both are available from FiftyThree.com.
