Questions

BrushWorks keeps a copy of the photo you picked in the app's storage, so it can bring your painting back the next time you open the app. The copy is deleted when you pick another photo or tap Start over in Settings.

The iOS photo picker hands the app only the one photo you choose. Saving a finished painting uses add-only access to Photos.

BrushWorks is for painting by hand, so there is no one-tap conversion. That is also why the time-lapse ends with how many strokes you made and how long you painted.

Each stroke takes its color from the photo whenever the painting is redrawn. Old strokes on a new photo would show colors they never had, so the canvas is cleared. If you have painted anything, the app asks first.

Undo cannot bring it back. Save your painting before you switch photos.

Paintings saved without Pro carry a small BRUSH/WORKS watermark in the lower right corner. With Pro you can turn the watermark off.

The free time-lapse is 10 seconds long, in a vertical 9:16 frame. With Pro you choose a length from 10 to 90 seconds.

To watch the whole process, use Replay in the app. Pick 1×, 2× or 4×, and drag sideways across the canvas to jump to any point.

On a new device or after reinstalling the app, open Settings and tap Restore Purchases in the Pro section. With the same Apple Account, you are not charged again.

Turn iPhone sideways and the brushes and controls move beside the canvas. The screen turns, but the painting stays upright at 3:4. On a foldable iPhone, when the screen has a system strip along one side, Photo, Undo, Redo, Save, Original photo, Replay, Underlay and Settings stand in that strip, and the controls around the canvas get smaller by that much. The canvas does not get smaller.

Painting, saving and time-lapses work without an internet connection. Buying Pro and restoring purchases need a connection to the App Store.