#the dev has said the competition on desktop is not viable for them which i get

[twilitfox]

I recently bought a dedicated drawing tablet, and i'm reminded that I really wish there was a viable CSP competitor that wasn't Apple exclusive. I hate the subscription bullshit, but I also hate Apple so I'm locked out of Procreate, which is a damn shame because most of the brush packs I have and like are exclusively for those two, and I d e s p i s e Adobe, so I refuse to touch their shit again even pirated. Krita's alright and it's what I was using before CSP so I'm trying to relearn that while also trying out others (I like Sketchbook and Infinite Painter the best so far, they're both super cheap one time purchases too!) but the biggest reason I switched from it in the first place is because of the brush variety. It's been a very long time since I've used Krita so I don't know if that lack has changed (I'm still fuffing with it) but at least I'll be able to transfer files from the tablet to the computer and vice-versa without having to pay extra for the privilege of still being being able to open them, CLIP.

Medibang and IbisPaint have the same problem, they have ads and some of the more useful stuff is locked behind a subscription and i will not being doing that for either of them. Ibis is... weird with the ads, a lot of their brushes are locked behind them and it expires, which kinda makes it useless offline. I really only downloaded Ibis because CSP can work with those files, but I don’t think I like it as much either. I'm still giving them all the ol' college try before I settle on which one I want, but it’s looking like it's probably gonna be a combination of Infinite Painter and Krita.

CSP is still gonna be my go-to for desktop stuff for now, unfortunately, at least until I get enough going in Krita, but I reaaally hope there's something as in-depth for tablets in the future. I'm just. Very tired of everything being a subscription.