Inky runs Inkscape on Android devices and Chromebooks
About Inky - Run Inkscape on Android
Inky - Run Inkscape on Android is an art & design app developed by UserLAnd Technologies.
Download Statistics
Inky - Run Inkscape on Android has been downloaded 31 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 0 times. It is ranked #6 in art & design.
User Ratings
Inky - Run Inkscape on Android is rated 2.99 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 340 ratings.
App Information
Inky - Run Inkscape on Android costs $1.99 to download. The APK download size is 91.48 MB. The latest version available is 26.04.24. The last update was on April 24, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play January 2023.
Description
This really is Inkscape ™ running on your device. It is full featured and professionally supported.
Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. Other formats can be imported and exported.
Inkscape can render primitive vector shapes (e.g. rectangles, ellipses, polygons, arcs, spirals, stars and 3D boxes) and text. These objects may be filled with solid colors, patterns, radial or linear color gradients and their borders may be stroked, both with adjustable transparency. Embedding and optional tracing of raster graphics is also supported, enabling the editor to create vector graphics from photos and other raster sources. Created shapes can be further manipulated with transformations, such as moving, rotating, scaling and skewing.
How to use this Inky Android app:
Use it just like normal. But here are some specifics to the Android interface. * Tap with one figure to left click. * Move mouse by sliding around one finger. * Pinch to zoom. * Press and hold and then slide one finger to pan (useful when zoomed in). * Slide two fingers up and down to scroll. * If you want to bring up a keyboard, tap on the screen to get a set of icons to appear and then click the keyboard icon. * If you want to do the equivalent to a right click, tap with two fingers. * If you want to change the desktop scaling, find the service android notification and click the settings. You have to stop and restart the app after changing this settings for it to take effect. This is all easier to do on a tablet and with a stylus, but it can be done on a phone or using your finger as well.
To access files from the rest of Android, there are many useful links in your home directory (/home/userland) to places like your Documents, Pictures, etc. No need to import or export files.
If you don't want to, or cannot pay the cost of this app, you can run Inkscape via the UserLAnd app.
Licensing:
This app is released under the GPLv3. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/Inkscape
The icon is made from the Inkscape Logo which is licenced CC-By-SA 3.0. The original author is Andrew Michael Fitzsimon.
This app is not created by the main Inkscape development team. Instead it is an adaptation that allows the Linux version to run on Android.
Recent changes: Fix most common causes of crashes and ANRs Significantly reduce initial setup time (90%)
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Comments on Inky - Run Inkscape on Android for Android
★★★★★Firdani Danang Prakoso· Oct 22, 2024
Usable if you use phone with desktop mode or large screen tablet with mouse and keyboard
★★★★☆William Priest· Mar 10, 2024
This is a Debian virtual machine. It launches the inkscape desktop program when the inky app connects via vnc. Inky isn't intended to be used on a device with a small screen. I'm running it on a Samsung Galaxy fold 4 and it works. My only complaint is it installed with inkscape 0.93 when the latest is 1.2.
★★★★★Alastair· Jun 16, 2023
Very useful to have this app on Android, I found setting input mode to "Simulated Touchpad" makes it very usable, even on a small screen, that way it acts just like a trackpad on a Laptop.
★☆☆☆☆Owethu Malambula· Mar 6, 2024
App doesn't work, and it only shows after doing the purchase that certain devices are not compatible, so I'll be expecting my refund since I can't use it
★☆☆☆☆TL Designs· Apr 6, 2023
I use Inkscape a lot, and it's a wonderful tool, but Inky is awful. User interface is desktop-like and hard to work with, and most of the time the app won't even open because of a "connection error".
★☆☆☆☆Jennifer Hackbarth-Musil· Mar 1, 2024
Just the desktop site but extremely small almost impossible to work with on a phone.
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