Today’s update to our venerable digital sketchbook for iPad, brings a mix of precision tools, interface refinements, and under-the-hood improvements designed to make drawing more fun and fluid than ever.
A Fresh Look for iOS 26
Linea’s interface has been updated to feel right at home on iOS 26 and Liquid Glass. Today’s update emphasizes your canvas while keeping tools just as accessible and intuitive as ever.
Redesigned transformation handles make it more obvious how to scale, rotate, and adjust your selections, reducing friction when refining your work.
Skewing: A New Dimension of Control
ZipShapes also get a meaningful upgrade making it easier and faster to draw geometric shapes. You can now create left, right, and equilateral triangles with ease. In addition, ZipSquare corner radius controls offer more flexibility and precision.
Tapping and dragging the center side handles of a shape lets you skew horizontally or vertically—either freely or in precise 15º increments with snapping enabled.
You can also skew ZipShapes, lassoed selections, and even annotations to create new text effects. All subtle but powerful additions that open up new creative possibilities.
But There’s More
Drawing in Linea with the Apple Pencil is better than ever thanks to a new hover preview showing the brush size of the selected drawing tool.
Canvas management is also smarter, with Set as Canvas Defaults now preserving size and orientation. It also presents a new clearer confirmation when the preference is updated, as well as a new option in Settings to review or reset your default canvas setup at anytime.
Linea Sketch 4.4 also fixes a bevy of bugs and crashes so be sure to update your copy. Finally, there’s also an update to Linea Link for macOS, the app that let’s you move your iPad sketches into your favorite desktop image editor quickly and easily.
Visit Linea’s version history page for the complete list of What’s New. The app is free to download and try on the App Store and comes with additional paid, premium features.
