# sprang/Brushes

Painting app for the iPhone and iPad.

Repository: https://github.com/sprang/Brushes
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/brushes
Language: Objective-C
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2018-11-19T20:39:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4690, "days_push": 2844, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1758, forks 433 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:32.396149+00:00)

## What it is
Brushes is an open-source painting and drawing application for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, written in Objective-C. It is available on the App Store and developed as a community project under the Mozilla Public License v2.0.

## Use cases
- paint and sketch on an iphone or ipad
- open-source drawing app for ios
- study objective-c painting app source code
- fork a mobile painting application
- learn how touch-based canvas rendering works

## When to choose
- you want a free, open-source painting app on iOS
- you want to study or fork a full-featured Objective-C iOS drawing app

## When to avoid
- you need a cross-platform or Android painting app
- you need actively developed features - the latest release dates to 2018

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, image-processing, gui
- domain: mobile-development, graphics, media
- platform: cpp
- tags: painting-app, drawing, objective-c, ipad, iphone, open-source-app, ios, mobile, swift

## Member repositories
- sprang/Brushes (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.396149+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:27:37.780975+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sprang/Brushes (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.396149+00:00, sha 5bbe817a1fc8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.