Concepts - Budget tracker & planner

Think, plan & create – Concepts is a flexible vector-based creative workspace/sketchpad where you can take your ideas from concept to reality.

Concepts reimagines the ideation stage – offering a safe and dynamic workspace to explore your ideas, organize your thoughts, experiment with and iterate designs before sharing them with friends, clients and other apps.

With our infinite canvas, you can:

• sketch out plans and whiteboard ideas

• make notes, doodles, and mindmaps

• draw storyboards, product sketches, and designs

Concepts is vector-based, making every stroke editable and scalable. With our Nudge, Slice, and Select tools, you can easily change any element of your sketch without redrawing it. Concepts is optimized for the latest pen-enabled devices and Chrome OS™, making it fast, smooth, and responsive.

Talented creators at Disney, Playstation, Philips, HP, Apple, Google, Unity, and Illumination Entertainment use Concepts to develop and realize extraordinary ideas. Join us!

Concepts has:

• realistic pencils, pens, and brushes that respond to pressure, tilt, and velocity with adjustable live smoothing

• an infinite canvas with many paper types and custom grids

• a tool wheel or bar you can customize with your favorite tools and presets

• an infinite layering system with automatic sorting & adjustable opacity

• HSL, RGB, and COPIC color wheels to help you choose colors that look great together

• flexible vector-based sketching – move and adjust what you’ve drawn anytime by tool, color, size, smoothing, and scale

What is Concepts?

Concepts is a flexible space to think, plan and create. Every beautiful stroke on the infinite canvas is an editable vector, which makes copying, tweaking, and sharing fast and fluid. It's like pencil and paper, only better.

What makes Concepts special?

Infinite Canvas

Sketch and explore your ideas on an infinite canvas. Zoom with clarity, apply moveable artboards, and share just what you need.

Vector-Raster Hybrid

Draw with realistic pencils, pens, wire, custom brush libraries1 and more in designer COPIC colors licensed by Too Corporation.

Present Live

An automatic Presentation Mode1 lets you sketch live with your team or clients, or whiteboard virtually with apps like Zoom.

Editable Vectors

Adjustable vectors let you iterate and change elements of your sketch without having to redraw anything.

Iterate Freely

Use infinite layers for as many iterations as you need to make your client happy. Quickly toggle between alternatives.

Import Files

Drag+drop images and PDFs, sign documents, mark up client or teammate files and send them back fresh.

Design with Precision

Design tools like Grids, Line Smoothing, Live Snap and Shape Guides help you draw fast designs with Real-World Scale and Measurement.

Object Libraries1

Drag+drop professional objects or create your own for fast design work, graphic sharing and client presentations.

Export PDFs

Export files to PDF, PNG, PSD, SVG, DXF (AutoCAD) and other file types for flexible workflows across apps.

Learn to Draw

Part 1: Getting Started

Drawing isn’t just for artists - it’s for everyone. In this tutorial, Lasse Pekkala shares how to relax into your drawing process, how to connect your pencil with the page, and how warming up helps you to start sketching confidently.

Part 2: Proportions and Reference

People who sketch look at the world in certain ways. In this video, Lasse Pekkala shares how seeing in shapes and proportions can help you understand objects and draw them naturally.

Part 3: Basics of Perspective

Learn how to visualize One Point, Two Point and Three Point Perspectives to add 3-dimensional reality to your drawings.

Part 4: Master Your Line Work

Lines are powerful tools for visualizing shape, texture and dimension in your drawings. Learn how to apply simple dynamics to your line work to give form to your ideas in this tutorial.

Part 5: Light and Shadow

Shading is creating the illusion of depth in a drawing by adding contrasting values of shadow and light. In this tutorial, learn how to add dimension and realism to your sketches with these shading techniques.

Getting Started with Concepts' Pro Features

Concepts' Pro Subscription features are designed to make your sketching and note taking even more efficient and intuitive. With everything from a deep library of Brushes to Grids and Objects, there’s a tool for every workflow.

Here's how to get started with the main Concepts Pro features*.

*You can find a full feature comparison list for each platform here.

Advanced Selection and Editing Tools

You can use Concepts’ advanced selection and editing tools to quickly modify existing shapes and objects without redrawing anything.

How to use:

    Use the Selection or Lasso tool to select an object.

    The Edit menu will pop up.

    From there you can duplicate, align, transform,  move, or copy your selected object.

Unlimited Brush and Object Packs

Explore a vast library of professionally designed Brushes and Objects to enhance your creations.

How to use Brush Packs:

    Tap the active tool in the Tool Wheel to bring up the Brush Market.

    Browse the available packs and tap to choose a brush.

How to use Object Packs:

    Tap the Object icon in the status bar to open the Objects menu.

    Tap the object you want to use or drag & drop it onto the canvas.

    Once on the canvas, the object is fully editable.

Advanced Exports

Deliver the final files you need with JPG, PNG, PSD, SVG, PDF and DXF exports.

How to use:

    Open the drawing you want to export.

    Tap the Export button in the status bar.

    Choose JPG, PNG, PSD, SVG, PDF or DXF as the format and select your desired export options.

    Tap "Export" to save the file to your device or share it through other apps.

Create Custom Brushes*

Creating custom brushes in Concepts is a great way to personalize your toolkit and streamline your workflow. Here’s how to create and save your first custom brush.

How to use:

    Open the Brushes menu and tap the active tool or double tap an inactive tool.

    Create a new brush pack in "My Brushes".

    Add a new brush within the pack.

    Enter the Brush Editor by tapping the brush icon or "Edit Brush".

    Customize stamp, grain, size, opacity, smoothing and rotation.

    Save your brush by tapping the back arrow or close button.

More tips:

    Experiment: Play with the different settings to discover new brush possibilities.

    Organize: Keep your brushes organized with multiple packs for styles and uses.

    Share: Export your custom brushes and share them with others.

    For more in-depth instructions check out our tutorial on creating brushes.

*Available on iOS – coming to Windows and Android.

Create Custom Grids

Concepts offers deeply customizable grids, allowing you to modify your workspace for precise and technical design work, like creating floor plans or axonometric drawings.

How to use:

    Open Grid Settings (from Settings menu or Precision menu).

    Choose a grid type to customize.

    Tap the selected grid or "Edit Grid" to open the Grid Editor.

    Adjust spacing, divisions, color, opacity and more.

    Save changes by tapping the back arrow or closing the menu.

    Once you’ve activated a Grid, a new Grid layer will appear. You can toggle it on and off, or move the layer to the top of your layer stack.

    The grids can be also edited on canvas. To enter the grid edit mode, select the Grid layer and tap the settings icon.

More tips:

    Snap to Grid: With the grid active, enable "Snap" in the Precision menu to have your strokes and shapes automatically snap to the grid lines.

    Perspective Grids: Concepts Pro offers 1-point, 2-point, and 3-point perspective grids, which are invaluable for creating accurate perspective drawings. Access them in the same way as other grid types.

Deep Note Search*

Never lose track of your ideas again! Deep Note Search allows you to search for any text or handwriting within your notes, making it easy to find exactly what you're looking for, no matter how much content you have.

How to use:

    From the Gallery, use the search bar to enter your search terms. Concepts will instantly highlight all matching text and handwriting within your notes.

With Concepts, you can:

• draw with precision using shape guides, live snap, and measurement for clean and accurate sketches

• personalize your canvas, tools, gestures, everything

• duplicate your work for easy iterations in the gallery and on canvas

• drag+drop images straight onto the canvas as references or for tracing

• export images, PDFs, and vectors for printing or fast feedback between friends and clients

FREE FEATURES

• Endless sketching on our infinite canvas

• A selection of paper, grid types & tools to get you started

• The full COPIC color spectrum + RGB and HSL color wheels

• Five layers

• Unlimited drawings

• JPG exports

PAID/PREMIUM FEATURES

Subscribe and master your creative potential:

• Access every library, service, and feature, with new updates arriving all the time

• Unlocks everything across Android, ChromeOS, iOS, and Windows

• TRY PREMIUM FREE FOR 7 DAYS

One-time-purchases:

• Buy the Essentials for life and unlock selection & editing tools, infinite layers, shape guides, custom grids, and exports to PNG / PSD / SVG / DXF.

• Pay for advanced features as you need them – professional brushes & PDF workflows are sold separately

• Limited to the platform you purchase on.

Terms & Conditions:

• Monthly and yearly subscription payments are charged to your Google Play Account at the time of purchase.

• Your plan will renew automatically at the price shown within 24 hours after the billing period ends unless canceled beforehand.

• You can cancel or make changes to your subscription at any time in your Google Play Account settings.

We’re dedicated to quality and update our app frequently based on your feedback. Your experience matters to us. Chat with us in-app via Ask Us Anything, email us at concepts@tophatch.com, or find us anywhere with @ConceptsApp.

COPIC is the trademark of Too Corporation. Many thanks to Lasse Pekkala and Osama Elfar for the cover art!