Sable Paint
Sable Paint is a GPU-native digital painting application for Windows and macOS, built with Rust and wgpu.
What Sable Paint is
Sable Paint is a GPU-native digital painting application for Windows and macOS, built with Rust and wgpu. Its engine lets brushes pick up and drag existing colour while building height on the canvas, with 16-bit precision and an 8-bit fallback. The brush editor controls shape, scatter, jitter, blending, colour, height, texture, masking, pressure curves, and material-point simulation. Layers support height, 28 blend modes, 27 non-destructive adjustments, groups, masks, and clipping. Glaze layers simulate transparent pigment pooling in relief, while Spectral Glaze composites across 38 wavelength bands. Stamp Forge creates reproducible procedural brush tips without models or training data. Tools include brush, eraser, fill, gradient, liquify, eyedropper, text, crop, pan, zoom, and seven selection tools. The free edition needs no account and adds no watermark, but limits canvas size, layers, and saved presets. Studio costs $49, paid once.
Good
- GPU-native painting engine
- Extensive brush customization
- Layer groups, masks, and clipping
- 27 non-destructive adjustments
- Free edition has no account or watermark
Watch out
- Free canvas limited to 1024 × 1024 px
- Free edition allows two layers
- Free edition saves two brush presets
- Intel Macs are not supported
Who it suits
Sable Paint suits desktop artists who need customizable brushes, pressure sensitivity, stabilization, and layered painting tools. It is for users on supported Windows or macOS systems, with more hardware requirements on each platform.
Verdict
Sable Paint offers a detailed desktop painting workflow with advanced brushes, layers, glaze effects, and procedural stamp creation. The free edition provides a starting point, while Studio unlocks everything for a one-time purchase.
Plans and prices
From Sable Paint's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free Edition | Free | Canvas up to 1024 × 1024 px · 2 layers · 2 saved brush presets · no account · no watermark |
| Studio | $49, paid once | Everything unlocked · licence key by email · one-time purchase |
The facts
Each one read from Sable Paint's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account and watermark
- The free edition requires no account and adds no watermark.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Adjustments
- The product lists 27 non-destructive adjustments, including Curves, Levels, HSL, Color Lookup, Film Grain and Halftone.checked 9 Oct 2026
- AI
- The maker says Stamp Forge uses procedural code with no model or training set and labels the product as having no generative AI.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Brushes
- The brush editor includes controls for shape, scatter, jitter, blending, colour, height, texture and masking, plus pressure curves and material-point simulation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Glaze
- Glaze layers simulate transparent pigment that pools in canvas relief, and Spectral Glaze composites across 38 wavelength bands.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Interface languages
- The maker lists ten interface languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Layers
- Layers support height, 28 blend modes, 27 non-destructive adjustment layers, groups, masks and clipping.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Painting engine
- Its brushes pick up and drag existing colour and build height on the canvas, with 16-bit precision and an 8-bit fallback.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- Sable Paint is a GPU-native digital painting application for Windows and macOS, built with Rust and wgpu.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Stamp Forge
- Stamp Forge generates procedural brush tips without models or training data, and its shareable code reproduces the same tip.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support and updates
- Studio's licence key is sent by email, and the maker offers one email per release with release notes.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Tools
- The toolbar includes brush, eraser, fill, gradient, liquify, eyedropper, text, crop, pan, zoom and seven selection tools.checked 9 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- macOS requirements
- macOS requires version 12 Monterey or later and Apple Silicon M1 or later; Intel Macs are not supported.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Windows requirements
- Windows requires 64-bit Windows 10 version 1809 or later or Windows 11, and a dedicated graphics card with 8 GB VRAM and DirectX 12 or Vulkan support.checked 9 Oct 2026
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