I really love Krita,but it doesn’t work on my iPad,which troubles me a lot.
Hello @gqkitten and welcome to the forum!
We have many requests like yours, but the problem is not Krita, the problem is that the freaks in Cupertino don’t like software with Krita’s license and therefore don’t like Krita. Krita runs on iOS, there was even a proof-build long time ago, but why invest time, work, money into a project that you can’t bring into the Store, that wouldn’t make any sense.
If you want to see programs like Krita in the iOS App Store, then you have to write to the Apple-Heads in Cupertino, and you should find armies of supporters that will do the same, bomb Apple’s mailboxes with requests to open up their Store for programs like Krita.
And here a few hits to your request, the most important, in my eyes, first:
And in that ↑ topic ↑ especially this → posting.
Also, this topic:
And this:
This too:
And we have more of them, click on the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner to search for them if you are interested in reading more of this.
Michelist
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While Apple had to allow different App-Stores (at least in Europe, I guess) it is still a lot of work to get it running and the devs already mentioned that even if an iOS version would come it won’t be free of charge like most other versions. For the normal iOS App-Store the Terms of Use are simply not compatible with Krita’s license and development.
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请求ipad平板端软件，不要阉割，动画/绘画人很需要
According to DeepL.com @xixihaha wrote:
您将在下方看到由DeepL.com提供的中文机器翻译。
Hello @xixihaha, and welcome to the forum!
Since your posting was in the wrong category, I’ll move it into Feature Requests.
This forum is, by agreement and stipulation in the forum rules, an English language website and every user is explicitly encouraged, if posting in their native language, which is absolutely fine, to add an English translation to their posts.
This is a practice that has worked very well in the forum, as it makes it possible to get a more likely accurate translation of a possibly unclear, inaccurate or unfortunate translation with the help of the original text and other translators.
It is nothing unusual here, but above all you make it easier for all of us to communicate with each other so that nobody can’t translate your native language texts due to a lack of language skills or computer skills and would be excluded.
You, who write here in your mother tongue, were finally able to register here and successfully go through the registration process written in English because you wanted to. Then you will also be able to attach translations to us.
More and more providers are offering good translation tools. Currently, the most accurate translator is DeepL.com, after a free registration you can translate texts up to 5000 characters long at once, without registration still 1500 characters. At the bottom of their website (the lower section) you will find applications for Windows and Apple PCs, for Android, ChromeOS and iOS, as well as browser extensions for the most popular browser families, which also offer this range of services, and everything is free.
There are also (among others):
Baidu (Chinese-English),
Bing Translator,
Google Translate,
Prompt,
Reverso,
Yandex Translate
and other services, you have plenty of choice, please use them if you find English so difficult that you prefer to use your native language.
Thank you!
Michelist
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您好@xixihaha，欢迎来到论坛！
由于您的帖子发布在错误的分类中，我将把它移动到功能请求分类下。
这一做法在论坛中运作良好，因为它使我们能够借助原文和其他译者的帮助，更准确地翻译可能存在模糊、不准确或不恰当的译文。
这在这里并不罕见，但最重要的是，这使我们所有人都更容易相互沟通，这样没有人会因为缺乏语言技能或计算机技能而无法翻译您的母语文本并被排除在外。
您，那些用母语在这里写作的人，最终能够在这里注册并成功完成用英语书写的注册流程，因为您想这样做。那么您也将能够向我们提供翻译。
越来越多的服务商提供优质翻译工具。目前最准确的翻译工具是DeepL.com，注册后可一次性翻译长达5000字符的文本，未注册时仍可翻译1500字符。在其网站底部（下方区域）您可找到适用于Windows和Apple电脑、Android、ChromeOS及iOS的应用程序，以及主流浏览器家族的浏览器扩展程序，这些均提供相同服务且完全免费。
此外还有（包括但不限于）：
百度（中文-英文），
必应翻译，
谷歌翻译，
Prompt，
Reverso,
Yandex Translate
以及其他服务，您有许多选择，如果您觉得英语太难，更愿意使用母语，请使用这些服务。
感谢您！
Michelist
@raghukamath / @sooz / @Takiro / @tiar / @wolthera: Would you be so kind to merge this duplicate request with iPadOS and Apple Pencil support
Or maybe with:
In theory, could Krita be ported to iPadOS?
When could krita release the iPadOS edition
@xixihaha, there are so many topics similar to your request, and all of them are easily discoverable via the forum search (the magnifying glass symbol in the upper right corner 
). Please be so kind to use the forum search in the future before you create another duplicate topic.
There is only one category where duplicate sounding questions are to be preferred and that are support requests, because they are usually sounding identical but are very special for each issue of the asking users because hardware or software are different and other things.
Thank you!
Michelist
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Thanks, @Michelist. I ended up merging it into the last topic you cited.
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Blender just announced that Blender is coming to the Ipad… as Blender is also opensource, does that mean that krita can also be brought to the Ipad?
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At least for app stores that are subject to EU court rulings, this will be possible, but I don’t know whether Apple will ever open its own app store for this type of software.
I don’t know if Blender is willing to swallow the bitter pill that Apple demands in order to be included in Apple’s App Store. I can’t say, but Krita won’t.
Michelist
The Issue is mostly the App Store not the iPad. And there are also added costs.
Blenders budget is several magnitude’s higher than Krita’s. They also don’t mention it becoming available in the App Store probably for the same reason that is that every contributor has to agree to the App Store License which is hard if not impossible for an open source software that also includes third party libraries. Perhaps because blender “owns” all the code they can do it but’s it’s something you would have to ask the Blender people.
The question is: How are they doing it?
I thought maybe one of the developers has a connection to a blender developer and could ask.
I find it interesting, that blender can do it, but krita cannot. What strings did they pull to convince Apple to move? For future references… you never know.
Btw. I don’t care about krita on Ipads, I am fully content with it beeing on android. But I am just so curious.
But these are questions no one here can answer if the person is not a member of the team of Blender.
Then you should ask those who can know, or you’ll die curious.
Michelist
You could ask on the Blender forum. My guess is that they make an iOS version but don’t put it in the App Store. This would be an option for Krita too but developing for iOS still costs money. (Basically you have to buy a license to develop for iOS no matter if you want to publish it in the AppStore or not). And someone has to develop and maintain it, it’s not like you can just copy paste the desktop version to mobile. For the same reason the android version is stagnant and terrible because there’s currently no one around to maintain it.