Art symmetry drawing app
Shares rank 11 of 17 diagramming tools by recommenders
People like how drawing one stroke lets symmetry complete the picture, and find the drawing experience satisfying and absorbing. Critics say the clear button does not work reliably.
People like how drawing one stroke lets symmetry complete the picture, and find the drawing experience satisfying and absorbing. Critics say the clear button does not work reliably.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 70%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Satisfying to watch drawing complete
“it's just something very satisfying in seeing it be completed”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it” “The actual drawing experience is really satisfying.”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it” Enjoyable and absorbing to use
“Bro this is hypnotic lol i spent 15 mins on this without even realising”
Comment from 10 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it” “despite its very idiosyncratic interface, I like this quite a lot”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust”
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| Krita | 77 | 11 | 88% | 12 | — | Approved |
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| Aseprite | 26 | 3 | 90% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Procreate | 23 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Art symmetry drawing appThis page | 7 | 3 | 70% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
12 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“despite its very idiosyncratic interface, I like this quite a lot”
“What ART has going for it, are all the improvements they started on Android 7 and later”
“do it much more easily, the JIT cache is updatable across executions, so there isn't an explicit training run required.”
“I like how it erases the oldest bit as you go along.”
“while the actual clear button, ironically, does not work reliably”
“Bro this is hypnotic lol i spent 15 mins on this without even realising”
“The actual drawing experience is really satisfying.”
“it's just something very satisfying in seeing it be completed”
“Other editors (such as ART and Darktable) have other idiomatic workflows for masking, and they work”
“ART also has its goodies somehow despite everything”
“much more complicated "drag the luminance and chrominance noise sliders until the noise disappears" workflow”
“is so good that many Lightroom courses apply almost 1:1 to it”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.