Ink is a minimalistic drawing app from Colin McFarland. When I say minimalistic here, I mean really minimalistic as when you first open the app, there is barely anything to see at all on the screen. You are presented with a white canvas and your only tool you can use is an ink pen. Basically, Ink is meant to mimic the use of a standard ink pen and a piece of paper. That’s it.

There are no customization options at all for Ink when it comes to tool colors or width. You can’t even choose the type of paper to use or change the color of the paper. Again, it’s meant to be very minimalistic and the main use of Ink really is to just jot down quick ideas and sketches and quickly save them to your camera roll. The only options in the app are to drag up from the little grabber icon which will automatically save your sketch to the camera roll, or double tapping the grabber to bring up share options.

The only probably I find with Ink really is that it is still hard to draw with your fingers tips on an iPhone, mainly because of the smaller screen when compared to an iPad. Also, I still find that using drawing and sketching apps works best with a stylus. Also, the lack of options may turn some people off, but it’s actually a really handy and quick sketching app when you just want to jot something down really fast.

Overall, Ink is not a bad app at all. It surely is the most minimalistic of sketching apps I’ve seen and being completely free and most importantly ad-free, you may find that Ink is all you need if you need to just jot down quick notes and ideas.

Ink is available now in the App Store for Free. It is a universal app and is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.