What tools are available?
Check out a list of Clip Studio Paint comics tools

Your story at a glance

View all your pages at once with the page management feature in Clip Studio Paint EX. It’s easier than ever to check the flow of your story with this essential feature for comics, manga, or zines.

Your story at a glance

Photograph your next scene

Use photos as part of your next creation by importing as reference or converting to line art to use in your backgrounds. Check your camera roll to see how many images are waiting to be part of your next piece.

Photograph your next scene

Freehand smooth lines and shapes

Draw neat, straight lines, curves, and shapes freehand. Utilize your favorite brush to its full potential without switching tools, and improve the speed and quality of your drawings!

Ver.5

Work more comfortably with a pen tablet

Use the Clip Studio Tabmate to operate the app with a push of a button, so you never have to put your pen down when drawing. Now with iPad and iOS support! (Tabmate sold separately)
Compatible with iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, and macOS.

Ideal for webtoon artists

Clip Studio Paint comes loaded tools and presets perfect for creating webtoon-style scrolling comics, such as a paneling tool for adding and removing empty space.
With the smartphone view, you can see precisely how your webtoon will look in different screen ratios from the reader's perspective. Or take it a step further and connect your smartphone in companion mode to preview your webcomic in real-time as you draw!

The standard for comics, manga & webtoons

With specialized comic features and a paper-like drawing experience, Clip Studio Paint is used by professionals and studios worldwide. Sketch, ink, color, and publish your next story, all in the industry-standard comic, manga, and webtoon tool.

The standard for comics, manga & webtoons

Capture every detail

You can create every stroke exactly as you imagine with our powerful brush engine. Clip Studio Paint works with your device to reflect every nuance of your pen, even up to the 8192 levels of pen pressure detected by Wacom tablets.

Capture every detail