Lineora

52 styles · 6 activity sheets · iOS & Android

Lines
from life.

Lineora redraws any photo in seconds — a clean coloring-book outline, a charcoal study, a woodblock print, an origami sculpt. 52 styles, plus printable mazes, jigsaws and color-by-number made from the same picture. No subscription: you buy credits and they never expire.

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A photograph of two children on a seafront path The same photo redrawn as a coloring-book line drawing
Coloring Book style
Coloring Book
Charcoal style
Charcoal
Watercolor style
Watercolor
Ukiyo-e style
Ukiyo-e
Origami style
Origami
Mandala style
Mandala
Anime style
Anime
Blueprint style
Blueprint
Neon style
Neon
Pop Art style
Pop Art
Paper Cut style
Paper Cut
Pencil style
Pencil
Storybook style
Storybook
Stained Glass style
Stained Glass
Plush style
Plush
Oil Paint style
Oil Paint
Woodcut style
Woodcut
Pixel Art style
Pixel Art
Shōjo Manga style
Shōjo Manga
One Line style
One Line

One photograph, twenty of the 52 styles. See them all ↓

52 styles · 5 families

Pick the line you want .

Every preview below is the same photograph, redrawn. Not swatches, not drawings of what a style is like — the real thing each one made, which is the only fair way to compare 52 of them.

Coloring Book

11

Outlines with nothing filled in, drawn to be printed and colored. The eleven differ in how much of the photo they keep — Minimalist throws away everything but the shapes, Detailed keeps the brickwork.

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Coloring Book style

Coloring Book

Clean, balanced lines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Detailed style

Detailed

Fine, intricate lines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Simple style

Simple

Chunky, less clutter

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Expressive style

Expressive

Bold confident strokes

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Minimalist style

Minimalist

Sparse, essential lines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Manga style

Manga

Anime-style line art

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Mandala style

Mandala

Symmetric pattern halo

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Kawaii style

Kawaii

Cute rounded outlines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Stained Glass style

Stained Glass

Leaded pane segments

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Doodle Art style

Doodle Art

Pattern-filled sections

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's One Line style

One Line

Single unbroken stroke

Sketching

10

Monochrome media, each with the grain of the real thing: graphite that smudges, biro that loops, dots that build tone. Best on faces and on anything with strong light.

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Pencil style

Pencil

Soft graphite shading

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Charcoal style

Charcoal

Smudgy, dramatic tones

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Crosshatch style

Crosshatch

Diagonal hatching strokes

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Ballpoint style

Ballpoint

Looping biro scribbles

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Ink Brush style

Ink Brush

Sumi-e brush wash

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Stippling style

Stippling

Dense dotwork tones

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Woodcut style

Woodcut

Carved relief print

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Chalkboard style

Chalkboard

White chalk on slate

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Sanguine style

Sanguine

Red chalk portrait

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Blueprint style

Blueprint

White lines on blue

Painting

5

Wet media. Color goes back in, edges go soft, and the photo starts behaving like something someone sat down in front of.

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Watercolor style

Watercolor

Soft washes, loose outlines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Oil Paint style

Oil Paint

Thick impasto strokes

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Gouache style

Gouache

Flat opaque matte color

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Ink Wash style

Ink Wash

Inked outlines, color blocks

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Soft Pastel style

Soft Pastel

Chalky blended color

Illustration

11

Drawn-and-colored looks with a house style behind them — a woodblock studio, a webtoon, a folk painting, a tattoo parlour's flash sheet.

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Storybook style

Storybook

Warm illustrated colors

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Pencil Color style

Pencil Color

Layered colored pencil

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Anime style

Anime

Cel-shaded color art

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Pop Art style

Pop Art

Halftone dots, bold ink

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Ukiyo-e style

Ukiyo-e

Japanese woodblock print

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Art Nouveau style

Art Nouveau

Ornamental flowing lines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Tattoo Flash style

Tattoo Flash

Bold old-school ink

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Korean Webcomic style

Korean Webcomic

Soft-shaded webtoon

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Shōjo Manga style

Shōjo Manga

Sparkles and screentone

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Minhwa style

Minhwa

Korean folk painting

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Shōwa Retro style

Shōwa Retro

Nostalgic 80s print

Fun

15

The photo rebuilt out of something else entirely: folded paper, plastic bricks, thread, pixels, neon tube. These are the ones people send to each other.

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Brick Toy style

Brick Toy

Studded minifigure

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Plush style

Plush

Stitched fabric toy

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Pixel Art style

Pixel Art

16-bit game sprite

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Claymation style

Claymation

Stop-motion clay sculpt

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Paper Cut style

Paper Cut

Layered paper craft

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Sticker style

Sticker

Die-cut vinyl sticker

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Voxel style

Voxel

Blocky cubic 3D

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Chibi style

Chibi

Big-head cute cartoon

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Neon style

Neon

Glowing tube outlines

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Embroidery style

Embroidery

Stitched thread art

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Origami style

Origami

Folded paper facets

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Retro Kawaii style

Retro Kawaii

Faded pastel cuteness

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Hanji Collage style

Hanji Collage

Torn mulberry paper

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Four-Cut Photo style

Four-Cut Photo

Photo booth strip

The same photograph of two children redrawn in Lineora's Portrait Photocard style

Portrait Photocard

Glossy collectible card

Every style above is in the app today. More arrive with updates.

6 activities · 3 levels each

Something to do
with the photo.

The same picture, turned into a worksheet instead of a drawing: numbered regions to fill, pieces to cut out, a maze to solve. Made from a photo the child is actually in, which is the whole difference between this and a printable off the internet.

A color-by-number worksheet made from a holiday photo, each region numbered

Colour by number

Every region numbered, with the color key printed at the foot of the page. Hand it over with a tin of pencils and it holds a table for an hour.

4 6 8

Easy / medium / hard — colors

A mosaic worksheet, the photo broken into numbered facets

Mosaic

The same idea in facets. The photo breaks into small tiles that only resolve back into the picture once enough of them are filled.

4 6 8

Easy / medium / hard — colors

A jigsaw sheet: a holiday photo overlaid with cut lines

Jigsaw

B&W or color

Print it, cut along the lines, and it is a puzzle of your own afternoon. Twelve pieces for a four-year-old; forty-eight for a rainy Sunday.

12 24 48

Easy / medium / hard — pieces

A spot-the-difference sheet showing two nearly identical copies of the same photo

Spot the difference

B&W or color

Two near-identical copies of your photo side by side, with an exact number of planted differences between them. Nobody has seen this one before.

5 10 15

Easy / medium / hard — differences

A printable maze drawn over a beach scene

Maze

A maze laid over the scene, with a start and a finish that belong to the picture rather than floating on top of it.

Easy Medium Hard

Three levels

A tracing worksheet with dotted guide lines over the photo's shapes

Tracing

Dotted guide lines to draw over — the gentlest way in for a hand still learning to hold a pencil, and the one that ends with a drawing they made.

Easy Medium Hard

Three levels

Every sheet at three difficulties Jigsaw and spot-the-difference in color or black & white Print straight from the app, or export a PDF

How it works

A photo in.
A drawing out.

  1. 1

    Pick a photo.

    Anything in your camera roll — a portrait, a pet, a building, a plate of food. Keep the whole scene or cut the subject out of its background.

  2. 2

    Choose a look.

    Any of the 52 styles, or one of the six activity sheets. Every tile in the picker shows what it does to your photo, so you're choosing from the result, not a name.

  3. 3

    Print, share, color.

    Save to Photos, send it straight to someone, print it, or bundle a set of drawings into one PDF for the printer down the road.

Inside the app .

Real screens, not mockups. Six of them, and everything in them is one or two taps from the moment you open the app.

Lineora's home screen, offering to choose a photo or take a new one

Start with any photo.

Choose from your library or take one there and then. The style strip sits under the canvas the whole time.

The all-styles sheet, showing a grid of styles grouped by family

The whole catalog on one sheet.

All 52 styles, grouped into five families, each tile showing what it does — not an abstract swatch.

The activities picker, with color-by-number, mosaic and jigsaw and a row of color-count chips

Or switch to activities.

One tap moves the picker from styles to worksheets, with the difficulty chips right underneath.

A finished drawing with a drag handle revealing the original photograph behind it

Drag to compare.

The original stays alongside the drawing, so you can see exactly what a style kept and what it threw away.

A finished line drawing with Add color, Print, Save and Delete actions beneath it

Print it, save it, send it.

Every finished drawing carries its own actions — add color, print, save to Photos, or share from there.

Four drawings selected in the gallery, with a Create PDF button showing four pages

Bundle a set into one PDF.

Select several drawings and they become a single printable document — a coloring book of your own photos.

Made for hands .

A few of the ways people have used it. Most users find their own.

— For kids

A coloring page made from their own world.

Their pet, their bedroom, last summer's beach. Print it flat to color in, or turn the same photo into a maze or a jigsaw when coloring has run its course.

— For artists

Study contours without tracing.

Use it the way figurative painters use thumbnails — get the gesture, learn the line, throw it away. Crosshatch, stipple and sanguine each read the same photo differently.

— For gifts

A handmade keepsake in under a minute.

A wedding photo as a woodblock print, a road trip in watercolor, a grandparent's portrait in charcoal. Frame it, write on the back.

The Lineora gallery: a grid of drawings made from the same photo, each labelled with its style

Your library, anywhere

Drawings follow you to any device

Every sketch you make is saved to your Lineora library and synced to our servers. Switch phones, reinstall the app, or hand it down — paste your recovery code and everything comes back. No email, no password to remember, no account hand-off.

  • Restore on any device with a recovery code
  • No email or password required
  • We don't sell your data or train models on it
  • GDPR & CCPA compliant

Get Lineora

Start
drawing .

Google Play App Store · Coming soon

free for the first two drawings — every install