Soft Edge
Drawing app that lets you sculpt your artwork
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Soft Edge lets you sculpt your drawings. Think ZBrush or Blender's sculpt brushes, but for 2D. Traditional drawing apps like Photoshop record how your stroke looks. You pick a brush, you draw, and the mark on the canvas is, for all intents and purposes, frozen. You can massage it with warp or other tools, but you're distorting the brushwork and it's not very precise. Soft Edge keeps every stroke alive and sculptable.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: digital painting and drawing software · 68 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +80% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Art
- Drawing
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Could you build this?
Partial Basic 2D raster canvas apps are easy to vibe code, but an interactive 2D dynamic sculpting engine requires specialized computational geometry, custom shaders, and mesh deformation algorithms.
What it would actually take: Requires an engine using WebGL/WebGPU or C++/Rust with high-performance deformation algorithms (such as As-Rigid-As-Possible shape manipulation or vector distance field manipulation). Developing responsive, interactive brushes that push, pull, and pinch geometry in real time without lag demands deep computer graphics and numerical simulation math skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 230 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #191 of 231 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Sketchover · ph · 2026-10-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Scribbble · ph · 2026-10-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- JellyDraw · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation · hn · 2026-06-14 · 250 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Drawing Suggestions · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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