Black Ink on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Explore Black Ink, a GPU-based painting app redefining creativity. Move beyond traditional tools, customize brushes, and let your imagination soar. Node-based system offers limitless control. Create in high-definition without performance loss.

Black Ink is a design & illustration, utilities and photo editing game developed and published by Bleank.
Released on February 08th 2016 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 515 reviews of which 422 were positive and 93 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows XP (SP3)
  • Processor: Single Core Processor at 1.6 Ghz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Graphic card with support of pixel shader 3.0 and 512 Mo of VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 50 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
LOVE this program, way more fun than PhoShop and a LOT cheaper! Yes, it can feel REALLY daunting when you start using it, but the community is lovely and helpful, the devs can be emailed directly AND there's some really great tutorials. Give it a try and be amazed (especially by the Ruin brush, it's my favourite).
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Dec. 2024
Ima be fully honest with yall, this is probably the best drawing app, It's wild, it's amazing and just wow yk? And it isn't the whole fact that this thing isn't the price of a liver (like Photoshop) is already /so/ much better (and it's also life time, no subscriptions). 100% worth it.
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Aug. 2024
Love the app. An interesting UI with lots of power for brush creation. I don't mind paying for updates. But never use subscription.
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July 2024
Really good programs, I switch to use this instead of clip studio now. well I still use clip studio. BUT way less than this one.
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June 2024
Cool painting software with nodes and GPU acceleration. It would be nice to have integration with Stable Diffusion.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Black Ink is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.

Black Ink is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 33.99€ on Steam.

Black Ink received 422 positive votes out of a total of 515 achieving a rating of 7.71.
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Black Ink was developed and published by Bleank.

Black Ink is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Black Ink is not playable on MacOS.

Black Ink is not playable on Linux.

There is a DLC available for Black Ink. Explore additional content available for Black Ink on Steam.

Black Ink does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Black Ink does not support Steam Remote Play.

Black Ink does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Black Ink.

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Black Ink
7.7
422
93
Online players
2
Developer
Bleank
Publisher
Bleank
Release 08 Feb 2016
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