Side-by-side comparison of Fresco’s (left) and Illustrator on the iPad’s (right) workspaces. I tested the app on an iPad Pro running iPadOS 14.01, with a second-generation Apple Pencil. Apple Pencil is not required to use the app, but using one elevates the experience over using your finger.

You can use Adobe Illustrator for iPad on any Apple tablet that runs iPadOS 13.4 or later and supports Apple Pencil Generations 1 or 2. Illustrator on the iPad is included with any Adobe Creative Cloud plan that includes Illustrator on the desktop (starting at $20.99 per month), but you can buy it as a standalone app for $9.99 per month. As a result, the iPad app is useful in any design workflow from the get-go.

After addressing more than 1,200 requests from beta testers, Adobe released Illustrator for iPad chock full of features. With the new Illustrator on the iPad, Adobe didn’t want a repeat of the critiques that greeted Photoshop's iPad release. Since then, Adobe has delivered several updates, each of which added useful features, such as Subject Select, to bring the app closer to parity with its desktop counterpart. When Adobe first launched Photoshop for the iPad last year, some felt it lacked too many features to be truly useful. Illustrator on the iPad is Adobe’s only dedicated vector graphics app available for Apple's tablet.

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