Draw right on your home screen.

Doodle a heart next to your favorite app, circle a reminder or decorate your home screen with a rainbow. Your drawing stays there — behind your icons and widgets.

What the app does

No account
No ads
No tracking
No internet access

A home screen with a drawn heart, a star, a rainbow stroke and a circle around the YouTube icon.

How it works

01

Open

Start HomeInk from its app icon or the Quick Settings tile.

02

Draw

A transparent drawing layer now sits over your home screen. Draw with your finger or a stylus.

03

Finish

Tap “Finish drawing” — your drawing becomes a permanent part of your wallpaper, and your apps work just as before.

The open toolbox with the pen tray; on the home screen fountain pen loops, a highlighter stroke and a dashed wave.

Tools that feel like pens

Four pen types Pen, fountain pen with an italic nib, highlighter and dashed line.
Six colors, a range of stroke widths Presets for everything that has to be quick — and HomeInk remembers your custom colors if you want.
Effects Every pen combines with an effect: the rainbow, which runs across the screen, or a gradient along the stroke between two colors. The rainbow is free, gradients are part of Pro.
Stylus Pressure-sensitive strokes, and the stylus button erases.
Toolbox or notification Control the session on screen — or from the notification, and the screen stays completely clear.

Private by design

HomeInk is built entirely on-device. There is nothing to transmit, because the app cannot send at all.

No internet access The INTERNET permission is not part of the app. Your drawings and images never leave your device.
No account, no tracking No sign-in, no ads, no analytics SDKs.
No access to your photos You pick your own image through the system file picker. HomeInk only ever sees that one image.
Only while you draw “Display over other apps” is used for the drawing session alone — not on the lock screen, not over other apps.

A home screen with a drawn padlock, moon and stars on a dark background.

Beta — free right now

HomeInk Pro

During the beta you unlock Pro once, for free, in the app. After that it becomes a one-time purchase through Google Play — no subscription.

Fountain pen with an italic nib, highlighter and dashed line
Gradients between any two colors
Custom colors from the color picker, up to five remembered

Free forever: the pen, all preset colors, the rainbow, the eraser, all backgrounds and a separate drawing for each home screen page.