Hane by Sloom · Galaxy Tab and S Pen
Painting on a Galaxy Tab with the S Pen.
Hane is a painting app for Android built around a pressure and tilt stylus. On a Galaxy Tab or a Galaxy phone with an S Pen, the pen draws, your palm is ignored while the pen is near the screen, and a short guided calibration adapts the brushes to the pressure range that feels natural in your hand instead of the default curve.
Get Hane Starter free on Google Play Paint one thing, get Full free
What the S Pen changes
- Pressure, tilt, direction, speed and side contact all shape the mark. Lay the pen over and a pencil shades with its side; stand it up and it draws a line.
- Calibration for your hand. A five-stage guided setup captures light and firm pressure, upright and side contact, and the pen's physical azimuth, then stores a profile per device.
- Hover preview and palm rejection. A recent or hovering pen suppresses touch marks. A visible Draw/Nav control decides whether one finger paints or navigates; two fingers always pan, zoom and rotate.
- The barrel button can hold to sample color, temporarily erase, pan, or do nothing, without changing your brush preset.
Brushes that behave like paint
Hane's engine, Tiltmark, simulates the brush as an object rather than stamping a texture along a path. Brushes carry a finite load of pigment, pick color back up off the canvas, get dirty, and run dry. Oil stays wet until you dry it. Watercolor spreads on a wet substrate. Graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, pastel, ink, marker, gouache, acrylic and blenders are all in the free tier; the physics are identical in Starter and Full.
Tablet, phone, DeX
Phone portrait, phone landscape, tablet and DeX each get their own layout. Keyboard shortcuts, mouse buttons and wheel actions are assignable, so a Tab in DeX with a keyboard works as a small desktop studio. Layered PSD export and the editable Hane file format are in Full for moving work to a desktop app.
Free, then one payment
Hane Starter is free: 36 calibrated brushes, three paint layers, canvases up to 2048 px, six saved artworks, no ads, and nothing marked onto your artwork. Hane Full is a single one-time purchase through Google Play (USD 9.99 in the US; your local price is shown in Play): the complete 252-brush library, the brush editor, folders, masks, clipping, canvases up to 8192 px, unlimited artworks, full-resolution PNG, JPEG, WebP and PSD. No subscription.
Paint one thing and it can be the store page
We are collecting Hane's first hundred paintings from the people who use it. Post one with #HaneBySloom and you get Full free, a credited link on this site, and picked entries become the Google Play screenshots. Rules and how to enter.
Hane is made by Sloom Software LLC. Samsung, Galaxy and S Pen are trademarks of Samsung Electronics; Sloom is not affiliated with Samsung. Feature claims reflect the current Google Play listing; see the Hane page for the full description.