pau.

What pau. is

pau. is an adult coloring app for iPad, designed around hand-drawn pages and freeform coloring. Apple Pencil works with the app but is optional. The free plan includes Fill, Soft Round, Fineliner, and Marker brushes, along with undo and redo, stroke adjustments, an eyedropper, and recent colors. Premium adds watercolor, oil, gouache, pastel, and chalk brushes, plus Smudge, reusable custom palettes, palettes made from photos, and access to the full library. The maker says new hand-drawn pages arrive every Friday, at about four per week. Progress saves automatically on the iPad, and downloaded pages remain available to color offline. Users can save finished images and automatic time-lapse videos; free exports include a pau. mark, which Premium removes. The maker says the app has no accounts or ads, and that progress, favorites, and artwork stay on the iPad. Its privacy policy describes pseudonymous product-event processing through TelemetryDeck and crash and performance diagnostics through Sentry. Eligible non-subscribers can use a one-time 72-hour preview of Premium brushes and Smudge. The app requires an iPad running iPadOS 18.6 or later.

Who it suits

pau. suits adults looking for freeform coloring on an iPad, especially those who want hand-drawn pages and optional Apple Pencil support. Its free tools provide core brushes, while Premium is for people who want the full library, additional brushes, custom palettes, and unmarked exports.

Limits

The free plan has a growing catalog and core brushes, and its exports carry the pau. mark. Premium subscriptions are billed through Apple and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends.

Getting started

1. Open https://colorwithpau.com/ for the app.
2. Use an iPad running iPadOS 18.6 or later.
3. Start with the free plan and its core brushes.
4. Optionally use Apple Pencil.
5. Download pages to color offline.
6. Eligible non-subscribers can use the one-time 72-hour Premium preview; it does not bill automatically.

Verdict

Choose pau. if you want an adult coloring app with hand-drawn pages, offline coloring, and a useful free set of brushes. Premium adds more brushes, palettes, the full library, and exports without the pau. mark. Look elsewhere if you need to import your own images or use something other than an iPad.