Blender comes on the iPad-with Pencil support

Actually, it seems logical that you want to “touch” digital materials when using blender – in fact there are diverse accessories on PC or Mac. But now the use of the open source 3D package is becoming a bit more natural: The Blender Foundation has announced that the software iPad version that is specifically adapted to Apple tablets.

Multitouch to touch

Like the foundation this week In your blog announced, you want to go “beyond the mouse and keyboard”. Since the iPad Pro has now become fast enough thanks to M-SoCs, this is now also technically possible. “The idea is to bring the full performance of blender to these devices.” The iPad Pro with Apple Pencil is only the first step: Further multi-touch versions should also be created for Android and “other graphics tablets” in the future.

The target audience are “all blender users”, but especially those who want to do specialized tasks with a pen, such as painting, sculping or 2D animations. There are also artists who use tablets as the main unit – “and those who need blenders on the way”. First of all, the Blender Foundation wants to implement the basic handling of objects and scuplting on the tablet. Storyboarding and the so -called Grease Pencil follow later. The implementation is about dealing with the relatively small screen of the tablet, according to the Blender Foundation. Blender for iPad will use a full -screen view, whereby that could change with iPados 26 and the new window functions.

Step by step with user feedback

First, the Blender Foundation did not terminate a precise date for the implementation of the iPad version. Information on specific system requirements has not yet been given, so it remains unclear which iPad SoC the software actually runs.

In August, Blender wants to show a technical prototype in Vancouver on the Siggraph 2025 in Vancouver, after which there should be workshops and discussions in the Blender headquarters as well as further details at the next Blender Conference that takes place in September. Otherwise, Apple users can of course test blenders for an Intel and Apple silicone macs for a long time.