A new app update from Ten One Design available today brings pressure sensitive input via the new Force Touch trackpad to any drawing app on your Mac. Inklet 1.6, the latest version of adds support for the pressure sensitivity features of the new Mac input hardware, which ships on the most recent 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, as well as the upcoming all-new 12-inch MacBook.

Inklet has been around since 2010, but while it allowed you to use the trackpad of your Mac as a drawing input, it didn’t support pressure-based input unless you were using it with a Pogo pen that supports pressure sensitivity. Now, you can use any stylus, or even your finger, to control line width via the trackpad based on how hard you press.

I tried it out, and it’s very much like drawing on a smaller version of the Wacom Bamboo series of tablets, meaning you also have to get used to positioning in order to really use it well. The app provides a highlighted area mapped directly to your trackpad by default, which makes it easier to use, and provides a number of tools accessible via gestures like two-finger pinch, zoom and rotate to manipulate the active drawing area depending on your preference.

 

Inklet Adds Pressure Sensitive Drawing To Macs With Force Touch Trackpads  TechCrunch