PENUP – Drawing-sharing SNS

PENUP Review: Free and Ad-Free, but Built for the S Pen and Samsung Accounts

Without an S Pen or a Galaxy phone: what still works

The Google Play listing installs on non-Samsung Android phones, and an October 2023 update opened Samsung account sign-up on them; its replies to September 2026 reviews still steer every new user to that account. Other replies say pressure sensitivity adjustment and Auto fix lines and shapes require an S Pen device, and the Quick tools menu added in November 2025 opens only from the S Pen button. Off Samsung hardware, results vary: an August 2026 review describes lag on Blackview and Doogee phones, and a September one a launch crash on a Huawei Y6II. The Windows build in the Microsoft Store carries Samsung's own warning that it is optimized for Galaxy Book laptops.

Live Drawing, 15 layers and the August 2026 Selection mode change

Live Drawing plays another artist's recorded strokes as a video so you can trace over them; members can't publish their own. A canvas holds up to 15 layers and goes as large as 4096 px on devices that can handle it. Brushes arrive as free downloads: 53 in May 2026 and 12 more in September, plus Dual brush, which merges two tips into one stroke. Drawing guides add a 2D grid, perspective with up to three vanishing points, and symmetry. The August 2026 update moved Transform out of Selection mode and gave layers Curves, Hue/saturation and Halftone; English, Spanish and Korean reviews from August and September call the new lasso routine slower.

What posting gives Samsung: a license that outlives deletion

The U.S. edition of the PENUP terms says a post on the default public setting lets everyone access, use, download and make derivative works of it. You also grant Samsung a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable and sub-licensable license to anything you post, and the terms state it does not end when you delete the artwork or your account; removed files may persist in backups. Titles and hashtags can show up in web search. The Remix button appears only on works whose owner left Allow remixes on. For reposted work, the terms give an email route, penup.voc@samsung.com, and a removal target of 72 hours. The Play safety form lists optional approximate location, email and user IDs, and states that data isn't transferred over a secure connection.

Reports, blocks and Kid's Mode: how moderation works

Samsung's U.S. help page lists what gets removed: nudity, images of injured people or animals, intellectual property violations, impersonation, and promotion of drugs, weapons, alcohol or smoking. Reporting runs through the three-dot menu on an artwork or comment, after which the PENUP team decides on removal. Blocking a user hides all of their artwork and comments. The same page sets the minimum age at 13, and children on a child Samsung account get Kid's Mode, which keeps drawing and coloring but strips out the social features. Reviews from September 2026 describe repeated harassment reports going unanswered and AI images and art theft left up. Samsung's replies ask users to retry the next day if a report wasn't processed.