React Native Canvas Kit

Comes with pre-built shapes, support for gestures and interactivity, transformers, and freehand brushes, so that you don't have to compose a canvas experience from scratch.

Declarative scene graph

Compose your canvas as a tree of React components — Stage → Layer → Group → Shape.

First class gesture handling

Tap and press events with hierarchy-aware hit testing and ancestor bubbling

UI thread driven

Pinch-to-scale, drag and rotate run on the UI thread via Reanimated worklets, so they stay smooth even when the JS thread is busy.

Support for brushes

Ready-made brushes like pen, pencil, marker, highlighter, tape, and eraser.

Build your first canvas →