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Blender Puts Native iPad App on Hold, Prioritizes Android Tablets

A GitHub status change offers neither a reason nor a timeline for resuming development.

Overview

  • Blender marked its iPad project “on hold until further notice” in a January update on its public GitHub.
  • Developer Dalai Felinto indicated the team will focus on Android tablets first, a comment highlighted by YouTuber Brad Colbow.
  • The pause follows earlier progress that included a live SIGGRAPH demo of Blender running on iPad in Vancouver last fall.
  • Blender had initially targeted iPad Pro with a multitouch interface and Apple Pencil Pro support as the first tablet implementation.
  • No changes affect desktop distributions, with Apple silicon Mac builds still available for free from Blender’s website.