Rebelle 8 Pro [BF deal ended, but may pop up again for holidays]

[mettelus]

**** Edit: The deal finally did expire, but I suspect it will come back in a couple weeks. ****

I was going to post this late Monday, but then did a web search on the end date and it said Monday also, but it is still active. It may go through Christmas, so not sure. Click on the "Black Friday" banner on their home page while logged in to see your available pricing.

Big picture items:

1. The Pro upgrade is cheaper than the early release was ($60 vs $75) but is still no comparison to the steal that Rebelle 7 Pro was to new users (at $30!!).
2. The upgrade path is now Identical to what SONAR Platinum was (free updates for 1 year, with initial buy in getting you everything you missed), so this also gives you the 3 months of updates since Rebelle 8 was released.
3. Some of the features are not as earth-shattering as Rebelle 7 was (i.e., metallic paint), but the engine, brushes, and detail (now Nanopixel 2, with shading/shadows from light source, and the ability to upscale to a whopping 20x increase in size, although only tiff files are "unlimited"), and the ability to control FX by layer are in the Pro version.
4. While Rebelle 8 does have a "basic" version, the Pro version includes all of the features that set it apart from other painting programs.
5. As with most painting applications, a stylus is highly recommended to get the most from the application.

Below is the initial New Features video from early release back in August, with the Pro feature set starting around 14:30 if interested.

Side note: Rebelle is the only app being actively updated. Flame Painter 4 and Amberlight 2 have been the same for like 5+ years now, so keep this in mind with any "bundles" as you may already own them. A lot of new papers, BUT... you can now also preview new papers from within the app prior to purchasing (another new feature).

 

Edited 5 hours ago by mettelus

[Sergio]

On 12/3/2025 at 3:35 AM, mettelus said:

I was going to post this late Monday, but then did a web search on the end date and it said Monday also, but it is still active. It may go through Christmas, so not sure. Click on the "Black Friday" banner on their home page while logged in to see your available pricing.

Big picture items:

1. The Pro upgrade is cheaper than the early release was ($60 vs $75) but is still no comparison to the steal that Rebelle 7 Pro was to new users (at $30!!).

Not seeing any black friday banner but I bought the upgrade from v7 Pro to v8 Pro for US$ 29,00 aprox. during black friday.

[mettelus]

Yeah, the banner is gone now. Unfortunately a lot of deals never specify the end date, but I suspect it will come back in a couple of weeks.

[Starship Krupa]

I picked up Rebelle in their last Humble Bundle deal and it's great fun. It does amazing things in regard to simulating physical media. The canvases and paint blending are like nothing I've seen. Also seems more stable than Painter.

Both Rebelle and Painter successfully duplicate the same vast chasm that advertising for physical materials has between the quality of what I'm able to create and the examples of pictures created by other people using the same tools.