Your sheets
Nothing to file.
A painting is not a document. It has no file name, it is not in a folder, and you never saved it. It is a sheet you put down and can pick up again, and the app is built to make that the only thing you have to understand.
No save
What you leave is kept
There is no save button and nothing to name. Leave the app, press the home button, or go and look at the sheets you already have, and the one in front of you is put away as it stands, still wet or already dry.
Most of what a files screen exists to organise therefore does not exist here. There are no folders to make, no titles to invent and nothing to sort by that anybody typed.
On the phone now. The only question the app asks is before a sheet is thrown away.
What everyone else does
Six libraries, and what they agree on
Procreate stacks artwork by dragging one thumbnail onto another. Photos groups by time and lets you pinch the grid closer or further away. Files offers every organising idea at once, which suits a file system and nothing else. Fresco leads with starting something new. Figma shows recents and a search. Paper puts sketches into journals you choose before you draw.
Two things are true of all six. Grouping, where it exists, is one level deep and never a folder tree. And the thumbnail is the description: not one of them leads with a file name.
Taken as read: the picture is the label.
The long version: Picking up a sheet
The grid
Newest first, and no chrome on the paintings
The sheets sit in a lattice, most recent at the front, each one shown whole rather than cropped square, because a painting cropped to a tile is a different painting. Tap one and it opens back onto the sheet where you left it, dry by now, to be painted over or looked at.
Throw one away and the others slide up to close the gap. It is a small thing, and it is the difference between a grid that feels like a drawer and one that feels like a list of records being deleted.
On the phone now.
More than one
Select, then tap
Nine ways of choosing several things were compared, from a two-finger drag across the grid to a long press that turns the whole screen into a selection mode. The cheapest one to explain won: a Select button in the bar, then a tap on each sheet, then Done.
A single sheet does not need the mode at all. Swipe one and you get Share, Save to Photos and Discard, which is where the destructive action lives, one sheet at a time and never by accident.
On the phone now.
The long version: Selecting several things
What it refuses
No names, no folders, no library to keep tidy
Everything above is one decision repeated: the app never asks you to describe what you made. Painting is the only thing it wants from you, and looking after the results is its own job, not homework it hands back.
It also never leaves the phone. Sheets are image files in the app's own storage, and there is no account, no server and no networking code to send them anywhere.