Bucket Bender

Stripped-down free version available in browser on itch.io. $3.99 for the full feature set! As a simple HTML file it should be compatible on all platforms. For IPhone I recommend Microsoft Edge. 

Bend the world. Splash the chaos. Break the machine and make something beautiful.

Bucket Bender is a neon-glitch playground for artists, weirdos, and anyone who finds magic in a little bit of beautiful destruction. Inspired by the simplicity of old-school pattern fills (but way more chaotic). Load up your own images and textures, or generate complex, noisy gradients right inside the app. Then, tear reality wide open:

• Sculpt Your Patterns: Don't just splash – twist, warp, and recolor your patterns before you fill. Adjust Hue, Saturation, Scale, Rotation, Skew, and add chaotic Jitter right in the app.
• Pattern Splashing: Tap, drag, or flood-fill your canvas with these mutated textures.
• Chaos Mode: Randomize transforms, blend modes, and jitter for wild, unexpected results.
• Multi-Pattern Cycling: Swap through loaded patterns (or auto-generated gradients!) mid-drag for a constantly mutating tapestry.
• Bake It, Break It: Freeze your art into a new base layer, blur it, mutate it, and push it even further.
• Full Control (or Zero Control): Fine-tune fills with feathering, tolerance… or just crank the chaos sliders and see where it takes you.

Designed with a circuit-bent, tech-psychedelic vibe and made to feel fast, fun, and a little bit out of control, Bucket Bender is all about handing the brush back to you—and letting the accidents become the art.

Features:

• Full undo/redo system
• Export to clean PNG
• Tap-to-fill with smoother Magnifier mode
• In-app Pattern Transforms (Hue, Sat, Scale, Rotate, Skew, Jitter)
• Advanced Gradient Generation (Base & Pattern)
• Dozens of blend modes, including XOR, Sugar, Spice, and other secret weird ones
• Totally mobile-friendly
• Built for speed and playfulness

Bucket Bender™ — made by an artist, not a corporation.

Bucket Bender™ — made by an artist, not a corporation.

This has been a labor of love. I’ve thoroughly tested this program, that said there may still be some glitches here and there. I fully intend to continue support of this program with updates because I love using it and want it to grow even further! Please let me know about any bugs, errors, and compatibility issues and I’ll do my best to fix!

(Parts of the coding were assisted by AI as a tool — but every feature, every glitch, every decision was dreamed up by a real human glitch artist who believes accidents, mutations, and imperfections are the soul of art.)