# Drawing Box

> Digital art studio with extensive drawing, painting, and creative tools. (iPhone/iPad app by Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawing-box/id417852564 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon](https://appshunter.io/developer/417852567)
- Category: Entertainment, Education
- Price: $2.99
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 30 App Store ratings · 254 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 9.0 · 122 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2011-02-09
- Data updated: 2026-08-14
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawing-box/id417852564/reviews.md

## What is Drawing Box?

Drawing Box is recommended by schools for their students for its creativity tools and recreational features. Bring a painting studio in your pocket, and enjoy unlimited painting activities. 

1/ Creativity: painting tools are amazingly funny to use. Discover dozens of hidden features for drawing and painting. More than only painting with your device, you can automatically send a movie of your artwork. Drawing Box also includes a white board for tutorial and pitch recording. Eight symmetry and duplication painting modes will create drawings you never can only imagine. 

2/ Leisure: practice painting with fun and pleasure. With a large choice of incredible magic pens and 3D clay pens, free your imagination. Stencils, stickers and other icons let you enjoy long quiet moments of recreational activities.

3/ Training: besides drawing lessons, you can use the color mixer to create your personal palette. The “crop and move” tool help you to resize properly your work. Apply photo effects to your creations.

4/ Share: save and send your artwork with or without background. Share a movie of your painting on social networks.


What you will find:

• Drawing tools: pencils, chalks, ink pens, Chinese brush, harmony pens, erasers.
• Painting: air brush, watercolor, hair brushes, blending brushes, sand brush, grid paint roller, pattern paint roller, cloud paint roller, hair and cloud paint roller, splash paint roller, dry smudge, fill bucket, rainbow pens and brushes, light effect, single color brush.
• Colors: 10 color palettes (pastel, oil, cool, warm, night, sky and earth, fire and water, skin), color wheel, light and dark color adjustment. Real color mixer for creation of personal color palette.
• Magic pens: autumn leaves, spring leaves, color splash, animal foot prints, lips, cartoon drawings, bubbles, butterflies, random squares, diamonds, candies, planets, musical signs, flowers, snow flakes, numbers, random circles, 3 pens, flashing stars, local symmetry, alternated colors, 3D clay pens, 3D sand pens, 3D noodle pens.
• Clip arts, decorative patterns.
• Text editor
• Stencils
• Background selection from the photo library, camera, preset models (wood, wall, concrete, textile, wallpaper, colors, grids, music lines, post card.
• Leisure: coloring pages, mazes, sudoku.
• Photography: import image, puzzles, photo effects (gray, sepia, fax, tonal, vignette, lemo, radial)
• White board tool: talk, draw and record your presentation.
• Drawing lessons.
• Symmetrical painting: horizontal, vertical, 4 corners symmetry, 
• Duplication: simultaneously duplicate all your strokes to 3 or 4 directions.
• Auto record your work as a movie. Replay and send movies.
• Other functions: baby mode, toolbar customization, full page zooming, crop image, hide toolbar, export paintings with or without background, small painting views, multi painting deletions, quick navigation in the paintings gallery, painting rotation in the gallery.

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* Fall 2012 Mobile Apps: winner of a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor (www.parents-choice.org)
* Reviewed and rated 5 stars by the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (www.merlot.org)
* Rankings: France #1 Overall, China #2 Overall and #1 in Entertainment, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg #1 in Entertainment
* Top10 Entertainment in 12 countries

## Key features

- Extensive drawing and painting tools
- Special effects and magic pens
- Symmetry and duplication modes
- Artwork movie recording and sharing
- Whiteboard for presentations
- Recreational activities like mazes and sudoku

## What do users think of Drawing Box?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 🎨 Lots of tools and features
- 💡 Great for all skill levels
- 🎨 Versatile drawing capabilities
- 🎨 Impressive color palette
- 🎨 Useful drawing lessons
- 🎨 Fun and engaging
- 🎨 Endless creative possibilities

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Navigation and UI can be confusing
- 🔍 Lack of clear instructions
- 🔍 Missing some advanced features
- 🐛 Undo/redo functionality issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Crashes when using undo/redo
- Disappearing drawings after updates
- Inconsistent performance on older devices

**Most requested features**

- Add layers feature
- Improve sharing and export options
- Implement a color picker tool
- Provide more customization options
- Add an eraser that is always accessible

## Recent user reviews (10 of 254)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawing-box/id417852564/reviews.md

### 5/5 — 👍

*2026-07-19, version 7.3*

Love the app

### 4/5 — Have used this app for over 12 years, one request

*2025-08-18, version 7.3*

Have used this app since I was a little kid. Noticed there was a new UI update now, but it removed the “duplicate image” option from the image import options. That feature had always been so useful for my drawings, since in some works I needed to paste the same image dozens of times; but now that feature is gone and I have to individually import and crop each one. Could it be brought back? I have used this app for so long, as it’s very easy to use and it has a big nostalgia value for me. Glad to see it’s still being updated, just hope that this helpful feature can be brought back since it had been so valuable.

### 5/5 — Just; “WOW!”

*2024-08-17, version 7.2*

Amazing APP with endless possibilities.

I am no artist; even my stick figures are useless, but I can imagine people, young and old, losing themselves for hours… so many possibilities for creating things with this wonderful APP.

THANK YOU

### 5/5 — An Excellent App

*2023-11-16, version 7.1*

It’s a great app.  The available tools are wonderful.  Thanks.

### 1/5 — paid for full but still basic version

*2020-05-04, version 6.3*

I paid for the pro version yet it has less features than the free. The various pens are missing, the brushes are missing, the animation feature is missing.  No stickers, no lessons option, it is missing most of the components found in the free version. It is a stripped down version of the free app.

### 5/5 — Great app!

*2020-04-26, version 6.3*

Spend hours on it. It is sooo relaxing.

### 5/5 — Awesome app

*2019-03-31, version 6.0*

Great art app for the artist inside us all , works fantastic with Apple Pencil

### 5/5 — Great app!

*2018-10-15, version 6.0*

I really like this app. It is yr sketch book on the go, exactly like if you were drawing on paper, the tools are the ones you need as the developer described: pencil eraser. The drawing lessons are a plus I like the simplicity it is easy to use.  Perfect for what I need. I recommend this app

### 5/5 — great app...

*2017-11-30, version 5.9*

just begging to work with it... so far so good...

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2017-09-12, version 5.9*

Awesome app it has everything to create great art work. Evening if you just want to use it to color it's a great app for that to. This is a must have app. This developer really cares about his apps and his customers.

## Frequently asked questions about Drawing Box

### What can I do with Drawing Box?

Drawing Box offers a comprehensive digital art studio experience. You can draw and paint using a wide variety of tools, experiment with special effects and magic pens, and utilize unique symmetry and duplication modes to create intricate designs. The app also allows you to record your artwork process as a movie and share it, or use the whiteboard feature for presentations.

### What kind of drawing and painting tools are available?

The app provides an extensive selection of tools, including pencils, chalks, ink pens, various brushes (air brush, watercolor, blending, etc.), and specialized pens like rainbow pens and 3D clay pens. It also features a color mixer for creating custom palettes and offers numerous color palettes to choose from.

### Is Drawing Box free to use?

Yes, Drawing Box is a free application. It does not have any in-app purchases or advertisements, allowing users to enjoy all its features without any cost.

### Can I share my creations?

Absolutely. You can save your artwork with or without a background and share it directly on social networks. Additionally, the app can automatically record your entire drawing process as a movie, which you can then replay and send to others.

### What are the recreational features of Drawing Box?

Beyond its core drawing and painting capabilities, Drawing Box includes recreational activities such as coloring pages, mazes, and sudoku puzzles. These features provide a fun and engaging way to relax and pass the time while still engaging with the app's creative environment.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 7.3 — 2025-06-30

Version 7.3:

- We have added new amazing patterns to be used as stickers or model tracing. Art nouveau, borders, decoration, kawaii, and tribal art patterns can be displayed for your funniest drawing.

- User interface improvement.

- Bug fixes

### 7.2 — 2023-12-28

Version 7.2:

- User interface tiny improvements
- Bug fixes

### 7.1 — 2023-10-16

Version 7.1:

Bug fixes

### 7.0 — 2023-09-18

Version 7.0:

- A sliding bar is added for drawing in vertical and horizontal symmetry
- General improvement of the app.

### 6.5 — 2022-06-08

Version 6.5:

- The most complete symmetrical drawing. With now the new floating symmetry.
- General improvement
- Bug fixes

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All apps by Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon: https://appshunter.io/developer/417852567

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