# Pencil Sketch 2 -Draft Effects — user reviews > 233 indexed App Store user reviews of Pencil Sketch 2 by 云涌 段, rated 3.80/5 from 702 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pencil-sketch-2-draft-effects/id1051985070/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pencil-sketch-2-draft-effects/id1051985070.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 384 · 4★ 98 · 3★ 48 · 2★ 21 · 1★ 151 ## What do users think of Pencil Sketch 2? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Great app for sketching photos - 👍 Easy to use with lots of customization options - 🎨 Fantastic for creating artistic renditions of photos - ❤️ Loved by many users **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and bugs after paid upgrade - 🙄 Excessive ads in free version - 🤔 Paid version not as good as free version - 😤 Poor customer support **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when trying to open photos - Paid version not functioning as expected - Incompatibility issues with newer devices - Inability to save edited photos **Most requested features** - More sketch styles and filters - Improved stability and reliability - Better instructions and tutorials - Ability to save edited photos to camera roll ## Newest reviews (10 of 233) ### 2/5 — I can’t seem to buy it *2024-03-12, version 2.4* I use this a lot. It always had ads but now it’s totally ridiculous, every screen or click makes another 30 second ad. It’s hard to even use it now. So I figured I’d buy it. I tried over and over on both my iPad and phone, on different days. A circle just keeps going round and round, I can never even buy it. What is up with this ap? ### 2/5 — Problems *2024-01-13* Read again, not easy to controll. The type of style drawings some no longer work, like carve gold…. Some are good, but most cheap childlike drawings. The others don’t even look as described. Add infra red, and high color brightness . If I erase, I will loose a lot of uploaded pictures, and there is no updated app. I would appreciate your help to fix and for you to add more fixes to quality, and ability to controll program. Thank you ### 4/5 — Cookies *2023-09-29, version 2.4* Los anuncios duran mucho, es un acoso que da mucha molestia. ### 4/5 — Impressive iOS 16 revamp 📡 *2023-08-12, version 2.3* 𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡.𝐜𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝-𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴：𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮’𝘴 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐞𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝟏𝟏 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐟𝐢 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝟒.𝟕 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝟑.𝟕 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ### 4/5 — 的宝贝想你的 *2023-02-06* 时间精心设计结合减肥减肥就到家建材家居基础建设和奖学金j ### 2/5 — Great app before buying *2022-12-27, version 2.3* After I paid 2$ the app kept crashing. Otherwise the free version is good. ### 5/5 — Nice application smartphone *2021-11-02, version 2.3* Good picture for all ### 5/5 — Rating *2021-10-22, version 2.3* Great course ### 5/5 — Easy to use, Amazing Results! *2021-10-12, version 2.3* Not just another photo app, you’ll be stunned. My favorites are portraits. ### 1/5 — Worst. App. Ever. *2021-09-30, version 2.3* As soon as I paid for the pro version, it kicks me out & closes when I click on “use photo” ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App blocked by ad *2026-04-23, version 2.4* This was a formidable artistic tool until advertisements commandeered access. The advertising was irrelevant to me and impossible to circumvent. Hence, it was not possible to gain any value from the app nor the advertisers. It effectively stopped its access to use. ### 1/5 — Problems *2024-01-20, version 2.4* Read again, not easy to controll. The type of style drawings some no longer work, like carve gold…. Some are good, but most cheap childlike drawings. The others don’t even look as described. Add infra red, and high color brightness . If I erase, I will loose a lot of uploaded pictures, and there is no updated app. I would appreciate your help to fix and for you to add more fixes to quality, and ability to controll program. Thank you ### 1/5 — Crashes for paid version *2023-03-29, version 2.3* Crap it is. I bought two versions and both keep crashing ### 1/5 — 🤨 *2022-11-27, version 2.3* Don’t open photos on iPhone X ### 1/5 — Unreliable *2022-10-08, version 2.3* I’ve paid for this and try as I might, the app doesn’t work. I would steer clear as it’s not worth the screen time! ### 1/5 — Rubbish! *2022-08-04, version 2.3* This app used to work great then all of a sudden every time I tap the draw icon the app closest for no reason. I have deleted it from my phone and reinstalled but the same thing keeps happening, I am upgraded member as well so I am not very happy! ### 1/5 — app no work *2022-06-25, version 2.3* the application not work crash when we select the photo ### 1/5 — The app doesn‘t work as soon as you purchase it *2022-01-31, version 2.3* Please the bug ### 1/5 — Bugs! *2021-11-25, version 2.3* After rebooting still buggy. After selecting photo to edit the app stops working &/ or boots user out. ### 1/5 — Seriously intermittent *2021-10-05, version 2.3* I try to load the photo and the app keep closing ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cartoon S. *2025-09-11, version 2.4* Awesome ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-01-09, version 2.4* Very user friendly and very good results in few clicks ### 5/5 — Great App *2024-07-07, version 2.4* So easy and great results for sketches to remember ### 5/5 — Love this app!!!!❤️ *2024-02-10, version 2.4* This is a fantastic app! I love it and use it often!❤️ ### 5/5 — Still my favorite sketch app *2023-10-22, version 2.4* I’ve been using this since the app first came out (ver. 1) and love the customizable results by using different settings. 5 stars!!! One if my favorite photos of my grandson was made with this app, text added, and reprocessed for a final result that I used to surprise my daughter. Just keep playing with it, it isn’t hard to get the hang of it. ### 5/5 — ... *2023-07-10* Please fix this app for newer iPhone's! Works fine until you upgrade or restore, after upgrading or restoring crashes every time i pick a picture or take a picture with the camera. Otherwise the effects are very good quality and with with the additional sliders you can fine-tune to your likes and tastes easily - thats something what many other more expensive (asking subscription) apps doesn't have! Please fix the app! ### 5/5 — Good App for photo conversions *2023-06-26, version 2.3* Enjoy being able to have sketch version of photo to help with value and color choices outside the box. Also notan feature with black and white values is excellent. Instructions could be a little more clear, not as intuitive as I’d hoped but given some time one can get through most of it. ### 5/5 — No funciona la aplicación *2023-03-20, version 2.3* Esta aplicación la tengo desde tiempo atrás. Deseo saber si tiene restricciones con iPhone 14. Favor de hacerme saber la situación. Gracias. ### 5/5 — Very good app ! *2022-09-26, version 2.3* Compared with another app . This one is good ### 5/5 — Great way to spend free time!! *2022-05-17, version 2.3* Sketch is so much more rewarding than wasting your time on crooked, corrupt politics!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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