ShadowDraw User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience59.2% of reviews
Neutral13.2% of reviews
Negative experience27.6% of reviews

~ Based on 471 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is ShadowDraw Safe?

ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for ShadowDraw is 83/100.

This assessment is based on 1,670 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.1/5.

Safety Analysis

77.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
16.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,622 App Store ratings for ShadowDraw.

Is ShadowDraw Legit?

ShadowDraw: Learn How to Draw appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ShadowDraw is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Well I’m still waiting

It’s been ages for it to load. Perhaps 30 minutes since it said 10 minutes. Now it says 10 hours. Help, but the reviews say it’s good so I’m exited.

Please read

This app is amazing if you want to draw at a slow and easy pace, if you are a beginner. The only complaint I have about this app is that you have to buy a subscription for mostly all of the drawings. But overall this app is super fun and easy if you are a beginner that wants your drawings to look professional
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Ruined

In the middle of the drawing It diseper I try finding my drawing I could not find it I don’t like it

It’s alright

If you don’t have an apple pen it will be hard because you’re finger is blocking the lines when your tracing and it goes all “scribbly”. Then I tried it with apple pen and it was much clearer hope this helps

Not free

This app was horrible and I couldn’t even choose what I wanted to do and we had to draw the lines again on top of each other and there were like tiny dots that got their very own little step making it take to long

Not for me

Dude It keeps deleting my lines and you have to pay for a bunch of the stuff.

Good app for learning and experienced artists

I have loved this app for learning to draw and improve my artistic skills. One feature that I would love ti see back that was removed in a recent update, is the progress circle at the top of the screen during lessons,showing your progress during the lesson.

Please bring back this feature or make it optional through the setting in the app. Keep up the good work!
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Amazing app, but needs a custom photo import feature!

I absolutely love the blue-line tracing system in this app! It is the best drawing guide available. However, I really wish we could import our own photos to turn them into these interactive blue guides. I want to draw Christian and faith-based art, but the library doesn’t offer any. Letting us convert our own photos would bring so many new users to the app. Please add this features!
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It’s bad why do you have to spend money just to get a sketch

Absolutely the best drawing app in the store.

There are over 2,000 drawing lessons you can do on your iPad. (Perhaps on your phone, I don’t know about that.) I LOVE THIS APP! When I started, I couldn’t even draw a straight line. There’s a game called Pictionary (sp?) that my husband and I used to play with friends. My poor husband…all he could come up with when I tried to draw anything, was “An ant?” Now I am confident that I can draw a recognisable sketch of pretty much anything. I do a lesson or two every day. I’ve tried every app that has to do with learning how to draw, and in my opinion, there’s nothing that can top this app. Besides enjoying drawing so much—I think it’s a lot like my meditations—the customer service is awesome. I highly recommend it. A lot of people have written not-so-great reviews, because they have to buy a subscription to get more than the daily drawing. I think that’s idiotic. Would they go to work everyday if they didn’t get a paycheque? I think not.
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No hate

Why did it wipe all my progress!? First of all, how come when I left my first drawing it saved but for the daily one, it doesn’t!? Btw the app is good anyway

Good but have to pay

It’s a good app overall the tutorials are easy to follow and I had fun doing it and there’s no ads either but I was disappointed that it is 50 dollars a year and you only get 1 free drawing a day but other then that I recommend it

Should be called learn how to trace

This is not a drawing tutorial, it is a tracing tutorial. If you want something for therapy or just spending time putting pen to paper this is for you, but there is no instruction in this, it is literally just a tracing app

Boring

It doesn’t really tell you where to put the shapes so I’m just doing anything

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𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 3 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵?

Buggy garbage

Don’t waste your money on this half finished app. Yes it has lots of content but there are better apps that don’t hate their customers. This app will quit out of a drawing while trying to pan without warning forcing you to start over. Sometimes you have to draw a line several times to get it to advance to the next stroke other times it jumps way ahead forcing you to rewind and pause the system. Never bothered to clean up the stroke recordings so a sizable chunk of strokes are pointless stray marks. It never tells you when to switch from stoke to shading or from sketching to inking. It’s like they just barely got it working and shipped it with 0 polish. If you want to enjoy their daily free drawing go for it. Personally I’m contacting support for my money back after not even getting through one drawing. What a joke.
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I lava it!!”

Sooo good end of storyyyyy!

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Wow

Just tracing, no teaching

With any drawing program suc as Procreate I can trace anything. The ghost layout lines aren’t explained at all, which is where the learning should occur. All this is seems to be is a tracing program that doesn’t seem to give any lasting benefit. Am I missing something?

really fun and useful

i really enjoy the app it’s fun and very useful to exercise with I would really recommend to. anyone wanting to practice strokes and shapes.