# Sketch Pad - My Drawing Board — user reviews > 202 indexed App Store user reviews of Sketch Pad by 毅 朱, rated 4.40/5 from 1,141 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sketch-pad-my-drawing-board/id1048919894/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sketch-pad-my-drawing-board/id1048919894.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 817 · 4★ 164 · 3★ 72 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 63 ## What do users think of Sketch Pad? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🎨 Variety of tools and brushes - 💡 Helpful for learning digital art - 🎨 Great for simple sketching and doodling - 👍 Convenient for drawing on the go **Cons** - 🐛 Glitches and crashes - 💸 Too many ads - 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find features - 🎨 Limited color palette and brush options - 🐛 Issues with color selection and blending **Commonly reported bugs** - Bucket tool causing random color spills - Inability to select colors or use layers in the gallery - Drawing getting delayed or lagging behind input - Imported images disappearing or not displaying properly **Most requested features** - Add a fill/bucket tool - Improve the blending and layering tools - Implement a landscape mode - Provide more customization options - Add the ability to import and use background images ## Newest reviews (17 of 202) ### 4/5 — Paint bucket function *2026-01-17, version 3.11* For some reasons the paint bucket colors in random parts of photo. If don’t use that on function, this is the greats drawing app. Been using it for 5 years ### 4/5 — Rating *2025-03-13, version 3.11* So fun but lots of adds ### 4/5 — Good could be better *2025-01-13, version 3.9* It's pretty good and all I have about 75-150 drawings on here I've been using it for around a year it's great BUT. It has way to many ads cool it down, not only that. Whatever I'm done drawing something and I click the gallery button and I click on a drawing or make a new one it doesn't let me use the color tool or the layers and unplayable so I have to reopen the app and it's annoying sometimes it just doesn't work when I do it please fix its quiet annoying, also need more brushes and update the button where you choose / make a color please and thank you ### 2/5 — The bucket tool is still glitchy on iPhone 14 *2025-01-05, version 3.11* In 2023, the app was updated and the bucket tool got screwed up with colors being spazzed everywhere. This needs to be fixed. ### 2/5 — Would still be awesome if the glitches were patched… *2023-11-29* I don’t know how to explain this; but ever since this new update (its also in the sequel), if you fill in various areas of a drawing with the bucket tool, the outline for it slowly starts to blur which it didn’t do originally. Let me explain: If you tap one various area with the bucket tool, it fills in and gets blurry. Formerly, when you pressed it once, the outline was fine and you could fill in the rest of the drawing without the outline problem. For an example, draw a flower, fill each of the petals with one or various colors, and the outline will start to blur. Also, when you fill just any area of the drawing, these faded squiggle marks will appear on the screen and sometimes when you touch one blank area, the other blank area will randomly get filled in by no command at all. For an example: draw a face or an entire character with two eyeballs and color fill one of them. These issuses didn’t happen originally. I hope this review gets noticed and these glitches get fixed. Otherwise it prevents an awesome app (since 2016 for me) from being great and it would affect anyone from enjoying it! UPDATE: These issues only happen on the iPhone 14 pro release. I would still like to see these fixed in the future. ### 4/5 — Hallelujah we can merge layers! *2023-11-12, version 3.11* They finally fixed the merge layer issue! Love this app, been using it for years! ### 3/5 — Trying the app out again *2023-10-13, version 3.9* My I-Pad had become to run too slow the first time tried the Sketch Pad app. Consequently I deleted it without getting to know the app. I will spend a bit more time with it now. ### 4/5 — interesting app… *2023-06-12, version 3.9* this is a fun and easy app to play but i just think it’s a bit boring. so i just wanted to get this game one day and i downloaded it then i started playing it for a bit i drew shapes and animals but then i realized something’s that should be added…if only there could be a feature that lets u use stencils and rulers for easier tracing and straight lines and maybe more colors in a color palette for easier way to find colors for ur artwork! hopefully this could make the app much more fun and more exciting to play and for others to enjoy! 😁 ### 4/5 — Pictures *2022-11-25, version 3.9* Soo, This bug ha so been happening to me a long time ago, and its prettyyy annoying. Whenever i try adding A picture to the white base, it just dissapears and nothing is shown ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work in landscape mode *2022-11-13, version 3.9* If they can add that it would be four star ### 2/5 — Do not get this app *2022-08-10, version 3.9* This is boring 🥱😒😔😩😫 ### 4/5 — Great app *2022-04-12, version 3.9* Love it! There is one bug though, every time you want to switch colors you have to swipe out off the app and get back in. But there are countless ways to create art here. Thank you! ### 3/5 — Well, *2022-03-07, version 3.9* The fact that after a little while, it doesn’t let me change the colour I’m using, all the ads, and it keeps glitching and freezing the screen, makes it annoying, but otherwise still, because it won’t let me delete the image in the back, and it’s annoying me. The only good thing about it, is that it half works. I don’t usually complain, so I’m complaining because I’m getting frustrated. Besides all that annoying crap, I’m good. Please fix at least all but the ads, I can handle that part well. ### 4/5 — Pretty cool! *2022-03-05, version 3.9* This app is really cool. It is usable on iOS 9.3.5, which is the one that I am using. I like the app and there are multiple tools and features, which I love❤️. And the app is free which everybody loves. But it would be cooler if we could make our own custom background and if we could blend different colors. These are some things I would like to have and is important for me. Other than that, everything is amazing. Keep it up! -A very happy customer ### 5/5 — Amazing!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2022-02-20, version 3.9* I just started using this app today and I’m OBSESSED. I don’t know why, but I think that this is what I want to do as a career. The first project I did was I turned Patrick Star into a thug. It looked amazing and it’s all because of this app. I love all of the different tools it had and all of the different things you can do with it. There is Literally tools in there that I didn’t even know existed! (Keep in mind this is al. FREE) I love this app and definitely recommend it! ### 5/5 — 太好了 *2022-01-13, version 3.9* 超級好用 ### 4/5 — More layers would be nice :) *2021-10-13, version 3.9* I’ve learned to do a lot with this drawing app and really enjoy it. All I hope for would be more layers to work with. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Hank *2023-03-03, version 3.9* The basic Sketch Pad Will not rotate to horizontal , except review. There is not too much in the way of how to learn to even draw a straight line . Bummer ### 1/5 — Difficult *2023-02-02, version 3.9* Can’t figure out to sketch anything The abundance of ads is a major distraction ### 1/5 — Bad *2022-02-18, version 3.9* Its bad and hard to use ### 1/5 — Not working *2021-09-26, version 3.9* Can only get ads popping up! Instead directions! ### 1/5 — Несёт вред *2021-07-21, version 3.9* Только открыл и сразу мошенническая реклама ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2021-04-01, version 3.9* Couldn’t complete slightest outline in beginning to create my drawing ### 1/5 — Review constantly pop up *2021-02-18, version 3.9* They force you to write a review even after you pay, annoying. ### 1/5 — I’d give it 5 stars but I paid for pro and still see ads - kind of feel scammed *2020-07-15, version 3.9* This is a great app, it’d be better if it could be used in landscape mode but that’s not a big deal. What annoys me is that I’m still seeing ads after paying for the pro upgrade. I’m sure that is was worded in such a way that if I had spent enough time reading it, I would have been able to figure out that I was only paying to remove SOME ads. It would be far more honest to present the truth than to require me to dig for it. ### 1/5 — 爛透了 *2016-04-26, version 2.2* 根本不好！像小學生用的練習軟體而已！差差差差！！！ ### 1/5 — J s j j a *2016-01-27, version 2.0* djshsjsj ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thanks for who made this *2026-06-22, version 3.11* Great job to whoever made this app its the perfect way to draw my axolotls ### 5/5 — 好好玩。 *2025-06-08, version 3.11* 谢谢你，因为可以加背景。 ### 5/5 — Amazing drawing app! *2025-04-20, version 3.11* This game was introduced to me when I went to my bestie’s house, my bestie’s sister used this app to draw characters and just have fun, I know use this app in my free time to draw and just have fun, where I can add pictures and outline it is really cool, this app makes me interested in art and drawing and makes me learn a lot of new stuff in drawing in digital art, this app is really awesome, everyone should try it! ### 5/5 — Good *2024-08-23, version 3.11* Um it asked me to do this but it's very good ### 5/5 — I love the colors!!🌈 *2023-10-23, version 3.9* I really love the colors and stuff to draw with!! They are amazing and I get inspired by the outside world. 🌍 This, I’d recommend, because of the world of thoughts of what to draw. It would be something really awesome to play! Family could have fun playing this together!! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ### 5/5 — It is a amazing game *2023-09-28, version 3.9* It is so good and cool I’ve played it for a few days and I want to keep playing ### 5/5 — Reagan *2023-08-12, version 3.9* It is really fun and I love it so much and I can’t believe what I can do with it. ### 5/5 — It helped *2023-06-28, version 3.9* It helped me draw better ### 5/5 — Pretty nice program i recommend *2023-06-09* Pretty nice, i use this a bit I use to use this all day, but now. I just use medipainy which is on my other tablet also, a few bug fixes you should fix So like, let's say I wanna draw but I open the app n click a drawing I didn't mean to click so than I get out of that drawing n I click the plus / "+" button, and than I want to add a photo but than it doesn't let me, so I have to close the app n go back in so please fix! ### 5/5 — It’s so ultra great *2022-09-04, version 3.9* This game is really good because you can draw anime --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-16.*