# Trace & Sketch - Easy Drawing — user reviews > 77 indexed App Store user reviews of Trace & Sketch by Shajir Kalady, rated 4.30/5 from 157 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trace-and-sketch-easy-drawing/id1039621820/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trace-and-sketch-easy-drawing/id1039621820.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 102 · 4★ 27 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 14 ## What do users think of Trace & Sketch? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use and simple - ✨ Great for tracing photos - 🎨 Wonderful app for drawing and sketching - 💡 Unique and stands out - 🚀 Efficient and works well - 🤩 Amazing for practicing line work and shading - 💯 Best app for tracing - 🌟 Good for beginners - 👍 Great for practice and learning techniques - 🎉 Fun and enjoyable to use - 🏆 Outperforms other tracing apps - ✅ Does what it says it will - 💯 Excellent responsiveness - 🎨 Good for doodling over photos **Cons** - 🐛 Cannot adjust brush size - 🐛 Cannot access photo library - 🐛 No templates offered - 🐛 Eraser size too large - 🐛 Zooming feature is janky - 🐛 Undo button blurs lines - 🐛 Delete button for saved sketches missing - 🐛 Brush settings reset on exit - 🐛 Color copy feature not on chosen image - 🐛 Difficult to make certain colors (light brown, gray) - 🐛 Cannot sketch or draw freely - 🐛 App no longer importing chosen photo - 🐛 Brush selection area is black - 🐛 Delete option missing when deleting tracings - 🐛 Lines become blurred and distorted - 🐛 Lacks shading options - 🐛 No landscape view - 🐛 Color mixers are difficult - 🐛 Strange pen and brush options - 🐛 Advertisements interrupt workflow - 🐛 No option to zoom in on photo for tracing - 🐛 Brush strokes don't stay same when zooming **Commonly reported bugs** - Cannot adjust brush size or anything - Wouldn't let me access any of my photos - Zooming feature is janky - Undo button blurs lines - Delete button for saved sketches missing - Brush settings reset on exit - App no longer importing chosen photo - When selecting brushes only a few display, most are black - Delete option missing when deleting tracings - Lines previously made become blurred and distorted - Stopped working after several strokes, requires waiting - Color mixers are difficult to get exact colors - Brush strokes don't stay same when zooming **Most requested features** - Ability to make brush size bigger or smaller - Option for smaller eraser size than 5 - Bring back brush and eraser size numbers - Save brush settings when exiting sketch - Color copy feature on chosen image for tracing - Add smudge tool - More swatches for shading - Option for a plain white background - Paint fill pot feature - Add pens like in Google Keep - Way to delete or copy drawing overlay - Way to copy sketch and work on a different version - Option to zoom in on photo for tracing - Add grays and browns to coloring palette - Add pens - More canvas choices - No ads (willing to pay) - Rotate to landscape view - More brush options - More opacity control ## Newest reviews (15 of 77) ### 3/5 — A review *2026-05-04, version 4.8* It’s very good but I cannot make the size of brush bigger or smaller ### 3/5 — Does the job *2026-03-22, version 4.4* Would prefer a little more option on brush and opacity control, but it does the job and makes me work a little harder to get the effects i want. Very good for amateurs like me who want to have a little play around. ### 3/5 — Wish I got use it. *2026-01-03, version 4.1* I could not use it because it wouldn’t let me access any of my photos in my photo library. And it gave didn’t offer any templates ### 4/5 — Getting better *2025-11-18, version 3.5* Thank you for listening to my feedback, definitely improved my experience, but there’s still a few things I would like to see, first I would like to have a eraser size smaller than 5 for more accurate erasing. The zooming feature is a bit janky as sometimes it doesn’t respond that well or the drawing goes out of focus and I can’t drag it back. I’ve also noticed that when you press the undo button enough times when you mess up it kind of blurs the lines that were already on the drawing. Lastly what happened to the delete button for the saved sketches? ### 4/5 — Good but could be better *2025-09-27* I like the new update making it simpler, but it also removed a lot of great features from before, such as being able to see the size number of the brush and eraser which helped to keep consistency when tracing, please bring that back. Another thing is every time you exit a sketch it resets your brush settings like size and color which before the update would save, this was very useful when you return to a sketch that wasn’t finished and still had the exact settings. Last thing I would like to somehow be able to use the color copy feature on the image we choose to sketch so it makes it easier to trace the color as well. **Developer response:** Thanks for your valuable feedback! In version 3.3, we’ve added size indicators, saved brush and eraser settings, and introduced a color picker from image feature. ### 4/5 — Cool *2025-08-09, version 2.4* Ts ### 4/5 — Painting *2025-02-23, version 2.4* This is a pretty cool app but I hate the brush I recadem fixing the brushes ### 3/5 — Eh. *2024-07-11, version 2.4* Welllllllllllllllllllllllll…… my photos didn’t come out that good but, it’s still really good.😄 ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2024-04-26, version 2.4* Like the ease of using the pen and being able to enlarge or make smaller. Also ease of opacity helps when you can see what you have done without the image showing through! GreaT! Would like option for a plain background (just white) so you can create your own if desired. And where the drawing is blank the background should not show through unless desired. Perhaps a paint fill pot would help with that. I was sketching a person with jacket on and did not want background to show through. You have a great opportunity with this app. I would pay for the above changes easily it’s worth more! Good luck! ### 4/5 — App really need ?! *2024-04-25, version 2.4* Wow this app could be better than others ones maybe ### 4/5 — Great App *2024-04-12, version 2.4* This app has been fab and I have had great fun with it. However, after eight pictures, the app is no longer importing the chosen photo. Initially I thought perhaps there was a limit of pics that could be held in the gallery. I deleted one of my pics to ‘free up some space’ but was unsuccessful in solving the problem. I’m considering deleting the app and reloading. I’d rather not as I may lose my sketches(although I have screen shot them all). Any advice would be welcome. ### 5/5 — Great photo tracing app *2024-02-17, version 2.4* I have tried several tracing apps, but this one has out done the others. ### 5/5 — Awesome tool for sketching. *2023-12-13, version 2.4* Very easy to use. I would like to see a smudge tool added and more swatches for shading. Great application tool. ### 5/5 — Nice app *2023-10-28, version 2.4* It’s one of those apps that does what it says it will. Simple to use and a good aid to anyone’s art journey. I would recommend this app to anyone beginner or advanced. ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2023-10-07, version 2.4* This is the most amazing software I’ve found to practice line work and shading! It’s also a great way to practice perspective. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — How do you sketch? *2025-03-12, version 2.4* I don’t see the picture I’m chose to sketch ### 1/5 — I wish I could just sketch and draw freely *2024-06-14* Just possible to sketch over pictures **Developer response:** Please change the opacity of overlay to 100. This will hide the picture. ### 1/5 — Great concept- poor quality *2021-07-13, version 2.4* Enjoyed getting started, but it stops Working after several strokes. You have to wait serene minutes before it lets you start working again Very frustrating ### 1/5 — Lacks so much *2021-07-07, version 2.3* It’s free BUT it only has strange pen and brush options that are not necessary. Deleted immediately ### 1/5 — Required for app *2021-05-21, version 2.3* Testing ### 2/5 — Brush Sizes *2026-06-20, version 5.0* I liked the other version better, this one won’t change the brush size and is stuck on 10🙄 ### 2/5 — Great. Till it wasn’t. *2026-03-28, version 4.7* Worked great all of the sudden I can’t adjust brush size or anything ### 2/5 — How do you sketch *2025-04-21, version 2.4* I can't do anything what do you do 😑😐😐 ### 2/5 — No shading *2021-03-20, version 2.3* Lots of bright colors with no way to add shading. Can’t really get much done without shading. ### 2/5 — Advertisements pop up *2020-08-06, version 2.0* This app has advertisements which interrupt what you’re doing and I can’t figure out how to make them go away ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Need help *2026-06-21, version 5.0* Opacity is not working ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-01-16, version 4.2* This is a wonderful app, very unique, nothing compares to it! ### 5/5 — Great App *2025-12-18, version 4.0* This is a wonderful app, very unique, nothing compares to it! ### 5/5 — Love it *2025-06-27, version 2.4* I spend hours tracing photos. ### 5/5 — Great mini sketch app *2024-09-14, version 2.4* Love it! simple ### 5/5 — The best one out there. *2024-08-12, version 2.4* I tried other ones they are poo, but not this one this one archly worked its great for prancing searching and drawing I give this one 5 stars over the rest. Yes I would buy the full version. ### 5/5 — Best app EVER *2024-07-06, version 2.4* I was looking for an app to trace pictures online and I came across this app! Every thing is great except the colors it is very hard to make light brown and gray. Over all is a great app for beginners. It did not take that long for me to know how everything works! ### 5/5 — Love it *2024-05-05, version 2.4* This is my first time to use drawing app and I love it. ### 5/5 — PhotoSketchPad *2024-03-10, version 2.4* I am very serious about the quality of my art and after prolonged periods using procreate and similar I felt the need for a more relaxed drawing experience without using layers, adjusting pixels etc… you know…. Just to draw and enjoy it , PhotoSketchPad made my day ! Get this folks and enjoy the unique drawing and colouring journey. There’s no layering, you upload a photo, adjust transparency and doodle your photo, when you are happy with the drawing there is a colour picking with lovely pastel ranges amongst others to drop in to build up your image, the joy of this app is that it saves a perfect image to your library without any messing with pixel sizes. You can reload the same image over and over to build it even more. The drawing pen gives a neat black line which is adjustable and as I design colouring books this is great. Well done to the designers and team at PhotoSketchPad, keep this great app going for us, you designed a unique app that stands apart from lots out there. ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2024-03-09, version 2.4* I love this app! Really traces well and is super creative! --- *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 2026-08-10.*