Peintre vs Dot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Peintre
Sketch your creative ideas anytime on your iOS device. Features advanced background fill options, an RGB color picker, and various drawing tools like pencil, line, and eraser. Easily save or share your creations.
- Sketching on iOS devices
- Advanced background fill (color/image)
- RGB color picker
- Pencil, line, rectangle, ellipse tools
- Eraser tool
- Save and share creations
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• Canvas. Right in Your Pocket. Peintre is a useful tool that allows you to sketch your creative ideas at any time right from your iOS devices. • Advanced Background Fill Peintre supports background color fill or image fill. When applying image fill, you can choose between different fill modes, including fill, fit, stretch, tile, and center. • Color Picker An RGB color picker enables you to choose your favorite fill colors and stroke colors not only easily but also precisely. • Great Tools There are many tools, such as pencil, line, dashed line, rectangle, ellipse, and eraser. • Share The sharing button is always accessible right from the canvas. You are free to save your masterpiece to photo library, or share it with your friends on social media.
Dot
Navigate a square through a puzzle, making strategic left or right turns to align dots with their corresponding colored squares. The objective is simple, but the limited steps make solving each level a significant challenge.
- Strategic square control
- Left/right turn mechanics
- Color-matching puzzles
- Limited step challenges
- Increasing difficulty
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Control the square to your target position, and then choose turn right or turn left. Aline all dots to the correspond color square. The rule is simple. But the number of step is limited, it is very hard to solve.
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Verdict
Peintre and Dot both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Peintre's written reviews are positive against 0% of Dot's. Peintre also leads on price (Free vs $2.49) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Peintre is free to download; Dot costs $2.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Peintre against 5.0 for Dot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Peintre's written reviews are positive against 0% of Dot's.
Peintre ships an update every 5 weeks, Dot every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Peintre | Dot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.49 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haoyuan Xia | Oscar Tsang |
Customer experience
Peintre
Dot
In-app purchases
Peintre
No in-app purchases
Dot
No in-app purchases
