Inkpad vs Atai
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inkpad
Create professional vector art on your iPad with a powerful yet intuitive interface. Draw with precision, manipulate objects, and apply flexible typography effects. Organize your work with unlimited layers and easily import/export various file formats.
- Precision vector drawing tools
- Flexible typography effects
- Unlimited layers for organization
- Advanced object manipulation
- Gradient editing and Boolean operations
- Import/export SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG
- Apple Pencil support
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Create beautiful vector artwork on your iPad with Inkpad. Draw with accuracy and speed. Quickly align new or existing objects either to a grid, points, or path edges. Alternatively draw freehand bezier paths using the brush tool. Select, scale and rotate hundreds of objects with high performance in real time. Cutout elements of artwork, photographs or patterns with masks. Flexible typography effects. Position text at any angle or to follow along paths. Apply multiple effects to text, with stroke, fill, shadow and opacity all dynamically adjustable. If the over seventy built in fonts don’t quite fit your design, you can import any of the millions of OpenType and TrueType fonts available. Take control with unlimited layers. Feel free to add as many or as few elements in each layer to organise your drawings. Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers as you draw. Isolate the active layer for easy editing. Adjust each layers transparency independently to get your ideal composition. Powerful editing at your fingertips. Easily manipulate single or multiple elements with powerful scale and rotate tools. Associate individual elements into groups. Interactively edit gradient fills on the canvas. Perform a range of Boolean operations on paths, including Unite, Intersect, Exclude and Subtract Front. Colors to match your imagination. Picking the perfect color is easy with the freedom of the expressive color wheel. Or modify colors using RGB and HSB sliders. Enter the hexadecimal value to precisely match existing artwork colors. Sample colors using the dropper. Store and recall colors from the swatch library. Import, export and sharing. Import drawings from desktop vector applications as SVG and include photos directly from your camera roll, or import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services. Export your drawings for sharing or importing into other apps as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services. Send drawings as photos directly to your camera roll. Light & dark modes. Light and dark mode system appearances with the option to override the system setting to light or dark mode for Inkpad. Apple Pencil. If you’ve got an iPad Pro or the 2018 iPad, Inkpad works great with the Apple Pencil. Praise for Inkpad. Some of the kind feedback received in emails and App Store reviews: “Works perfect on latest iPad Pro, Apple Pencil.” “It’s really beautiful to use with an iPad Pro.” “Inkpad is one of the killer apps for the iPad.” “Inkpad is my favorite graphics app on any platform. Inkpad is just the right balance of enough power without being too complicated.” “If you’ve worked with Illustrator or Inkscape, this is the vector drawing app to download for your iPad. Especially nice with the iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.” “I love this vector drawing app for its easy-to-use interface and pared-down tool bar. It covers the essentials perfectly and the developers are very responsive to questions.” “Inkpad is my main vector design tool for mobile. This is the app that Adobe Draw should be.” “Thank you guys, I use this app all the time.” “If you used to work with Inkpad in the past you should get this app to continue working with it.” Acknowledgements. Thank you to Martin Coffey, Rita Flores, Yve Müller, Armin Popp, David Rivera, Nicolas Saez, Erick Villagomez, Felipe Villela and Jason Wray for contributing artwork to the ‘Designed with Inkpad’ app preview video and screenshots. Please visit our website to see more of their artwork and for links to their portfolios. History. Inkpad was originally created by Steve Sprang in 2011, but it disappeared from the App Store in 2015. I took over development because my wife Lindsay uses Inkpad and I wanted to ensure the continued development and support of a product we and others enjoy so much. Terms and Conditions: http://inkpad.art/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy: http://inkpad.art/privacy/
Atai
Create precise vector drawings with an infinite canvas and advanced curve tools. Refine strokes, manage layers, and organize projects with an intuitive file manager. Unlock full export capabilities with a pro version.
- Vector drawing with Bézier curves
- Infinite canvas
- Layer management
- Intuitive file manager
- Grids and alignment tools
- Undo/Redo functionality
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Atai saves your drawings in vector format, which means they can be modified at any size at any time. It's the perfect tools for Artists, Designers, Architects and Drawing enthusiasts who want to take their creativity to next level. What sets our App apart is its emphasis on the use of Bézier Curves. You can start by drawing a freehand stroke and end up in a precise technical drawing with the help of Grids and Layers. Atai provide specific tools for working with curves. You can add and remove control points to further refine your strokes with complete control of the shape and flow of your drawings. In addition to manual control, our App also offers automatic function for smoothing and adjusting those curves. Force, Speed are handling easily to take a smooth good looking stroke. The intuitive File Manager based on Colored Tabs give you and easy and fast access to your drawing. You can order all your drawings in a hierarchical way. Favorites, Recents & Folders are tools that will help in this task. ATAI HAS IN-APP PURCHASES. YOU CAN FULLY USE ALL ITS FEATURES BUT YOU NEED TO BUY THE PRO-VERSION TO BE ABLE TO EXPORT FORMATS LARGER, PROPRIETARY OR NEW ONES. Tools at your disposal: - Infinite Canvas. - Insert or drag and drop Images. - Polygons from strokes, paths or manually. - Circles, Square & Curves. - Pencil, Pen, Marker, Liner & Round Marker based brushes. - Colors Palettes, predefined COPIC palettes. (COPIC is the trademark of Too Corporation) - Last Colors Palettes. - Color Picker. - Stroke Width, Opacity & Smoothing. - Close & Break Paths. - Duplicate, Send To Back or Bring To Front Objects. - Flip Horizontal or Vertical. - Add, Delete and Change type Bezier anchor Points. - Undo, Redo unlimited. - Import, Export .atai (proprietary file format). - In-App Purchase for export Canvas & All Drawing size.(More in near future.) - Unlimited Drawing Size. - Canvas Size, Orientation & Resolution. - Canvas Mask with a system set of Backgrounds. Scale & Rotate. - Layers Masks with a system set of Patterns. - No limits Layers. - Color, Brush, Size, Opacity & Smoothing by Layer. - Line types & Opacity by Layer - Grids, Align, Snap, Light and Dark Color grids, spacing & divisions. - Orthographic, Isometric & Perspective grids. - Zoom & Rotations of Drawing Canvas. - Move Strokes or Objects between Layers. If you're looking for a powerful and versatile vector drawing app, then Atai is the perfect choice for you. With its wide range of features and benefits, Atai is the perfect tool for anyone who wants to create high-quality hand drawings in a vector format.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Inkpad at 4.3 against Atai's 3.0. Inkpad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (421 vs 2). Atai's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Inkpad sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Atai sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Inkpad holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inkpad has 421 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Inkpad's written reviews are positive against 60% of Atai's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Inkpad ships an update every 5 weeks, Atai every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inkpad | Atai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (421 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.3% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 421 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Envoza | Patricio Lagos |
Customer experience
Inkpad
Atai
Bugs and requests
Inkpad
Reported bugs
3 issues- Distortion issues when importing SVG files
- Inability to access previous work without subscription
- Grayed-out options and functionality after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Improved file management with folders
- Addition of a brush tool with customizable ends
- Inclusion of an isometric grid and dimension tools
- Support for more cloud storage services beyond Dropbox
- In-app palm rejection for a better drawing experience
Atai
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inkpad
- Inkpad Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- Inkpad Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
Atai
- Pro Version$3.99









