Paintstorm Studio vs Almighty Note Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paintstorm Studio
This app offers a professional digital painting experience on iOS devices, leveraging Apple Pencil for advanced control. It provides a vast array of customizable brushes, stroke correction, and intuitive tools for artists of all levels to create masterpieces on the go.
- Advanced brush customization
- Stroke post-correction
- Perspective-aware parameters
- Dynamic and custom interface
- Mask brush functionality
- Photoshop PSD and ABR support
- Apple Pencil integration
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Paintstorm Studio is the first iOS App designed not only for simple sketches, but professional digital painting of any level, genre and technique. Paintstorm helps you to discover the magnificence and unleash the full potential of Apple Pencil and brings you to a whole new level of drawing. Creating an art masterpiece has never been so mobile. A major feature of Paintstorm Studio is the array of brushes to choose from. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable to your painting style. Anyone who has ever painted knows it's hard to overestimate the painting tool and the importance of all the seemingly insignificant details. We tried not to miss any of them. Our goal was to create an intuitive, simple-to-use but at the same time functionally powerful tool that brings the process of digital painting to a new level, making it as comfortable as possible. - Full control of all brush options (Incredible possibilities for brush settings) - Bristle brushes of any form and kind - Stroke post correction (You can take an action on any option. Not only on the stroke thickness) - Parameters binding to the perspective - Dynamic interface (Global interface scale, panels scale, opacity, color) - Custom panels - Full controlled mask-brush (Each brush can work as mask for other brush) - Takes underlayer's color while blending - "Close gaps" function when you fill or select - Dirty brush mode - Stroke stabilizer - Usable color mixer - Different gradient strokes - Mirror drawing - Standart tools pack (Lasso, Magic wand, Crop, Fill, Gradient and etc) - Control of the random amounts - Photoshop PSD and ABR supported - Apple Pencil support (Pressure, Tilt, Direction)
Almighty Note Pro
This app offers versatile note-taking and creative sketching capabilities with multiple preset formats. Easily manage your projects, save them as PDFs, and even load custom formats in the Pro version. Ideal for storyboarding, sketching, and general note-taking.
- 8 preset formats
- Zoom in/out drawing area
- Page sorting and deletion
- Save work as PDF
- Save memo as text
- Load custom formats (Pro)
- Max 250 pages per work
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This app has various formats. It can be used for ordinary handwritten notebooks, and can also be used for creative activities such as storyboards and sketchbooks. Since one work can be created as one note, you can easily manage the work. Features - 8 preset formats - Zoom in / out of drawing area - Page sorting and deletion - The work can be saved as a PDF - You can save the memo of the work as a text - Max 250 pages per work - The Pro version can load the your original format - Format size is 2048 x 2896 pix - No ads in Pro version
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paintstorm Studio at 4.4 against Almighty Note Pro's 2.5. Paintstorm Studio also leads on ratings volume (368 vs 2). Almighty Note Pro's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $12.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Paintstorm Studio costs $12.99 and Almighty Note Pro $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paintstorm Studio holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paintstorm Studio has 368 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Paintstorm Studio's written reviews are positive against 69% of Almighty Note Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Paintstorm Studio ships an update every 4 months, Almighty Note Pro every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paintstorm Studio | Almighty Note Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (368 ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.9% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 368 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 14.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergei Komarov | Kazuaki Matsuda |
Customer experience
Paintstorm Studio
Almighty Note Pro
Bugs and requests
Paintstorm Studio
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on startup or when using certain tools
- Brush lag and performance issues with large canvases
- Unreliable autosave and file management
- Unresponsive or glitchy UI elements
- Incompatibility with older iPad models
Requested features
5 requests- Improved brush customization and management
- Seamless canvas rotation and zooming
- Expanded layer and selection tools
- Better text and typography support
- Integrated cloud/online sync and sharing
Almighty Note Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Paintstorm Studio
No in-app purchases
Almighty Note Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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