Paintstorm Studio vs LineEase
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)
LineEase
Practice drawing lines and complex shapes with guided exercises. Improve your pen control through various modes and compare your work to original images. Save and export your progress to track improvement.
- Line drawing exercises
- Step-by-step pattern guides
- Connect the dots mode
- Copy and draw mode
- Image comparison tool
- Save practice records
- Export achievements
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• Drawing Pen Control Practice Offers basic and advanced line exercise books, including straight lines, curved lines, and combinations of both. • Steps of the pattern For complex shapes, we provide the steps of this pattern to demonstrate how it is drawn step by step. • Three Practice Modes "Connect the Dots," and "Copy and draw" modes, ranging from easy to challenging, to master the line exercises. • Compare with the original image Overlay the original image with the practiced lines for a comparative analysis, allowing for correction of areas that need improvement in your drawing. • Save Practice Records Save your practice records and track progress through historical archives. • Share and Export Achievements Export practice records for achievement tracking, enabling pen control exercise tracking. If you have any questions or suggestions, please submit feedback within the app or contact us via email at tommytang998@163.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: LineEase at $0.99 against Paintstorm Studio's $12.99. LineEase also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (81% vs 60%). Paintstorm Studio's advantage is ratings volume (368 vs 6). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 LineEase $0.99 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 — 4.4 for Paintstorm Studio against 4.5 for LineEase. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paintstorm Studio has 368 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Paintstorm Studio's written reviews are positive against 81% of LineEase's.
Paintstorm Studio ships an update every 4 months, LineEase fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paintstorm Studio | LineEase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (368 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.6% of reviews | 81.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 368 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #182 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergei Komarov | 祥 汤 |
Customer experience
Paintstorm Studio
LineEase
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
LineEase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Paintstorm Studio
No in-app purchases
LineEase
No in-app purchases
Questions
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