Comparison

Tagtool vs Mental Canvas Draw

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tagtool

Transform your tablet into a live visual instrument for painting with light and creating spontaneous animations. Collaborate with others for performances or improvised storytelling. Explore a new dimension of digital art.

Highlights
  • Live visual instrument
  • Paint with light
  • Create spontaneous animations
  • Improvised storytelling
  • Multiplayer jamming
  • Projector connectivity
Features
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Tagtool transforms your iPad into a visual live instrument. Connect a projector to paint with light, draw expressive animations, or tell improvised stories. Jam with friends on a shared canvas, perform live shows, or create pop-up street art. From classrooms and workshops to galleries and live stages, Tagtool fills any space with colorful art, created together. Whether you're a VJ, artist, educator, or just curious — discover a new universe of digital art!

About

Mental Canvas Draw

Explore ideas and communicate concepts in a new dimension with this spatial drawing application. Create on infinite canvases, navigate your creations from any perspective, and easily edit and share your work. It's ideal for designers, artists, and storytellers.

Highlights
  • Infinite spatial canvases
  • Freely navigate perspectives
  • Unlimited canvases and layers
  • Import images and drawings
  • Create animated flythroughs
  • Projection tools for stroke reinterpretation
  • Interactive web experience sharing
Features
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Pick up where pen and paper leave off with Mental Canvas Draw. Creatives are using Mental Canvas Draw every day to explore ideas, communicate concepts, design products and tell stories. Infinite space for your creative freedom: • Draw on infinite canvases arranged in space • Freely navigate the spatial drawing to view perspectives you never could on paper • Unlimited canvases, layers and bookmark views Draw with the ease of pen and paper: • Get started with templates or create scenes from scratch • Choose from several brushes with adjustable sizes and a fill tool • Select color swatches or custom colors • Use layers to organize the drawings, group strokes and adjust opacity Easy editing & image import: • Import JPEGs and PNGs to seamlessly collage images and drawings together or create entirely image-based scenes • Select, duplicate, edit and transform drawings and images • Import and replace layers from your favorite drawing apps with ease Quickly create animated flythroughs: • Save bookmark views throughout the spatial drawing to create a flythrough • Customize the flythrough animation by adjusting the timing, transitions and visibility of canvases Transform and develop spatial drawings with projection: • Seamlessly place new canvases in the scene • Reinterpret existing strokes using novel projection tools • Draw first, arrange strokes on canvases later Share your creations: • Turn your drawing into an interactive web experience, shareable across phones, desktops, and VR • Export video of animated flythrough with your choice of aspect ratio and resolution • Save high resolution images of bookmarks Optimized for Apple Pencil and the Apple iPad Pro. Mental Canvas Draw supports iPad Pro (all except 1st gen), iPad (7th gen or later), iPad Air (3rd gen or later), iPad Mini (5th gen). Please note older iPads aren’t supported. Questions: https://www.mentalcanvas.com/faq/ Privacy Policy & Terms of Service: https://www.mentalcanvas.com/company/legal/ Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: @mental_canvas

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tagtool at 4.4 against Mental Canvas Draw's 3.7. Tagtool also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 42%). Mental Canvas Draw's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (670 vs 5). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tagtool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mental Canvas Draw sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tagtool holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Canvas Draw has 670 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Tagtool's written reviews are positive against 42% of Mental Canvas Draw's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tagtool ships an update every 8 months, Mental Canvas Draw every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tagtool versus Mental Canvas Draw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTagtoolMental Canvas Draw
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (5 ratings) — better3.7 (670 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews — better42.2% of reviews
Number of ratings5670 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size141 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOMA InternationalMental Canvas

Customer experience

Tagtool

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.1%

Mental Canvas Draw

All ratings670 ratings
Positive65.5%
Neutral9.0%
Negative25.5%
Written reviews398 reviews
Positive42.2%
Neutral16.1%
Negative41.7%

Bugs and requests

Tagtool

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Mental Canvas Draw

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when trying to save large files
  • Drawing tools stop working randomly
  • Imported images don't maintain transparency
  • Depth/3D tools suddenly stop functioning

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add finger/stylus drawing support
  • Improve layer and canvas management
  • Implement basic drawing tools like lines, shapes
  • Allow exporting layers separately
  • Provide more brushes and blending options
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  • Add preset camera angles and perspective tools

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tagtool

One-time1
  • Tagtool Pro$19.99
5 purchases

Mental Canvas Draw

Subscriptions4
  • Mental Canvas Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Mental Canvas Premium (Month)$59.991 Month
  • Mental Canvas Pro (Yearly)$89.991 Year
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  • Mental Canvas Premium (Annual)$569.991 Year
One-time1
  • Mental Canvas Creator$49.99

Questions

Is Tagtool free?
Tagtool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mental Canvas Draw free?
Mental Canvas Draw is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tagtool or Mental Canvas Draw?
Tagtool is rated higher. Tagtool averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Mental Canvas Draw averages 3.7 from 670 ratings.
Do Tagtool or Mental Canvas Draw have ads?
Neither Tagtool nor Mental Canvas Draw shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tagtool or Mental Canvas Draw?
Tagtool ships an update every 8 months, and Mental Canvas Draw every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tagtool was updated on September 8, 2026 and Mental Canvas Draw on September 25, 2026.

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