Comparison

Doodalive vs Sketch Pro

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

Head to head
About

Doodalive

Transform sketches into dynamic animations with intuitive tools. Bring drawings to life with animated strokes, create manga, and make notes engaging. Export creations as videos or images for sharing or professional use.

Highlights
  • Dynamic animated brushes
  • Create and animate manga
  • Image and model library
  • Custom sticker creation
  • Animated note-taking
  • Export as video or image
Features
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DOODALIVE: Reinvent the way to interact with your drawings! Transform your sketches into captivating animations with a simple brushstroke, thanks to dynamic and intuitive tools. Whether you are an amateur artist, a student or a professional looking for new forms of expression, Doodalive offers you a range of innovative tools to unleash your creativity. KEY FEATURES: Dynamic Brushes - Bring your drawings to life with a single gesture! - Various effects: movement, rotation, vibration, motion blur, brush to darken or lighten, scrolling, rain, and much more. - Each stroke is animated in real time, without technical skills required. Create and Animate Your Own Manga - Use Doodalive to draw and animate your manga characters and scenes. - Make your characters move, animate their expressions and create visually captivating stories in a few simple gestures. - Whether you are a manga fan or a budding mangaka, Doodalive makes it easy to create cartoons. Image Library - Access a collection of ready-to-use images to enrich your creations in the blink of an eye. Custom Stickers - Have you created a character or object that you want to reuse in other Doodalive scenes? Transform your drawings into stickers very simply. Your personalized stickers will appear in a single gesture in your library. Inspiring Models - Find inspiration with a selection of varied models, ready to be reproduced or personalized. - Use the tool to desaturate the image in order to draw on a layer over it and learn how to reproduce the drawings and improve your skills. Ultra-Intuitive Interface - Create and animate easily, with tools designed to make animation accessible to all. Animated Note Taking - Transform your traditional notes into interactive and engaging animations. -Perfect for students, teachers or professionals who want to make their notes more lively and memorable. Advanced Organization - Classify your scenes into folders for easy management of your projects. - Simply retrieve your exported creations in a dedicated directory in File Share your creations - Export your animated scenes as videos or images to use them in other projects or on social media. - Export your animations in image or video sequences to import them into professional tools like Adobe© Animate or After Effects Instant Results - Your ideas take shape and come to life immediately, for expressive and dynamic creations. Don't let your ideas be limited to simple sketches! With Doodalive, let your imagination run wild and experience the magic of animation. Only one limit, your imagination!

About

Sketch Pro

This professional art app offers advanced AI tools for digital painting, illustration, and animation. Create stunning artwork with custom brushes, text-to-image generation, and intelligent editing features. It's designed to streamline your creative workflow on iPads and iPhones.

Highlights
  • Customizable brushes
  • Text to Image AI
  • Sketch to Image AI
  • Magic Edit AI
  • Auto-Coloring AI
  • Animation Assist
  • Advanced Layer System
Features
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SketchPro, a professional art app available for iPads and iPhones, crafted with love by the Drawing Desk Team SketchPro is perfect for creative professional digital artists, including graphic designers, illustrators, comic, anime & manga book artists with a range of Drawing & advanced AI tools to upgrade their creative workflow SketchPro tools and features: Powerful Custom Brushes -A range of free specialized brush sets for sketching, painting, doodling, drawing and more. -Customisable brushes with adjustable radius, opacity, texture and more -Create brush sets -Maintain a list of your favorite brushes -Free Roller Brush with 100+ patterns Pro Digital AI Drawing tools -Create artwork effortlessly via Text to Image AI tool using simple prompts -Transform hand drawn sketches into images with advanced Sketch to Image AI tool using simple prompts -Revamp colors, textures & add or replace objects in your image with simple AI prompts via Magic Edit AI tool -Expand your digital canvas with AI. Seamlessly expand the artwork and fill it in with matching original content with no quality reduced to custom dimensions with expand artwork AI tool -Add color to sketches in seconds with Auto-Coloring AI tool or prompt color hints to sketches, drawings & complete coloring with Auto-Colorization AI tool -Remove objects, backgrounds in drawings with AI Object Remove and Pro BG Remove tools -Generate & extract Line art of any image and use in your drawings Animation Assist -Powerful interface and essential tools for creating impressive animations (Only for iPads). -Wide range of tools, including onion-skinning, instant playback, a visual timeline, and more. Essentials to accelerate the Creative Process -Smart Shapes feature for instant shape drawing -Free Symmetry Tool for easier drawing -Powerful Gradient tool with Linear and Radial options -Layer Transform Tool with Freeform, Uniform, Distort and Warp options -Magic Eraser -Assisted Drawing -Synchronization between iPad and iPhone Advanced Layer System -Free unlimited layers -Rasterize, Duplicate and Merge layers -Fill, Color Invert, Lock Alpha and Lock Layer options Advance Text Tool -Select from a full list of fonts or import your own -Customize fonts -Apply solid and gradient colors to text -A range colored font patterns, textures and designs Complete Color Palette -Full Color Wheel with adjustable color values and shades -Create unique themed color palettes for your drawing -Import colors from photos and images Extensive Shapes Library -15+ categories of free shapes, signs, and symbols -Favorites section for keeping track of frequently used shapes Other Essential Tools -Smudge Tool -Fill Bucket with solid colors -Filter options including Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Perspective Blur and more. -Convenient Cutter Tool -Import and Export functions -Custom Canvas option -AR Facepaint Organize and Save Your Work -Save every drawing automatically -Rename each saved artwork -Create folders for storing drawings methodically -Cloud syncing to secure and access artworks anywhere -Duplicate and Delete projects at any time -Time Lapse Playback -Dark Mode Unlimited access to all premium features & daily content updates during the subscription period Premium subscriptions with 1 week trial -Annual for 39.99/year You may cancel a subscription or free-trial anytime via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a SketchPro Unlimited subscription. Terms & Conditions : https://4axis.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy : https://4axis.com/privacy-policy Reach us: hello@4axis

Screenshots

Doodalive4 screens
Sketch Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sketch Pro at 4.7 against Doodalive's 4.3. Sketch Pro also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 13) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Doodalive's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%). 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. Doodalive sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Sketch Pro sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sketch Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sketch Pro has 11K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Doodalive's written reviews are positive against 81% of Sketch Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodalive ships an update every 2 months, Sketch Pro every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Doodalive versus Sketch Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodaliveSketch Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (13 ratings)4.7 (11K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1311K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.013 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB350 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKiwisApp4Axis Technologies Pte Ltd

Customer experience

Doodalive

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sketch Pro

All ratings11,463 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews686 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral5.8%
Negative13.6%

Bugs and requests

Doodalive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Sketch Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Drawings randomly deleted or lost
  • Inability to load or access previous artwork
  • Crashes when trying to import photos

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add liquify tool
  • Improve layer management and manipulation
  • Provide more default brushes
  • Implement undo/redo functionality
  • Add shape tools for perfect geometric shapes
Show 1 more
  • Improve performance and stability

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Doodalive

One-time16
  • SnowFree
  • ChristmasFree
  • New Year PackFree
Show 13 more
  • Jack o'lanternFree
  • Paper planeFree
  • No Ads$0.99
  • Magic$0.99
  • Candle$0.99
  • Petals$0.99
  • Halloween Spells$2.99
  • Dia de muertos$2.99
  • In classroom$2.99
  • New year, new challenges$2.99
  • Chalk$2.99
  • Fire$2.99
  • Pixel Art$9.99
16 purchases

Sketch Pro

Subscriptions13
  • SketchPro Premium Weekly$0.997 Days
  • SketchPro Premium Monthly3 Months trial$1.991 Month
  • SketchPro Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • SketchPro Premium Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • SketchPro Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
  • SketchPro Premium1 Year trial$14.991 Year
  • SketchPro Yearly Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • SketchPro Yearly Premium$14.991 Year
  • SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • SketchPro Premium Yearly1 Year trial$39.991 Year
  • SketchPro Yearly Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • 100 Tokens$3.99
  • 200 Tokens$4.99
  • 500 Tokens$7.99

Questions

Is Doodalive free?
Doodalive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sketch Pro free?
Sketch Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Doodalive or Sketch Pro?
Sketch Pro is rated higher. Doodalive averages 4.3 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Sketch Pro averages 4.7 from 11K ratings.
Do Doodalive or Sketch Pro have ads?
Both Doodalive and Sketch Pro show ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodalive or Sketch Pro?
Doodalive ships an update every 2 months, and Sketch Pro every 3 weeks. Most recently, Doodalive was updated on July 4, 2026 and Sketch Pro on September 29, 2026.

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