StretchPaper vs EasyCanvas
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StretchPaper
Unleash your creativity on an expansive, virtually endless digital canvas. This app allows for detailed note-taking, intricate diagramming, and artistic expression without space constraints. Export your work in various formats, customize your tools, and enjoy a seamless drawing experience.
- Infinite canvas
- Note-taking
- Diagramming
- Artistic drawing
- Export as images/PDFs
- Vector manipulation
- Custom pen definitions
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Take notes and draw on an infinite* canvas! Stretchpaper is a new way to take notes, make diagrams, and show your artistic talent. With an infinite canvas, you'll never run out of room. Stretchpaper is both fun and useful! Export your drawings as images or mega-pdfs, manipulate vectors, define your own pens, and more. Works great on the iPad, but works best with the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro! * not actually infinite, but close enough!
EasyCanvas
Transform your iPad into a drawing tablet for your PC. Use your iPad and Apple Pencil to draw directly in popular creative software like Photoshop and Clip Studio. Enjoy features like palm rejection and pen pressure sensitivity for a natural drawing experience.
- Use iPad as a drawing tablet
- Connect wired or wirelessly
- Supports Apple Pencil pressure and tilt
- Palm rejection for natural drawing
- Works with PC creative software
- Virtual display solution
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EasyCanvas, turn your iPad into a wired or wireless liquid crystal tablet EasyCanvas is an app that lets you use your iPad as a wired or wireless liquid crystal tablet. Draw directly in PC programs such as Photoshop and Clip Studio through your iPad. ▶ Excellent performance of iPad and Apple Pencil Now, if you have a iPad and Apple Pencil, you don't need to buy an expensive LCD tablet. The excellent hardware of the iPad is combined with the technology of EasyCanvas to make the perfect LCD tablet. ▶ Familiarize yourself with drawing on paper It fully supports ""Palm Rejection"", which allows you to draw with your palm on the screen, and ""Pen Pressure"" and ""Tilt"" of the Apple Pencil. Also, the stable performance makes the screen and stylus movement smoother. ▶ Independent Virtual Display Solution Easy&Light's virtual display solution provides extended display. It can be used as an extended monitor in triple or higher environments as well as a dual monitor. ▶ Simultaneous wired/wireless connection support It supports both stable USB connection and convenient wireless connection via Wi-Fi. Now work anywhere, anytime, any way you want. Pay after you experience it for yourself! We provide a trial function that you can use for free for 3 days. [Support Environment] PC: Windows 10 (WDDM version 2.0 or later) iPad : iOS 12.2 or later iPad - Support : http://www.easynlight.com/en/supporteasycanvas - Privacy policy : https://www.easynlight.com/easycanvaspolicy/
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: EasyCanvas at Free against StretchPaper's $2.99. EasyCanvas also leads on ratings volume (770 vs 65). StretchPaper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
EasyCanvas is free to download; StretchPaper costs $2.99 up front. EasyCanvas sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. StretchPaper asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for StretchPaper against 3.8 for EasyCanvas. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EasyCanvas has 770 ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of StretchPaper's written reviews are positive against 57% of EasyCanvas's.
StretchPaper ships an update every 3 weeks, EasyCanvas every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StretchPaper | EasyCanvas |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (65 ratings) — better | 3.8 (770 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 57.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 | 770 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Infinite State Machine Inc. | DEVGURU Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
StretchPaper
EasyCanvas
Bugs and requests
StretchPaper
Reported bugs
24 issues- Crashes and lost all work
- App crashes when trying to share/export
- Paste function not working
- Undo doesn't go back far enough
- Delete then undo bug
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- Palm rejection issues
- Finger drawing interferes with pen
- Content disappears
- Strokes disappearing
- Grid is hard to see
- App crashes without saving
- Force closes when sharing to PDF
- Glitchy export
- App shuts down and glitches appear
- Marks moving after undo/redo or app reopen
- Notes shift slightly after reopening
- Cannot load bigger workspaces
- Takes forever to load smaller workspaces
- Developer not responding to support requests
- Export/share brings up nsurl error
- Lines jump on screen
- Color selection buggy
- Cannot inactivate finger writing
- Canvas size limit
Requested features
22 requests- Add 2-finger tap to undo
- Add 3-finger tap to redo
- Disable finger drawing/touch input
- Add ruler/scale feature
- Add shape detection
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- Add text layer/typed text
- Add import vector image
- Add folder system
- Add cloud backup (iCloud/Dropbox)
- Add copy/paste functionality for images/elements
- Add layers
- Add color palette
- Add ability to rename files
- Add straight edge tool
- Add zoom lock feature
- Add quick undo gesture
- Add sync to iCloud
- Add ability to resize canvas to initial state
- Add Spline tools
- Add standard type tool
- Add export to other formats
- Add more zoom levels
EasyCanvas
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StretchPaper
No in-app purchases
EasyCanvas
- 14 days Free TrialFree
- 3 days freeFree
- Purchase App$11.99
