Comparison

Drawing Desk vs Pofi Create

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

Head to head
About

Drawing Desk

Unleash your creativity with a comprehensive digital art studio. Explore a vast array of tools for drawing, sketching, painting, and pixel art. Create masterpieces, relax with coloring, or design intricate mandalas.

Highlights
  • 105+ drawing tools
  • 200+ brushes
  • Layer support
  • Smudge and blend effects
  • Pixel art creation
  • Coloring book with 500+ images
  • Mandala drawing tools
Features
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Welcome to our painting app, where the canvas is your playground and creativity knows no bounds. With our intuitive interface and comprehensive set of tools, you can unleash your inner artist and bring your imagination to life on a digital canvas. Drawing Desk: Drawing Desk offers a comprehensive digital art experience with 105 precise drawing tools, including pens, pencils, and brushes. It features popular canvases, customizable brush settings, photo import and editing, text addition, rotation and scaling, 200 HD stickers, undo/redo options, rulers, and various shapes. Enjoy a full-screen workspace, automatic saving, and easy sharing with 100+ custom drawing tools. Sketch Book: Sketch Book is a feature-rich digital art tool offering 200+ brushes, 12 popular brush categories, and advanced layer support. With features like layer transformation, brush adjustment, glowing lines, and 3D Touch compatibility, it provides a versatile and immersive drawing experience. Undo/redo, zoom, and easy export and sharing options make it a powerful choice for digital artists. Smudge Art: Unleash your creative flow with the Smudge Art feature. Blur and blend colors, transforming your digital canvas into a masterpiece that captures the essence of movement and emotion. Image Base Drawing: Image-based drawing allows artists to use existing images as references or foundations for their artwork, enhancing precision and creative possibilities. Doodle pad: Simple drawing tools like Doodle enable you jot down ideas and share them with others. Sharing your ideas with the community is simple. Pixel Art: Experience nostalgia and creativity with our 'Pixel Art' feature. Craft intricate digital art reminiscent of retro video games and 8-bit graphics. This grid-based tool empowers both enthusiasts and newcomers to design precise pixel images, sprites, and icons with old-school charm. Unleash your inner pixel artist and bring your 8-bit visions to life. Mandala Drawing: Mandala Desk provides a soothing drawing experience with playback options, customizable colors, fill tools, and pencil brushes. Users can set their preferred mandala size, complexity, and enjoy undo/redo options for creative freedom. Coloring Book: Coloring Book is the ultimate relaxation tool, offering 29 categories and 500+ images to color, including superheroes, fashion, patterns, and more. With a wide range of colors, community inspiration, advanced filters, and powerful editing tools, it's easy to create stunning art. Zoom features and seamless sharing on social platforms make it a perfect coloring companion. Subscriptions: You can choose between subscription options that closely match your needs. Premium subscriptions with 1 week and 3 days trial * Weekly / $4.99 * Monthly/$9.99 * Yearly/$39.99 These prices are for United States customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms & Conditions : http://mubassher.me/terms.html Privacy Policy : http://mubassher.me/privacy.html Whether you are a seasoned artist or a novice, our app makes it easy for you to unleash your full potential and create stunning works of art that you can share with the world. So why wait? Download our painting app today and start exploring your creative side like never before!

About

Pofi Create

This app provides a comprehensive 3D creation toolkit for artists. It features a vast library of assets, including characters, animals, and scenes, along with powerful tools for posing, animation, camera control, and lighting. It simplifies complex artistic challenges for illustrators, comic artists, and animators.

Highlights
  • Massive asset library (characters, animals, scenes)
  • Skeletal control for precise posing
  • Motion creation and animation tools
  • Advanced camera system with perspective control
  • Professional lighting studio
  • Customizable expressions and prop deformation
Features
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Draw what you imagine, with a reference you can shape. Pofi Create helps illustrators, comic artists and drawing enthusiasts build the 3D references their artwork needs. Start with a character, a pose or a ready-made scene. Arrange your subjects, find the camera angle and explore the light, so the picture in your head becomes easier to study and draw. Pose it. Frame it. Light it. Draw it. • FIND THE PIECES FOR YOUR NEXT DRAWING Build a scene with characters, animals, props and environments. Explore separate hands and feet, heads and art-study models, plus effects and alternate appearances. A growing collection of over 100,000 resources gives you starting points for solo poses, groups, interactions and hands holding props. Library expansions include 24 added model categories and 32 motion series. Supported models have built-in poses, expressions and appearance options; structural guides help you understand form. • SHAPE THE POSE YOU NEED Start with standing, sitting, running or action poses, then refine supported models. Around 80 preset hand poses help you study difficult fingers and grips without starting from scratch. Advanced controls offer up to 150 controllable joints on supported character rigs, detailed hand and toe adjustment, and over 100 facial parameters on selected characters. IK moves connected limbs from a target; FK turns individual joints. Body flexibility, joint limits and IK blending help with finer adjustments. Driver sliders change supported props and effects. Available controls vary by resource. • START WITH A COMPLETE SCENE Scene templates bring models, composition, cameras and lighting together, so you can study how the whole picture works. Static: open a ready-made composition with poses and light. Motion: play or pause existing animations to study body movement, camera changes and lighting. Annotated: use notes and dedicated views to understand structure and details. Interactive: tap to switch poses, scenes and existing animations. With Pro, adjust and save your own reference scenes for later drawings. • SEE THE ANGLE BEFORE YOU DRAW Explore standard, wide-angle and fisheye lenses to plan perspective and distortion. Choose a solid background, an HDR sky or your own image. Depth of field helps you preview foreground and background blur, making spatial relationships easier to study. • SEE HOW LIGHT SHAPES THE FORM Try studio lighting presets, use an HDR environment, or adjust three directional lights independently. Change direction, color and shadows for key, fill and rim lighting. Compare how different setups reveal a face, a pose or a prop before you paint the shadows. • BUILT FOR YOUR DRAWING WORKFLOW Use Pofi Create for illustration, manga, comics, figure drawing and storyboard planning. Existing motion scenes also help with animation studies; portrait poses, staging, clothing and accessories provide references for photography and fashion. A new 3D engine and streamlined controls support detailed observation. Cloud saving and sync keep saved work available on supported devices and platforms. The Pofi series has over 10 million combined installs across all platforms. Export JPG or transparent PNG snapshots to use alongside your drawing app. • RESOURCES AND FEATURES ARE SEPARATE Free to download, with some free resources. Buy individual resources with P-coins for permanent access; they remain available after Pro expires. Advanced controls, lighting and custom-scene saving require Pro. Ultra provides access to all resources without individual P-coin purchases. Check the purchase page for pricing, duration, included features and renewal terms. Ultra access differs from permanently purchasing each resource. • CONNECT WITH POFI X / Instagram: @PofiCreate Discord: https://discord.gg/q3VqR98Vkg Email: create@pofiart.com Terms of Use: https://create.pofiapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://create.pofiapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Drawing Desk4 screens
Pofi Create4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Pofi Create at none against Drawing Desk's shown. Drawing Desk's advantage is review sentiment (45% vs 23%) and ratings volume (15K vs 410). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Drawing Desk sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Pofi Create sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drawing Desk holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drawing Desk has 15K ratings behind it against 410, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Drawing Desk's written reviews are positive against 23% of Pofi Create's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Desk ships an update every 4 weeks, Pofi Create every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Drawing Desk versus Pofi Create: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing DeskPofi Create
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (15K ratings) — better4.1 (410 ratings)
Positive reviews44.7% of reviews — better22.6% of reviews
Number of ratings15K — better410
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB1.0 GB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFarida AfrosePofi Entertainment

Customer experience

Drawing Desk

All ratings15,181 ratings
Positive80.7%
Neutral8.4%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews553 reviews
Positive44.7%
Neutral13.7%
Negative41.6%

Pofi Create

All ratings410 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative18.8%
Written reviews137 reviews
Positive22.6%
Neutral8.0%
Negative69.3%

User reviews

Drawing Desk

From 15K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly
  • 🎨 Good for beginners
  • 💡 Variety of tools and colors
  • 🚀 Efficient for quick illustrations

Room to improve

  • 💰 Too many paid features
  • 📢 Excessive ads
  • 🐛 Glitchy performance
  • 🎨 Limited brush/tool options

Pofi Create

From 410 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤍 Best reference for posing
  • 🙌 Great for art
  • 👍 Helpful app

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Everything locked behind paywall
  • 🤯 Confusing and difficult to use
  • 🤬 Predatory monetization
  • 🐛 Crashes and network issues
  • 💰 Insanely expensive

Bugs and requests

Drawing Desk

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Drawings become pixelated
  • App crashes when undoing complex drawings
  • Saved images disappear
  • Brush/tool selection window blocks drawing area

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add layers and selection tools
  • Improve undo/redo functionality
  • Implement color picker and fill tool
  • Provide more brush/pencil options
  • Add text and blending tools

Pofi Create

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Login and sign-up issues
  • Inability to save or load poses
  • Compatibility problems on various devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • More free models and poses
  • Easier posing and manipulation
  • Better instructions and tutorials
  • More language support
  • Improved performance and stability
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  • Fair and transparent pricing

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Drawing Desk

Subscriptions3
  • Drawing Desk Weekly Offer3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Drawing Desk Premium Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Drawing Desk Yearly Trial7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time7
  • Unlock Emoji Stickers$0.99$0.99
  • Unlock Love Stickers$0.99$0.99
  • Unlock Vegetable Stickers$0.99$0.99
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  • Unlock Car & Bike Stickers$0.9$0.99
  • Unlock Sports Stickers$0.99$0.99
  • Unlock All Stickers$4.99
  • Hide Ads$9.99
10 purchases

Pofi Create

Subscriptions1
  • 「Pofi Create」PRO Version 365day$12.991 Year
One-time9
  • 「Pofi Create」 Discount$0.99
  • 「Pofi Create」 P-coin(60)$1.99
  • 「Pofi Create」P-coin(300)$7.99
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  • 「Pofi Create」PRO Version 365 day$12.99
  • 「Pofi Create」Pro Version$12.99
  • 「Pofi Create」P-coin(680)$17.99
  • 「Pofi Create」P-coin(980)$24.99
  • 「Pofi Create」Ultra Annual$69.99
  • 「Pofi Create」P-coin(3280)$79.99

Questions

Is Drawing Desk free?
Drawing Desk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pofi Create free?
Pofi Create is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Desk or Pofi Create?
Drawing Desk is rated higher. Drawing Desk averages 4.3 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while Pofi Create averages 4.1 from 410 ratings.
Do Drawing Desk or Pofi Create have ads?
Drawing Desk shows ads; Pofi Create does not.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Desk or Pofi Create?
Drawing Desk ships an update every 4 weeks, and Pofi Create every 3 weeks. Most recently, Drawing Desk was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pofi Create on November 7, 2026.

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