Comparison

PaintMee 2 vs Doodletron

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

Head to head
About

PaintMee 2

Transform your photos into unique works of art with various styles and a powerful focus system. Experiment with different artistic expressions and create personalized paintings. Save your creations in high resolution or as a movie of the painting process.

Highlights
  • 92 tuned example styles
  • Focus point system for expression
  • Up to 5 focus points
  • Unique results with each use
  • Save painting process as movie
  • 4K resolution rendering
Features
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True Art happens when your mind is invited into a piece. When there is something intriguing, provoking, ambiguous or incomplete. Now YOU can make true art in an instant – and have fun while doing it. Your tools are STYLE and FOCUS. For a photo, choose a style and set a focus point. Moving the focus point dramatically alters the resulting painting. Use this very powerful tool to make the painting truly yours. Features • 92 carefully tuned example styles. • Styles range from oil paintings through sketches, ink splatter and wood carvings to downright craziness. • Use a powerful focus point system to control expression. • Place up to 5 focus points. • Different results every time, even for the same style. • Watch the painting take shape stroke by stroke. • Advanced users: fine tune styles to get that perfect look. • Advanced users: create your own styles and add them to the list. • Save the entire painting process as a movie. • Render and save painting in 4K resolution.

About

Doodletron

Transform your child's drawings into unique AI-generated art. This app offers daily creative prompts curated by art teachers and a private gallery to save masterpieces. It provides a safe, ad-free environment for families to explore and celebrate creativity.

Highlights
  • Transform doodles into AI art
  • Daily teacher-curated prompts
  • Private gallery for saved art
  • Multiple unique art styles
  • Ad-free and safe environment
Features
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Right now, your child draws purple horses with seven legs. They narrate entire universes while they scribble. Every drawing is already a complete idea — with its own characters, logic, and worlds behind it. Doodletron shows where that idea can go. Photograph your child's drawing, transform it into an illustrated version of what the child said it was, and bring it to life as an animated video — with a voice recording of the child explaining what they made, saved in a private before and after art gallery only the parent controls. ► See Different Worlds The Drawing Can Grow Into Choose from popular art styles — clay worlds, toy brick universes, animated films, pixel block worlds, whimsical storybooks, and more. Doodletron transforms the drawing into an illustrated version of that world. The drawing is the starting point. The style is the direction it grows. ► Watch It Come to Life One tap and their illustrated drawing becomes a short animated video. The dragon spreads its wings. The spaceship blasts off. The silly monster wiggles and waves. This is the moment they gasp and immediately say "Do it again." Save the video. Share it with aunts, uncles, grandparents. Or just watch your child's face when their imagination becomes something that moves. ► Record the Story Behind It "This is a dragon. But he's scared of the dark. Like me." Press record. Let them explain their drawing in their own words — the characters, the plot twists, the logic that only makes sense to a five-year-old. That voice recording is saved permanently alongside the drawing and its animation. One day they'll be seventeen and you'll play this back. You'll remember exactly how their voice sounded at this age. ► A New Idea Every Morning Daily prompts curated by art teachers help spark new ideas: silly monsters, secret hideouts, animals with jobs. Kids who draw every day get better at thinking, not just art. ► A Gallery They'll Want to Visit at 25 Every drawing, transformation, animation, and voice story is saved in a private gallery that only you control, backed up to your iCloud for sake keeping. Imagine sitting with your child — now an adult — scrolling through everything they made. They tap a drawing. Their five-year-old voice plays back. That's what you're building inside Doodletron. Not a camera roll. A living archive of a creative childhood. * Your child's drawings are never stored on our servers and are never used to train AI. No ads. Parent-operated. Free to start — no credit card required. Start capturing their stories with Doodletron. Before this version of them is gone. --------- This is a parent-operated tool, no child accounts. Questions or suggestions? Visit doodletron.art/support Terms of Service: doodletron.art/tos Privacy Policy: doodletron.art/privacy

Screenshots

PaintMee 24 screens
Doodletron4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Doodletron at Free against PaintMee 2's $5.99. Doodletron also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 79%). PaintMee 2's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (123 vs 28). On in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Doodletron is free to download; PaintMee 2 costs $5.99 up front. PaintMee 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Doodletron sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doodletron holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 123 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of PaintMee 2's written reviews are positive against 100% of Doodletron's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PaintMee 2 ships an update every 3 months, Doodletron every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PaintMee 2 versus Doodletron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaintMee 2Doodletron
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (123 ratings)4.9 (28 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings123 — better28
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio MeeRobert Idol

Customer experience

PaintMee 2

All ratings123 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%

Doodletron

All ratings21 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

PaintMee 2

One-time1
  • High Definition Export$9.99
2 purchases

Doodletron

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is PaintMee 2 free?
PaintMee 2 costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Doodletron free?
Doodletron is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PaintMee 2 or Doodletron?
Doodletron is rated higher. PaintMee 2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 123 ratings, while Doodletron averages 4.9 from 28 ratings.
Do PaintMee 2 or Doodletron have ads?
Doodletron shows ads; PaintMee 2 does not.
Which is updated more often, PaintMee 2 or Doodletron?
PaintMee 2 ships an update every 3 months, and Doodletron every 2 weeks. Most recently, PaintMee 2 was updated on November 3, 2026 and Doodletron on November 5, 2026.

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