6F vs Mental Canvas Draw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
6F
This tool combines photo editing, annotation, and illustration capabilities into a single application. It offers precise markup and drawing features using a virtual mouse for enhanced accuracy on mobile devices. Create professional designs, posters, and illustrations with ease.
- Accurate photo markup and annotation
- Virtual mouse for precise control
- Complex typesetting and poster design
- Vector shape drawing and illustration
- Create charts and graphics
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It’s every photo app, annotate app, markup & design app, illustrate app you’ve ever needed, wanted, or dreamed of - combined into one powerful tool.For the first time, people can use “Mouse” on mobile to do accurate annotation&markup & illustrate jobs, just as work on PC or Mac . Why is the Virtual Mouse must-need ? In the traditional finger touch drawing , the finger covered a large area makes you unable to locate accurately . Using the Virtual Mouse , you can work precisely and intuitively. ●Features ( many are free, some are unlocked with purchases ): - Easily to accurately markup & annotate pictures( such as the dimension lines ,texts , shapes etc). - Easily to make complex typesetting , professional poster , PPT , charts , graphics . - Easily to draw vector shapes , illustration and cartoon . 6F is a powerful markup photo tool and illustrate tool. It markup or annotate the photo with various shapes. Any time, just take a photo and markup or annotate it! Make every picture annotable. standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA)https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 6F at 86% against Mental Canvas Draw's 42%. 6F also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks) and rating (4.1 vs 3.8). Mental Canvas Draw's advantage is ratings volume (673 vs 17). 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
Both are free to download. 6F sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month 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.
6F holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mental Canvas Draw has 673 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of 6F's written reviews are positive against 42% of Mental Canvas Draw's.
6F ships an update every 3 days, Mental Canvas Draw every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | 6F | Mental Canvas Draw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (17 ratings) — better | 3.8 (673 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better | 42.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 673 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 五四 徐 | Mental Canvas |
Customer experience
6F
Mental Canvas Draw
Bugs and requests
6F
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
6F
- 6F Master$2.491 Month
- Upgrade to Pro$2.99
Mental Canvas Draw
- 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
- Mental Canvas Creator$49.99









