Comparison

Amadine vs Traceelements

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

Head to head
About

Amadine

This app offers a powerful yet intuitive vector design experience for creating illustrations, logos, icons, and more. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for drawing, editing, and text manipulation, suitable for both beginners and professionals. Seamlessly manage your projects with features like cloud storage integration and advanced color controls.

Highlights
  • Intuitive vector design interface
  • Create illustrations, logos, icons, UI designs
  • Seamless canvas rotation and gesture support
  • Zipped storage format for cloud saving
  • Recolor panel for easy color changes
  • Fusion tool for object combination
  • Flowing text and shape libraries
Features
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Get all the power you need in vector design with Amadine. An intuitive vector design, drawing and illustration app with a clean and simple UI. Perfect for aspiring artists and designers, indispensable for professionals. With Amadine you will be able to create designs of any complexity, including illustrations, logos, icons, UI designs, brandbooks, art and more. Want to know what Amadine has in stock? • App Showcase: Workspace allows to freely rotate canvas and supports all native Apple gestures, thus providing for a seamless experience. Thanks to the zipped storage format оf document (amdc), you can save your graphics in different cloud storages without data loss. Recolor panel lets you easily make large color changes to your artwork. Fusion tool offers you a totally different approach to creating vector objects based on combining multiple objects into one. Flowing Text feature allows users to create and modify linked text boxes where text can flow from one text box into another. Built-in vector shape libraries provide a large number of vector objects while you can also save Amadine shapes into your own libraries to create your custom sets. Vectorize any bitmap image with the Image Trace tool. Choose Monochrome or Colored mode and fine-tune Brightness Threshold, Number of Colors, Level of Detail and Smoothness to balance accuracy against output complexity. • Powerful vector tools: Work with more than 30 tools for selecting, drawing, editing and typing. Select and modify objects: Move, Selection, Lasso, Eyedropper, Scissors, Eraser, Knife, Free Transform tools. Draw and edit paths: Pen, Draw (combines Pencil and Brush), Width, Gradient, Path Width, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star, Line, Arc. Create an evenly spaced outline around any shape or complex path with the Offset Path tool. Transform shapes: Free Transform, Symmetrical Distortion, Free Distortion. Clipping Mask allows to mask objects and perform the best visual result by creating a Clipping Group with all the masked objects still being editable. • Workflow: Store multiple artworks in one document. Create multiple layers and sublayers. More than 15 different layer blending modes. View options: pixel preview, outline, guides and grid. • Impeccable colorwork: Color Wheel provides the perfect color picking and application. Full support for both RGB and CMYK color modes. Color profiles support for accurate display of colors on different devices. • Pro level text editing: Type and edit text: Text tool (combines distortable text and text in box), Text on Path tool, Text in Shape tool. Align and distribute the text. Make use of numbered and bulleted lists. • Strokes and Fills Magic: Add multiple strokes and fills. Create unique profiles for strokes and save them. Draw using pressure sensitive Apple Pencil an Apple Pencil 2 on iPads. Create art with responsive and natural brushes. Adjust the Width, Angle and Roundness of each brush, and save it for later use. Use Color, Gradient or Image fill for the shapes. Use Image Fill to get a shape filled with the needed picture. Add Distinct Effects: Shadow, Inner Shadow, Blur, Inner Glow and Outer Glow. • Share your works: Freely exchange graphics with other apps in vector and raster file formats. Import vector file formats: SVG, PDF and AI. Import raster file formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG and HEIC. Export your graphics into vector SVG and PDF files. Export your designs into raster JPEG, TIFF, PNG or PDF file formats. Export the entire document, a sheet or a selection. Amadine for iPad and iPhone supports Apple Pencil. A separate version for Mac is available. Note: In-app purchases apply to the app installed on your iPhone and iPad. The lifetime license and subscription of any term opens up the export feature and Image Trace, while the free app allows trying out all the tools and workflow specs. Terms of Use (EULA): https://amadine.com/privacy-policy/terms-conditions

About

Traceelements

Easily convert raster images and logos into scalable vector graphics (SVG). Offers various tracing options for black and white, grayscale, or color images. Export your creations for use in popular vector software.

Highlights
  • Image to SVG conversion
  • Logo tracing
  • Line simplification
  • Straight line detection
  • Color and grayscale tracing
  • Curve optimization
  • SVG export
Features
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Convert images and logos to SVG. Trace images and export the paths to SVG. Save an SVG file compatible with most Vector Software. Trace Black and White, Greyscale or colour. Options include: - line simplification - Straight line detection - Number of Colours - Number of Grey Tones - Threshold for Black and White - Stack layers or Tile layers - Curve optimisation - Simplification and point reduction This app is designed to be a solution for designers who want to convert vector versions of logos etc without using online tools. With the free version of the app you may import photos and convert them to SVG. You will not be able to export the SVG file without a subscription. You will need to purchase a subscription to:- export an SVG file compatible with most vector drawing apps. The subscription includes a one month free trial and you can cancel at any time. Within the free trial period you will have full functionality and be able to export SVG files. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Amadine4 screens
Traceelements4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Amadine at 4.1 against Traceelements's 1.0. Amadine also leads on ratings volume (122 vs 1). Traceelements's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). 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. Amadine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Traceelements sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Amadine holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Amadine has 122 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Amadine ships an update every 2 months, Traceelements every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Amadine versus Traceelements: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmadineTraceelements
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (122 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings122 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBelight Software, ltdCarl Stevenson

Customer experience

Amadine

All ratings120 ratings
Positive74.2%
Neutral6.7%
Negative19.2%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral12.5%
Negative18.1%

Traceelements

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Amadine

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • App crashes when using shape tool with many nodes
  • App crashes during undo operations
  • App crashes when exporting to non-PDF formats
  • App crashes when adding text layers to drawings
  • App crashes and closes unexpectedly after 2 minutes of use
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  • App crashes on iPad Pro with certain operations
  • Auto-save fails to preserve work (70% loss reported)
  • Export PNG returns error message
  • File reverts to previous state unexpectedly
  • Line rendering issues with holes and extra lines
  • Boolean operations behave inconsistently
  • Nodes don't accept edits
  • Gradients shift position when imported
  • Palm rejection failures causing stray points
  • Smart guides too aggressive during adjustments
  • Freehand pen reverts to default settings between sketches
  • Fill colors disappear when editing shapes
  • Lifetime subscription option disappeared from iPad version

Requested features

20 requests
  • Color wheel for intuitive color selection
  • Vision OS native support with Logitech Muse
  • Image trace/auto-trace feature for converting raster to vector
  • Brush customization and more brush presets
  • Canvas rotation capability
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  • CMYK color support for print work
  • Clipping masks with better implementation
  • Undo/redo buttons readily available on canvas
  • Compound shapes and improved boolean operations
  • Layer export formats that preserve layers
  • Symbol functionality
  • Rounded corners feature
  • Apple Pencil Pro support with pressure curve adjustment
  • Smoothing tool with better control
  • Keyboard shortcuts for common functions (e.g., Command-B for bold)
  • Isometric grid option
  • Image editing features (saturation, shadows, highlights, contrast)
  • Background remover tool
  • Gesture customization options
  • Improved node editing UI at zoom levels

Traceelements

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Amadine

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99
1 purchases

Traceelements

Subscriptions1
  • Export SVG and PNG files$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Amadine free?
Amadine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Traceelements free?
Traceelements is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Amadine or Traceelements?
Amadine is rated higher. Amadine averages 4.1 out of 5 from 122 ratings, while Traceelements averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Amadine or Traceelements have ads?
Neither Amadine nor Traceelements shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Amadine or Traceelements?
Amadine ships an update every 2 months, and Traceelements every 4 days. Most recently, Amadine was updated on October 25, 2026 and Traceelements on October 18, 2026.

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