Comparison

Amadine vs createwithpixels

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

createwithpixels

Features
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Draw bitmaps freehand, over imports or inside grids with an app that’s easy-to-learn. Designed for beginners, it offers a resizable pencil, a web-friendly colour palette, plus a high zoom level. Your bitmap designs are saved to a personal library on your phone. You can choose to share any image via a public library at createwithpixels.com, or export any image for sharing via social media.

Screenshots

Amadine4 screens
createwithpixels4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: createwithpixels at none against Amadine's 3. Amadine's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. createwithpixels asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Amadine ships an update every 2 months, createwithpixels every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Amadine versus createwithpixels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmadinecreatewithpixels
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (120 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings120 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB51 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBelight Software, ltdTravis Noakes

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

createwithpixels

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
None

createwithpixels

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Amadine free?
Amadine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is createwithpixels free?
createwithpixels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Amadine or createwithpixels have ads?
Neither Amadine nor createwithpixels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Amadine or createwithpixels?
Amadine ships an update every 2 months, and createwithpixels every 6 months. Most recently, Amadine was updated on September 19, 2026 and createwithpixels on September 14, 2026.

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