Dessin Scale vs Overgrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dessin Scale
Overlay a drawing scale onto your camera view to help plan your artwork's composition. Save your scaled images for later reference. Supports standard paper sizes like B and charcoal paper.
- Camera overlay scale
- Composition planning tool
- Save captured images
- Supports B size paper
- Supports charcoal paper size
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This application allows you to display a drawing scale on the camera. It also supports saving of captured images. Please use it to determine the composition of your drawing. ■Supported sizes B size Charcoal paper size
Overgrid
Easily transfer any photo to your canvas with a customizable grid overlay. Scale your reference image precisely to match your real-world dimensions, ensuring accurate proportions for your artwork. Features include value studies, temperature mapping, and adaptive contrast for optimal visibility.
- Customizable drawing grid
- Scale photos to canvas dimensions
- Value study and temperature overlay
- Adaptive contrast grid colors
- Save setups as templates
- Export at full resolution
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Overgrid puts a drawing grid on your reference photo, with squares sized to your real canvas, so you can copy it square by square and keep every proportion. Import from your gallery, or shoot with your camera on iPhone and iPad. Set rows, columns, line weight. Done. Match your canvas first. Crop the reference to your canvas ratio, then enter your real dimensions. 16x20, 12x12, whatever you are working on. Every square lines up when you transfer. No guesswork, no wasted paint. Customize everything. Grid color, opacity, thickness, diagonals for composition, numbering to track your squares. Make the grid work the way you work. Go full screen beside the easel. Pinch to zoom into a square, and the screen stays on while you paint. Value study breaks the image into tonal levels so you can plan light and shadow before you start. Temperature overlay maps warm and cool zones across the composition. Adaptive contrast reads your image and picks grid colors that stay visible on any background. Dark lines on light areas. Light lines on dark. You never lose the grid. Save setups as templates. One tap to apply your favorite configuration to any new project. Export at full resolution, up to 4096px, for printing or reference at any size. Free includes three projects, the whole grid (lines, dots or crosses, numbering, diagonals, six colors), crop and rotate, and saving at 1024px. Full access is a one-time purchase. Not a subscription. No account. No cloud. No ads. Your images never leave your device.
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Verdict
Dessin Scale and Overgrid both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Overgrid's written reviews are positive against 17% of Dessin Scale's. Overgrid also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 8 months). Dessin Scale's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Overgrid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dessin Scale asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dessin Scale against 5.0 for Overgrid. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Overgrid has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 17% of Dessin Scale's written reviews are positive against 100% of Overgrid's.
Dessin Scale ships an update every 8 months, Overgrid every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dessin Scale | Overgrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haruki Sugaya | Paintingstack Technologies SpA |
Customer experience
Dessin Scale
Overgrid
In-app purchases
Dessin Scale
No in-app purchases
Overgrid
- Overgrid Premium Lifetime$14.99









