Comparison

Super Simple Draw vs Simple Blackboard

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

Head to head
About

Super Simple Draw

A minimalist drawing application designed for quick sketches and notes, offering seamless integration with Apple Pencil and widgets. It supports various iPad features and standard iOS sharing, making it as easy to use as a physical whiteboard.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Pencil gesture support
  • iPad multitasking
  • Grid and lined backgrounds
  • Draw on images
  • Save for Instagram
  • Undo/redo functionality
Features
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Minimalist drawing app. Supports Apple Pencil (new & old), widgets, both portrait & landscape, iPad multitasking, standard iOS share, the latest devices. Pick up & use. Like a white board or scratch paper. Features: • Widget to show case the latest or favorite drawing on the home screen • Apple Pencil gesture support • Multi-window and multitasking support on iPadOS • Original Apple Pencil support • Grid background and lined background • Draw on top of another picture • Save square images for Instagram submission • Draw in either landscape or portrait • Undo and redo • Standard iOS share/action button (copy, save, send to other messaging/social apps) Perfect for: • Jotting down notes • Illustrate something to friends/coworkers through drawing • Draw/sketch something casually • Tell stories to kids with quick illustrations • Play quick random games with friends (e.g. draw and guess, or any simple board game you just invented) • Practice some basic drawing skills (drawing straight line, parallel lines, circles, faces, etc) Draw for a better world: Super Simple Draw started as a way to reduce the use of papers because we believe that the current environmental degradation and the climate change are pressing issues that demand urgent actions. Now we took a step further: for every ~2000 lines you draw, we plant a tree through a partnership with Trees for the Future. More than ten thousand trees have been planted so far. Learn more at https://trees.theiosapp.com

About

Simple Blackboard

This app provides a digital canvas for drawing, sketching, and note-taking. It offers various tools like brushes, colors, shapes, and text, with options to load photos and record your creative process. Save your work, manage pages, and keep your last drawing accessible.

Highlights
  • Blackboard or whiteboard selection
  • Adjustable brush sizes and colors
  • Drawing of various shapes
  • Text typing with adjustable font size
  • Load photos onto the board
  • Record video of drawing process
  • Save drawings and manage pages
Features
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This app allows you to draw on a simple blackboard (or whiteboard). You can use it for drawing, jotting down, illustrations, math calculations and etc. The key features are: - You can choose blackboard or whiteboard. - You have various brush sizes and huge number of paint colors. - You can draw various shapes such as line, arrow, circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, and polygon. - You can type text with adjustable font size. - You can load photo to the board. - You can record video from your drawing screen with sound from your device microphone. - You can save your drawing to your device. - You can add or remove pages. - You can set your favourite paint colors and color opacity. - Your last drawing is always saved. - The device screen never goes off while you are using the app. The premium purchase removes all ads, enables adding text, loading photo, drawing shapes and grid, setting favorite paint colors, and paint color opacity.

Screenshots

Super Simple Draw4 screens
Simple Blackboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Super Simple Draw at 82% against Simple Blackboard's 50%. Super Simple Draw also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). Simple Blackboard's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). 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. Super Simple Draw sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Simple Blackboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Super Simple Draw holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Simple Draw has 4K ratings behind it against 137, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Super Simple Draw's written reviews are positive against 50% of Simple Blackboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Super Simple Draw ships an update every 5 weeks, Simple Blackboard every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Super Simple Draw versus Simple Blackboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuper Simple DrawSimple Blackboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4K ratings) — better4.3 (137 ratings)
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4K — better137
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBao LeiBita Sobhani

Customer experience

Super Simple Draw

All ratings4,001 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive82.0%
Neutral9.0%
Negative9.0%

Simple Blackboard

All ratings137 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral22.2%
Negative27.8%

Bugs and requests

Super Simple Draw

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • In-app purchase issues with ads still showing
  • Compatibility problems on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add zoom and pan functionality
  • Implement more brush/tool options
  • Expand color palette
  • Add ability to save and load drawings

Simple Blackboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Super Simple Draw

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
1 purchases

Simple Blackboard

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Super Simple Draw free?
Super Simple Draw is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Blackboard free?
Simple Blackboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Super Simple Draw or Simple Blackboard?
Super Simple Draw is rated higher. Super Simple Draw averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4K ratings, while Simple Blackboard averages 4.3 from 137 ratings.
Do Super Simple Draw or Simple Blackboard have ads?
Both Super Simple Draw and Simple Blackboard show ads.
Which is updated more often, Super Simple Draw or Simple Blackboard?
Super Simple Draw ships an update every 5 weeks, and Simple Blackboard every 9 months. Most recently, Super Simple Draw was updated on October 2, 2026 and Simple Blackboard on September 29, 2026.

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