Super Simple Draw vs Saturn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Pencil gesture support
- iPad multitasking
- Grid and lined backgrounds
- Draw on images
- Save for Instagram
- Undo/redo functionality
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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
Saturn
Easily sketch your ideas with intuitive 3D drawing tools. Capture patterns from photos and trace their outlines for unique creations. Experience a novel way to bring your imagination to life on your device.
- 3D ruler for scaling, rotating, and translating
- Draw outlines of 3D objects
- Capture patterns from photos
- Trace outlines of patterns
- Simple drawing interface
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You may want to sketch your thoughts. It might be a table, a fan, or anything. Let’s draw your mind out in a simple way! Saturn offers some useful tools for you to draw the outline of 3D object. Imagine you have a 3D ruler in the app. You can scale, rotate and translate it on the canvas. You may see a fun pattern in a patch of cloud. It might be a whale, or an elephant. Let's take a picture of it. Saturn offers some useful tools for you to find the outline of the pattern. This will be a brand new drawing experience!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Saturn at none against Super Simple Draw's 1. Saturn also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks). Super Simple Draw's advantage is ratings volume (4K vs 3). On price and device support 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. Super Simple Draw sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Saturn asks for nothing beyond the download.
Saturn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Simple Draw has 4K ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of Saturn's.
Super Simple Draw ships an update every 5 weeks, Saturn every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Super Simple Draw | Saturn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Bao Lei | Cheuk Yin Lau |
Customer experience
Super Simple Draw
Saturn
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
Saturn
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Super Simple Draw
- Remove Ads$0.99
Saturn
No in-app purchases
