Comparison

Mandalica vs iPencil

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

Head to head
About

Mandalica

Create beautiful, joyful circular designs with symbols, ornaments, and text. This tool is perfect for crafting unique wedding invitations, personalized gifts, posters, and business logos.

Highlights
  • Create custom mandala designs
  • Incorporate symbols and ornaments
  • Add text to designs
  • Design wedding invitations
  • Personalize gifts
  • Create business logos
Features
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Mandalica is an easy to use Mandala maker, letting you shape symbols, ornaments and text into beautiful joyful circles. Mandalas make for amazing wedding invitations, personalized gifts for newborns (that will be cherished for life), posters, as well as business logos! We're offering Mandalica for free for a limited time, check it out! Oh and please email us if you have any questions or feedback, we'd truly love to hear from you: hello@mandalica.app

About

iPencil

Create sophisticated vector graphics on your iPad with unlimited layers, powerful editing tools, and extensive import/export options. Customize your workspace with light, dark, or tinted themes.

Highlights
  • Unlimited layers
  • Path and text manipulation
  • Gradient fills
  • Boolean operations
  • Color wheel and swatch library
  • SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG import/export
Features
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iPencil is a vector illustration app designed from scratch for the iPad . It supports paths, compound paths, text, text on a path, images, groups, masks, gradient fills, and an unlimited number of layers. * Take control with unlimited layers. Feel free to add as many or as few elements in each layer to organise your drawings. Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers as you draw. Isolate the active layer for easy editing. Adjust each layers transparency independently to get your ideal composition. * Powerful editing at your fingertips. Easily manipulate single or multiple elements with powerful scale and rotate tools. Associate individual elements into groups. Interactively edit gradient fills on the canvas. Perform a range of Boolean operations on paths, including Unite, Intersect, Exclude and Subtract Front. * Colors to match your imagination. Picking the perfect color is easy with the freedom of the expressive color wheel. Or modify colors using RGB and HSB sliders. Enter the hexadecimal value to precisely match existing artwork colors. Sample colors using the dropper. Store and recall colors from the swatch library. * Import, export and sharing. Import drawings from desktop vector applications as SVG and include photos directly from your camera roll, or import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services. Export your drawings for sharing or importing into other apps as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services. Send drawings as photos directly to your camera roll. * Light, dark or tinted themes. Choose between the light and dark monochrome themes or the classic Inkpad with user interface tints. The light and dark themes make minimal use of color so that tints in the user interface do not distract from or influence your artwork color choices. Geti Pencil Premium. Unlimited access to the tools during the subscription period. The subscriptions are $0.99 week with 3 day trial period, $2.99 for 1 Months or equal to the same price tier as Apple App Store Matrix, determined as the equivalent of subscription price in USD. You may cancel a subscription or free-trial anytime via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a Sketch Pad Unlimited subscription. Terms & Conditions : http://ipencilpro.com/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy : http://ipencilpro.com/privacy-policy.html

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mandalica at 50% against iPencil's 0%. Mandalica also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). iPencil's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. iPencil sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Mandalica asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mandalica holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Mandalica's written reviews are positive against 0% of iPencil's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mandalica versus iPencil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMandalicaiPencil
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS13.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYoni LevyBon Tran

Customer experience

Mandalica

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

iPencil

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mandalica

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

iPencil

Subscriptions4
  • Activity tools in a week$0.997 Days
  • Activity tools in month$3.491 Month
  • Activity tools in 3 month$6.493 Months
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  • Activity tools in year1 Year trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Mandalica free?
Mandalica is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iPencil free?
iPencil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mandalica or iPencil?
Mandalica is rated higher. Mandalica averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while iPencil averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Mandalica or iPencil have ads?
Neither Mandalica nor iPencil shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mandalica or iPencil?
Mandalica ships an update every 3 weeks, and iPencil every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mandalica was updated on November 2, 2026 and iPencil on November 2, 2026.

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