Comparison

Draw Every Day vs Dark Chess+

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

Head to head
About

Draw Every Day

This app provides a daily drawing prompt and a blank canvas, challenging users to create an ink drawing within 24 hours. It offers a simplified drawing experience with artist-tuned tools, encouraging consistent practice and progress tracking over time.

Highlights
  • Daily drawing prompts
  • 24-hour drawing challenges
  • Artist-tuned drawing tools
  • Progress tracking over time
  • Offline drawing capability
  • Optional reminder notifications
Features
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At the beginning of each day, Draw Every Day gives you one blank canvas and a prompt. You have 24 hours to fill that canvas up with an ink drawing. The next day, your drawing is frozen, saved, and a new blank canvas and a new prompt appears. Every day is a new prompt, all year -- so you'll never run out of new ideas. Draw Every Day forces you to take it slow and steady, and records your progress over days and weeks -- as time goes on, you'll see how far you've come! • Simplicity Draw Every Day has 6 highly-tuned drawing tools, tweaked by professional artists. You can spend your time drawing, not hunting for the perfect brush settings. Most teachers and ateliers recommend learning to draw before learning to paint. Draw Every Day lets you learn the intricacies of black and white without the distraction of color. For a real ink experience, you can turn off undo, redo, and the eraser tool -- every mark can be permanent, just as if you were using india ink on paper. • Great for daily challenges Participating in a 30-day drawing challenge like Inktober, Drawloween, or Mer-may? Draw Every Day is a perfect tool to keep yourself on track. • Features - Optimized for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil - Works with Logitech Crayon - Draw in your spare moments on the iPhone with your fingers - Daily prompts, including Inktober prompts during October - Optional daily reminder notifications - Infinite undo and redo (even if you close the app) - 6 highly-tuned drawing tools: Fine-liner, smooth brush, rough brush, pencil, and eraser - 5 colors of ink - Left-handed and right-handed interfaces - Disable or enable the pencil, eraser, undo, and redo to make drawing more or less like real ink on paper - Several kinds of tinted paper - See a calendar of your progress over time

About

Dark Chess+

Experience a unique twist on Chinese Chess where higher-level pieces can capture lower-level ones. The game ends when all your pieces are captured or you can no longer make a move.

Highlights
  • Unique capture rules
  • Hierarchical piece strength
  • Chinese Chess base
  • Strategic gameplay
  • Loss condition: all pieces eaten or no moves
Features
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It is a very interesting chess, it is using Chinese Chess to play but the game rule is very different. Only higher level chess can eat lower level chess, you all you chess is eaten or you cannot move. You will loss.

Screenshots

Draw Every Day4 screens
Dark Chess+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Draw Every Day at 100% against Dark Chess+'s 0%. Draw Every Day also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.5) and ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Draw Every Day costs $4.99 and Dark Chess+ $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Draw Every Day holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Draw Every Day has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Draw Every Day's written reviews are positive against 0% of Dark Chess+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Draw Every Day ships an update every 2 weeks, Dark Chess+ every 14 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Draw Every Day versus Dark Chess+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraw Every DayDark Chess+
Price$4.99$4.99
Rating4.4 (21 ratings) — better2.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings21 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 14 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB92 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSam BleckleyOscar Tsang

Customer experience

Draw Every Day

All ratings21 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Dark Chess+

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Draw Every Day

No in-app purchases

None

Dark Chess+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Draw Every Day free?
Draw Every Day costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dark Chess+ free?
Dark Chess+ costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Draw Every Day or Dark Chess+?
Draw Every Day is rated higher. Draw Every Day averages 4.4 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Dark Chess+ averages 2.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Draw Every Day or Dark Chess+ have ads?
Dark Chess+ shows ads; Draw Every Day does not.
Which is updated more often, Draw Every Day or Dark Chess+?
Draw Every Day ships an update every 2 weeks, and Dark Chess+ every 14 months. Most recently, Draw Every Day was updated on October 24, 2026 and Dark Chess+ on October 24, 2026.

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