Artist Lightbox vs Line
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artist Lightbox
Transform your device into a digital lightbox for tracing and transferring images. Adjust image contrast and saturation, lock your image in place, and use any photo from your camera roll. The app offers biometric security and a togglable toolbar for a seamless tracing experience.
- Image adjustments (contrast, saturation)
- Lock image during tracing
- Biometric security
- Togglable toolbar
- Image rotation
- Use camera roll images
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Artist Lightbox is an app that makes your device into a lightbox! Trace images or even just use the white screen to use with transfer paper! Features: Image Adjustments Adjust the Contrast and Saturation of images. Lock Image Lock the image to keep from adjusting the image while you are tracing. Biometric Security Lock your image from loading until authenticated. Togglable Toolbar Triple tap the screen to hide and un-hide the toolbar. Image Rotation Easily rotate your images with a click of a button. Use Any Image Pick and use any image in your camera roll.
Line
Transform any photo or graphic into a line drawing with this efficient tool. Ideal for artists, it offers easy tracing, direct printing, and cloud saving. Now free for all users, it supports multiple images and layers for complex artwork.
- Image to line drawing conversion
- Supports multiple images
- Layer support
- Adjustable line levels
- Tracing mode with disabled touches
- Light table functionality
- Print and cloud save options
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Line-ize will take any photo, image, or graphic and convert it to a line drawing. It's lightweight so you can get your art transferred to lines easily and quickly. It allows for easy tracing, send directly to a printer, or save/upload to the cloud. *** NOW FREE FOR EVERYONE *** Created by tattoo/piercing industry professionals for industry professionals. *** Ideal for tattooists, comic book artists, marketing and graphic artists and more! *** -- FEATURES -- - Now supporting iPhones!! - Supports multiple images at once - Layers support for combining artwork together - 5 levels of adjustments to get the lines exactly how you need - Disables touches for easy tracing with a pencil or pen right on your iPad - Right or Left handed artists feature - Acts as a light table too! - Portrait and landscape
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Artist Lightbox at none against Line's 1. Artist Lightbox also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.3) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). Line's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Line sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Artist Lightbox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Artist Lightbox holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Artist Lightbox's written reviews are positive against 33% of Line's.
Artist Lightbox ships an update every 3 months, Line every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artist Lightbox | Line |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (13 ratings) — better | 3.3 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hayden Watson | kevin green |
Customer experience
Artist Lightbox
Line
In-app purchases
Artist Lightbox
No in-app purchases
Line
- Remove Ads$4.99
