Quick Poses vs Drawing Practice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Poses
This app helps artists improve their drawing skills with timed practice sessions. Users can customize pose durations, select from built-in or custom galleries, and track their progress over time. It's designed to enhance observation, anatomy, and composition skills through gesture drawing.
- Customizable pose durations
- Session time control
- Warm-up delay option
- Built-in and custom galleries
- Gesture drawing focus
- Progress tracking
- Left/right-handed support
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Quick Poses is THE ultimate tool to help artists sharpen their drawing skills by simulating REAL LIFE academic figure drawing sessions. Select your pose duration, choose your favorite photo galleries, and start drawing right away! Train your observation and anatomy skills with Quick Poses. The goal is simple: capture the ESSENCE of each pose within a limited time. As soon as the timer runs out, a new pose appears, keeping you focused and in the flow. At the end of your session, a SUMMARY gives you a clear picture of your progress. Over time, track your improvement in the HISTORY section and see how your skills evolve. This practice, called GESTURE DRAWING, is one of the BEST ways to build confidence, observation accuracy, and dynamic composition. It’s also an excellent warm-up before longer drawing sessions. FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS • CUSTOMIZE pose durations anywhere from 5 SECONDS to INFINITY. • CONTROL your total session time by limiting the number of poses. • ADD a short WARMUP DELAY before each pose to prepare your workspace or materials. • USE your APPLE PENCIL directly on screen, and analyze your sketches after each session. • ACCESS the full TOOL PICKER for longer poses to unleash your creativity with more tools and colors. • SWITCH your drawing side for LEFT or RIGHT-HANDED comfort. • USE iPad MULTITASKING or PICTURE-IN-PICTURE to draw in your favorite app like Procreate with more screen real estate. • APPLY basic IMAGE EFFECTS (monochrome, 2-tones, 4-tones, line overlay, blur) to study poses in a whole new way. • ENJOY 7 BUILT-IN GALLERIES featuring various subjects (people, animals). • ADD your own galleries easily with the integrated GALLERY EDITOR (optional in-app purchase required). • DISPLAY poses in ORDER or RANDOM sequence. • REVIEW your past sessions in the HISTORY SCREEN and MEASURE your progress over time. • EXPORT your best drawings to share, print, or refine further in another app. • YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS – all your data stays on device unless you choose to share it. Master gesture drawing, stay motivated, and see your art grow session after session with Quick Poses.
Drawing Practice
This app offers drawing exercises designed to enhance pencil control and drawing accuracy for artists of all levels. It provides immediate feedback on your strokes, helping you improve line quality and body posture for better drawing technique.
- Drawing activities for warm-up
- Improve pencil control
- Immediate performance feedback
- Practice drawing straight lines
- Guidance for better body position
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(This app is super hard to make screen shots for, give it a try, its free, that's the best way to understand it) This application provides several drawing activities to help any artist, new or old, warm up their Apple Pencil (not required). These activities help you improve your pencil control on the iPad by giving you immediate feedback about your performance. For example, the first activity has you simply trying to draw straight lines. After each stroke, the straightness of your line is compared to the line you could have drawn if were not a flawed human. A feedback line is show, showing you what you should be aiming for. 10-20 strokes, and you will be drawing better, and in with a better body position. Give it a try, it’s pretty fun, and there are more activities to explore and practice on. This is one of those apps that was written because the developer wanted it for themselves, but please provide feedback about other activities you would like to see in the app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drawing Practice at none against Quick Poses's 2. Drawing Practice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Quick Poses's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (87 vs 4). On price 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. Quick Poses sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Drawing Practice asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drawing Practice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quick Poses has 87 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Quick Poses's written reviews are positive against 100% of Drawing Practice's.
Quick Poses ships an update every 2 months, Drawing Practice every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Poses | Drawing Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (87 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 87 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Frederic Ruaudel | Lucas Jordan |
Customer experience
Quick Poses
Drawing Practice
In-app purchases
Quick Poses
- Long-time user offerFree
- Add Custom User Galleries$5.99
Drawing Practice
No in-app purchases
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