Designgraphik vs 5min Sketch Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Designgraphik
Explore a curated collection of innovative digital art from a renowned designer. This app showcases high-resolution works in a custom gallery, offering a unique artistic experience.
- High-resolution artwork display
- Custom gallery presentation
- Curated digital art collection
- Exploration of online design boundaries
- Artist's proprietary creative environment
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Designgraphik is Michael Paul Young. His innovative work has been exhibited worldwide, from the 500,000 LED pixels of U2’s 360° Tour to a 70-foot tall projection on Richard Meier’s The Hague City Hall. He has won awards including the Clio and the Cannes Gold Cyber Lion and has spoken at the world’s most renowned design conventions and festivals. At the turn of the millennium, Young found himself needing a place to explore and test the boundaries of online digital art, resulting in his creation of the Designgraphik name and website. Whether on the web at that site and others like Submethod and Vir2l, in print, or on various hard media, his goal was always the exploration and testing of boundaries, under presentation circumstances that he controlled, in environments that were his own proprietary creations. The work helped to shape online design throughout the late 90s and early 00s, and was nominated for and won numerous multimedia and online design awards until Young retired the Designgraphik name in 2010. In 2020, as we enter the fourth decade of life online, nothing is proprietary. Online art is democratized and sanitized, cropped, compressed, formatted, influenced, ranked, rated and ultimately forgotten in a dark corner of a corporate data center. And so Young has re-launched the Designgraphik name and ethos, once again in presentation circumstances under his control, in an environment that is his own proprietary creation. The ultimate expression of that concept is this app, designed to present Young's work as Designgraphik in high resolution, in a custom gallery, for free.
5min Sketch Pro
Develop a daily drawing habit with guided practice sessions. Select images, adjust their display, and paint for focused relaxation. Track your progress with automatically saved sketches.
- Daily drawing habit practice
- Image selection from library, camera roll, or camera
- Adjustable image display (pinch, pan, rotate)
- Real-time image overlay
- Timed drawing sessions (3, 5, 10, 15 minutes)
- Automatic saving of drawing logs
- Apple Pencil support recommended
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The 5-minute sketch makes it easy to continue practicing painting every day. Just select an image, adjust the image display and start. While painting, you will find that you are relaxed and super concentrated. The picture you draw is automatically saved in the app, and you can feel the growth by looking back. Features - Select the image from the motif library, camera roll, and camera. - Pinch out, pan, rotate, aspect fit to adjust the display image. - Overlay images in real time. - Selection of grid display. - Set time can be selected from 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 15 minutes. - You can draw with a touch pen or finger but Apple Pencil recommend. - 10,000 drawn logs are automatically saved in the app and can be copied to the camera roll. - Non ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Designgraphik at 67% against 5min Sketch Pro's 43%. Designgraphik also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On ads, 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
Designgraphik costs $1.99 and 5min Sketch Pro $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Designgraphik ships an update monthly, 5min Sketch Pro every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Designgraphik | 5min Sketch Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #185 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YouWorkForThem, Inc | Kazuaki Matsuda |
Customer experience
Designgraphik
5min Sketch Pro
In-app purchases
Designgraphik
No in-app purchases
5min Sketch Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Designgraphik free?
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Do Designgraphik or 5min Sketch Pro have ads?
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