SPEEDRAW vs 5min Sketch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SPEEDRAW
Practice your drawing skills with timed exercises. Quickly copy figures in various poses with adjustable time limits from 10 to 90 seconds.
- Timed drawing exercises
- Copying figures in various poses
- Adjustable time limits
- Quick sketching practice
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It is a simple app that allows you to practice quick drawing. You can practice drawing by quickly copying drawing figures in various poses. You can set the time limit from 10 seconds to 90 seconds as you like.
5min Sketch
Develop a daily drawing habit with this app. Select an image, adjust its display, and begin sketching. The app automatically saves your progress, allowing you to track your artistic growth over time. It's designed for relaxation and concentration.
- Daily drawing practice
- Image selection from library, camera roll, or camera
- Adjustable image display (pinch, pan, rotate)
- Real-time image overlay
- Grid display option
- Automatic saving of drawing logs
- Rewarded ads to hide ads temporarily
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5 minutes a day drawing habit 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. - You can draw with a touch pen or finger but Apple Pencil recommend. - 2,000 drawn logs are automatically saved in the app and can be copied to the camera roll. - Hiding ads for 1 hour by watching rewarded ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 5min Sketch at none against SPEEDRAW's 1. 5min Sketch also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). SPEEDRAW's advantage is rating (3.6 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (17 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. SPEEDRAW sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 5min Sketch asks for nothing beyond the download.
SPEEDRAW holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of SPEEDRAW's written reviews are positive against 67% of 5min Sketch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SPEEDRAW ships an update every 6 months, 5min Sketch every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPEEDRAW | 5min Sketch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (17 ratings) — better | 3.4 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 255 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HARASHOW Interactive | Kazuaki Matsuda |
Customer experience
SPEEDRAW
5min Sketch
Bugs and requests
SPEEDRAW
Reported bugs
5 issues- Split View no longer supported on iPad
- Models with impossible joint angles (arms through body, legs bent unnaturally)
- UI elements obstructing the model during drawing
- App is empty/blank for some users
- Visible nipples on female models despite 12+ rating
Requested features
26 requests- Add more pose variations
- Allow custom time settings (longer than 90 seconds)
- Develop series for drawing hands and backgrounds
- Allow users to move models around
- Add more poses from the front
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- Add different body weights, hairstyles, clothes, lighting options
- Add children, babies, elderly models
- Allow editing of poses (e.g., bending elbows)
- Make random generation of all model types (male/female)
- Add option to set number of pose changes
- Display a history of used poses
- Add option to change background color
- Add settings for skulls or face planes
- Add cloth options
- Add option to change camera angle (less extreme)
- Add interval settings between pose changes
- Allow users to set the number of times a pose appears
- Allow users to review poses after drawing session
- Add more realistic models
- Add more cartoony models
- Allow 360-degree model rotation
- Allow users to change background color
- Add more diverse body types
- Add more diverse age groups
- Add hand-drawing specific models/poses
- Add background drawing models/poses
5min Sketch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SPEEDRAW
- Delete Ad$3.69
5min Sketch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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