SPEEDRAW vs Pastela
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.
Pastela
This app offers a seamless drawing and illustration experience with a spacious canvas and a variety of brushes. It features cloud-based autosave, iPad-specific customization, and integration with pixiv for easy sharing. Enhance your creative process with powerful tools and flexible options.
- Spacious canvas
- Variety of brushes
- Cloud-based autosave
- iPad customization
- pixiv integration
- Layer management
- Filters
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− Enhance your drawing experience, day by day.− With a spacious canvas, a variety of brushes, and cloud-based autosave, Pastela has everything you need for a smooth illustration process. Draw freely, anytime, anywhere. ＿＿＿＿ Pastela features ■ An experience tailored for iPad users - Screen customization options that suit your dominant hand - Move panels to fit your creative style ■ A wide range of illustration tools - An extensive collection of brushes, including pencils, G pens, round pens, watercolors, sprays, markers, and more - Detailed brush customization options - Bucket tool: fill closed path, lasso fill - Easily set layer names from a list with one tap - Many filters including chromatic aberration and Gaussian blur ■ Cloud storage (*1) - Automatically save your work to the cloud - Restore data to any previous version - 1 GB of cloud storage included * To learn more about Pastela, please check out the official website. ■ pixiv account integration (*2) - Post your work directly to pixiv - With Pastela Plus (*3), you can even update your pixiv posts with new versions of your art. (*1) To use cloud sync, you need to log in with your pixiv account. (*2) To post your work from Pastela to pixiv, you need to log in with your pixiv account. (*3) To learn more about Pastela Plus, please check out the official website.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pastela at 4.6 against SPEEDRAW's 3.6. Pastela also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (87% vs 65%). SPEEDRAW's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Pastela sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pastela holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastela has 98 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of SPEEDRAW's written reviews are positive against 87% of Pastela's.
SPEEDRAW ships an update every 6 months, Pastela every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SPEEDRAW | Pastela |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (17 ratings) | 4.6 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.8% of reviews | 86.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 255 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HARASHOW Interactive | pixiv Inc. |
Customer experience
SPEEDRAW
Pastela
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
Pastela
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SPEEDRAW
- Delete Ad$3.69
Pastela
- Light plan$3.991 Month
- Standard plan$7.991 Month
- Advanced plan$15.991 Month
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- Deluxe plan$23.991 Month
