Comparison

Sketchbook vs TAGGER

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sketchbook

This app provides a versatile and user-friendly digital art creation experience for mobile devices. It offers a professional-grade toolset with customizable brushes and layers, allowing users to sketch, paint, and illustrate with ease. Perfect for both beginners and experienced artists looking to bring their ideas to life on the go.

Highlights
  • 60+ realistic brushes and tools
  • Multiple layers with settings
  • Import photos for reference
  • Shape draw assist and rulers
  • Customizable color wheel
  • Undo/Redo functionality
  • Instant sharing
Features
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SketchBook is the most practical, versatile and user-friendly sketching app designed for mobile gadgets. This exhaustive artist's toolbox helps users create dazzling sketches, cheerful paintings and smashing illustrations on the go. A reflexive way to produce a custom drawing! Whether you want to create graffiti or you want to create a doodle, or you want to learn to paint and draw, SketchBook is your tool of choice. Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, artwork, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade characteristic set and highly customizable mechanisms. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and articulating your idea. FEATURES - Shape draw assist - Paint. Draw, Sketch. Repeat - Draw smoothly like never before on iPad or iPhone with super realistic brushes. - Draw creative sketches using 60 brushes and tools - Enhance your drawing by importing pictures and photos - Zoom to paint fine details - Share instantly - Import photos for Reference - Ruler - 16 Shape Rulers - Color Palette - Custom Color Wheel - Multiple Layers drawings - Layer settings - Undo - Redo steps - Hard and soft Eraser with opacity settings Beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, we endlessly refined SketchBook brushes to create the most realistic drawing tools. List of BRUSH tools - Basic - Texture Essentials - Copic - Pen Brush - Synthetic Paint - Traditional - Texture - Shape - Splatter - Designer - Artist - Pastel - Eraser - Cutter - Smudge tool Create amazing drawing ideas to life. Use SketchBook state-of-the-art brushes and tools to sketch, type, paint, and draw. Take your drawing creations to wherever your thoughts want to go! Unlimited access to all the premium features and future updates during the subscription period. The subscriptions are $6.99 per month with 3 days trial period and $24.99 yearly or equal to the same price tier as Apple App Store Matrix, determined as the equivalent of subscription price in $USD. You may cancel a subscription or free-trial anytime via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a SketchBook Premium Features subscription. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use : https://www.loyal.app/privacy-policy

About

TAGGER

Create street art masterpieces with a graffiti-style spray painting app. Choose from various canvases, mix over 1000 shades, and control every detail of your design. Save or share your creations.

Highlights
  • Graffiti style spray painting
  • Customizable color palette (1000+ shades)
  • Choice of canvases or own photos
  • Undo/clear functionality
  • Save and share creations
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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TAGGER is a graffiti style spray painting app! AD FREE & NO IN-APP PURCHASES. With a choice of canvases (or use your own photos) and a custom designed painting user interface, you can spend hours designing your own street art masterpieces. Choose your canvas, choose your colours, choose your spray size... and GO! With our unique colour palette, you can mix and turn 10 available colours into over 1000 possible shades & colours. Undo last paint stroke or clear all and start again, the final design is totally within your control. Save to your photos or share with friends.

Screenshots

Sketchbook4 screens
TAGGER3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TAGGER at 100% against Sketchbook's 21%. TAGGER also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Sketchbook's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sketchbook is free to download; TAGGER costs $0.99 up front. Sketchbook sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. TAGGER asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sketchbook versus TAGGER: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSketchbookTAGGER
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.9 (1.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionPaid — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLoyal Foundry, Inc.IAN LINDSAY RICHARDSON

Customer experience

Sketchbook

All ratings1,282 ratings
Positive71.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews156 reviews
Positive20.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative75.0%

TAGGER

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sketchbook

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Drawings not saving properly
  • Unreliable performance

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add undo/redo functionality
  • Improve brush quality and customization
  • Implement a true free version

TAGGER

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Sketchbook

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Premium Features - One Week$4.997 Days
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$5.997 Days
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  • Premium Features - One Month$8.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$22.991 Year
  • Premium Features - One Year3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Annually Subscription3 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time2
  • Appsgonefree Deal$4.99
  • Lifetime Deal - Limited Period$35.99
None

TAGGER

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sketchbook free?
Sketchbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TAGGER free?
TAGGER costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sketchbook or TAGGER have ads?
Sketchbook shows ads; TAGGER does not.

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