ArtRef vs Prompt AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArtRef
This app helps artists and creatives find and organize high-quality images from popular stock photo sites. It also offers timed sketching challenges to improve art skills using saved images.
- Image search from multiple stock sites
- Create and organize image collections
- Timed sketching challenges
- Improve art skills
- Offline access to saved images
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ArtRef is intended for the use of artist and creative individual who like to look up image and some how find themselves running out phone storage space due to so many images. The ArtRef application allow you to look up amazing quality image thankfully to website such as Flicker, Unplash, Pexels, ,Pixabay ,and then having the functionality of creating collections of galleries to organize with those images so you can easily access anytime and anyplace as long as the creator who provide those image on the various platform don't remove the image. You can also do time trial image sketch with the app using various time such as 30s , 60s, 5 min , and 30 min to overall improve art skills with the images your saved in your collections.
Prompt AI
Transform your quick sketches into stunning masterpieces using AI. Simply draw, add a descriptive prompt, and watch as the technology creates a professional-level artwork in seconds. It's a free and easy way to explore your artistic potential.
- AI-powered art generation
- Sketch to masterpiece transformation
- Text prompt customization
- User-friendly drawing interface
- Free to use
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DRAW LIKE A MASTER ARTIST Hey aspiring artist! Ever wish you could wake up one day and paint like a pro? PromptAI lets you take your quickly drawn art and turn it into a masterpiece in just a few seconds! 1. Draw anything you want 2. Add a prompt describing whaat you wish it would look like 3. Be amazed at what AI can do! It's 100% free!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ArtRef at 5.0 against Prompt AI's 4.4. ArtRef also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). Prompt AI's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ArtRef holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prompt AI has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ArtRef ships an update every 3 weeks, Prompt AI every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ArtRef | Prompt AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.4 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wisterdy Alcida | Jake Shelley |
Customer experience
ArtRef
Prompt AI
In-app purchases
ArtRef
No in-app purchases
Prompt AI
No in-app purchases
