Comparison

Drawing Practice vs drawsta

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

Head to head
About

Drawing Practice

This app offers drawing exercises designed to enhance pencil control and drawing accuracy for artists of all levels. It provides immediate feedback on your strokes, helping you improve line quality and body posture for better drawing technique.

Highlights
  • Drawing activities for warm-up
  • Improve pencil control
  • Immediate performance feedback
  • Practice drawing straight lines
  • Guidance for better body position
Features
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(This app is super hard to make screen shots for, give it a try, its free, that's the best way to understand it) This application provides several drawing activities to help any artist, new or old, warm up their Apple Pencil (not required). These activities help you improve your pencil control on the iPad by giving you immediate feedback about your performance. For example, the first activity has you simply trying to draw straight lines. After each stroke, the straightness of your line is compared to the line you could have drawn if were not a flawed human. A feedback line is show, showing you what you should be aiming for. 10-20 strokes, and you will be drawing better, and in with a better body position. Give it a try, it’s pretty fun, and there are more activities to explore and practice on. This is one of those apps that was written because the developer wanted it for themselves, but please provide feedback about other activities you would like to see in the app!

About

drawsta

This drawing app allows artists to trace images as a ghost layer, enabling them to ink over the reference. It also features a feed of original artwork and replays drawings as shareable time-lapses. Drawings can be shared via links and sync across devices using iCloud.

Highlights
  • Ghost layer tracing
  • Time-lapse drawing playback
  • Artwork feed
  • Shareable drawing links
  • iCloud sync
Features
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drawsta is a drawing app for working artists, with the best ways to trace built in. Pick a picture and it lands under your line as a ghost layer. Ink over it. The feed is full of original artwork from weirdLA, album covers from Apple Music, and more. Ghost under. Ink over. Turn the ghost off when the lines hold on their own. Every drawing replays stroke by stroke as a time-lapse you can share. Send a picture to anyone as a link. It opens in drawsta, ready to trace. iPhone and iPad, Apple Pencil or finger. Your drawings sync through your own iCloud. Free. No account.

Screenshots

Drawing Practice3 screens
drawsta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: drawsta at every 2 days against Drawing Practice's every 21 months. Drawing Practice's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Drawing Practice against 5.0 for drawsta. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Practice ships an update every 21 months, drawsta every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Drawing Practice versus drawsta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing Practicedrawsta
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB39 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperLucas JordanThisisground

Customer experience

Drawing Practice

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

drawsta

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Practice

No in-app purchases

None

drawsta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Practice free?
Drawing Practice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is drawsta free?
drawsta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Practice or drawsta?
Drawing Practice and drawsta are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Drawing Practice or drawsta have ads?
Neither Drawing Practice nor drawsta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Practice or drawsta?
Drawing Practice ships an update every 21 months, and drawsta every 2 days. Most recently, Drawing Practice was updated on October 24, 2026 and drawsta on October 31, 2026.

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