5min Sketch vs EdgeDetectionCamera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
EdgeDetectionCamera
Easily transform photos and camera feeds into manga-style line drawings. Adjust line thickness and transparency for custom backgrounds. Export your creations to share with other applications.
- Extract line drawings from photos
- Real-time line drawing from camera
- Adjustable line thickness
- Make white areas transparent
- Export and share images
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Must-see for manga makers! Landscape images from photos and cameras as manga backgrounds! It is an application that can easily extract line drawings. [How to use] Photo selection You can select a photo and make it a line drawing. You can adjust the thickness of the tip with the slider. You can also make the white part transparent. Camera image Line drawing is extracted in real time from the camera image. It can be adjusted and made transparent with the slider. share You can export images and transfer them to each application. It is an application that can easily extract line drawings. [How to use] Photo selection You can select a photo and make it a line drawing. You can adjust the thickness of the tip with the slider. You can also make the white part transparent. Camera image Line drawing is extracted in real time from the camera image. It can be adjusted and made transparent with the slider. share You can export images and transfer them to each application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 5min Sketch at none against EdgeDetectionCamera's 1. 5min Sketch also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 47%). EdgeDetectionCamera's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (17 vs 4). On price, 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. EdgeDetectionCamera sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. 5min Sketch asks for nothing beyond the download.
EdgeDetectionCamera holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of 5min Sketch's written reviews are positive against 47% of EdgeDetectionCamera's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
5min Sketch ships an update every 2 weeks, EdgeDetectionCamera every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5min Sketch | EdgeDetectionCamera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.4 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 47.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kazuaki Matsuda | Mitsuhiro Hashimoto |
Customer experience
5min Sketch
EdgeDetectionCamera
In-app purchases
5min Sketch
No in-app purchases
EdgeDetectionCamera
- Premium3 Days trial$1.997 Days
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