5min Sketch vs Drawing
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.
Drawing
This app offers a simple yet feature-rich sketching and drawing experience for all ages. Create detailed artwork with tools like symmetry, stabilizers, and layers, and easily save your creations to the cloud.
- Instant symmetry for mandalas and faces
- Stabilizer and rulers for smooth lines
- Webtoon-style text tool
- Up to 100 layers
- Worry-free undos
- Auto-save and cloud backup
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It's easy! Open the app and start sketching freely, just like doodling on paper. With no complicated menus, it’s a lightweight sketching and drawing app that anyone—kids and adults alike—can enjoy right away. Plus, it’s packed with clever, fun features to explore as you draw. • Instant Symmetry – Draw once to easily create mandalas or symmetrical faces • Stabilizer & Rulers – Draw smooth, clean straight lines and curves without jitter • Webtoon-Style Text – Add fun messages over your art with custom outlines and colors • Layer Drawing – Stack up to 100 layers when needed (varies by canvas size) • Worry-Free Undos – Relax and undo up to 100 times if you make a mistake • Auto-Save & Cloud Backup – Safely preserve your precious drawings to Google Drive From casual doodles, journal decorating, and hand-drawn notes to vibrant illustrations! Unleash your imagination on a clean, lightweight canvas today. [Key Features] ▶ Drawing Tools - Diverse brushes (Standard pen, pencil, paintbrush, brush pen, neon pen, rainbow, stamps, etc.) - Brush size and opacity control, eraser with blur mode - Freehand lines, straight lines, rectangles, and circles - Eyedropper, paint bucket (fill), and gradients ▶ Layers & Editing - Up to 100 layers (Alpha lock, merge, duplicate) ※ Maximum layers depend on canvas resolution (e.g., up to 100 on 1024x1024, 31 on 2048x2048) - Restore deleted layers - Up to 100 undos and redos - Stroke stabilizer for smooth lineart - Precision cursor and pen tool for detailed drawing and cutting out subjects from images ▶ Drawing Aids - Straight, ellipse, and curve rulers; grid guides - Mirror mode and symmetrical cursor (decalcomania) - Custom canvas sizes, pinch-to-zoom, and canvas rotation - Text tool with custom outlines and cartoon/webtoon effects - Selection tool: cut, copy, and paste ▶ Files & Storage - Google Drive sync for backing up and restoring project files - Import images directly from your gallery or camera - Save and load works in progress - Export and share finished artwork to your photo album If you have any suggestions or encounter any issues, please reach out via a review or email. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/drawingboard-privacy-policy ※ App Permissions [Optional Permissions] "Camera": Required to take photos and import captured images directly onto your canvas.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Drawing at 3.7 against 5min Sketch's 3.4. Drawing also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). 5min Sketch's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 57%) and iOS requirement (13.2 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drawing holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of 5min Sketch's written reviews are positive against 57% of Drawing'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, Drawing weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5min Sketch | Drawing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kazuaki Matsuda | seongmi Jung |
Customer experience
5min Sketch
Drawing
In-app purchases
5min Sketch
No in-app purchases
Drawing
No in-app purchases









