5min Sketch Pro vs PoseTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5min Sketch Pro
Develop a daily drawing habit with guided practice sessions. Select images, adjust their display, and paint for focused relaxation. Track your progress with automatically saved sketches.
- Daily drawing habit practice
- Image selection from library, camera roll, or camera
- Adjustable image display (pinch, pan, rotate)
- Real-time image overlay
- Timed drawing sessions (3, 5, 10, 15 minutes)
- Automatic saving of drawing logs
- Apple Pencil support recommended
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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. - Set time can be selected from 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 15 minutes. - You can draw with a touch pen or finger but Apple Pencil recommend. - 10,000 drawn logs are automatically saved in the app and can be copied to the camera roll. - Non ads.
PoseTime
This app provides a timed sequence of images for artistic practice, allowing users to set custom durations for drawing studies. It supports custom image selections from galleries or cloud storage, with audio cues for timing. Premium features unlock extended timer options and a reference library.
- Flexible timer settings (10s to 60min)
- Custom image sources (gallery, cloud, folders)
- Ordered or shuffled playback
- Pinch to zoom and drag functionality
- Audio cues for timer alerts
- Split-view support for iPad
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Whether you’re sketching quick 10-second gestures or diving into detailed 60-minute studies, this app turns your device into a powerful tool for artistic growth. It’s designed for fine art students, but could be useful for anyone who wants to have images display in a predictable, timed sequence. To begin, tap on the box on the left that says “Tap Here To Begin” or the text below it “Now Showing”. This brings up the album view. Select your album, and you can press the Load This Album button to begin with the first photo or select an image from the thumbnails to jump straight to that image. To the right of Now Showing is a button to toggle Shuffled mode on and off. At the top is the timer, with a ‘play’ button. Tapping anywhere on the timer will fade out the sidebar and begin the clock. Tapping the timer again will pause and bring the sidebar back up. In the free mode the app will load individual albums from your Photos gallery, so you can place your images in an album such as “Active Poses” or something recognizable and it will show up within PoseTime. All of your albums will load. If you buy the Premium license it unlocks the ability to load image files by selecting folders stored on your device or even in the cloud. It will download the cloud files to your device for you if they are not already local. Halfway through the timer will play a sound, if you have it enabled, to let you know it is halfway through. There is an ending tick sound as well playing at 3, 2, and 1 seconds remaining before the image smoothly transitions to the next image. There is also a fairly extensive reference Built In Albums library for Premium which includes hundreds of action and passive poses, basic forms, drapery, portraiture, still life. The timer in the free mode is set to 10 seconds which is perfect for gesture studies. There are buttons to adjust the timer to 1 minute to 60 minutes (with intermediary steps of 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 minutes) for more advanced timed studies. These are restricted to Premium. Key Features: Flexible timer: 10 seconds in the free mode, up to to 60 minutes per image in Premium mode Custom timer: Select your own times and remove the defaults if you prefer. Custom image sources: your own photo gallery albums in free mode, or local and cloud files and built-in albums in Premium mode Ordered or shuffled playback for variety in all modes Pinch to zoom, drag to move Audio cues for halfway and near-end alerts with options to select a variety of built in sounds. Fully supports split-view for use while drawing on the iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PoseTime at Free against 5min Sketch Pro's $4.99. PoseTime also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). 5min Sketch Pro's advantage is review sentiment (43% vs 0%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
PoseTime is free to download; 5min Sketch Pro costs $4.99 up front. PoseTime sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 5min Sketch Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
5min Sketch Pro ships an update every 4 months, PoseTime every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5min Sketch Pro | PoseTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kazuaki Matsuda | Matthew Porreca |
Customer experience
5min Sketch Pro
PoseTime
In-app purchases
5min Sketch Pro
No in-app purchases
PoseTime
- Premium Access$1.99









