Simple Trace Pro vs Symbol Collection
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Trace Pro
Practice drawing and illustration by tracing photos and images. Load pictures from your camera roll and use Apple Pencil to refine your line work. Save your traced creations as JPGs or transparent PNGs.
- Trace photos and pictures
- Practice illustration and painting
- Load images from camera roll
- Apple Pencil support
- Adjustable transmittance
- Zoom functionality
- Save as JPG or transparent PNG
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Simple Trace makes it easy to trace photos and pictures by hand. The concept is to be able to practice painting. Once you've loaded the image from your camera roll, it's easy to get started with Apple Pencil. By tracing the original picture, you can practice basic drawing such as how to draw lines in the illustration. Feature - Change of transmittance - Zoom in and out of the drawing area - Images can be saved as jpg, Pro version can be saved as transparent png - No ads in Pro version
Symbol Collection
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The Symbol Collection app is designed to explore symbols (icons) from different families such as Fluent UI System Icons, Material Icon, and Material Symbol. It offers the ability to add symbols to a custom collection, as well as export these symbols in SVG and PNG format. In addition, the app also allows the export of an existing collection to share or restore it later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Trace Pro at every 2 weeks against Symbol Collection's every 8 months. Simple Trace Pro also leads on price ($0.99 vs $2.99). Symbol Collection's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.5). On 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
Simple Trace Pro costs $0.99 and Symbol Collection $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Simple Trace Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Symbol Collection every 8 months. Both last shipped on September 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Simple Trace Pro | Symbol Collection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kazuaki Matsuda | MATHIEU BESSOU |
In-app purchases
Simple Trace Pro
No in-app purchases
Symbol Collection
No in-app purchases
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