Blackboard vs Animated Drawing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackboard
This drawing app mimics a physical blackboard, allowing users to sketch and write with white and red pens. It supports multi-touch for collaborative drawing and enables saving creations as images. Use it as a digital notepad or for artistic expression.
- Blackboard simulation
- White and red pen tools
- Multi-touch drawing
- Save drawings as images
- Digital notepad functionality
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A blackboard-style app that you can write on with a white and red pen Can be used as a notepad or for drawing Multi-touch compatible, so multiple people can draw at the same time You can also save images, so give it a try
Animated Drawing
This creative tool allows you to bring your own drawings to life by creating flexible animations. Design unique characters and animate them with ease.
- Create animations
- Star your own drawn characters
- Flexibly create animations
- Useful creative tool
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Useful creative tool. You can flexibly create animations starring your own drawn characters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blackboard at 4.5 against Animated Drawing's 2.0. Blackboard also leads on review sentiment (17% vs 5%) and ratings volume (14 vs 3). Animated Drawing's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price 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.
Blackboard holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Blackboard's written reviews are positive against 5% of Animated Drawing's.
Blackboard ships an update every 2 months, Animated Drawing every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackboard | Animated Drawing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (14 ratings) — better | 2.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better | 4.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryouhei Azuma | Chang Min Park |
Customer experience
Blackboard
Animated Drawing
Bugs and requests
Blackboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Animated Drawing
Reported bugs
25 issues- Connection error
- Loading for hours
- Cannot upload image
- Buttons are inactive
- App loads no image
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- Website not working
- App doesn't import pictures
- Starts loading and throws error
- Picture never uploads successfully
- Says no internet connection
- Takes long to load
- Picture would never load
- Cannot upload a simple photo
- Shows "Check the network connection"
- Says "connection error" all the time
- Cannot upload drawing at all
- Keeps saying connection problem
- App is not usable
- No network error
- Does not let you upload drawings
- Error when uploading image
- Cannot even upload the drawing
- Says no connection
- App will not load at all
- Does not allow uploading drawing
Requested features
3 requests- Fix the app
- Fix connection errors
- Improve animation options
In-app purchases
Blackboard
No in-app purchases
Animated Drawing
No in-app purchases
