Sketch Recorder vs Simple Create
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sketch Recorder
This app offers a distraction-free drawing and painting experience with a natural feel. It includes screen recording capabilities and a tracing paper mode to help you copy images. Save your creations directly to your photo library.
- Natural drawing experience
- Full-screen mode
- Screen recording
- Tracing paper mode
- Save to photo library
- Hide/show palette
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Sketching, painting and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Elegant interface and natural drawing experience. Free of distractions so you can focus. REAL full screen experience. Shake your device to enter fullscreen. In order to make the menu visible, you should shake your device one more time. Screen recording. Change background color. Drawing modes: Pencil only; Pencil and Finger. Hide/show palette. Tracing paper mode. You can select or capture a back image and draw the copy of it on the upper layer. Save your drawing to photo library. It’s FREE!!! This app is built solely and exclusively for iPhones and iPads using Apple's native development language and tools which guarantees top performance and future maintainability.
Simple Create
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Simple Create (SC) is an intuitive software for designing labels, stickers, and wobblers without the need for professional DTP software. Not only you can easily create designs and cut lines, but you can also print and cut directly from this software. [Design creation functions] ・Create designs using shapes, text, and images ・Enlarge, rotate, mirror, and other design processing ・Frame extraction, image tracing, and clipping functions ・Load image data (JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF) ・Load SVG files ・Save and load designs ・Print and cut design settings ・Various templates [Form creation,and design layout] ・Create forms that are convenient for creating labels, etc. (Forms are frames that specify the shape of element, number of elements, and placement interval) ・Layout designs in forms [Output] ・Preview of print, cut, and print & cut ・Output settings for print and cut ・Print & cut via RasterLink7 *1 ・Cut output to plotter ・Print output to external printer [Compatible models] Printer ・CJV200 ・JV200 ・TS200 ・UJV200 ・UJV300DTF-75 Plotter ・CG-AR *1 A Windows PC with the following software installed is required RasterLink7 v4.1.1 or later Mimaki driver v5.12.0 or later Latest version confirmed to work. ・iOS26
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Simple Create at none against Sketch Recorder's shown. Simple Create also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 17 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Sketch Recorder ships an update every 17 months, Simple Create every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sketch Recorder | Simple Create |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mehmet Bayram | MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD. |
In-app purchases
Sketch Recorder
No in-app purchases
Simple Create
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Sketch Recorder free?
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Do Sketch Recorder or Simple Create have ads?
Which is updated more often, Sketch Recorder or Simple Create?
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