Portrait Drawing vs Values at Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Portrait Drawing
Transform your photos into artistic portraits with this app. It automatically detects faces, isolates them from backgrounds, and applies an artist-drawn effect. Get unique, stylized images from your existing pictures.
- Artist-drawn portrait generation
- Automatic face detection
- Background isolation
- Photo library integration
- Unique artistic effects
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Portrait Drawing is an app that allows you to get an artist-drawn person face image. Simply take a photo or select a photo from the photo library on your iPhone, the the app will detect a person's face, isolate it from background and generate an artistic portrait drawing image. * Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ** The first photo shown above is Rafaella Mendes Diniz on https://unsplash.com ** The second photo shown above is by Alex Perez on https://unsplash.com ** The third photo shown above is by Clem Onojeghuo on https://unsplash.com
Values at Play
This app helps users practice identifying and analyzing values in art. It offers tools to create value studies, inspect specific color values, and find areas matching a chosen value. Users can import their own images for practice.
- Create value studies from images
- Import custom images
- Inspect Denman Ross and RGB values
- Find points matching selected values
- Colorized value studies
- Full-screen value study viewing
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Use "Values at Play" to practice seeing values in art. Practice with one of the images included in the app or import your own image. Values at Play includes: VALUE STUDY Create a Value Study for any image. Choose the number of values to include in the study, and the value study will be created within seconds! View the value study full-screen, and easily toggle between it and the original image. Create "colorized" value studies. IMAGE INSPECTOR Use Image Inspector to find the Denman Ross Value and RGB value of any point on an image. VALUE FINDER Find all the points on an image with the value you've selected. VALUES-TAC-TOE Drag the cross hair to a precise location on the image you've selected. Do you know the value at that point? If so, you're on your way to a "Values-Tac-Toe." If not, keep practicing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Values at Play at none against Portrait Drawing's shown. Values at Play also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Portrait Drawing sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Values at Play sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Portrait Drawing against 5.0 for Values at Play. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Portrait Drawing ships an update every 22 months, Values at Play every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Portrait Drawing | Values at Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 172 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hikaru Tsuyumine | Neil Daly |
Customer experience
Portrait Drawing
Values at Play
In-app purchases
Portrait Drawing
- Ad-free$0.991 Month
Values at Play
- Values at Play Unlimited$4.99
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