Sketch Pro vs Draw it
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sketch Pro
This professional art app offers advanced AI tools for digital painting, illustration, and animation. Create stunning artwork with custom brushes, text-to-image generation, and intelligent editing features. It's designed to streamline your creative workflow on iPads and iPhones.
- Customizable brushes
- Text to Image AI
- Sketch to Image AI
- Magic Edit AI
- Auto-Coloring AI
- Animation Assist
- Advanced Layer System
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SketchPro, a professional art app available for iPads and iPhones, crafted with love by the Drawing Desk Team SketchPro is perfect for creative professional digital artists, including graphic designers, illustrators, comic, anime & manga book artists with a range of Drawing & advanced AI tools to upgrade their creative workflow SketchPro tools and features: Powerful Custom Brushes -A range of free specialized brush sets for sketching, painting, doodling, drawing and more. -Customisable brushes with adjustable radius, opacity, texture and more -Create brush sets -Maintain a list of your favorite brushes -Free Roller Brush with 100+ patterns Pro Digital AI Drawing tools -Create artwork effortlessly via Text to Image AI tool using simple prompts -Transform hand drawn sketches into images with advanced Sketch to Image AI tool using simple prompts -Revamp colors, textures & add or replace objects in your image with simple AI prompts via Magic Edit AI tool -Expand your digital canvas with AI. Seamlessly expand the artwork and fill it in with matching original content with no quality reduced to custom dimensions with expand artwork AI tool -Add color to sketches in seconds with Auto-Coloring AI tool or prompt color hints to sketches, drawings & complete coloring with Auto-Colorization AI tool -Remove objects, backgrounds in drawings with AI Object Remove and Pro BG Remove tools -Generate & extract Line art of any image and use in your drawings Animation Assist -Powerful interface and essential tools for creating impressive animations (Only for iPads). -Wide range of tools, including onion-skinning, instant playback, a visual timeline, and more. Essentials to accelerate the Creative Process -Smart Shapes feature for instant shape drawing -Free Symmetry Tool for easier drawing -Powerful Gradient tool with Linear and Radial options -Layer Transform Tool with Freeform, Uniform, Distort and Warp options -Magic Eraser -Assisted Drawing -Synchronization between iPad and iPhone Advanced Layer System -Free unlimited layers -Rasterize, Duplicate and Merge layers -Fill, Color Invert, Lock Alpha and Lock Layer options Advance Text Tool -Select from a full list of fonts or import your own -Customize fonts -Apply solid and gradient colors to text -A range colored font patterns, textures and designs Complete Color Palette -Full Color Wheel with adjustable color values and shades -Create unique themed color palettes for your drawing -Import colors from photos and images Extensive Shapes Library -15+ categories of free shapes, signs, and symbols -Favorites section for keeping track of frequently used shapes Other Essential Tools -Smudge Tool -Fill Bucket with solid colors -Filter options including Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Perspective Blur and more. -Convenient Cutter Tool -Import and Export functions -Custom Canvas option -AR Facepaint Organize and Save Your Work -Save every drawing automatically -Rename each saved artwork -Create folders for storing drawings methodically -Cloud syncing to secure and access artworks anywhere -Duplicate and Delete projects at any time -Time Lapse Playback -Dark Mode Unlimited access to all premium features & daily content updates during the subscription period Premium subscriptions with 1 week trial -Annual for 39.99/year You may cancel a subscription or free-trial anytime via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a SketchPro Unlimited subscription. Terms & Conditions : https://4axis.com/terms-of-use Privacy Policy : https://4axis.com/privacy-policy Reach us: hello@4axis
Draw it
This app guides beginners through drawing with simple, step-by-step templates and prompts. It helps users master painting skills, manage their artwork, and explore their creativity in a fun, encouraging environment.
- Step-by-step drawing guidance
- Simple drawing templates
- Painting preview and management
- New artboard creation
- Cultivates hands-on ability and creativity
- Multiple painting modes
- Sharing function
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Designed specifically for painting beginners, it provides a large number of interesting simple drawing templates and accompanies each painting to be completed. 【Application introduction】 "Ai Simple Drawing" is not only a drawing enlightenment tool for children, but also a platform for their creative expression. Through this app, children can discover the fun of painting and release their unlimited creativity in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. We provide children with a fun painting platform. The app has built-in a large number of interesting simple drawing templates, ranging from simple animals and plants to various daily objects, with a wide variety to satisfy children's curiosity and desire to explore. Guide children through step-by-step prompts to complete each painting. Whenever children finish drawing a stroke, the app will automatically display the drawing path for the next stroke, helping them easily master painting skills. The application also supports painting preview and painting book management. Children can view, classify and manage their works at any time. After completing a painting, you can also add a new drawing board to create a new painting journey. Whether it is to cultivate interest in painting or improve hands-on skills, this app is the best choice for children. "Step-by-step reminder function" When they start drawing, the app guides them through each painting step by step with step-by-step prompts. After each stroke, the application will display the painting path for the next stroke, allowing children to easily master every step in the painting process, avoid frustration, and enhance self-confidence. "Painting Preview and Management" The application provides a painting preview function, so children can check their painting progress and effects at any time. At the same time, the painting book management function allows children to classify, save and manage their paintings, and review and appreciate their creations at any time. "New artboard function" After completing a painting, children can also add a new drawing board to start a new creative journey. No matter how many works they want to draw, the app can satisfy their creative desires and allow every inspiration to be recorded and saved. "Cultivation of hands-on ability and creativity" Through this simple and interesting way of painting, children can not only cultivate their interest in painting, but also improve their hands-on ability and creativity. Every painting is a process of exploration and learning, allowing them to continue to grow in happiness. "Rich painting modes" The application provides a variety of painting modes, including stroke-by-stroke mode and complete mode. Children can choose different modes for creation according to their preferences and painting level. "Sharing function" Children can save their completed works to photo albums or share them with friends, allowing their creativity to be seen and appreciated by more people. If you have any problems during use, please give us timely feedback!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sketch Pro at 81% against Draw it's 0%. Sketch Pro also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (11K vs 1). Draw it's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 16) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Sketch Pro sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Draw it asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sketch Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sketch Pro has 11K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Sketch Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Draw it's.
Sketch Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, Draw it every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sketch Pro | Draw it |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 350 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 4Axis Technologies Pte Ltd | 杭州律途科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
Sketch Pro
Draw it
Bugs and requests
Sketch Pro
Reported bugs
3 issues- Drawings randomly deleted or lost
- Inability to load or access previous artwork
- Crashes when trying to import photos
Requested features
6 requests- Add liquify tool
- Improve layer management and manipulation
- Provide more default brushes
- Implement undo/redo functionality
- Add shape tools for perfect geometric shapes
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- Improve performance and stability
Draw it
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sketch Pro
- SketchPro Premium Weekly$0.997 Days
- SketchPro Premium Monthly3 Months trial$1.991 Month
- SketchPro Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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- SketchPro Premium Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- SketchPro Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
- SketchPro Premium1 Year trial$14.991 Year
- SketchPro Yearly Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- SketchPro Yearly Premium$14.991 Year
- SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- SketchPro Premium Yearly1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- SketchPro Yearly Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 100 Tokens$3.99
- 200 Tokens$4.99
- 500 Tokens$7.99
Draw it
No in-app purchases








