Sketch Pro vs REFRAMD
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 & painting tools to upgrade their creative workflow SketchPro now supports iPhone Duo, bringing your creative workflow to Apple’s foldable iPhone experience 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 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 Designed for iPhone Duo -Enjoy a larger, more immersive canvas on iPhone Duo’s foldable display. -Seamlessly continue creating across the outer and inner displays. -Experience an adaptive workspace that adjusts to different orientations and folding positions. 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
REFRAMD
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REFRAMD is your pocket library for the Rive animation community. 100% free. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No financial services of any kind. No account required. Browse 15,000 animations from creators worldwide. Swipe to discover, tap to interact, save your favorites, organize them into albums — all without an account, all stored locally on your device. BROWSE Explore the full Rive community catalog, filtered by tag: UI components, characters, icons, loaders, interactive, and more. • Tap any tile to open the animation full screen • Tap the title (or swipe UP on any card) to jump straight to the detail view • Long-press a tile to enter multi-select mode — bulk-save multiple animations to favorites in one tap • Pull down to refresh with a new shuffled selection • The grid reloads instantly on return visits — content is cached locally between sessions DISCOVER A swipe deck built for fast curation. • Swipe RIGHT to save, swipe LEFT to skip • Swipe UP on any card (or tap the title bar) to open the full detail view • Double-tap to add to favorites instantly • Tap REWIND to undo your last swipe • Tap REPLAY to restart any animation from the beginning • An "INTERACTIVE" badge appears on animations that respond to touch — tap the card to trigger the state machine DETAIL VIEW Full-screen playback with every action in one place. • Animation plays full screen — tap to interact on interactive animations • CONTROLS panel: drive the state machine live, input by input, scene by scene • Pinch to zoom in full screen, on a dark, light, or transparency-grid background • GIF button: export a 3-second GIF with the creator credit written into the image • CODE button: pick a format and copy a paste-ready snippet — plain URL, React Native, Web Canvas, or Flutter • SHARE button: share a community link (no file download needed), AirDrop the .riv file, or send it via email, Slack, or Files • FAVORITE button: add to or remove from your collection without leaving the view SAVE & ORGANIZE Build a curated library directly on your device. • Star any animation to add it to your collection • Toggle between "All" and "Albums" from the header • Create named albums — UI Icons, Loaders, Characters, Brand Kit, and anything else • Each animation lives in "All" and can belong to multiple albums simultaneously, just like Apple Photos • Long-press an album cover to delete it • Tap the three-dot menu on any album to rename, delete, or export the full album as a ZIP EXPORT & INTEGRATE Curate once, ship everywhere. • Copy a code snippet — URL, React Native, Web Canvas, or Flutter — and paste directly into your project • Export a GIF for a message, a deck, or a design review • Multi-select animations in your library and export them as a single ZIP bundle • Tap the export icon to export your ENTIRE library as a ZIP with subfolders organized by album name Every export and every code snippet automatically includes the CC BY 4.0 attribution — no need to track creator credits manually. PRIVACY FIRST No account needed. Your collections stay on your device. Free thanks to anonymous, non-personalized ads. From Settings, reset hidden animations, Discover history, or favorites independently, or erase everything at once. LANGUAGE Full interface in English and French. Switch anytime from Settings — no restart required. FOR DESIGNERS, DEVELOPERS, AND BUILDERS REFRAMD is built for people who ship motion — motion designers, UI developers, creative directors, and builders using AI coding assistants who want production-ready animations they can drop into their projects in seconds. — Free — 15,000 animations from the Rive community — Favorites and albums stored on your device — No account or login required — 4 code formats: React Native, Web Canvas, Flutter, URL — GIF export with built-in credit — Export ZIP bundles with album organization — Share files or community links natively — Full English and French interface
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: REFRAMD at none against Sketch Pro's 10. Sketch Pro's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. REFRAMD asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sketch Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, REFRAMD every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sketch Pro | REFRAMD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 333 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 4Axis Technologies Pte Ltd | Hadrien Hubert |
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
REFRAMD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sketch Pro
- SketchPro Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- SketchPro Premium Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- SketchPro Premium Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- 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
- 100 Tokens$3.99
- 500 Tokens$7.99
REFRAMD
No in-app purchases








