Comparison

HiPaint vs Sigil Code

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

HiPaint

This app offers a professional and versatile platform for digital drawing, sketching, illustration, and art design on mobile devices. It provides a powerful toolset, customizable brushes, advanced layer features, and animation tools to facilitate creative workflows.

Highlights
  • Intuitive interface for focused drawing
  • Extensive toolset for drawing and editing
  • Over 100 customizable brushes
  • Advanced layer management and blend modes
  • Frame-by-frame animation tools
  • Symmetry and visual guides
  • Image adjustment and filter options
Features
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Hi Paint is a professional and versatile drawing apps for pad and phone. You can use it to draw, sketch, illustrate, art design, and create digital art anywhere, and it can also be used for image editing. 「Highlights」 · Minimal and intuitive interface to allows you to focus on the digital drawing itself. · A powerful tool set for drawing and image editing complete your own artworkout. · Quick operations and gesture controls make your creation process more convenient. · Import and export custom brushes and brush sets · Supports multiple color modes including RGB, HSV, and CMYK. · Custom Themes & DIY canvas: Drag-and-drop tool icons for a customizable canvas interface. 「Brushes Features」 · Over 100 kinds of brushes including pencils, markers, airbrushes, smudges, fill brushes, oil brushes, charcoal brushes, crayons, etc. · Brush Studio - with over 90 customizable settings, design your own custom brushesx · Import and export custom brushes · Brush supports full pressure and tilt support controls. 「Layer Features」 ·Rasterize, Duplicate and Merge layers ·28 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing · Supports creating layer groups and renaming layers to facilitate creation and management. 「 Professional painting tools/image editing tools」 · Vector tool · Liquify tool · Clipping mask features · Selection tool: Precisely select the editing area · Shape Tools: Insert Shapes and Shape Transformation Functions · Gradient tool with Linear and Radial options · Symmetry tool: Create symmetrical effects such as mirrors or kaleidoscopes. · Gaussian and Motion Blur filters for depth and movement. · Add text and import fonts to the artwork · More tools you need! 「Accessibility features」 · Advanced stroke stabilization · Painting process playback function · Add reference images and copy for practice · Perspective, Isometric, 2D, and Symmetry visual guides · Line art coloring assistance function · Powerful image adjustments including Color Balance, Curves, HSB, and Gradient Map 「Animation Assist」 · Easy frame-by-frame animation with customizable onion skinning · Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations · Export your animations in the full resolution of your canvas 「 Save, export, and share」 · Share/export drawings as JPG, PNG, PSD, HSD .Play back your paintings and reproduce your creative process in MP4 format, support export and sharing. Use HiPaint just paint it! draw! Hope you'll like this digital painting and sketching app. Now let's try HiPaint to start your digital painting journey~

About

Sigil Code

Transform your words into unique geometric symbols with this creative encoding and art tool. Watch letters animate into strokes, save your designs, and explore the connection between text and art. Decode supported artwork or text from SVG files.

Highlights
  • Create geometric symbols from words
  • Animate symbol formation
  • Explore character-to-stroke connections
  • Recover encoded text from SVG files
  • Decode Grimoire artwork via camera
  • Available in English and Spanish
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Turn an intention into a personal geometric seal. Sigil Code connects your words to the artwork they create. Explore the transformation as letters become strokes, save your symbols, and export your designs. • Create distinctive geometric symbols from your words • Watch the formation unfold in a dimensional animation • Explore the connection between characters and strokes • Recover encoded text from supported Sigil Code SVG files • Photograph supported Grimoire artwork to attempt on-device decoding • Use the app in English or Spanish Sigil Code Pro adds portrait formation films, additional finishes, wallpapers, and an expanded personal library through a one-time purchase. Camera decoding requires compatible Sigil Code Grimoire artwork with its complete boundaries clearly visible. Results depend on image quality; arbitrary historical symbols and unrelated artwork cannot be decoded. Sigil Code is a creative encoding and art tool. Symbols are not encryption and do not promise supernatural outcomes.

Screenshots

HiPaint4 screens
Sigil Code3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sigil Code at 100% against HiPaint's 72%. Sigil Code also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). HiPaint's advantage is ratings volume (3.1K vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HiPaint sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Sigil Code sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sigil Code holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HiPaint has 3.1K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of HiPaint's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sigil Code's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HiPaint ships an update every 5 weeks, Sigil Code every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HiPaint versus Sigil Code: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiPaintSigil Code
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.1K ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.1K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size196 MB5 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer艾戈科技(武汉)有限公司Rodrigo Castro

Customer experience

HiPaint

All ratings3,002 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews508 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral13.2%
Negative14.8%

Sigil Code

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

HiPaint

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Crashes and deletes progress
  • Screen turns green and layers get messed up
  • Stabilizer issues
  • Eraser issues
  • Unreliable color fill
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  • Frequent crashing

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add liquify and Gaussian blur tools
  • Implement shape correction and perfect shapes
  • Add text tool
  • Improve animation features
  • Add ability to import brushes
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  • Increase maximum layer count
  • Add speed paint feature
  • Allow 2 layers per animation panel
  • Add brush stabilizer settings
  • Improve color drop functionality
  • Add dark mode option

Sigil Code

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

HiPaint

One-time6
  • Remove ADs$0.99
  • Selection Tool / Liquify Tool$0.99
  • Text Tool$0.99
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  • Tiling Tool$0.99
  • Animation Membership$0.99
  • Theme editing$1.99
1 purchases

Sigil Code

One-time1
  • Sigil Pro$14.99

Questions

Is HiPaint free?
HiPaint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sigil Code free?
Sigil Code is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HiPaint or Sigil Code?
Sigil Code is rated higher. HiPaint averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.1K ratings, while Sigil Code averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do HiPaint or Sigil Code have ads?
Neither HiPaint nor Sigil Code shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HiPaint or Sigil Code?
HiPaint ships an update every 5 weeks, and Sigil Code every 3 weeks. Most recently, HiPaint was updated on October 21, 2026 and Sigil Code on October 11, 2026.

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