Purrticles effects designer vs BladeDraw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Purrticles effects designer
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A tool for video creators, game designers and developers, with v1 generating code for Apple's SpriteKitβ’ framework. Simplifies particle effect design, easily seeing the important settings actually being used for the effect. Enjoy the peace of playing with digital art on your phone or iPad, with soothing full-screen experiences. Video creators - Save video of your favorites to combine with your other video editing tools right on the device. Videos can have clear backgrounds to easily overlay particle effects on top of other video tracks. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.touchgram.com/privacy
BladeDraw
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BladeDraw is the vector drawing studio for iPad, iPhone and Mac β made for Apple Pencil and fingers. Every stroke is a curve, not pixels. That means you can zoom in as far as you like without anything fraying β and everything stays changeable, even weeks later. DRAW β’ Pressure-sensitive vector brushes: pressure pen, ink, marker, calligraphy, sketch pencil β’ Texture brushes: airbrush, chalk, charcoal, graphite, watercolor, spatter β’ Import Photoshop-compatible brushes (.abr) β’ Auto-straighten lines, line tool with angle snapping β’ Symmetry: mirrored, fourfold, radial β’ Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, polygons, star, heart, arrows, speech bubbles CUSTOM VECTOR BRUSHES β’ Four types: width profile with nib, pattern brush, art brush and pure outline β’ Apple Pencil pressure and tilt control width and nib angle β’ Create your own brushes, try them out right away on the test pad and organize them in folders β’ Searchable brush library with favorites β it also shows which drawings use a brush β’ Assign a brush to a drawing without copying it IMPORT PDF AND TEXT β’ PDF pages become real vector paths β and can be rotated before import β’ Continuous text arrives as a text object, not as a pile of individual letters β’ Text recognition entirely on device β’ Document scanning with the camera, also from imported images and PDF pages without text β’ Insert recognized text or simply copy it CHANGE IT LATER β’ Tap an element and set a new color, opacity, width and brush in the object inspector β’ Edit nodes: drag, add or delete individual points β’ Stretch and distort shapes, images and text at their corners and edges β or straighten them β’ Smooth or simplify strokes β’ Freely change the order of elements β’ Rotate the canvas afterward, swap portrait and landscape β’ Rotate crooked imported background images by 90Β° or flip them EDIT β’ Layers with opacity, lock and visibility β’ Lasso for moving, scaling, rotating, flipping and recoloring β’ Paint bucket for filling and erasing areas β’ Area eraser and whole-element eraser β’ Text with all system fonts, your own fonts (.ttf/.otf) and text on an arc β’ Insert images from Photos or Files, crop them right away and cut out subjects automatically PAPER & FORMATS β’ All ISO sizes (A, B, C), US sizes, plus photo, card, screen and social media formats β’ Freely selectable resolution up to 16,384 px β’ Papers: grid, 5 mm dot grid, graph paper, stationery, watercolor paper, aged canvas β’ Custom paper templates from HEIC, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG and PDF ORGANIZE & SHARE β’ Gallery with folders, search and sorting β for drawings and for brushes β’ Save versions and edit side by side in multiple windows β’ Export as PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PDF (vector), SVG and PSD with layers β’ AirDrop, Files app, iCloud Drive β’ Back up the entire library as a single file β drawings, folders, versions, images, brushes, fonts and templates β’ Light and Dark Mode, automatically following your system setting No ads. No account. No data collection. Everything stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BladeDraw at none against Purrticles effects designer's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Purrticles effects designer sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. BladeDraw asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Purrticles effects designer | BladeDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Touchgram Pty Ltd | Bitblade |
In-app purchases
Purrticles effects designer
- Vote for Comparing variations$0.99
- Vote for Godot Swift export$0.99
- Vote for GodotScript export$0.99
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- Vote for VoiceOver$0.99
- Vote for AirPlay broadcast$0.99
- Vote for RealityKit export$0.99
- Vote for Compose multi-emitter$0.99
- Vote for Emoji/Text particles$0.99
- Vote for Undo history in doc$0.99
- Vote for Playback Actions$0.99
BladeDraw
No in-app purchases
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