Trippin vs Überdoodle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trippin
Immerse yourself in a visually stimulating and psychedelic experience. This app offers a unique way to engage your senses with captivating, abstract visuals.
- Unique visual experience
- Trippy graphics
- Sensory engagement
- Eye candy
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This is a unique and very trippy visual experience, perfect for use while your brain needs some eye candy.
Überdoodle
Relive nostalgic childhood fun with a classic spiral drawing tool. Create intricate patterns with virtual gears and a magic rainbow pen, or simply paint with your finger. Share your creations as wallpapers or send them to loved ones.
- Classic spirograph drawing tool
- Create custom gears and rings
- Multiple drawing modes
- Import photos
- Apple Pencil support
- Draw hypotrochoids and epitrochoids
- Various paper types and background colors
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Thanks for all the amazing feedback - we just love to hear your thoughts, comments and ideas! Überdoodle: Remember the good old spirograph toy? Get nostalgic with this classic spiral drawing tool. Great for children too! The box contains lots of colorful gears, rings and pencils - including a MAGIC rainbow pen - and an unlimited supply of (virtual) paper! Draw beautiful patterns using the gears or simply paint directly on the paper using your finger. Share your doodles to family and friends - or save them and use them as beautiful wallpapers for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. Features: • A Gear Factory where you can create custom gears and rings • Multiple drawing modes: calligraphy pen, celtic braids and multicolor gradients by selecting up to three pencils at the same time • Import photos from your Photo Library • Snap to previous drawing locations • Support for the Apple Pencil. Change calligraphy angle by tilting the pen. • Draw both hypotrochoids and epitrochoids (gears inside a ring or gears on the outside of another gear) • Different paper types and multiple background colors • Eraser and full undo/redo • Change the sizes of gears and rings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Trippin at 4.4 against Überdoodle's 3.8. Trippin also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Überdoodle's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 59%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Trippin costs $0.99 and Überdoodle $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Trippin holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Trippin's written reviews are positive against 78% of Überdoodle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Trippin ships an update every 5 weeks, Überdoodle every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trippin | Überdoodle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (16 ratings) — better | 3.8 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PDJ Apps | Morten Bek Ditlevsen |
Customer experience
Trippin
Überdoodle
User reviews
Trippin
From 16 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🍄 Fun and addicting
- 🧘♀️ Reduces anxiety, aids meditation
- 🤩 Never the same twice, visually engaging
- ✨ Visually pleasing and easy on the eyes
- 🧠 Delightful for the eyes and mind
Room to improve
- 💸 Not worth the price
- 📉 Poor graphics
- 😵 Fuzzy and unclear visuals
- 😴 Boring and repetitive
- 👎 Waste of money
Überdoodle
From 11 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Close to real Spirograph
- 🎨 Beautiful and creative designs
- 😌 Relaxing and fun
- 💡 Innovative digital adaptation
- ✨ Creates lovely, hangable art
Room to improve
- ⚫ Black screen issues
- 🐛 Glitchy paid version
- ⚠️ Unstable and crashes often
- 📱 Lacks iPhone 5 screen support
- 🤏 Limited initial gears/frames
Bugs and requests
Trippin
Reported bugs
7 issues- Does not save videos
- Pause button doesn't work
- Minor glitch: sensory pad icons visible
- Save feature sometimes results in half-colored images
- Pixel fade-out takes too long
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- Pause button not pausing action
- Icon is better than the program itself
Requested features
21 requests- Add music/choice of music
- More color options (multiple at once, lighter/darker)
- Actual music visualizer
- Higher resolution graphics
- Smoother visuals
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- Pause button to pause action
- Auto-save feature
- Adjustable fade-out time for pixels
- Neons
- Random ball drop/activity when idle
- More interactive features
- Brighter, higher intensity psychedelic colors
- More creative interactive features
- Config options for colors and balls
- More spectacular visuals
- Different patterns (light trails, bouncing stars)
- More variety of visualizations
- Option to change background colors and create patterns
- New 'trail' shapes and behaviors
- Make it free
- Deal with Pineapple Express for promotion
Überdoodle
Reported bugs
20 issues- Black screen after initial title screen
- Paid version is very glitchy
- White box appears below the circle
- App crashes all the time
- Update renders app useless
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- Completely non-functional
- Black screen when pressing home button
- App not working
- Screen below circle turns into a white box
- Purchased version not working
- App crashes
- Update downgraded the app
- Nothing but a black screen
- Game crashes all the time
- App will not run at all
- Straight lines appear
- Circles are locked
- Cannot change the hole where the pen fits
- No clear page option
- No help options
Requested features
24 requests- Include different gear shapes
- Allow pinning a gear and using another to draw around it
- Add non-rings and rings with teeth on the outside
- Ability to use photos from camera roll as background paper
- Gears working around the outside of rings
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- More gear shapes (oval, triangular)
- Ability to zoom on paper
- Different colored paper (e.g., black with white pen)
- Simple help tab explaining gestures
- More frames and wheels
- iPhone 5 screen support
- Ruler shape with teeth on the outside
- Change paper color
- Color specific areas before drawing
- Eraser that only affects drawing
- Invisible tools
- Use entire screen surface
- More design elements
- More pen and ruler options
- Ability to specify teeth per gear and ring
- Allow drawing with multiple gears around each other
- Zoom functionality
- Support for different paper colors
- Tutorial for gestures
In-app purchases
Trippin
No in-app purchases
Überdoodle
No in-app purchases
