Comparison

iDesign vs Plait

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

Head to head
About

iDesign

Create professional 2D vector drawings, illustrations, and technical designs on your iPad or iPhone. Offers precise touch-based editing with unique offset controls and a full suite of advanced tools for graphics and technical design.

Highlights
  • 2D vector drawing and design
  • Precise touch-based editing
  • Advanced path editing
  • Technical drawing tools
  • Shape libraries
  • Layer management
  • iCloud sync with XDesign
Features
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Precision 2D vector drawing and design on the iPad & iPhone. Make professional quality designs, illustrations and technical drawings on the move using your fingers at last! iDesign has unique features and offset controls which allows you to draw accurately with your finger not getting in the way or blocking your view. Full feature compatibility and automatic sync of designs via iCloud with XDesign (Mac version). User Guide (PDF) available at www.touchaware.com/apps/idesign/userguide FEATURES - A universal app for both iPad and iPhone which adapts to the native screen size of the device. - An unobtrusive icon based visual and context driven user interface with a full screen board view - Toolbars and panels with easy access to frequently used functions for a fast work flow Standard Tools & Functions - Line, polyline, square, rectangle, circle, arc, ellipse, polygons, stars & path tools - Copy and paste selected shapes and groups - Group and ungroup shapes hierarchically to create complex designs - Edit points, convert shapes to path, close shapes, add and remove points, break, weld, explode and join - Precise rotation with ability to rotate at user defined center - Object alignment tools - Fill color and pen color swatches with opacity controls, custom RGB mixer - Stroke width, line style, line caps and corner join styles, arrow ends and dash patters - Text insertion with fonts, styles, sizes, paragraph alignments, multilingual, rotate/resize - Set a background image for tracing/marking over it - Insert images, copy, paste, move, resize and position them accordingly - Multilevel Undo/Redo for all edit operations - Create multiple layers to organize & separate design components - Connector tools for drawing charts and flow diagrams Unique Features for Touch Based Editing - Offset handles for moving and positioning without your finger blocking the view - Nudge controls, allows precise movement of selected shapes or selected points - Delta transformations to apply incremental values by keyboard Advanced Tools for Graphics Design - Advanced path editing options for corner, smooth and symmetric control points, straighten and curve segments - Text to path conversion - Boolean operations on shapes, unite, intersect, subtract, exclude - Freehand drawing, auto smoothened paths - Gradients / color blends Advanced Tools for Technical Drawing - Circle and Arc tool based on center, start/end point, radius and angle of arc - Dimensioning tools, length as well as angular with customisable settings - Support for Feet+Inches+Fractions (U.S & older unit system)
- Architectural formatting option for Dimensions
- Dynamic grid supporting feet, inches and inch fractions at different zoom levels Units & Board Setup - Support for standard and custom board sizes. - Set a drawing scale - Full set of standard unit systems. - Unit aware Grid with customisable settings - Snap to grid, snap to object and points - Unit aware rulers Shape libraries to organise and reuse shapes - Add, remove and organise shapes in your own libraries - A set of standard shapes for creating floor plans included Export/Import & Print - Export designs to JPEG, PNG, PDF & SVG formats - Import SVG files - Share your designs with other iDesign users via Email - Dropbox support for Export, Import - AirPrint Support iDesign is available as a monthly or yearly subscription and includes a free trial period that begins once your purchase has been confirmed with your Apple ID account. At the end of the trial your subscription will start and renew automatically. Your Apple ID account will be charged for the upcoming period unless you disable auto-renew or cancel your subscription in your Account Settings at least 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Terms of Use: http://www.touchaware.com/apps/termsofuse Privacy policy: http://www.touchaware.com/apps/privacy

About

Plait

Features
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Plait is a personal CRM for the people you don't want to forget. When you last met. What you talked about. Their kids' names. The birthday you keep almost missing. Plait holds the things you swore you'd remember, and offers a quiet nudge before too long has passed. It does this without asking for anything it doesn't need. WHAT PLAIT DOES Keep the people who matter Add someone in a few seconds, or bring them over from Contacts one at a time. Their page holds how you met, where they are, and the birthday you'd rather not miss. Note a moment Met someone? One tap, a short note, done. Plait reads the note on your device and suggests what it was about — Kyoto trip, new job, the marathon — so next time you have somewhere to start. The suggestions are always marked as suggestions, and you can remove any of them. A nudge, not a nag After you note a moment, Plait can offer to remind you in a month, or three, or six. When the day comes it sends one quiet notification. Nothing before it, nothing repeated, no badge on the icon. See your months The Timeline gathers every moment with everyone, newest first. No streaks. No scores. No line telling you it's been a while. A quiet month is just a quiet month. On your home screen A small widget shows who you meant to reach out to this week. When nobody's waiting, it simply says "All quiet." WHAT PLAIT DOESN'T DO No LinkedIn. No Gmail. No Facebook. Not in the next version, not ever — an app about your people shouldn't be mining them. No scanning your address book. Plait uses Apple's own contact picker, which runs outside the app and hands back only the person you chose. Plait never asks for permission to read your contacts, because it has no way to. No accounts. No servers. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, because there is nowhere to upload it to. Your people live on your iPhone and sync through your own iCloud. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. No analytics of any kind. FREE AND PRO The free version keeps 15 people, 30 moments and 5 reminders — with iCloud sync included, because privacy shouldn't sit behind a paywall. Plait Pro is $12.99, once, and lifts every limit for good. Not a subscription, not a trial that becomes a bill. It includes Family Sharing for up to six people. Export is free either way. Take everything with you as a vCard or CSV, anytime. An app you can leave is an app you can trust. ALSO INSIDE - Optional Face ID or Touch ID lock, off unless you turn it on - Works at every text size, and reads properly with VoiceOver - Topic suggestions run on your device — with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26, and on-device language tools everywhere else Made by defrust.

Screenshots

iDesign4 screens
Plait4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: iDesign at 3 against Plait's 1. iDesign also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17). On price, 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. iDesign sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Plait sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iDesign versus Plait: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriDesignPlait
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (87 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings87 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTouchAware LimitedHIDEKAZU YAMAOKA

In-app purchases

3 purchases

iDesign

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$79.99
1 purchases

Plait

One-time1
  • Plait Pro$12.99

Questions

Is iDesign free?
iDesign is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plait free?
Plait is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iDesign or Plait have ads?
Neither iDesign nor Plait shows ads.

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