Glow Draw! vs Glow Lamp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glow Draw!
Unleash your creativity with a digital drawing tool that makes your art glow. This early version offers a fun way to create luminous designs, with future updates promised for free. Share your creations and suggest new features to shape its development.
- Digital drawing tool
- Glowing effects
- Early version with free updates
- User feature suggestions
- Share your drawings
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Do you like drawing? Do you like glowing? Waaaaaah!- Try Glow Draw!!! This is just an early version- download and get any updates free! Send any suggestions for new features and I'll try and put them in! Sorry for the bad screenys- I can't draw :(. If u send in ur drawn pics, I'll put them as the screenshots! lol --------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to everyone who's been so supportive- you're AWESOME!!! --------------------------------------------------------
Glow Lamp
Transform your device into a dynamic mood lamp using a water bottle. Create relaxing ambient light with shifting colors and customizable effects, reminiscent of a modern lava lamp.
- Device-based mood lamp
- Uses water bottle for light diffusion
- Shifting color circles
- Adjustable color speeds
- Orbital accent circles
- Customizable light effects
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a glowing, pulsating mood lamp, perfect to warm up the darkness with a soft relaxing light! Place a bottle of water on one of Glow Lamp's bright circles to pull the light of your device up into the bottle. Circles shift between colors at varying speeds and you can add a smaller orbiting circle that zooms around the outside of the larger circle to add accents and fun. The effects are controlled by you - experiment with colors and speeds to discover the moods you can create! It's a lava lamp for the 21st century! For best results use in a darker space and place your Glow Lamp near a wall. The photo has not been retouched in any way! ----------------------------------- - Thanks to icons8.com for several in-app icons
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Glow Lamp at 4.4 against Glow Draw!'s 3.6. Glow Lamp also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 52%) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 22 months). Glow Draw!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. Glow Lamp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Glow Draw! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Glow Lamp holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glow Draw! has 273 ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Glow Draw!'s written reviews are positive against 76% of Glow Lamp's.
Glow Draw! ships an update every 22 months, Glow Lamp every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glow Draw! | Glow Lamp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (273 ratings) | 4.4 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 76.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 273 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Indigo Penguin Limited | Michael Kaufman |
Customer experience
Glow Draw!
Glow Lamp
Bugs and requests
Glow Draw!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes
- Drawing not saving properly
- Update process never completes
- Ads redirecting to inappropriate content
Requested features
4 requests- Add more colors
- Include an eraser tool
- Improve responsiveness
- Allow custom backgrounds
Glow Lamp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Glow Draw!
No in-app purchases
Glow Lamp
- Remove Ads$0.99
Questions
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