Asketch vs iSquiggle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Asketch
A digital sketchpad designed for both beginners and advanced artists. It offers a focused drawing experience with intuitive gesture controls, powerful zooming for detail work, and image transformation capabilities. Capture your ideas anytime, anywhere with this versatile tool.
- Gesture-based drawing interface
- Pressure-sensitive drawing support
- High-quality image zooming
- Image transformation (scale/rotate)
- 50 levels of undo/redo
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Asketch is a unique and versatile sketch pad. It allows creativity on the go, anytime, anywhere. Its deliberate simplicity makes it perfect for beginners who want to learn to draw; equally, advanced artists will find a wonderful buttery, tonal canvas for their life studies, cartoons, abstracts, landscapes and other subjects. The app is engineered to deliver rapid, but powerful image capture, facilitated by a great transform function that allows you to pick up the drawing, resize it and move it around the canvas, and a amazing zoom that lets you draw in minute detail. So if you want to put a traditional, but digital sketch pad in your pocket, this is the app for you. Features and functionality: Gesture based drawing interface: Changing the surface area of your finger on the screen controls the focus of the drawing. Supports pressure sensitive drawing on iPhones that support pressure sensitivity. Image zooming that actually works: Do amazing detail work when zoomed in. No pixelation of brushes while drawing. Image transformation: Scale/Rotate the image via a simple pinch gesture. 50 Levels of undo/redo. Swipe the undo/redo button to toggle back and forth. Hold down the button for rapid unwind/rewind.
iSquiggle
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et imagination run free with iSquiggle, the drawing and coloring app made for kids. Choose from 67 coloring pages or start with a blank sheet. Draw with markers, pencils, crayons, chalk, brushes and watercolor, then add extra sparkle with spray and glitter. Fill colors an area with a tap, while Stay Inside the Lines helps younger artists create with confidence. A GALLERY READY FOR CREATIVITY • 67 pictures organized by category and difficulty • Blank sheets for unlimited imagination • Automatic saving and instant resume • A personal gallery for every masterpiece FUN, NATURAL DRAWING TOOLS • Marker, chalk, pencil, crayon, brush and watercolor • Spray, glitter and one-tap fill • Colors, shades, eyedropper and adjustable stroke size • Undo, redo, zoom, pan and two-finger rotation • Finger and Apple Pencil support on iPad MADE FOR KIDS AND PARENTS • A clear, colorful and accessible interface • A protected parents area for importing photos, exporting, sharing or printing • Recoverable trash and safe artwork management • English and Italian, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion support PRIVACY COMES FIRST iSquiggle requires no account and does not track users. Drawings and imported images stay on the device; only a parent can choose to export them through the protected parents area. iSquiggle 2.0 is universal for iPhone and iPad and requires iOS 17.6 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: iSquiggle at Free against Asketch's $1.99. Asketch's advantage is chart position (#79 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
iSquiggle is free to download; Asketch costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Asketch ships an update every 2 months, iSquiggle every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Asketch | iSquiggle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (224 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 224 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #79 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Kern | Manuel Minelle |
Bugs and requests
Asketch
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on startup
- Eraser not working as expected
- Brush strokes moving to unexpected locations
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save and export drawings
- More brush/pencil options
- Color support
- Layers and blending tools
- Background/paper texture options
iSquiggle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Asketch
No in-app purchases
iSquiggle
No in-app purchases









