Überdoodle vs SpiroDesigner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
SpiroDesigner
Create intricate geometric patterns and mathematical curves with this digital spirograph tool. Customize circles, lines, and colors to design unique artwork. Features include saving, exporting, and automatic drawing modes.
- Draw epicycloids and hypotrochoids
- Customize circle radii and line thickness
- Select and edit colors
- Save and export drawings as PNG
- Automatic drawing mode
- Randomize settings
- Tutorial videos
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SpiroDesigner is an app which can draw a beautiful geometrical pattern like the classic toy, SpiroGraph . With this app, you will be able to easily design attractive and complicated works of art. SpiroDesigner is also a good tool to draw a cycloid curve or a trochoid curve which is known in the field of mathematics. Therefore, this app will help mathematical lovers, teachers and students to understand these mathematical figures. FEATURES: - Undo,Redo - Draw epicycloid,hypocycloid,epitrochoid,hypotrochoid - Select radius of circles, line thickness, position of the pen, scale - Select color - Edit curves(rotation, scale, color, line thickness,color) - Save drawing data - Save PNG images to camera roll - Load,Import - Export to iTunes - Automatic drawing mode - Function to randomize settings - Tutorial Videos and many more…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SpiroDesigner at 5.0 against Überdoodle's 3.8. SpiroDesigner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Überdoodle's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and chart position (#178 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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
Überdoodle costs $1.99 and SpiroDesigner $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SpiroDesigner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Überdoodle has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Überdoodle's written reviews are positive against 100% of SpiroDesigner's.
Überdoodle ships an update every 3 months, SpiroDesigner every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Überdoodle | SpiroDesigner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #178 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Morten Bek Ditlevsen | Masahiko Fukuyama |
Customer experience
Überdoodle
SpiroDesigner
Bugs and requests
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
SpiroDesigner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Überdoodle
No in-app purchases
SpiroDesigner
No in-app purchases
Questions
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