Überdoodle vs Ebru
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
Ebru
Experience the art of Ebru painting digitally. This app offers authentic ink and background colors with full multi-touch support, optimized for iPhone and iPad. Share your creations directly to social media or your photo album.
- Authentic ink and background colors
- Left/Right handed user support
- Social media sharing
- Full multi-touch support
- Optimized for iPhone and iPad
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The aesthetic power of ancient Ebru painting in the palm of your hand. Features: * Authentic ink and background colors * Support for Left / Right handed users * Post to Photo album, Twitter or Facebook * Full multi-touch support * Optimised for iPhone and iPad
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ebru at Free against Überdoodle's $1.99. Ebru also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). Überdoodle's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 50%) and rating (3.8 vs 3.4). On ratings volume, 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
Ebru is free to download; Überdoodle costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Überdoodle holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Überdoodle's written reviews are positive against 50% of Ebru's.
Überdoodle ships an update every 3 months, Ebru every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Überdoodle | Ebru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (11 ratings) — better | 3.4 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Morten Bek Ditlevsen | Giles Goddard |
Customer experience
Überdoodle
Ebru
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
Ebru
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Überdoodle
No in-app purchases
Ebru
No in-app purchases
