Comparison

Sketch Camera! vs Pencil Sketch

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

Head to head
About

Sketch Camera!

Transform your surroundings into a sketch in real-time with various artistic filters. Capture and save your creations, or share them with friends. Upgrade to remove limits and ads for unlimited use.

Highlights
  • Real-time sketch effect preview
  • 8 artistic filters
  • Save photos to iPhone Photo Album
  • Share creations with friends
  • Remove limits and ads with PRO upgrade
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*** Best iPhone image real-time processing app! *** Sketch Camera! is an awesome application which turns the world around you into a sketch! Pick up your favorite filter and see how all things around transforms in a real time. 8 filters available: sketch filter, greyscale, negative, horizontal and vertical mirrors, x-ray, sepia and thermal. You can take 5 free photos daily and save the best shots in iPhone Photo Album and share them with your friends. Upgrade to PRO to remove all limits and ads. Application takes iPhone camera preview and process it with a chosen effect in real time, so you can see the effects before taking a photo, opposite to other applications, which apply the effect after taking the photo. Feel free to leave your requests in comments and I will add them in the update of the Sketch Camera! Enjoy!

About

Pencil Sketch

Transform your photos into realistic pencil sketches or cartoon-style drawings with a single tap. This app offers multiple artistic styles, photo editing tools, and frames to enhance your creations. Easily save and share your artwork.

Highlights
  • Create pencil sketches from photos
  • Generate colorful or black-white sketches
  • Three artistic styles: Sketch, Doodle, Hatch
  • Apply photo frames
  • Built-in photo editor
  • Add filters, stickers, and adjust brightness/contrast
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An easy-to-use app to make you an artist by creating pencil sketch of your photos! You can pick a picture from your album or capture one from your camera to generate the sketch. Both black-white and colorful sketch results can be easily created by JUST one button click. Saving images can be done quickly by a single touch of a button. Sharing pics are also supported. There are three styles included in the app: "Sketch", "Doodle" and "Hatch". "Sketch" style creates accurate pencil sketches with smooth edges and curves, which is very good for human portrait photos. "Doodle" style converts a photo into a cartoon style painting. "Hatch" will work generally on any kind of photos, as it is a simple style which generates a cross-hatching texture on photos. Several photo frames are also included in the app so that you can easily apply them to your sketch results. A powerful photo editor is also built-in within this app, which includes many useful and fast manipulations of your photos. The sketch and cartoon results can be easily enhanced within the editor by using features like: photo filters, fun stickers, photo frames, brightness/contrast/saturation adjustment, etc.

Screenshots

Sketch Camera!3 screens
Pencil Sketch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pencil Sketch at 62% against Sketch Camera!'s 13%. Pencil Sketch also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Sketch Camera!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sketch Camera! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pencil Sketch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pencil Sketch holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pencil Sketch has 148 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Sketch Camera!'s written reviews are positive against 62% of Pencil Sketch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sketch Camera! ships an update every 3 weeks, Pencil Sketch every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sketch Camera! versus Pencil Sketch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSketch Camera!Pencil Sketch
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (3 ratings)4.0 (148 ratings) — better
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews62.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3148 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDariusz NiklewiczDumpling Sandwich Software Inc.

Customer experience

Sketch Camera!

All ratings3 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative83.3%

Pencil Sketch

All ratings148 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative20.3%
Written reviews196 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral3.6%
Negative34.2%

Bugs and requests

Sketch Camera!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pencil Sketch

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App freezes on opening ad screen
  • Photos not saving to gallery
  • App crashes
  • Ads prevent app usage
  • Filters not working
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  • App not opening
  • Photos overwrite original
  • App not saving sketches

Requested features

7 requests
  • More filter options
  • Ability to save to specific folders
  • Improved drawing functionality
  • Dark mode
  • Print multiple pages at once
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  • Easier navigation back to camera roll
  • Documentation or tutorials

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sketch Camera!

One-time1
  • PRO Functionality$0.99
None

Pencil Sketch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sketch Camera! free?
Sketch Camera! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pencil Sketch free?
Pencil Sketch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sketch Camera! or Pencil Sketch?
Pencil Sketch is rated higher. Sketch Camera! averages 1.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Pencil Sketch averages 4.0 from 148 ratings.
Do Sketch Camera! or Pencil Sketch have ads?
Pencil Sketch shows ads; Sketch Camera! does not.
Which is updated more often, Sketch Camera! or Pencil Sketch?
Sketch Camera! ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pencil Sketch every 5 months. Most recently, Sketch Camera! was updated on November 1, 2026 and Pencil Sketch on November 1, 2026.

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