Drawing Box vs Meme Producer Maker Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing Box
Unleash your creativity with a comprehensive digital art studio. Explore a vast array of drawing and painting tools, special effects, and interactive features for both artistic expression and fun recreational activities. Share your masterpieces as images or animated movies.
- Extensive drawing and painting tools
- Special effects and magic pens
- Symmetry and duplication modes
- Artwork movie recording and sharing
- Whiteboard for presentations
- Recreational activities like mazes and sudoku
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Drawing Box is recommended by schools for their students for its creativity tools and recreational features. Bring a painting studio in your pocket, and enjoy unlimited painting activities. 1/ Creativity: painting tools are amazingly funny to use. Discover dozens of hidden features for drawing and painting. More than only painting with your device, you can automatically send a movie of your artwork. Drawing Box also includes a white board for tutorial and pitch recording. Eight symmetry and duplication painting modes will create drawings you never can only imagine. 2/ Leisure: practice painting with fun and pleasure. With a large choice of incredible magic pens and 3D clay pens, free your imagination. Stencils, stickers and other icons let you enjoy long quiet moments of recreational activities. 3/ Training: besides drawing lessons, you can use the color mixer to create your personal palette. The “crop and move” tool help you to resize properly your work. Apply photo effects to your creations. 4/ Share: save and send your artwork with or without background. Share a movie of your painting on social networks. What you will find: • Drawing tools: pencils, chalks, ink pens, Chinese brush, harmony pens, erasers. • Painting: air brush, watercolor, hair brushes, blending brushes, sand brush, grid paint roller, pattern paint roller, cloud paint roller, hair and cloud paint roller, splash paint roller, dry smudge, fill bucket, rainbow pens and brushes, light effect, single color brush. • Colors: 10 color palettes (pastel, oil, cool, warm, night, sky and earth, fire and water, skin), color wheel, light and dark color adjustment. Real color mixer for creation of personal color palette. • Magic pens: autumn leaves, spring leaves, color splash, animal foot prints, lips, cartoon drawings, bubbles, butterflies, random squares, diamonds, candies, planets, musical signs, flowers, snow flakes, numbers, random circles, 3 pens, flashing stars, local symmetry, alternated colors, 3D clay pens, 3D sand pens, 3D noodle pens. • Clip arts, decorative patterns. • Text editor • Stencils • Background selection from the photo library, camera, preset models (wood, wall, concrete, textile, wallpaper, colors, grids, music lines, post card. • Leisure: coloring pages, mazes, sudoku. • Photography: import image, puzzles, photo effects (gray, sepia, fax, tonal, vignette, lemo, radial) • White board tool: talk, draw and record your presentation. • Drawing lessons. • Symmetrical painting: horizontal, vertical, 4 corners symmetry, • Duplication: simultaneously duplicate all your strokes to 3 or 4 directions. • Auto record your work as a movie. Replay and send movies. • Other functions: baby mode, toolbar customization, full page zooming, crop image, hide toolbar, export paintings with or without background, small painting views, multi painting deletions, quick navigation in the paintings gallery, painting rotation in the gallery. ============================================================ * Fall 2012 Mobile Apps: winner of a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor (www.parents-choice.org) * Reviewed and rated 5 stars by the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (www.merlot.org) * Rankings: France #1 Overall, China #2 Overall and #1 in Entertainment, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg #1 in Entertainment * Top10 Entertainment in 12 countries
Meme Producer Maker Studio
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Turn a photo into a meme without fighting clunky editors or starting from a blank screen. Add captions, use ready-made layouts, and save clean image posts with no watermark. Meme Producer Maker Studio helps you make memes, caption photos, and save reusable drafts on iPhone. Start faster with built-in templates, including Blank, Gradient, Pattern, Comic, Quote Card, and Cinema Bars backgrounds. Pick a still from your photo library or take a picture in the app and jump straight into the meme editor. Add top and bottom text, then turn on a center caption when your joke needs a third line. Use Surprise me for offline caption suggestions when you want a quick meme idea. Crop with full frame, square, portrait, or widescreen presets to fit the look you want. Rotate or flip your image, then try mono, noir, chrome, fade, vibrant, or poster looks. Save to Photos and keep a draft in Library so you can reopen it later and keep editing. Search templates by name or browse by category when you want a quick background for a text meme or quote post. Make a comic strip with two stacked photos and a clean white divider between panels. Build a 2x2 collage with four photos, square cells, and adjustable gutters for reaction posts and before-and-after layouts. Share your finished meme from the editor as soon as it is ready. It fits the way people actually make memes on iPhone. Use Classic meme for bold reaction captions, Subtitle for cleaner dialogue-style text, Neon pop when you want a louder joke, or Newsprint for a poster feel. Start with Comic Panel or Thought Bubble for a quick comic post, turn two screenshots into a comic strip, or drop four reaction images into a collage for a single shareable layout. What makes it different is how much you can do in one place without extra setup. Templates are built in, your Library keeps drafts after you close the app, and every save is watermark-free. You can also add a Home Screen widget to jump back into a saved meme from Library, or use quick actions to start from a photo or open Templates right away. With Pro, you can add Stickers, use the Output panel, and go further with Quick looks, extra text layers, undo and redo, frames, safe margins, and custom fonts you import from Files. Pro also adds Lift subject for sticker-style cutouts, AI background for replacing the base image with a new scene, Save as sticker for transparent-edge exports, and Animate with Typewriter or Zoom-in motion. Free users can try Pro once by watching an ad for a single export. Camera access is only used if you choose to take a picture in the app. Make your next meme, comic strip, or collage in a few taps and keep every draft ready for round two. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Meme Producer Maker Studio at Free against Drawing Box's $2.99. Drawing Box's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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
Meme Producer Maker Studio is free to download; Drawing Box costs $2.99 up front. Meme Producer Maker Studio sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Drawing Box asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing Box | Meme Producer Maker Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 93.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon | Sandeep Bhandari |
Bugs and requests
Drawing Box
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when using undo/redo
- Disappearing drawings after updates
- Inconsistent performance on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add layers feature
- Improve sharing and export options
- Implement a color picker tool
- Provide more customization options
- Add an eraser that is always accessible
Meme Producer Maker Studio
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drawing Box
No in-app purchases
Meme Producer Maker Studio
- Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
- Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
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- Yearly Subscription Discount7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription Sale$14.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription Special$19.991 Year
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Forever Pro Discount$79.99
- Forever Pro$99.99
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