Comparison

Drawing Box vs Memegic

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Memegic

Create and share humorous memes using a simple interface. Browse trending memes or use your own images to design unique content. Easily share your creations directly with friends on social media.

Highlights
  • Easy meme creation
  • Browse trending memes
  • Multiple meme categories
  • Use custom images
  • Direct social sharing
Features
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Easily generate funny memes and share them with your friends on social media. Browse through different category for funny memes or you can also select your image from gallery. Features: - Simple, easy to use and clean interface - Trending memes - Multiple meme categories - Use your own images to create new memes - Share your memes with your friends, directly from the application

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Memegic at Free against Drawing Box's $2.99. Memegic also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Drawing Box's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 18 months). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Memegic is free to download; Drawing Box costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, Memegic every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Drawing Box versus Memegic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing BoxMemegic
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better10.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonHitendrasinh Gohil

Customer experience

Drawing Box

All ratings30 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews582 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative1.2%

Memegic

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Memegic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Box

No in-app purchases

None

Memegic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Box free?
Drawing Box costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Memegic free?
Memegic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drawing Box or Memegic have ads?
Neither Drawing Box nor Memegic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Box or Memegic?
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, and Memegic every 18 months. Most recently, Drawing Box was updated on October 23, 2026 and Memegic on October 24, 2026.

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