Drawing Box vs Pumpkin 3D
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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
Pumpkin 3D
Create and decorate virtual pumpkins with a variety of spooky or fun accessories. Design a Halloween scene, take snapshots of your creations, and share them with friends and family.
- Carve virtual pumpkins
- Decorate with eyes, mouths, noses
- Add hats and glasses
- Place Halloween-themed objects
- Adjust scene lighting
- Take and share snapshots
Read full descriptionHide full description
Pumpkin 3D is a pleasing holiday diversion, which allows you to carve a pumpkin and decorate a scene with fun items. When you’re finished with your spooky creation, take a snapshot and share with your friends and family. There are a variety of eyes, mouths, noses, and lids to choose from. Feel free to mix and match each feature making your pumpkin as goofy or scary as you like. When you’re done carving, top off your pumpkin with props like hats or glasses. Lastly, make the scene picture perfect by adding various Halloween themed objects around the scene. Use swipes to navigate through pages of decorations, and taps to place them on and off. Dimmer can be used to turn down the lighting in the scene. Enjoy the holiday themed music and spooky sound effects that frighten you with every tap. When you are satisfied with your creation, use pinch and swipe to position the camera, take a snapshot of your work, save it in your photo album, and send it to your friends and family! And don’t forget to check out our other holiday decorating apps, Halloween 3D, Christmas Tree 3D and Snowman 3D. Happy Holidays! Art by Terry. Programming by George. Music by Carey.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Drawing Box at every 3 months against Pumpkin 3D's every 87 months. Drawing Box also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Pumpkin 3D's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Drawing Box costs $2.99 and Pumpkin 3D $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Drawing Box holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 24 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Drawing Box's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pumpkin 3D's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, Pumpkin 3D every 87 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing Box | Pumpkin 3D |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (30 ratings) — better | 4.4 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 87 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon | Graphics Software Labs |
Customer experience
Drawing Box
Pumpkin 3D
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
Pumpkin 3D
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drawing Box
No in-app purchases
Pumpkin 3D
No in-app purchases









