Comparison

Drawing Box vs Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L

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

Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L

Create custom jigsaw puzzles from your own photos. This app offers various piece counts and customization options for a personalized puzzle experience. Enjoy a simple way to turn your images into engaging challenges.

Highlights
  • Create puzzles from photos
  • Adjustable piece counts (16 pieces in Lite)
  • Background customization
  • Piece edge and shape options
  • Piece rotation toggle
  • Score tracking (time)
Features
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This App could make an original jigsaw puzzle from a photo. Photo => Original Jigsaw Puzzle 'Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad Lite' is Lite Version of 'Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad'. ◆16 / 25 / 64 / 100 pieces  (Lite version : 16pieces) ◆Background(Monochrome Photo) On/Off ◇Piece Edge On/Off ◇Piece Shape 2types ◇Piece Rotation On/Off ◆Score (Time) ◆Sound On/Off

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drawing Box at 94% against Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L's 0%. Drawing Box also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99). On in-app purchases 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

Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L is free to download; Drawing Box costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drawing Box holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drawing Box has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Drawing Box's written reviews are positive against 0% of Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Drawing Box versus Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing BoxJigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (30 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews93.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings30 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonYasuyoshi Ota

Customer experience

Drawing Box

All ratings30 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews254 reviews
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.4%

Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
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

Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Box

No in-app purchases

None

Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Box free?
Drawing Box costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L free?
Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Box or Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L?
Drawing Box is rated higher. Drawing Box averages 4.6 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Drawing Box or Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L have ads?
Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L shows ads; Drawing Box does not.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Box or Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L?
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, and Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L every 12 months. Most recently, Drawing Box was updated on August 14, 2026 and Jigsaw Puzzle Maker for iPad L on September 17, 2026.

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