Comparison

Drawing Box vs Crayon Style

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

Crayon Style

This app transforms your device into a digital canvas for drawing and sketching with a realistic crayon effect. It offers a user-friendly interface, a sketch guide for tracing, and supports pressure sensitivity for a more natural drawing experience.

Highlights
  • Realistic crayon drawing engine
  • Sketch Guide for tracing images
  • Supports Apple Pencil and 3D Touch pressure
  • 24 available colors
  • Sponge tool for color blending
  • Undo/Redo functionality
Features
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Crayon Style is a painting application reproducing the warm experience of drawing with crayons. Transform your iPhone or iPad into a sheet of drawing paper and enjoy creating all kinds of drawings ranging from doodling and sketching to full-blown art. Crayon Style's simple and stylish user interface is light and easy to use, allowing you to enjoy the application anywhere and at any time. Use it in all kinds of situations to note down ideas, sketch scenery, create illustrations, etc. - Drawing engine reproducing the appearance of crayon art. Crayon Style's original drawing engine simulates the characteristics of drawing with crayons, such as rough lines, pigment depth and the mixed colors produced when layering strokes, reproducing faithfully the warm look and feel of crayon art. -Set photos you like as a background with Sketch Guide. With the Sketch Guide feature, you can set a photo or image as a background to your drawing. Use it to trace over a picture you like or to create an original coloring page. - Smart and fun user interface. With its polished design, seamless screen transitions and casual feel, the user interface feels good and is fun to use. Combined with the features above, you get a simple and smart application which can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. - Share your artwork on social networks! You can post your illustrations to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter using the "Share..." functionality. - Easier, more natural drawing. Supports Apple Pencil and 3D Touch. You can pleasantly draw using your fingers, but you can experience an even more wonderful drawing experience by using a stylus. The app supports stroke pressure with the iPad Pro's Apple Pencil. On the iPhone, the app uses 3D Touch to simulate stroke pressure and unlock more shades of color. With the 3D Touch functionality, it is possible to use stroke pressure with your finger as well as standard styluses. ■Main Features - Drawing engine reproducing the look and feel of crayon art. - 24 colors available. - Rub colors with the sponge tool to blend them together. - Eraser tool. - Color selection history (up to 3 colors). - 5 levels of line thickness (line thickness saved separately for each tool). - Undo / Redo (up to 4 times each). - Enlarge, reduce and rotate the canvas. - Toolbar can be moved to the top or bottom of the screen. - Artwork gallery feature. - Set a photo or image as a background with the Sketch Guide feature. - Output (export) to: - Camera roll (jpg format) - Share.. - Open In.. - Supports Apple Pencil (pressure). - Supports 3D Touch.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Drawing Box at free against Crayon Style's paid. Drawing Box also leads on review sentiment (96% vs 83%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Crayon Style's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Drawing Box costs $2.99 and Crayon Style $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 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Drawing Box's written reviews are positive against 83% of Crayon Style's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, Crayon Style every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drawing Box versus Crayon Style: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing BoxCrayon Style
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating4.6 (31 ratings) — better4.4 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews — better82.8% of reviews
Number of ratings31 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonPSOFT

Customer experience

Drawing Box

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

Crayon Style

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive82.8%
Neutral3.4%
Negative13.8%

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

Crayon Style

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Box

No in-app purchases

None

Crayon Style

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Box free?
Drawing Box costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crayon Style free?
Crayon Style costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Box or Crayon Style?
Drawing Box is rated higher. Drawing Box averages 4.6 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Crayon Style averages 4.4 from 14 ratings.
Do Drawing Box or Crayon Style have ads?
Neither Drawing Box nor Crayon Style shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Box or Crayon Style?
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, and Crayon Style every 4 months. Most recently, Drawing Box was updated on October 20, 2026 and Crayon Style on October 21, 2026.

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