Comparison

Drawing Box vs Colrbook

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

Colrbook

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Colrbook App: Create and Relax! Discover the joy of coloring with the Colrbook app, perfect for kids and adults! Whether you want to relax or unleash your creativity, Colrbook makes it easy and fun. Features: Stress Relief and Fun: Take a break from daily stress and unwind with our digital coloring book. Colrbook offers a calming and enjoyable experience for all ages. Realistic and Vibrant Art: Enjoy a lifelike coloring experience with responsive digital brush strokes that capture direction, pressure, and width. Your artwork will look just as vibrant as if you painted on paper, without the mess! Unlimited Professional Drawings: Choose from a vast collection of professional drawings and coloring pages by brands od individual artists. Exclusive Color Palettes and Brushes: Access unique color palettes and several different brushes, including oil, pastel, watercolor, and airbrush techniques. Fill Effects: Enhance your art with fill effects like flowers, circles, stars, marble, and more! For Everyone: Designed for both kids and adults, Colrbook offers unlimited coloring books featuring mandalas, animals, dinosaurs, flowers, landscapes, and more. Share Your Art: Show off your creations on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or print them using AirPrint directly from the app. Download the Colrbook app now and start your artistic journey today!

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Colrbook at Free against Drawing Box's $2.99. Drawing Box's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.4). On in-app purchases 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

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Drawing Box versus Colrbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing BoxColrbook
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPad — better—
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB19 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonFuxlab GmbH

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

Colrbook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Box

No in-app purchases

None

Colrbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Box free?
Drawing Box costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Colrbook free?
Colrbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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