Comparison

Drawing Box vs Rainbow Play

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

Rainbow Play

Explore a vast collection of pictures to color using various tools like watercolor pencils and wax crayons. Add stickers and share your creations with friends or save them to your device. This app offers a fun and easy coloring experience for all ages.

Highlights
  • Large collection of pictures
  • Watercolor and wax crayon tools
  • Sticker customization
  • Template fill-up feature
  • Share and download creations
  • Regularly updated content
Features
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Welcome to "Rainbow Play," the coolest coloring book app ever! Get ready for loads of fun with our huge collection of awesome pictures. Use watercolor pencils, wax crayons, stickers, and your imagination to color them up with all the colors in the rainbow! * Awesome Coloring Choices: We've got so many cool pictures for you to color. From super detailed ones to fun cartoons, there's something for every age. And guess what? We keep adding more all the time! * Easy Coloring Fun: Coloring is a breeze with our easy-to-use game. Pick your favorite colors and make your pictures look amazing! * Cool Features: - Watercolor Magic: Make your pictures look real with our watercolor feature. It's like painting with magic! - Wax Crayon: Crayon fun! Use the wax crayon tool for some extra glittering and colorful magic! - Template Fill-Up: Coloring just got easier! Fill in cool templates with your favorite colors and make them pop! - Sticker Party: Add fun stickers to your pictures and make them unique! - Send to Your Friends or Download: Show off your awesome creations by sharing them with your friends or download them to your library! Ready for a color-filled adventure? Download "Rainbow Play" now and turn your device into a super fun coloring book! Let's color and create awesome art together!

Screenshots

Rainbow Play4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rainbow Play at Free against Drawing Box's $2.99. Rainbow Play also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Drawing Box's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (31 vs 1). 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

Rainbow Play 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

Rainbow Play holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drawing Box has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, Rainbow Play every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Drawing Box versus Rainbow Play: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing BoxRainbow Play
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (31 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonNguyen Cong Huy

Customer experience

Drawing Box

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

Rainbow Play

All ratings1 ratings
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

Rainbow Play

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Box

No in-app purchases

None

Rainbow Play

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Box free?
Drawing Box costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rainbow Play free?
Rainbow Play is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Box or Rainbow Play?
Rainbow Play is rated higher. Drawing Box averages 4.6 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Rainbow Play averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Drawing Box or Rainbow Play have ads?
Rainbow Play shows ads; Drawing Box does not.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Box or Rainbow Play?
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, and Rainbow Play every 3 days. Most recently, Drawing Box was updated on November 1, 2026 and Rainbow Play on October 30, 2026.

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