Drawing Box vs KVNF
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
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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
KVNF
Listen to live public radio streams, pause and rewind live audio, and access archived shows and podcasts. Stay updated with local and national news, view program schedules, and interact with the station.
- Live stream listening
- DVR-like audio controls
- Program schedule and playlist
- Archived shows and podcasts
- Local and national news
- Background playback
- Talk to Us feature
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KVNF App: The KVNF App allows you to listen to the 90.9 FM KVNF live stream, pause and rewind the live audio, view the program schedule and playlist, full access to archived shows, and read and listen to local and national news! App Features • DVR-like controls (pause, rewind, and fast forward). You can pause the live stream to have a conversation and pick up right where you left off! Or rewind to catch something you just missed! • Listen to the live stream from KVNF even while traveling! • Integrated program schedule for the KVNF stream! • Listen to KVNF in the background while browsing the web or catching up on your emails! • Send the station a voice mail or video message via the Talk to Us feature! • Listen to KVNF podcasts and archived content! • Access to the KVNF playlist, schedule, and news via the menu. The KVNF App is brought to you by the great people at North Fork Valley Public Radio, Inc. and Public Media Apps. We work to provide our valued listeners with great mobile solutions. https://www.kvnf.org/ http://www.publicmediaapps.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: KVNF at Free against Drawing Box's $2.99. KVNF also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Drawing Box's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). 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
KVNF is free to download; Drawing Box costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Drawing Box against 4.7 for KVNF. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 19 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Drawing Box's written reviews are positive against 100% of KVNF's.
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, KVNF every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing Box | KVNF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (30 ratings) | 4.7 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon | KVNF |
Customer experience
Drawing Box
KVNF
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
KVNF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drawing Box
No in-app purchases
KVNF
No in-app purchases
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