Comparison

Drawing Box vs Cat Sounds

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

Cat Sounds

Features
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Discover the ultimate Cat Sounds app – a fun and engaging Meow Sound Board designed for every cat lover! Whether you want to entertain yourself, play with your furry friend, or simply enjoy a laugh, this library of meow sounds has it all. Explore a wide range of cat noises based on real emotions – funny meows, angry hisses, scared squeaks, playful purrs, and more. Perfect for teasing your cat, surprising your friends, or enjoying lighthearted moments anytime, anywhere. The intuitive soundboard makes it easy to tap and play different meow sounds instantly. Whether you’re bonding with your pet, creating funny videos, or just curious about cat language, this app brings endless fun. Download now and dive into the world of authentic Cat Sounds! SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS: Cat Noises - Meow offers one auto-renewing subscription option ($1.99 USD) and one life time subscription option ($2.99 USD). Pricing in other countries may vary depending on the country of residence. The subscription will automatically renew unless turned off in your iTunes account setting at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can go to your iTunes account setting to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your iTunes account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Read the privacy policy here: https://exceptionalappstudios.com/privacy-policy-cat-noise Read the Terms of use here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cat Sounds at Free against Drawing Box's $2.99. Drawing Box's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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

Cat Sounds is free to download; Drawing Box costs $2.99 up front. Cat Sounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Drawing Box asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, Cat Sounds every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drawing Box versus Cat Sounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing BoxCat Sounds
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonShivam Sompura

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

Cat Sounds

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Box

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cat Sounds

Subscriptions1
  • Cat Noises Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Cat Sounds Lifetime$2.99

Questions

Is Drawing Box free?
Drawing Box costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cat Sounds free?
Cat Sounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Drawing Box or Cat Sounds have ads?
Cat Sounds shows ads; Drawing Box does not.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Box or Cat Sounds?
Drawing Box ships an update every 3 months, and Cat Sounds every 2 months. Most recently, Drawing Box was updated on October 15, 2026 and Cat Sounds on September 30, 2026.

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