Drawing Box Ltd vs Free Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing Box Ltd
This mobile studio offers a wide range of tools for sketching and painting, from pencils and brushes to creative pen effects and stickers. Users can enjoy features like symmetrical drawing, unlimited undo, and video replays of their creations. It's ideal for quick sketches, artistic studies, and sharing finished artwork.
- Multiple pencil modes and art brushes
- Creative pen effects and stickers
- Symmetrical drawing and painting
- Video replay of artwork
- Unlimited undo/redo functionality
- Pictures for coloring and leisure
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Enjoy the LIGHT VERSION of one of the most awarded painting app on the market. You will be surprised by the incredible number of features provided by this app. Bring along this small mobile studio with you, make life sketching, studying forms, shapes, architecture, human figures. This is an excellent tool for a quick sketch, even drawn with small modeling effects with the smooth art brushes. Publish your works directly on Twitter, Facebook or Sina Weibo. Send them to the photo library or to your friends by mail. Main features: - 3 pencil modes - 3 art brushes - 2 paint rollers - 3 eraser sizes - 78 premixed and ready to use colors. - 10 incredible creative pen effects. - 187 stickers in 3 sizes - Video replay of your paintings - Symmetrical drawing and painting. - Unlimited undo, redo, clear drawing page - Pictures for coloring and leisure activities - Drawing lessons (in-app purchase) - You can choose a color for the canvas background from the 78 premixed colors. How it works: just push the color tube to the top and release it.
Free Paint
Unleash your creativity with this intuitive freehand drawing application. Choose from a wide array of backgrounds, tools, and colors to craft your digital masterpieces. Save and share your artwork directly from your device.
- Variety of backgrounds
- Drawing and painting tools
- Extensive color palettes
- Save creations to photo library
- Adjustable brush size and hardness
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Free Paint is an easy to use freehand drawing app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Choose from a variety of different backgrounds, drawing and painting tools, and colors. Use your imagination and create a masterpiece right on your device, and then save your work of art to your photo library so you can share it! Features: - 70 Colors on iPad - 40 Colors on iPhone and iPod Touch - 8 Different drawing and painting tools - Ability to save creations to your photo library makes emailing pictures to friends a breeze - Brush size and hardness are easy to adjust
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Drawing Box Ltd at 4.6 against Free Paint's 4.1. Drawing Box Ltd also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 77%). Free Paint's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Drawing Box Ltd sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Free Paint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drawing Box Ltd holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Drawing Box Ltd's written reviews are positive against 77% of Free Paint's.
Drawing Box Ltd ships an update every 3 months, Free Paint every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing Box Ltd | Free Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better | 4.1 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.2% of reviews — better | 76.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 5.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 117 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon | Jeff PEDERSEN |
Customer experience
Drawing Box Ltd
Free Paint
Bugs and requests
Drawing Box Ltd
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when importing images
- Drawings sometimes rotate the wrong way
- Occasional freezing when saving drawings
Requested features
4 requests- Add a bucket fill tool
- Improve color blending capabilities
- Increase save/export options in free version
- Implement a smudge tool
Free Paint
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drawing Box Ltd
- Pencil Sketching Lessons$0.99
- Buy Drawing Box Full version$2.99
Free Paint
- Remove Ads$0.99
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