Comparison

Scribble vs The Storm Cone

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Scribble

This app allows users, especially children, to paint and draw on photos or backgrounds with a variety of colorful and dynamic brush strokes. It offers extensive customization options for colors, gradients, and stroke sizes, along with fun character stamps and frames. Users can save, print, and share their creations easily.

Highlights
  • Rainbow and gradient color options
  • Adjustable stroke sizes
  • Character stamps (man, smiley, stars)
  • Paint on custom photos or backgrounds
  • Neon and magic frames
  • Save, print, and share creations
  • Eraser with customizable strokes
Features
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A VERY FUNNY paint app. PERFECT for kids of all age. Very EASY to use, but with lot of EXITING functions. NEWS : NOW WITH FANTASTIC RAINBOW COLOR Paint with these strokes: --SINGLE And Select from TINY to BIG SIZE stroke All in combination with: --NORMAL COLORS --CONTINUOUS COLOR CHANGE SIMULTANEOUS for each stroke --CONTINUOUS COLOR CHANGE DIS-SIMULTANEOUS for each stroke --16 GRADIENT COLORS --NEW GRADIENT COLOR for every stroke --GRADIENT RAINBOW COLOR CHANGE SIMULTANEOUS for each stroke --GRADIENT RAINBOW COLOR CHANGE DIS-SIMULTANEOUS for each stroke And....even the ERASER can use the ALL the different stroke --CHARACTERS : You can select these characters(also with different size and colors) MAN (or BOY if you select a smaller size) SMILEY STARS For characters the color-options can have individuel effect. TRY IT OUT. Sounds crazy? TRY IT BEFORE YOUR FRIENDS. You have ALL THE BUTTONS ON THE SCREEN when you need them. The buttons fly away when you paint, and the buttons will smoothly come back after a while. --Paint on COLORED and SPECIAL BACKGROUNDS. --Paint on OWN PICTURE --4 colored NEON FRAMES and 4 MAGIC FRAMES. ROTATE and the buttons smoothly rotate, but the painting area do not change. Use the WHOLE SCREEN to paint on. And you can SAVE your painting You can like the app on Facebook. Print your painting directly via AirPrint. Send the painting via SMS, email or post it to Facebook or Twitter.

About

The Storm Cone

Experience an immersive AR artwork that brings lost bandstands to life in municipal parks. Explore forgotten histories through a journey of music and sound, reflecting on the past and the fading of brass bands.

Highlights
  • Immersive augmented reality artwork
  • Explore lost bandstands
  • Journey through music and sound
  • Discover forgotten histories
  • 360-degree spatial sound works
  • Interactive park experience
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The Storm Cone is an immersive artwork by artist Laura Daly, with new music composition by Lucy Pankhurst, that reveals the lost bandstands in our municipal parks and explores their forgotten histories. At its centre is a journey through music and sound that considers our relationship with the past, while charting the fading away of a brass band during the interwar years (1918-1939). The Storm Cone is experienced in the park setting, through a free app and using headphones. Initially it immerses the visitor in the 360 sound of a band performing as a full ensemble in the park. Moving amongst the absent bandsmen, the audience will hear the detail of every instrument, before following the departed musicians into eight spatial sound works, where solo musical phrases merge into new environments. The Storm Cone will be located on the site of the original bandstand in Peel Park, Salford. It will also be presented at NetPark in Chalkwell Park, Southend, as part of Estuary 2021. The music for The Storm Cone is a newly commissioned composition. Lucy Pankhurst worked closely with Laura Daly to evolve musical themes and phrases that reflect the artist’s ideas and narrative for the overall project. She has created an innovative and contemporary score that utilises sound spatialising technologies to move music around the listener; with instruments calling and responding across the ‘bandstand’. The resulting piece is sculptural in its approach. Students, staff and friends of The University of Salford performed and recorded the commission. For many of the younger musicians it was their first recording session. It was the only live music performance at the University. The sound works bring together vocal contributions from a wide range of people including the University’s drama and music students and Manchester choir, Chorus of Others. The title of the work comes from Rudyard Kipling’s 1932 poem that forewarned of the Second World War. It considers key aspects of the interwar period and the ensuing break-up and reshaping of communities. Serving as warning shot, The Storm Cone contemplates the residual impact of this time and the cyclical nature of history in terms of current events, including the economic downturn and rise of populism, extremism, racism and antisemitism. It is also a commemoration of creative legacy. The resulting experience is an artwork that is imbued with a sense of both loss and celebration, underlining human strength and fragility. The Storm Cone is commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and Metal in collaboration with Salford Culture and Place Partnership on the occasion of Rediscovering Salford. Generously supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by PN Daly Ltd, Zinc and Copper Roofing, Southend on Sea Borough Council, and Goldsmiths.

Screenshots

Scribble2 screens
The Storm Cone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Storm Cone at 100% against Scribble's 25%. The Storm Cone also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months). Scribble's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scribble ships an update every 12 months, The Storm Cone every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Scribble versus The Storm Cone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribbleThe Storm Cone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB286 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperABCiSoftUniversity of Salford

Customer experience

Scribble

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative62.5%

The Storm Cone

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Scribble

No in-app purchases

None

The Storm Cone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scribble free?
Scribble is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Storm Cone free?
The Storm Cone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scribble or The Storm Cone have ads?
Scribble shows ads; The Storm Cone does not.
Which is updated more often, Scribble or The Storm Cone?
Scribble ships an update every 12 months, and The Storm Cone every 3 months. Most recently, Scribble was updated on November 1, 2026 and The Storm Cone on November 3, 2026.

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