Draw Pad Pro vs Paintwork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draw Pad Pro
This app provides a digital space for capturing thoughts, ideas, and sketches. It offers extensive customization and productivity tools, with sharing capabilities, designed for seamless use across all your devices.
- Note taking
- Sketching
- Idea management
- Customization options
- Productivity features
- Sharing capabilities
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Draw Pad Pro helps you capture ideas the moment they appear. Turn quick sketches into organized notebooks without slowing down your flow. Keep everything clear so you can return to your work with confidence. From first concept to final draft, Draw Pad Pro combines a smooth PencilKit canvas with practical organization tools. You can build notebooks, split them into sections, and keep each sketch easy to find. The app is built for daily creative work, whether you are planning, studying, or designing. **Organized Notebooks That Stay Clean** Create notebooks for each project and add sections to separate topics, phases, or clients. A clear structure keeps your drawing library readable as it grows. You spend less time searching and more time creating. **Natural Drawing on a Fast Canvas** Use PencilKit for responsive drawing that feels fluid with Apple Pencil and touch. Capture rough ideas, refine details, and keep momentum during busy sessions. The canvas stays focused so your work moves quickly. **Tags and Captions for Instant Context** Add tags and captions to sketches so every image carries meaning at a glance. This makes review sessions faster when you are handling many drafts at once. You can track progress without building extra documents. **Flexible Actions for Real Workflow** Duplicate sketches, move them between notebooks, and share results when feedback is needed. These actions support iterative work without forcing you into complicated steps. You can finish handoffs faster with less friction. **Local-First Reliability with Optional Sync** Your core drawing workflow works without a subscription and without depending on constant connectivity. Optional sync is available through subscription when you want continuity across devices. You stay in control of when and how your work travels. Download Draw Pad Pro and start building a cleaner, calmer sketch workflow today.
Paintwork
Create handwritten notes, diaries, and drawings with a vast array of tools. Features include customizable brushes, vector graphics, a rich color palette, and image import. Export your creations as PDFs or images.
- Customizable brushes and erasers
- Extensive vector graphics tools
- Rich color palette
- Image and material import
- Handwriting assistance
- PDF and image export
- Customizable backgrounds and canvas
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Paintwork is a simple and powerful software for handwritten notebooks, diaries, and hand drawn images. It includes functions such as: brush list (hundreds of brush effects, customizable brush thickness, color, transparency, dynamic strength weights, etc.), eraser list (each brush effect can be used as an eraser), Vector graphics tools (including lasso, vector eraser, vector pen, annotation pen, highlighter, wavy pen, double line pen, text box, illustration, dashed line, horizontal and vertical dashed line, curve, closed shape, text pen, rectangle, ellipse, straight line, arrow, triangle, pentagram, polygon, etc.), and also include many related attribute settings, Color list (with a rich color palette and customizable manual configuration of commonly used colors), copy and cut the content of specified areas on the page, import images or materials, as well as a simple calculator, handwriting assistance, and photo scanning of document files. Unlimited writing, ruler, recognition of text, printing of text, filling, and the ability to export PDF files or images. Supports custom background functionality, custom canvas paper, and more. It can be used to write for classroom or book learning notes, handwritten notes for work meetings, hand drawn mind maps, hand drawn account creation, hand made account book making, writing diaries, recording life thoughts, calligraphy practice, handwritten brush and pencil characters, hand drawn artistic characters, and so on. Supports Apple pencil. Can export images or PDFs. If you have any comments or feedback, please feel free to contact us. Contact email: pw_team@163.com If you like our application, please give us a good review. Thank you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paintwork at 4.6 against Draw Pad Pro's 4.0. Paintwork also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 36%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Draw Pad Pro sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Paintwork sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Paintwork holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paintwork has 17K ratings behind it against 159, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Draw Pad Pro's written reviews are positive against 65% of Paintwork's.
Draw Pad Pro ships an update every 2 months, Paintwork weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draw Pad Pro | Paintwork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (159 ratings) | 4.6 (17K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.8% of reviews | 65.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 159 | 17K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 200 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fishington Studios | 伟典 苏 |
Customer experience
Draw Pad Pro
Paintwork
Bugs and requests
Draw Pad Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Paintwork
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezing or crashing when using certain features
- Artwork getting deleted or not saving properly
- Inability to import or work with external images
Requested features
4 requests- Add more color options and blending tools
- Improve stability and reduce crashes
- Provide more tutorials and onboarding for new users
- Allow users to save and access their artwork easily
In-app purchases
Draw Pad Pro
- Photo Add-on Tool$0.99
- Text Add-on$0.99
- Construction Pack$0.99
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- 3D Pack$0.99
- Blueprint Pack$0.99
- Game Pack$0.99
- Productivity Pack$0.99
- Sports Pack$0.99
- Business Pack$0.99
- All Drawing Tools$2.99
Paintwork
- Monthly subscription premium$0.991 Month
- Annual subscription premium$3.991 Year
- Unlock local version$9.99









