Comparison

Glow Drawings vs @Draw

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

Head to head
About

Glow Drawings

Easily create vibrant drawings by tapping colors and painting with your finger. Save your artistic creations directly to your device's photo library for sharing or safekeeping.

Highlights
  • Finger painting
  • Color selection
  • Save drawings
  • Intuitive interface
  • Digital art creation
Features
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Create beautiful drawings with this app! Just tap a color and paint with your finger. You can save the drawing into your photo library.

About

@Draw

Unleash your inner artist with this intuitive drawing application. Easily create sketches, edit photos, and share your creations with a vibrant online community. Explore a wide range of brushes, colors, and editing tools to bring your artistic visions to life.

Highlights
  • Finger drawing with various brush types
  • Photo import and editing
  • Online gallery for sharing and voting
  • Extensive color picker with pipette tool
  • Save, email, and social media sharing
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • File manager with auto-save
Features
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Quickly draw sketches and show the artist within you with @Draw. @Draw is one of the finest and easiest to use drawing Apps that you can find. You will be amazed of how easy it is to do great drawings and edit photos with it. Furthermore, with @Draw you will be able to publish, store and share your drawings, even with the complete step-by-step process on how you did your little piece of art. Choose among all the different colors and brushes and let the inspiration flow. You will love it! @Draw includes: - An easy to use but powerful drawing App using your fingers. - Various brush types, with many configuration options, including- size, opacity, etc… - The possibility to import photos from your Photos Album and edit them. - An online gallery to share drawings between users, learn and vote. - A very cool color picker with almost an infinite color set to choose from, a pipette to pick colors directly from an image or drawing and a list of recently used colors. - Drawings can be stored, sent to the Camera Roll, sent by email and published to Twitter and Facebook. - The possibility to undo and redo all the actions and traces. - A soft eraser. - A great file manager with an auto save system to organize, copy and share your drawings. - A rotatable interface to adapt to all situations. - A shaking control to go back to the main screen or hide the menus. - A design thought to memorize and adapt to your preferences. - The possibility to upgrade to a Pro, ad free version of the App with an In-App Purchase. - It is available in various languages, including: English, Spanish, French, Deutsch, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. Contact: mobile@evolutive.co Website: https://evolutive.co/

Screenshots

Glow Drawings4 screens
@Draw4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glow Drawings at none against @Draw's 1. Glow Drawings also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 54%). @Draw's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. @Draw sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Glow Drawings asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Glow Drawings against 4.4 for @Draw. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 124 and 94 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Glow Drawings's written reviews are positive against 54% of @Draw's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glow Drawings ships an update every 11 months, @Draw every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Glow Drawings versus @Draw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlow Drawings@Draw
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (124 ratings)4.4 (94 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews — better54.3% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better94
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB120 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperFBF Sistemas LTDAEvolutive Apps S.L.

Customer experience

Glow Drawings

All ratings124 ratings
Positive84.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

@Draw

All ratings94 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral7.4%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews265 reviews
Positive54.3%
Neutral13.2%
Negative32.5%

Bugs and requests

Glow Drawings

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

@Draw

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Brightness automatically increases on app launch
  • Drawing tools sometimes behave erratically
  • Saved drawings not loading properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Zoom and pan functionality
  • More brush and tool options
  • Ability to import/export images
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Layers and blending modes

In-app purchases

None

Glow Drawings

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

@Draw

One-time1
  • @Draw Pro version$2.99

Questions

Is Glow Drawings free?
Glow Drawings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is @Draw free?
@Draw is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Glow Drawings or @Draw?
Glow Drawings and @Draw are both rated 4.4 out of 5 on the App Store, from 124 and 94 ratings respectively.
Do Glow Drawings or @Draw have ads?
Glow Drawings shows ads; @Draw does not.
Which is updated more often, Glow Drawings or @Draw?
Glow Drawings ships an update every 11 months, and @Draw every 3 months. Most recently, Glow Drawings was updated on September 19, 2026 and @Draw on September 20, 2026.

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