Comparison

Glow Drawings vs Notepad

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

Notepad

This interactive notepad app allows you to quickly jot down ideas, create lists, and organize your thoughts. It offers a simple interface for writing, sketching, and managing tasks, ensuring your notes are accessible anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Write down ideas
  • Create shopping lists
  • Create to-do lists
  • Scribble or sketch drafts
  • Fifteen colors or markers
  • Three line thicknesses
  • Share notes
Features
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Use our practical and simple interactive notepad app to write down your ideas, create shopping lists or to-do lists and organize them. Take notes, scribble or sketch a draft, do the grocery list, draw or do whatever you want with this notebook! Write notes, memos, messages, sticky notes, shopping lists, check list and to-do lists. It is an easy-to-use note-taking app. This is a simple to-do list and task manager app that helps you get all your lists done. Download it and organize your quick notes in this simple notepad. It is perfect for organizing your work ideas as if it were a notebook. And you can you access your notes whenever you want. Anywhere and anytime create notes, to-do lists, shopping list, edit or save a note! Share this app via social media or any other program on your phone. If you liked the app, please rate it. It helps us improve our work. Thank you! Features: • Fifteen colors or markers • Three types of line thickness (thin, medium, thick) • White background • Erase whatever you want with the eraser • Delete the image with the undo-arrow • Share the note or save it in the images gallery https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Glow Drawings4 screens
Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

Glow Drawings and Notepad both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of Glow Drawings's written reviews are positive against 12% of Notepad's. Glow Drawings also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (124 vs 20). Notepad's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 11 months). On price, rating, ads 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. Notepad sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. 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 4.3 for Notepad. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Glow Drawings has 124 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Glow Drawings's written reviews are positive against 12% of Notepad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glow Drawings ships an update every 11 months, Notepad every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Glow Drawings versus Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlow DrawingsNotepad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (124 ratings) — better4.3 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews — better11.8% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB22 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperFBF Sistemas LTDAAlejandro Melero Zaballos

Customer experience

Glow Drawings

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

Notepad

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive11.8%
Neutral17.6%
Negative70.6%

In-app purchases

None

Glow Drawings

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Notepad

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly plan3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Annual plan3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove ads$5.99
  • Lifetime plan$44.99

Questions

Is Glow Drawings free?
Glow Drawings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Notepad free?
Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Glow Drawings or Notepad?
Glow Drawings is rated higher. Glow Drawings averages 4.4 out of 5 from 124 ratings, while Notepad averages 4.3 from 20 ratings.
Do Glow Drawings or Notepad have ads?
Both Glow Drawings and Notepad show ads.
Which is updated more often, Glow Drawings or Notepad?
Glow Drawings ships an update every 11 months, and Notepad every 4 months. Most recently, Glow Drawings was updated on November 1, 2026 and Notepad on November 11, 2026.

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