HuePaint vs Draw & Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HuePaint
Create digital art with realistic brushes and dynamic stroke sizes based on fingertip pressure. Offers a user-friendly interface with customizable tools and supports advanced features like layers and photo tracing.
- Live-calculated brushes and strokes
- Dynamic stroke size based on fingertip pressure
- Adjustable parameters while painting
- Left-handed toolbar option
- Multiple layers
- Photo tracing mode (Pro feature)
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Paint and create beautiful works of art using this app’s expressive painting tools and workflow-friendly user interface. • COLORFUL PAINTING TOOLS • HuePaint features live-calculated brushes and strokes that interact in real time with a canvas texture that is uniquely generated for each picture. • FINGERTIP = STROKE SIZE • When you paint, the app measures how much of your finger is touching the screen and changes the stroke size accordingly. Apply just the corner of your fingertip for a thin line, or the whole fingerprint area for a broad stroke. A 2nd tool assigned to your finger will still use this feature, so don’t ignore it just because you have an Apple Pencil! • LEFT-HANDED? • Just swipe the toolbar over to the other side! • PARAMETERS CAN BE CHANGED LIVE • Use any buttons or controls to change/adjust color, size, force, simultaneously while painting. • UNIVERSAL PURCHASE • If you choose to buy the Pro upgrade, this one-time in-app purchase will unlock all Pro features in the app on all available platforms (iPad-iPhone-Mac)! • METAL • The engine is based on Metal, with 128-bit color and floating-point arithmetic. • SWIFT • The app was developed entirely using Swift (earlier versions used C++). • APPLE PENCIL SUPPORT • FULL SCREEN PAINTING • • DARK MODE • LANDSCAPE • PORTRAIT • WIDE COLOR • • MULTIPLE LAYERS • PHOTO TRACING MODE (Pro feature) •
Draw & Play
Color pages from a digital book, then scan your creations into the app. Watch your artwork magically come to life on screen.
- Digital coloring book pages
- Scan drawings into the app
- Animated artwork
- Bring art to life
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Draw & Play is where coloring meets magic. Color in one of our Draw & Play coloring book pages, scan it in the app, and watch your art come alive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Draw & Play at none against HuePaint's 6. Draw & Play also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). HuePaint's advantage is ratings volume (164 vs 5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. HuePaint sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Draw & Play asks for nothing beyond the download.
Draw & Play holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HuePaint has 164 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of HuePaint's written reviews are positive against 100% of Draw & Play's.
HuePaint ships an update every 2 months, Draw & Play every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HuePaint | Draw & Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (164 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 616 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Norbyte | Kai Hovland |
Customer experience
HuePaint
Draw & Play
Bugs and requests
HuePaint
Reported bugs
6 issues- App gets rid of work
- Colors keep changing
- Inability to save
- Disappearing menu
- Low-resolution output
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- Super slow performance
Requested features
10 requests- Improve tool sizing interface
- Improve layering feature
- Add ability to change background design
- Add vector graphics and text
- Add predefined shapes and straight lines
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- Export directly to Facebook
- Go back to previous update's UI
- Add paper color selection
- Make color samples larger
- Easier eyedropper functionality
Draw & Play
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HuePaint
- Tip Jar: Smallest Tip$1.00
- Tip Jar: Small Tip$2.00
- Tip Jar: Medium Tip$5.00
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- Pro Upgrade$6.00
- Tip Jar: Big Tip$10.00
- Tip Jar: Biggest Tip$25.00
Draw & Play
No in-app purchases
