Comparison

@Draw vs Paintstorm Studio Lite

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

Head to head
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/

About

Paintstorm Studio Lite

This app offers professional digital painting tools for artists of all levels. It provides extensive brush customization, stroke correction, and intuitive controls to enhance the mobile art creation experience. Discover new possibilities for digital drawing with advanced features and Apple Pencil support.

Highlights
  • Extensive brush customization
  • Stroke post-correction
  • Apple Pencil support
  • Dynamic interface
  • Mirror drawing
  • Standard tools pack
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Paintstorm Studio is the first iOS App designed not only for simple sketches, but professional digital painting of any level, genre and technique. Paintstorm helps you to discover the magnificence and unleash the full potential of Apple Pencil and brings you to a whole new level of drawing. Creating an art masterpiece has never been so mobile. A major feature of Paintstorm Studio is the array of brushes to choose from. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable to your painting style. Anyone who has ever painted knows it's hard to overestimate the painting tool and the importance of all the seemingly insignificant details. We tried not to miss any of them. Our goal was to create an intuitive, simple-to-use but at the same time functionally powerful tool that brings the process of digital painting to a new level, making it as comfortable as possible. - Full control of all brush options (Incredible possibilities for brush settings) - Bristle brushes of any form and kind - Stroke post correction (You can take an action on any option. Not only on the stroke thickness) - Parameters binding to the perspective - Dynamic interface (Global interface scale, panels scale, opacity, color) - Custom panels - Full controlled mask-brush (Each brush can work as mask for other brush) - Takes underlayer's color while blending - "Close gaps" function when you fill or select - Dirty brush mode - Stroke stabilizer - Usable color mixer - Different gradient strokes - Mirror drawing - Standard tools pack (Lasso, Magic wand, Crop, Fill, Gradient and etc) - Control of the random amounts - Apple Pencil support (Pressure, Tilt, Direction) Lite version restrictions: - It is not possible to load and save psd files - A watermark is added to the picture Upgrade to the full version and get rid of the limits!

Screenshots

@Draw4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paintstorm Studio Lite at none against @Draw's 1. @Draw's advantage is review sentiment (54% vs 24%) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Paintstorm Studio Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

@Draw holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 94 and 262 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of @Draw's written reviews are positive against 24% of Paintstorm Studio Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

@Draw ships an update every 3 months, Paintstorm Studio Lite every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
@Draw versus Paintstorm Studio Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter@DrawPaintstorm Studio Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (94 ratings) — better4.0 (262 ratings)
Positive reviews54.3% of reviews — better23.6% of reviews
Number of ratings94262 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.1
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvolutive Apps S.L.Sergei Komarov

Customer experience

@Draw

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

Paintstorm Studio Lite

All ratings262 ratings
Positive72.9%
Neutral7.3%
Negative19.8%
Written reviews140 reviews
Positive23.6%
Neutral13.6%
Negative62.9%

User reviews

@Draw

From 94 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Great drawing tools
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Versatile for sketching and doodling
  • 🎨 Good color selection

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes frequently
  • 💸 Aggressive ads and in-app purchases
  • 🔋 Drains battery quickly
  • 🔍 Limited functionality in free version
  • 🔧 Confusing interface and lack of instructions

Paintstorm Studio Lite

From 262 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💎 Excellent brushes and color mixing
  • 🎨 Sophisticated drawing tools
  • 🖌️ Advanced interface like desktop apps
  • 🖥️ Powerful features on par with desktop software

Room to improve

  • 🚧 Cluttered and confusing interface
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and performance issues
  • 💦 Annoying watermark on exported artwork
  • 🔍 Lack of clear instructions and tutorials

Bugs and 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

Paintstorm Studio Lite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when opening or switching between projects
  • Brush settings and color wheel disappearing unexpectedly
  • Inability to save or recover unsaved artwork

Requested features

4 requests
  • Remove watermark option
  • Ability to import photos and images
  • Better organization and customization of UI
  • More intuitive brush and tool controls

In-app purchases

1 purchases

@Draw

One-time1
  • @Draw Pro version$2.99
None

Paintstorm Studio Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is @Draw free?
@Draw is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paintstorm Studio Lite free?
Paintstorm Studio Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, @Draw or Paintstorm Studio Lite?
@Draw is rated higher. @Draw averages 4.4 out of 5 from 94 ratings, while Paintstorm Studio Lite averages 4.0 from 262 ratings.
Do @Draw or Paintstorm Studio Lite have ads?
Neither @Draw nor Paintstorm Studio Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, @Draw or Paintstorm Studio Lite?
@Draw ships an update every 3 months, and Paintstorm Studio Lite every 4 months. Most recently, @Draw was updated on September 20, 2026 and Paintstorm Studio Lite on September 21, 2026.

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