Comparison

@Draw vs Draw Painter Drawing on Papers

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

Draw Painter Drawing on Papers

Unleash your creativity with a versatile drawing and photo editing app. Apply a wide range of tools, filters, effects, and stickers to enhance your images. Easily add text, remove blemishes, and share your masterpieces with the world.

Highlights
  • Drawing tools (pen, line, arrow, shapes)
  • Photo enhancement and filters
  • Stickers, frames, and overlays
  • Text and meme creation
  • Color splash and focus effects
  • Blemish and redeye removal
  • Sharing to social media
Features
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Draw Painter app Includes: Pen,Line,Arrow,Rect(Stroke),Rect(Fill),Ellipse(Stroke),Ellipse(Fill),Eraser,Text,Text (Multiline),Effects,Focus,Frames,Stickers,Enhance,Orientation,Crop,Lighting,Color,Splash,Draw,Text,Redeye,Whiten,Blemish… Many many colors, tools, filters and effects and they are all FREE!. Key Features: » Choose any color wha you like to set the pen or paper color » Select one template what you like for your painting on the blank paper » Draw or paint everything what you like on the color paper » Enhance with Hi-Def, Scenery, Food, Portrait, and Night » Stylize with free and purchasable filters » Get creative with stunning stickers, frames and overlays » Touch-up selfies with redeye and blemish removal » Boost smile wattage with teeth whitening » Selectively remove and replace color with Splash » Add drama with Sharpness » Add text and create your own memes » Crop, rotate, and straighten your painted photo » Draw attention to the subject of your drawed photo with Focus or Vignette » Modify brightness, contrast, highlights and shadows » Adjust saturation, warmth, tint and fade » Share your painted photo to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, What's App, WeChat, Weibo, Message, Email » Print your drawed photo to the nearest Walgreens

Screenshots

@Draw4 screens
Draw Painter Drawing on Papers4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: @Draw at none against Draw Painter Drawing on Papers's shown. @Draw also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months) and review sentiment (54% vs 45%). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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 and Draw Painter Drawing on Papers sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for @Draw against 4.4 for Draw Painter Drawing on Papers. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 94 and 103 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of @Draw's written reviews are positive against 45% of Draw Painter Drawing on Papers's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

@Draw ships an update every 3 months, Draw Painter Drawing on Papers every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
@Draw versus Draw Painter Drawing on Papers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter@DrawDraw Painter Drawing on Papers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (94 ratings)4.4 (103 ratings)
Positive reviews54.3% of reviews — better45.1% of reviews
Number of ratings94103 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEvolutive Apps S.L.Chaochuan Zhang

Customer experience

@Draw

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

Draw Painter Drawing on Papers

All ratings103 ratings
Positive84.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive45.1%
Neutral9.9%
Negative45.1%

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

Draw Painter Drawing on Papers

From 103 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for drawing and coloring
  • 👍 Fun and creative app
  • 👍 Satisfying drawing experience
  • 👍 Good for relaxation
  • 👍 Useful for creating characters

Room to improve

  • ❌ Too many ads
  • ❌ App crashes frequently
  • ❌ Does not save work
  • ❌ App shuts down unexpectedly
  • ❌ Freezing on ads

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

Draw Painter Drawing on Papers

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • App shuts down and loses work
  • App freezes on ads
  • App doesn't work
  • App restarts after finishing
Show 11 more
  • Ads freeze features
  • Cannot save anything
  • App crashes so much
  • App kicks user off drawings
  • App deleted artwork
  • App won't let me open existing photos
  • Advertisements pop up which freeze features
  • App logs user out and doesn't save work
  • Paid version doesn't work well
  • Restore payment to remove ads stops working
  • App shuts down and loses work regularly

Requested features

12 requests
  • Add makeup edits
  • Add rainbow colors
  • Add paint feature
  • Add auto-save or save feature
  • Add x alignment presets for text rotation
Show 7 more
  • Allow saving drawings
  • Allow layering of images
  • Improve color options
  • Add zoom functionality
  • Add better colors
  • Remove ads
  • Fix restarting issue

In-app purchases

1 purchases

@Draw

One-time1
  • @Draw Pro version$2.99
1 purchases

Draw Painter Drawing on Papers

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is @Draw free?
@Draw is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Draw Painter Drawing on Papers free?
Draw Painter Drawing on Papers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, @Draw or Draw Painter Drawing on Papers?
@Draw and Draw Painter Drawing on Papers are both rated 4.4 out of 5 on the App Store, from 94 and 103 ratings respectively.
Do @Draw or Draw Painter Drawing on Papers have ads?
Draw Painter Drawing on Papers shows ads; @Draw does not.
Which is updated more often, @Draw or Draw Painter Drawing on Papers?
@Draw ships an update every 3 months, and Draw Painter Drawing on Papers every 10 months. Most recently, @Draw was updated on September 20, 2026 and Draw Painter Drawing on Papers on August 24, 2026.

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