Flatter Files vs CADraw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flatter Files
This app provides a digital filing system for companies to efficiently distribute drawings and documents. It allows for easy searching, automatic updates, and organized grouping of items for quick access. Users can also share external links to their content.
- Digital flat file cabinet
- Efficient document distribution
- Searchable content
- Automatic updates
- Grouped assemblies
- External sharing links
- Mobile viewer capabilities
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Flatter Files is a digital flat file cabinet that allows companies to distribute their drawings and documents to viewers more efficiently by providing a simple method to search all of your content, automatically keeping everything up to date, grouping your items into assemblies for quick access, and allowing you to share an always up to date link to your drawing or document externally. With the Flatter Files iPhone and iPad Application you can now have complete viewer capabilities on your mobile device.
CADraw
Create and edit precise technical drawings with a variety of tools. Supports layers, annotations, and export to common formats like PDF and DXF. Ideal for detailed design work on mobile devices.
- Draw lines, circles, arcs
- Shape editing and modification
- Angle constraints
- Endpoint and midpoint snapping
- Numeric keypad for precise input
- Layer management
- Annotation tools
- Export to PDF and DXF
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Easily draw shapes such as lines, circles, and arcs, and easily edit and modify shapes with just a touch of the shape. Angle constraints can specify commonly used angles of 5 º -90 º. Snap endpoints, midpoints, vertical points, tangents, and intersections, allowing you to draw accurately. There are also dynamic auxiliary points that provide you with dynamic assistance when drawing each line. The numeric keypad can accurately specify distances during drawing or modification. Drag the dimension edit point to convert it to horizontal or vertical dimensions. Angle annotations, radius annotations, and arc annotations can all rival the excellent performance of desktop applications in creation or editing. Layer management, displaying or hiding layers, and locking layers. Annotation management can add annotation styles, modify annotation styles, colors, line widths, and other annotation shapes. The drawn drawings can be exported as PDF files or DXF data exchange files, and can be shared on the computer and opened using AutoCAD. Thank you very much to Graziano from Italy for providing Italian language translation and Сергей Ломонос Provide Russian translation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CADraw at fortnightly against Flatter Files's every 2 months. CADraw also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Flatter Files sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CADraw sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.39 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Flatter Files against 2.9 for CADraw. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CADraw has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
Flatter Files ships an update every 2 months, CADraw fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flatter Files | CADraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.9 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 175 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CMV Technologies, LLC | 诚 张 |
Customer experience
Flatter Files
CADraw
In-app purchases
Flatter Files
- PDF Viewer Upgrade$9.99
CADraw
- Monthly subscription$1.391 Month
- per month$2.991 Month
- Annual subscription$13.901 Year
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- per year$26.001 Year
- Upgrade to the full version$69.99
- Full version$99.99









