Comparison

Pencil Sketch vs Vector Illustration

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

Head to head
About

Pencil Sketch

Transform your photos into realistic pencil sketches or cartoon-style drawings with a single tap. This app offers multiple artistic styles, photo editing tools, and frames to enhance your creations. Easily save and share your artwork.

Highlights
  • Create pencil sketches from photos
  • Generate colorful or black-white sketches
  • Three artistic styles: Sketch, Doodle, Hatch
  • Apply photo frames
  • Built-in photo editor
  • Add filters, stickers, and adjust brightness/contrast
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An easy-to-use app to make you an artist by creating pencil sketch of your photos! You can pick a picture from your album or capture one from your camera to generate the sketch. Both black-white and colorful sketch results can be easily created by JUST one button click. Saving images can be done quickly by a single touch of a button. Sharing pics are also supported. There are three styles included in the app: "Sketch", "Doodle" and "Hatch". "Sketch" style creates accurate pencil sketches with smooth edges and curves, which is very good for human portrait photos. "Doodle" style converts a photo into a cartoon style painting. "Hatch" will work generally on any kind of photos, as it is a simple style which generates a cross-hatching texture on photos. Several photo frames are also included in the app so that you can easily apply them to your sketch results. A powerful photo editor is also built-in within this app, which includes many useful and fast manipulations of your photos. The sketch and cartoon results can be easily enhanced within the editor by using features like: photo filters, fun stickers, photo frames, brightness/contrast/saturation adjustment, etc.

About

Vector Illustration

Create sophisticated vector illustrations with a wide range of tools for paths, text, and layers. Secure your work with a passcode and easily share or export your creations in various formats.

Highlights
  • Advanced path and text tools
  • Unlimited layers
  • Passcode lock for security
  • Multiple export formats (SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG)
  • 80+ image filters
  • Import custom fonts
  • Dropbox and AirDrop integration
Features
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* Finally comes to your iPhone and iPod Touch as well as your iPad * Extra Features: √80+ Image Filters. √Universal: Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. √Passcode Lock for the whole App to secure your Drawings. √Export/Import your Drawings directly to/from your PC, and MAC. √Send/Receive your Drawings via AirDrop (Device to Device directly). 'Vector Illustration' is your Ultimate Vector Illustration App for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It supports Paths, Compound Paths, Text, Images, Groups, Masks, Gradient Fills, and an unlimited number of Layers. It was designed with performance in mind. It can easily handle Drawings with hundreds to thousands of shapes without bogging down. Export/Import your Drawings directly to/from your Dropbox, PC, MAC, and Send/Receive them Device-to-Device directly via AirDrop. Main Features: √80+ Image Filters to be applied to any of your Drawings. √Passcode Lock for the whole App to secure your Drawings. √Very high performance. Select, Scale and Rotate hundreds of objects with zero lag. √Create arbitrary Bezier Paths with the Pen tool. √Create Compound Paths, Masks and Groups. √Create Text objects with many available Fonts and your own Fonts. √Place Photos from your Albums. √Boolean operators on Paths (Unite, Intersect, Exclude, Subtract Front) √Powerful Scale and Rotate tools. √Gradient Fills with interactive editing on canvas. √Arbitrary Stroke dash patterns. √Swatch Library. √Unlimited Layers per Drawing. √Rename, Rearrange, Delete, Hide and Lock Layers. √Adjust Layer transparency. √Snap to Grid, Points, and Path edges. √Isolate the active Layer for easy editing. √Show/Hide Grid, and Ruler. √Outline Mode. √Duplicate in Place, Duplicate from one Drawing to another, and Transform Again. √Cut and Copy in Place and from one Drawing to another. √Blend, Set Color Balance, and Set Hue and Saturation. √Stroke, Fill, Shadow, Gradient, and Opacity settings. √Import your own Font. √Save Drawings to your Album, Copy Drawings, Duplicate Drawings, Print Drawings, Post Drawings on Facebook, and Tweet Drawings on Twitter. √Email Drawings as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG. √Send/Receive (Export/Import) SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG directly to/from your Dropbox. √Send/Receive (Export/Import) SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG directly to/from your PC or MAC with iTunes via USB Cable. √Send/Receive Drawings via AirDrop Device-to-Device directly.

Screenshots

Pencil Sketch4 screens
Vector Illustration4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pencil Sketch at Free against Vector Illustration's $0.99. Pencil Sketch also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (62% vs 28%). Vector Illustration's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence 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

Pencil Sketch is free to download; Vector Illustration costs $0.99 up front. Vector Illustration sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Pencil Sketch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pencil Sketch versus Vector Illustration: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPencil SketchVector Illustration
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.0 (148 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews — better28.1% of reviews
Number of ratings148 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDumpling Sandwich Software Inc.EyeOS Store Inc.

Customer experience

Pencil Sketch

All ratings148 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative20.3%
Written reviews196 reviews
Positive62.2%
Neutral3.6%
Negative34.2%

Vector Illustration

Written reviews32 reviews
Positive28.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative65.6%

Bugs and requests

Pencil Sketch

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App freezes on opening ad screen
  • Photos not saving to gallery
  • App crashes
  • Ads prevent app usage
  • Filters not working
Show 3 more
  • App not opening
  • Photos overwrite original
  • App not saving sketches

Requested features

7 requests
  • More filter options
  • Ability to save to specific folders
  • Improved drawing functionality
  • Dark mode
  • Print multiple pages at once
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  • Easier navigation back to camera roll
  • Documentation or tutorials

Vector Illustration

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Pencil Sketch

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Vector Illustration

One-time2
  • Remove Advertisements$0.99
  • Unlock Premium Features$4.99

Questions

Is Pencil Sketch free?
Pencil Sketch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Vector Illustration free?
Vector Illustration costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Pencil Sketch or Vector Illustration have ads?
Pencil Sketch shows ads; Vector Illustration does not.
Which is updated more often, Pencil Sketch or Vector Illustration?
Pencil Sketch ships an update every 5 months, and Vector Illustration every 5 months. Most recently, Pencil Sketch was updated on November 1, 2026 and Vector Illustration on November 2, 2026.

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