DotIt! vs Pressure Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DotIt!
Unleash your creativity by easily adding photos as backgrounds and then drawing or writing on them. Save and share your unique creations with friends. Simple touch controls make it accessible for all.
- Add photos as backgrounds
- Easy touch controls
- Save creations
- Share creations
- Creative expression
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DotIt! is a playful, easy-to-use canvas for making dot art on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Just touch the screen and start placing dots. Pick a color, choose a size, and watch your creation come together. Add a photo as a background to trace, decorate, or just have fun with. Designed with kids in mind: • No accounts, no ads, no tracking • Simple touch controls anyone can pick up • Save your artwork to the photo library and share it with family Features: • Multiple dot sizes and rotation • Photo backgrounds — turn any picture into a canvas • Save and share to Photos, Messages, and more • Apple Watch companion app to sketch on the go • Native Apple TV support — paint on the big screen with the Siri Remote
Pressure Art
This app explores 3D Touch capabilities by allowing users to draw with varying pressure. It generates immersive 3D structures with randomized color profiles, offering a fun way to visualize device precision. It is best experienced on a 3D Touch capable device.
- Pressure-sensitive drawing
- 3D structure generation
- Randomized color profiles
- Explores 3D Touch capabilities
- Simple interface
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** To clear the screen, just press hard enough on it that it clears. ** Explore the 3D Touch capabilities of your device with this app. It is a simple drawing app that increases the radius of the circle in response to how much pressure you put on the phone. Combining that with a generated color profile with a random seed and you'll find yourself creating immersive 3D structures in seconds flat. It's a fun tool that will allow you to see the precision and range of 3D Touch. Please note: This is only really useful if you do have a 3D Touch capable device. Your experience will be suboptimal if not.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pressure Art at every 5 weeks against DotIt!'s every 13 months. Pressure Art also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pressure Art holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 20 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of DotIt!'s written reviews are positive against 94% of Pressure Art's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DotIt! ships an update every 13 months, Pressure Art every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DotIt! | Pressure Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (57 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 94.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thom Ritterfeld | Ben Slaney |
Customer experience
DotIt!
Pressure Art
In-app purchases
DotIt!
No in-app purchases
Pressure Art
No in-app purchases
