Comparison

Tayasui Sketches vs Cadmio

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

Head to head
About

Tayasui Sketches

This app offers a realistic and versatile digital drawing experience with a wide array of tools, including watercolor brushes and a brush editor. It supports layers, cloud sync, and pressure stylus input for enhanced creativity on mobile devices.

Highlights
  • Realistic drawing tools
  • Watercolor wet brushes
  • Brush editor
  • Layer support
  • Cloud sync
  • Pressure stylus support
Features
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Because beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, we endlessly refined Sketches brushes to create the most realistic drawing tools. Sketches is the most realistic, versatile and user-friendly sketching app designed for a mobile device. This exhaustive artist's toolbox helps users create dazzling sketches, cheerful paintings and smashing illustrations on the go. Sketches includes a Pro Bundle IAP that make it exactly the same as the Paid Sketches Pro App. • Features - Import photos - Over 20 ultra realistic tools - Incredibly realistic watercolor wet brushes - Brush Editor - Color Eyedropper • Layers - Use layers to simplify your task - Export them as separate PNG with transparency - import and export PSD layered files • Cloud Sync - Backup your drawings to the Cloud - Synchronize your drawings between all your devices - Manage sync options folder by folder • Patterns - Import, draw and customise your own patterns. • Folders Easily organize your drawings to personalize folders. • Pressure Stylus support Discover even more realistic brushes while Styluses. Full support for Apple Pencil. • A Unique feeling: Each stroke behaves vividly and truly like a brush on paper, adapting the pressure, angle, and width to your movements. It's an effect you have to see to believe. • A unique UI with a touch of Zen : Tools are hidden away as you create and the bare minimum buttons are shown to make for a very clean canvas. • List of tools - Pen - Rotring - Felt Pen - Pen Brush - Oil Pastel - Watercolor Dry and Wet brushes - Acrylic brush - Airbrush - Area and Filling tool - Patterns - Text - Shapes (iPad only) - Eraser - Cutter - Smudge tool - Ruler Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: • Length: weekly, yearly • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase • Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period • When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cadmio

Easily create interactive 3D presentations of your product designs. Import common CAD file formats and utilize a library of materials and environments. Share your visualizations with clients who don't need specialized software to review them.

Highlights
  • Import .STEP, .STL, .OBJ files
  • Customizable material and environment presets
  • Interactive 3D presentation editing
  • AR view
  • Shareable proprietary file format
  • Automatic turntable animation
Features
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CAD visualization has never been easier! Create interactive 3D presentations of your designs, and get your clients round. Use Cadmio’s curated material and environment presets, our presentation editing tools, and improve the ideation process even without prior computer graphics experience. Download Cadmio and get access to all FEATURES including: - .STEP, .STL, or .OBJ import from any CAD app. - Constantly growing Catalog of customizable material and environment presets. - Compact proprietary file format which is easy to share and store locally. - Various editing tools to customize the transform parameters of your CAD file. - Object hierarchy panel. - Multiple selection modes to speed up the preparation process. - Different render modes, units, and dimensions overlay for model evaluation. - Stored camera views and automatic turntable animation. - Projected decal rendering. - AR view. - Share functions. We offer a FREE TRIAL with unrestricted access to all materials, environments, and presentation editing tools. Prepare interactive 3D presentations on your iPad, and review them on your iPad or iPhone. Send iterations of the design to your client or supervisor, so they don’t need any modelling software to inspect the 3D model. Reviewing .cadmio files doesn’t require a subscription, and the Cadmio Viewer for the iPhone is also available for free. You can find more information about how to GET STARTED with Cadmio on our website: https://www.cadmio.io/getting-started SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS We recommend using iPad Pro with 4+ GB RAM (4th and 5th generation). On devices with less than 4 GB memory (for example the 8th generation iPad) certain environments are disabled. Cadmio supports the .STEP, .STL, and .OBJ file formats for importing CAD models. GET IN TOUCH Feel free to contact us with any questions or feedback at hello@cadmio.io. Follow us on Instagram (@cadmioapp) for more CAD visualization content and updates. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Opening and viewing existing presentations are FREE. Creating and editing presentations requires a subscription. You can choose a monthly or yearly option, each comes with a free trial. After confirmation, payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at the end of the trial. The subscription will automatically renew unless you turn off auto-renew in the iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel at any time and enjoy all subscription benefits during the remaining period. PRIVACY AND TERMS OF USE https://www.cadmio.io/privacy https://www.cadmio.io/terms

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Tayasui Sketches at freemium against Cadmio's subscription. Tayasui Sketches also leads on ratings volume (55K vs 34) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, review sentiment, 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. Tayasui Sketches sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Cadmio sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tayasui Sketches holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tayasui Sketches has 55K ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 61% and 61% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tayasui Sketches versus Cadmio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTayasui SketchesCadmio
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (55K ratings) — better4.2 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews — better60.7% of reviews
Number of ratings55K — better34
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size475 MB1.5 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSKETCHES SRLCADMIO Kft.

Customer experience

Tayasui Sketches

All ratings54,077 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral5.3%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews1,661 reviews
Positive61.4%
Neutral9.4%
Negative29.2%

Cadmio

All ratings34 ratings
Positive79.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative14.7%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive60.7%
Neutral10.7%
Negative28.6%

Bugs and requests

Tayasui Sketches

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Drawings disappearing or not saving properly
  • Undo/redo functionality not working as expected
  • Crashing when using certain tools or features
  • Syncing issues causing data loss
  • Brush size and opacity sliders not functioning well

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add search function for community
  • Improve fill tool and eliminate white rings
  • Allow more customization of brushes and tools
  • Implement layer management features
  • Add ability to rotate and resize canvas
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  • Improve sync and backup functionality

Cadmio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Tayasui Sketches

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium$2.997 Days
  • Monthly premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Monthly premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Year
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Version$7.99
2 purchases

Cadmio

Subscriptions2
  • Cadmio Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$10.991 Month
  • Cadmio Annual Subscription7 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Tayasui Sketches free?
Tayasui Sketches is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cadmio free?
Cadmio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tayasui Sketches or Cadmio?
Tayasui Sketches is rated higher. Tayasui Sketches averages 4.5 out of 5 from 55K ratings, while Cadmio averages 4.2 from 34 ratings.
Do Tayasui Sketches or Cadmio have ads?
Neither Tayasui Sketches nor Cadmio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tayasui Sketches or Cadmio?
Tayasui Sketches ships an update monthly, and Cadmio monthly. Most recently, Tayasui Sketches was updated on November 10, 2026 and Cadmio on November 7, 2026.

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