Comparison

MediBang Paletta:Drawing App vs TernaryClock

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

Head to head
About

MediBang Paletta:Drawing App

This painting app offers a user-friendly interface with world-class brushes and nuanced layering for digital art creation. Enjoy customizable brushes, creative effects, and professional finishing touches without subscription fees. Save and export your masterpieces in various formats, including PSD.

Highlights
  • User-Friendly Interface
  • World-Class Brushes
  • Nuanced Layering
  • Customizable Brushes
  • Stabilization Tool
  • Artistic Filters
  • PSD Export
Features
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No intrusive ads to interrupt your flow. Free for 2 hours every day. You can extend your usage time after 2 hours by watching ads. Draw for yourself, in your time, by you like. MediBang Paletta is the painting app for you. We made this for you. The latest work in the MediBang Paint series, which boasts 100 million downloads. This is a new proposal from MediBang. The app's beautiful canvas is waiting for you to create art. Today, try MediBang Paletta and watch your improvement skyrocket! Crafted by the minds behind MediBang Paint, MediBang Paletta gives you a perfectly designed experience to reach creative heights never thought possible, no subscription required. Key Highlights: ・User-Friendly Interface: Work effortlessly with an intuitive interface. ・World-Class Brushes: Enjoy meticulously crafted brushes for the iPad experience. ・Auto-Save: Never worry about losing a sketch again. ・Nuanced Layering: Exercise precise control over your art. Your Perfect Brushes ・Customizable Default Brushes: Tailor any default brushes to match your style. ・Stabilization Tool: Create your smoothest lines ever. ・Creative Effects: Add intricate details with cool effect and stamp brushes. ・Pen Pressure Settings: Responsive and adjustable settings to suit you. ・Unique Brushes: Explore dozens of brushes designed exclusively for MediBang Paletta's brush engine. Effortless Layers and Colors ・Clipping Masks: Edit without compromising your initial art. ・Layer Groups: Keep your work neat and tidy. ・Blending Modes: Nearly 20 blending modes to adjust your art as you desire. Professional Finishing Touches ・Artistic Filters: Add captivating effects to give your work a professional look. ・Blur Tool: Achieve softness, movement, and depth. ・Easy Edits: Refine your work's proportions using the Transformation Tool. Intuitive and Lightweight ・Artist-First Design: Enjoy an app designed with giving you the best artistic experience in mind. ・Simplicity is Key: Focus on your creativity with a simple, lightweight interface that transforms your screen into a studio. ・Efficient Storage: Save your work in MediBang Paletta export it to the Files app. ・No Lag: Bid farewell to brush lag and slow loading times forever. Share Your Masterpieces ・Pro Export: Import or export your art in various formats, including Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files. ・Seamless Saving and Backups: Save your art locally in MediBang Paletta and find your files backed up to the app itself in the event of a crash. Operating Environment ・OS: iOS 18 or later ・Recommended Devices: iPhone13 or later / iPad 9th generation or later / iPad Air 5th generation or later / iPad mini 6th generation or later / iPad Pro 5th generation or later *App performance may vary depending on the device condition Crafted by visionaries and tailored for artists, MediBang Paletta is here to provide the ultimate digital art experience. With a canvas and tools that are convenient yet unobtrusive, this app transforms your iPad screen into an inviting workspace, allowing your creativity to flow freely. Every element is meticulously decided by MediBang Paletta's designers to ensure the most immersive and intuitive experience that maximizes all the best parts of working on the iPad for the individual creator experience. MediBang Paletta is more than just an app, it's a creator-centric space that gives you what you need to translate vision into reality. No compromises or limitations—just pure creative freedom. Bid farewell to confusing design, and software bloat. Say hello to MediBang Paletta.

About

TernaryClock

This app displays time using a balanced ternary system, dividing the day into 27 hours, each with 27 minutes and 27 seconds. It utilizes 'trits' with three values to represent time, offering a unique perspective on temporal measurement.

Highlights
  • Balanced ternary time display
  • 27-hour day division
  • Ternary digits ('trits')
  • Unique time representation
  • Visualizes 'extended present'
Features
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This is a balanced ternary clock. It divides the day into 27 hours. Each hour is divided into 27 minutes, which are in turn divided into 27 seconds. This means that the ternary hour is a bit shorter than a standard hour, while the ternary minute is about twice as long as a standard minute. The ternary second lasts for about 4.4 standard seconds. This is quite close to what psychologists call the ‘extended present’, the duration of time we experience as ‘now’. The display is made out of ‘trits’, ternary digits that can each have 3 values. The lowest value is ‘\’, the center value is ‘|’ and the highest value is ‘/’. You can think of these as representing 0, 1, and 2, but there are other (and perhaps more fitting) ways of thinking about them as well, such as ‘−1, 0, +1’, ‘down, center, up’ or ‘left, middle, right’. Unbalanced number systems, like the standard decimal system or the binary system that computers use, do not have a center value. Their most basic ingredients are 0 and 1, and negative numbers need a special sign. In balanced ternary, this is different. You can think of it like using a compass: North and South are opposite directions, but neither of them is more fundamental than the other. In balanced ternary, you can use a single digit to denote the North Pole, the South Pole or the equator (the balance point). As you add more digits, you can describe your North–South position with increasing accuracy. This way of counting is very well suited for keeping track of things that rotate, like the passage of the day (which tracks the rotation of the Earth around its axis). In this clock, the day is divided into 19683 equal steps. At noon, all the digits are centered at ‘|’. At midnight, the display flips over from its highest value, ‘///·///·///’ to its lowest value ‘\\\·\\\·\\\’ and the next day begins. Interestingly, the exact opposite of noon is not a ‘tick’ of the clock but rather the moment halfway between the highest and lowest value. Midnight is a boundary that the clock approaches and then passes over but never quite lands on. This is a fundamental property of any balanced number system: there is only one precisely defined center, and on the opposite end of that is ‘infinity’, a value that cannot be expressed precisely as a number.

Screenshots

MediBang Paletta:Drawing App4 screens
TernaryClock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: TernaryClock at 100% against MediBang Paletta:Drawing App's 62%. TernaryClock also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). MediBang Paletta:Drawing App's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. MediBang Paletta:Drawing App sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. TernaryClock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TernaryClock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MediBang Paletta:Drawing App has 1.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of MediBang Paletta:Drawing App's written reviews are positive against 100% of TernaryClock's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MediBang Paletta:Drawing App versus TernaryClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMediBang Paletta:Drawing AppTernaryClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.1K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size143 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMediBang inc.Chiel Zwinkels

Customer experience

MediBang Paletta:Drawing App

All ratings1,081 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral6.3%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews424 reviews
Positive62.3%
Neutral19.3%
Negative18.4%

TernaryClock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

MediBang Paletta:Drawing App

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Artwork randomly getting deleted
  • Menus closing immediately after opening
  • Brush not working after certain actions
  • Issues with exporting and saving files

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add option to create custom brushes
  • Implement a time-lapse recording feature
  • Improve blending brush capabilities
  • Provide more environmental and texture brushes
  • Add a symmetry tool separate from the pen tool

TernaryClock

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MediBang Paletta:Drawing App

One-time2
  • 30-day TrialFree
  • Paletta: Perpetual License$9.99
None

TernaryClock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MediBang Paletta:Drawing App free?
MediBang Paletta:Drawing App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TernaryClock free?
TernaryClock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MediBang Paletta:Drawing App or TernaryClock?
TernaryClock is rated higher. MediBang Paletta:Drawing App averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while TernaryClock averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do MediBang Paletta:Drawing App or TernaryClock have ads?
MediBang Paletta:Drawing App shows ads; TernaryClock does not.

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