Comparison

Muse Pro vs Lineova

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

Head to head
About

Muse Pro

This app is a powerful AI-driven drawing and illustration tool for iPad and Apple Pencil. It offers a vast brush library, advanced layering, and real-time AI generation to help artists create detailed sketches, paintings, and illustrations.

Highlights
  • Handcrafted brushes and artistic tools
  • Advanced layering system
  • Real-time AI generation
  • Prompt enhancer powered by GPT-4
  • Image to prompt conversion
  • Creative upscaler and image enhancer
Features
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Muse Pro is the epitome of digital creativity on the iPad, catering to both established and aspiring artists. With an extensive selection of handcrafted brushes, cutting-edge artistic tools, an advanced layering system, and a high-speed graphics engine, Muse Pro enables you to bring to life expressive sketches, vibrant paintings, detailed illustrations. Designed to harmonize with the iPad and Apple Pencil, Muse Pro turns any setting into your personal art studio, offering the following features for an unparalleled creative experience: • Core Features Designed with an intuitive interface for the iPad and Apple Pencil. Smooth and responsive smudge sampling powered by Metal, drawing at 120 fps on Apple's XDR Pro Display. Continuous auto-save ensures your work is always secure. • Breakthrough Brushes A wide array of hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes. Brush sets for organizing your painting, sketching, and drawing tools. Import and export capabilities for custom .brushset brushes. • Advanced Layering System Offers precise control over details and composition through layer management. Select layers for individual movement or transformation of objects. • The Design Tools You Need Add vector Text to your illustrations for enhanced communication. Crop and Resize your canvas to achieve the perfect composition. A custom rendering engine that perfects your strokes in real-time for flawless results. Streamline and stabilization features smooth out strokes, ideal for calligraphy and precise inking. Use Scribble to change prompt settings and create text effortlessly. • AI Features Real-time AI generation at up to 30 fps for dynamic creativity. A Prompt enhancer, powered by GPT-4, assists in crafting detailed prompts. Image to prompt conversion with GPT-4 Vision for enhanced AI-driven creation. Creative upscaler and image enhancer: upscale your drawings up to 4x and easily switch styles for ultra-high definition images. • Share Your Creations Support for importing JPG, PNG, and TIFF image files. Export your artwork as layered .musepro files or in high-quality PNG format, making it easy to share with peers. Muse Pro is accessible on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, offering an intuitive interface with gestures like two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, and four-finger tap to clear a layer. It also supports light and dark mode and accommodates both left and right-handed users, ensuring a seamless and inclusive creative process. Terms of Service: https://bit.ly/muse-pro-tos Privacy Policy: https://bit.ly/muse-pro-privacy

About

Lineova

Features
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Lineova is a professional drawing and painting studio for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sketch with natural brushes, ink crisp line art with a true vector pen, paint textures directly onto 3D models and bring your characters to life with frame-by-frame animation — all in one app that feels at home on every screen. BRUSH STUDIO — 40+ HAND-TUNED BRUSHES • Sketching: Sketch Pencil, HB Technical, Charcoal, Pastel, Chalk • Inking: Ink, Dry Ink, Technical Pen, Ballpoint, Chisel Tip, Contour • Drawing: Felt Pen, Highlighter, Tile Brush, Comb • Painting: Watercolor, Oil Paint, Acrylic, Gouache, Flat Brush, Dry Brush, Palette Knife, Soft Blender • Airbrushing: Soft Airbrush, Hard Airbrush, Spray Can, Splatter • Texture & abstract: Rough Canvas, Concrete, Noise, Sparkle, Rainbow • Retouching: Smudge, Soften, soft and hard erasers • Build your own: pressure, tilt, speed, scatter, grain, jitter and wet color mixing; organize favorites in My Brushes DRAW & PAINT • Stroke stabilization and quick shape snapping • Fill, gradient, liquify, smudge and precise selection tools • Color wheel, harmonies and palettes generated from any photo VECTOR PEN • Editable nodes and handles for clean, scalable line art • Ready-made shapes: rectangle, ellipse, triangle, star, arrow • Boolean operations: unite, subtract, intersect, exclude • Dashed and dotted strokes, round or flat caps • Export editable SVG 3D TEXTURE PAINTING • Open OBJ and USDZ models, or start from a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, torus or capsule • Paint color, roughness, metallic and height channels • Project any image onto the model, paint on the surface or on the UV map • Export USDZ or GLB (glTF) with embedded textures LAYERS & COLOR • Layers, groups, masks, clipping and 25+ blend modes • 16-bit color in linear light with Display P3 • Print gamut warning and color profile proofing COMICS, MANGA & ANIMATION • Comic and manga page templates with panel layouts • Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin • Export animated PNG and a time-lapse of your process BUILT FOR EVERY SCREEN • iPad: Apple Pencil pressure, tilt and hover, docking panels • Mac: full menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, ⌘K command search, right-click menus • iPhone: a one-handed tool dock within thumb reach • Documents sync across your devices with iCloud Drive EXPORT & COMPATIBILITY • PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP, PDF, APNG and SVG • Layered PSD and OpenRaster — open your work in other pro tools • Import PSD files with their layers Whether you draw anime characters, comics, concept art, fantasy illustrations or print-ready posters, Lineova gives you a studio that grows with your ideas. LINEOVA PREMIUM — START WITH A 3-DAY FREE TRIAL Every feature in Lineova — all pro brushes, unlimited layers, the vector pen, 3D painting, animation, effects, filters, AI upscaling and PSD/SVG/PDF/TIFF export — is included with Lineova Premium. Choose a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription, each starting with a 3-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://maliksari.github.io/lineova-privacy/privacy.html

Screenshots

Muse Pro4 screens
Lineova4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Muse Pro at every 2 days against Lineova's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Muse Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days and Lineova sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $60.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Muse Pro ships an update every 2 days, Lineova every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Muse Pro versus Lineova: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuse ProLineova
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB15 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperStyleOfMalık SARI

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Muse Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Muse Pro Weekly7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Muse Pro Monthly1 Month trial$29.991 Month
2 purchases

Lineova

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Premium3 Days trial$60.001 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Muse Pro free?
Muse Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lineova free?
Lineova is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Muse Pro or Lineova have ads?
Neither Muse Pro nor Lineova shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Muse Pro or Lineova?
Muse Pro ships an update every 2 days, and Lineova every 2 weeks. Most recently, Muse Pro was updated on November 4, 2026 and Lineova on October 26, 2026.

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