DrawingCanvas vs Gridder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DrawingCanvas
This app provides a simple yet powerful digital whiteboard experience. It offers various colors, shapes, and essential tools like undo/redo and grid mode. Users can save their creations or share them with others.
- Multiple colors
- Adjustable shape sizes
- Undo/Redo functionality
- Grid mode
- Save to photos
- Share with friends
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DrawingCanvas is a clean and flexible drawing app for sketching ideas, creating artwork, taking visual notes, and building layered compositions. Start with a blank canvas, draw naturally, add photos, organize layers, and use selection tools to refine your work. The interface stays simple so you can focus on drawing instead of managing complicated settings. Features: - Natural drawing experience - Layers for organized artwork - Undo and redo support - Brush and color controls - Photo import - Selection tools - Portrait and landscape editing - Clean file management - Mock data mode for preview screenshots ----- DrawingCanvas Pro is available with a monthly or annual subscription. You can subscribe and pay through your Apple account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Auto-renew may be turned off after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.zhihuke.com/drawingcanvas/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.zhihuke.com/drawingcanvas/privacy.html
Gridder
Easily add customizable grid lines to your photos. Perfect for artists and illustrators, this tool lets you import images, adjust grid settings like line thickness and color, and export your work for sketching or reference.
- Import and crop images
- Customizable grid lines
- Adjust rows and columns
- Control line thickness and opacity
- Change grid line color
- Export images with grid
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Gridder is a customizable image grid overlay tool — designed for artists and illustrators who sketch from photo references or plan paintings. Import any image, crop it to your desired format, and apply a customizable grid. You can adjust the number of rows and columns, grid line thickness, opacity, and color to suit your style. When you're ready, export the final image with the grid applied for printing, sketching, or saving to your reference library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gridder at none against DrawingCanvas's 3. Gridder also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). DrawingCanvas's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. DrawingCanvas sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Gridder asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DrawingCanvas against 5.0 for Gridder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DrawingCanvas has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | DrawingCanvas | Gridder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 杏娣 吴 | Qing Yan |
Customer experience
DrawingCanvas
Gridder
In-app purchases
DrawingCanvas
- DrawingCanvas Pro$1.491 Month
- DrawingCanvas Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- DrawingCanvas Pro$9.99
Gridder
No in-app purchases








