Comparison

Grid Post vs Drawing from Life

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

Head to head
About

Grid Post

Features
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This app allows you to add different style grids over photo with number labels and split photos into different layouts. Also this app helps you to make profile photos with different border frames and color, square photo for your story and many more. Key Features โ€ข Add grid over photos โ€ข Slice photo with classic layouts โ€ข Unique profile photo with stylish borders โ€ข Square photo with background blur effects โ€ข Blur photo with selection censor blur โ€ข Change background of photo โ€ข Focus on photo with blur effect โ€ข Save photos in custom album โ€ข One touch share created photos Now unlock your creative potential and enjoy. Thank You!!

About

Drawing from Life

This app acts as a smart drawing companion, using your phone's camera to provide real-time filters and overlays. It helps artists overcome common perception issues by offering tools like blur, mirroring, and edge detection to improve accuracy and understanding of form.

Highlights
  • Real-time camera filters and overlays
  • Image comparison with subject
  • Blur, mirror, and black and white modes
  • Edge detection and grid tools
  • Composition overlays and guide lines
  • Face axes detection
Features
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Drawing from Life turns your phone into a smart drawing companion. Point your camera at whatever you're drawing โ€” a model, a still life, a landscape โ€” and use real-time filters and overlays to see what your eyes alone cannot. Drawing from life is one of the hardest skills an artist can learn. The problem isn't your hand โ€” it's your brain. When you look at a face, your mind doesn't see shapes, angles and values. It sees "a nose" and fills in what it thinks a nose should look like. You draw a symbol instead of what's actually there. Every art teacher will tell you the same thing: you need to learn to see. Really see. Not what you know, but what is. That's where tools come in. A mirror flips the image and breaks your brain's assumptions. Squinting blurs the details so you notice the big shapes. A pencil held at arm's length measures proportions your eye misjudges. Drawing from Life puts all of these classic techniques โ€” and more โ€” right on your screen. Compare your drawing with the subject. Snap a photo of your work, then overlay it on the live camera view of your subject. Pinch and rotate to align the two. With adjustable transparency you instantly see where your drawing deviates from reality. Blur. Softens the image and suppresses detail. It forces you to see only the large shapes, volumes and overall composition โ€” exactly what you should be putting down first. Mirror. Flips the entire image horizontally. An old artist's trick โ€” in the flipped view, errors in proportion and symmetry jump out immediately. Black and white. Strips away color so you can focus on tonal values โ€” the distribution of light and shadow that forms the foundation of every drawing. Contrast. Increases the difference between lights and darks. Helps you see exactly where the light falls and where the shadow begins, especially useful in flat or subtle lighting. Posterize. Simplifies the image into a few tonal zones. Instead of smooth gradients you see clearly separated areas of light and shadow โ€” great for understanding the big shapes and the light pattern of the scene. Invert. Flips lights and darks to show a negative image. The unfamiliar view helps reveal value errors that are invisible in the normal image. Edge detection. Highlights outlines and edges in the scene. Helps you see the main lines that form the skeleton of your drawing. Grid. Displays a regular grid over the image. The classic method of transferring proportions โ€” draw the same grid on your paper and copy square by square. Composition overlay. Displays a composition scheme over the image โ€” rule of thirds, golden ratio, diagonals or dynamic symmetry. Helps you evaluate whether the arrangement of elements follows established principles of composition. Guide lines. Places infinite straight lines over the image. Position and rotate them with two fingers, add as many as you need. They help you check verticals, horizontals and diagonal axes across your subject. Face axes. Automatically detects a face and draws guide axes through the eyes, nose and mouth. Helps you place facial features correctly when drawing portraits. The basic tools โ€” compare, blur and mirror โ€” are free. Unlock all features with a single one-time purchase.

Screenshots

Grid Post4 screens
Drawing from Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Drawing from Life at none against Grid Post's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Grid Post sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drawing from Life sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Grid Post versus Drawing from Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid PostDrawing from Life
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyโ€”Weekly
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetizationโ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 โ€” better15.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size15 MB77 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHiren Merjafnx.io

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Grid Post

One-time1
  • Gris Post Premium$2.99
2 purchases

Drawing from Life

One-time2
  • Premium$0.99
  • Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Grid Post free?
Grid Post is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drawing from Life free?
Drawing from Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grid Post or Drawing from Life have ads?
Grid Post shows ads; Drawing from Life does not.

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