Drawing Pad vs Draw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing Pad
This is a straightforward drawing application that offers a smooth and responsive drawing experience. Users can enjoy creative effects like sparkle animations and customize their artwork with flexible brush sizes. The app allows you to save your creations directly to your photo album.
- Responsive drawing
- Sparkle animations
- Save image to photo album
- Flexible brush sizes
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A simple drawing app. FEATURES ‣ Very responsive drawing ‣ Sparkle animations when drawing ‣ Save image to photo album ‣ Flexible brush sizes Download now, for free!
Draw
Unleash your creativity with this intuitive drawing application. It offers a variety of tools for users of all ages to sketch, paint, and bring their artistic visions to life. Save your masterpieces or share them instantly with friends.
- Brush size adjustment
- Erase tool
- User color selection
- Save for later editing
- Intuitive interface
- Undo option
- Social network sharing
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A wonderful application for drawing, for people of all ages to free your imagination and your inner artist. It is a simple and full of possibilities app. Characteristics: - brush size - erase tool - color selection by user - save the picture to edit it later - application intuitive - undo option - share on social networks When you're done drawing, you can save it to make changes, or share it with friends on social networks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Draw at none against Drawing Pad's 1. Draw also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 30%). Drawing Pad's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (198 vs 23). 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. Drawing Pad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Draw asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Drawing Pad against 4.3 for Draw. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drawing Pad has 198 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 30% of Drawing Pad's written reviews are positive against 50% of Draw's.
Drawing Pad ships an update monthly, Draw every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drawing Pad | Draw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (198 ratings) — better | 4.3 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 198 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The App Tower Inc. | Mireia Lluch Ortola |
Customer experience
Drawing Pad
Draw
Bugs and requests
Drawing Pad
Reported bugs
3 issues- Drawings disappearing after app crashes
- Lag and freezing issues
- Inability to access color wheel
Requested features
4 requests- Add undo/eraser function
- Improve drawing tools and options
- Reduce frequency of ads
- Allow saving of drawings
Draw
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Drawing Pad
- Draw Full Version$2.99
Draw
No in-app purchases
Questions
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