Comparison

Drawing Pad vs Drawing Painting Coloring Arts

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Responsive drawing
  • Sparkle animations
  • Save image to photo album
  • Flexible brush sizes
Features
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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!

About

Drawing Painting Coloring Arts

This free game allows children and adults to unleash their creativity by drawing their own pictures or coloring pre-designed pages. It offers an intuitive interface for easy gameplay and sharing creations with others.

Highlights
  • Draw your own pictures
  • Color free coloring pages
  • Save and share creations
  • Intuitive icons and navigation
  • Easy gameplay for all ages
Features
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Turn blank-page nerves into finished art. Draw, color, and learn step by step without getting lost in a crowded studio. Make a quick sketch, finish a coloring page, or start a guided drawing lesson in one place. In the app - Draw on a square canvas with Pencil, Pen, Marker, Watercolor, Charcoal, Oil, Crayon, Calligraphy, and Eraser, then fine-tune your look with brush size, marker opacity, undo, redo, and clear canvas. - Pick from a 12-swatch palette or use the full color wheel when you want a custom shade for sketching, painting, or coloring. - Open Color mode and choose from original templates in Botanical, Animals, Still life, and Architecture & landscape, with line art placed on a locked guide layer so you can focus on coloring. - Start Sketch Coach with your own prompt or one of the 12 suggestion chips like a sleeping cat, fern frond, coffee cup, lighthouse, or mountain scene. - Follow a six-stage lesson from Basic shapes to Color and detail, with a ghost guideline that shifts from simple shapes to contour to detail as you progress. - Finish a lesson and get a short critique with one praise line and one next-step suggestion, then share your finished artwork right away. - Save every piece to your Library, filter by Draw, Color, or Lessons, then continue editing, rename, delete, or share from the artwork detail view or a long press. Perfect when You want to draw a fox from memory and need a clear path, not a pile of brush menus. You have 20 minutes before bed and want to color a Spring tulip or a Perched owl, save it, and come back later. You doodled a coffee cup and want to clean it up with Marker, adjust opacity, and share the finished image. You want a child to learn with Sketch Coach using the sleeping cat or owl prompts and keep the lesson on this device. Why Drawing Painting Arts Drawing Painting Arts helps you sketch, paint, color, and practice drawing lessons on your iPhone. What makes it stand out is how the three main modes work like one studio: Draw for freehand art, Color for curated pages, and Learn for guided practice with stage-by-stage tips, a progress bar, and a fading guide. Your prompt, strokes, and critique stay on this device, and if the on-device coach is not available, the curated lesson library keeps Sketch Coach useful instead of blocking you. Paid features Some brushes, templates, and extras are part of Pro, including Watercolor, Charcoal, Oil, Crayon, Calligraphy, the Architecture & landscape pack, iCloud sync, and more layers for free drawing. Free use includes a small banner in parts of the app and an optional rewarded ad for extra Sketch Coach lessons. Notifications are optional if you turn on the daily prompt reminder. Start with Draw, pick a coloring page, or try today’s prompt and build your next artwork one stage at a time. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Drawing Pad3 screens
Drawing Painting Coloring Arts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Drawing Pad at 4.3 against Drawing Painting Coloring Arts's 3.4. Drawing Pad also leads on ratings volume (198 vs 9) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Drawing Painting Coloring Arts's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (40% vs 30%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Drawing Pad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drawing Painting Coloring Arts sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drawing Pad holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drawing Pad has 198 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Drawing Pad's written reviews are positive against 40% of Drawing Painting Coloring Arts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Pad ships an update monthly, Drawing Painting Coloring Arts every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Drawing Pad versus Drawing Painting Coloring Arts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing PadDrawing Painting Coloring Arts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (198 ratings) — better3.4 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews30.1% of reviews40.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings198 — better9
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe App Tower Inc.Sandeep Bhandari

Customer experience

Drawing Pad

All ratings197 ratings
Positive79.2%
Neutral11.7%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive30.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative63.2%

Drawing Painting Coloring Arts

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

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

Drawing Painting Coloring Arts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Drawing Pad

One-time1
  • Draw Full Version$2.99
9 purchases

Drawing Painting Coloring Arts

Subscriptions7
  • Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
  • Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription Sale$14.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Special$19.991 Year
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Forever Pro Discount$79.99
  • Forever Pro$99.99

Questions

Is Drawing Pad free?
Drawing Pad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drawing Painting Coloring Arts free?
Drawing Painting Coloring Arts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Pad or Drawing Painting Coloring Arts?
Drawing Pad is rated higher. Drawing Pad averages 4.3 out of 5 from 198 ratings, while Drawing Painting Coloring Arts averages 3.4 from 9 ratings.
Do Drawing Pad or Drawing Painting Coloring Arts have ads?
Both Drawing Pad and Drawing Painting Coloring Arts show ads.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Pad or Drawing Painting Coloring Arts?
Drawing Pad ships an update monthly, and Drawing Painting Coloring Arts every 2 months. Most recently, Drawing Pad was updated on October 21, 2026 and Drawing Painting Coloring Arts on October 21, 2026.

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