makeART vs TempoWeave Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
makeART
Create unique collages by combining art, photos, GIFs, and stickers. Customize styles, add layers, animate elements, and draw directly on your creations. Save, edit, and share your artwork across various social platforms.
- Tap-to-create art with curated styles
- Mix photos, GIFs, and stickers
- Customizable art styles
- Layering and drawing tools
- Animation and time-lapse recording
- Save and edit artwork
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Tap the canvas and art appears. makeART is a collage art studio for iPhone and iPad. Mix art pieces, photos, gifs and stickers into art that looks like you. Start with curated art styles or make your own, then layer it, animate it, draw on it and share it. TAP TO MAKE ART • Pick an art style, then tap or swipe: pieces land where your finger goes • Shuffle for a fresh mix, or change every piece at once • Size and opacity sliders, plus undo and redo • Move, scale and rotate any piece CURATED + DESIGNED ART STYLES TO MIX • glass, flowers+time, new classics, rain, neomesh, freestyle and more • Several variants inside each style • Search art styles by name and jump back into recent canvases MAKE YOUR OWN ART STYLE • Mix art pieces, photos and gifs from every style into a set that is all yours • Name it, save it, and make art with it like any other style • Build mood boards, vision boards and scrapbook pages from your own pieces COLLAGE PHOTOS, GIFS + STICKERS • Add photos from your library • Search gifs and stickers from GIPHY and photos from Unsplash • Cut the subject out of a photo and use it like a sticker • Make images with Image Playground on supported devices LAYERS, TEXT + BACKGROUNDS • Background, pieces, overlay and text layers • Drag pieces to reorder them • Backgrounds in solid colors, gradient meshes (iOS 18 and later) or your own photo • Tap any piece to swap it, add filters, duplicate it or change its order, with a live preview BRING YOUR ART TO LIFE • Animations: appear, bounce, change, cloud, grow, rotate, shift, thunder and wave • Animation is part of the makeART+ membership • Record a time-lapse video of your art coming together DRAW ON YOUR ART • Sketch right on top of your pieces with your finger • Use Apple Pencil on iPad SAVE, KEEP EDITING + SHARE • Save to your gallery and reopen any artwork to keep editing • Download to Photos • Share in sizes for Instagram posts and Stories, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook and X • Choose fill or fit and a background color before you share makeART+ MEMBERSHIP Choose monthly or annual. Membership includes: • Every art style and variant • Unlimited art styles of your own • Animation • Every saved version of your art • Unlimited gallery • All filters, tools and canvases • Sharing with no watermark We read every note: thoughts@makeartapp.com Designed by humans who love art and tech. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
TempoWeave Mobile
Design professional weaving drafts on your mobile device. Explore a vast library of patterns, utilize powerful design tools, and visualize your fabric in 3D. Enhance your weaving experience at the loom with helpful assistants.
- Open and view WIF and TWA drafts
- Browse public cloud pattern library
- Drawing and design tools
- Yarn Catalog with suggestions
- Fabric view and 3D interlacement
- Weave Assistant for loom use
- Thread Assistant for loom setup
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TempoWeave brings professional weaving draft design to your iPad and iPhone — from the makers of TempoWeave Studio for desktop. Open it and start exploring immediately: four sample drafts are included, and the free public cloud pattern library puts hundreds more a tap away. No account needed. FREE Version • Open and view WIF and TWA drafts from any weaving software • Browse, search, and filter the free public cloud pattern library • Try every drawing and design tool • Yarn Catalog with real yarn lines, colors, photos, and sett suggestions • Fabric view and 3D interlacement — see the cloth, not just the grid • Common Weaves library: classic structures ready to explore • Drafts up to 128 shafts and 128 treadles, tie-up or liftplan AT THE LOOM • Weave Assistant: follow your treadling pick by pick, with live cloth view, pick counters, chimes, and color-change alerts • Pair with TempoTreadle 3 via our WIFI connect and weave through distractions error-free. • Thread Assistant: thread your loom in groups with heddle counts and progress tracking WITH APP STORE PURCHASE OR WITH YOUR TEMPOWEAVE ACCOUNT Weavers with a TempoWeave Studio license (Lite, Core, or Pro) sign in to unlock the full feature set on mobile: save and export drafts, upload and share to your personal cloud library, named version snapshots, section markers, and more. One license covers desktop and mobile. Whether you're checking a draft at the yarn shop, designing on the couch, or weaving at the loom with your tablet beside you — TempoWeave goes where your weaving goes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TempoWeave Mobile at 5.0 against makeART's 4.7. TempoWeave Mobile also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. makeART sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and TempoWeave Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TempoWeave Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
makeART ships an update every 3 weeks, TempoWeave Mobile weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | makeART | TempoWeave Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 428 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Make Art Inc. | LoftyFiber |
Customer experience
makeART
TempoWeave Mobile
In-app purchases
makeART
- makeART+ Monthly Membership$7.991 Month
- makeART+ Annual Membership$39.991 Year
TempoWeave Mobile
- TempoWeave Mobile — Full Version$39.00









