Comparison

makeART vs Loom Weaving Drafts

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

Head to head
About

makeART

Transform your device into a digital canvas with an interactive art studio. Create stunning artwork using intuitive touch controls, a vast library of assets, and AI-powered styles. Save your creations to a personal gallery and share them on social media.

Highlights
  • Intuitive touch creation
  • Customization suite
  • Freestyle mode with millions of assets
  • Infinite art styles
  • Personal gallery for saving
  • Social media ready content
  • Professional quality artwork
Features
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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

About

Loom Weaving Drafts

Features
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Loom is a focused draft editor for handweavers, students, and fiber-art designers. Threading, tie-up, treadling and drawdown — all on a single canvas. Pinch-free, popup-free, ad-free. KEY FEATURES • Full four-block draft canvas (threading, tie-up, treadling, drawdown) updated live as you tap • 2 to 16 shafts and 2 to 16 treadles, sized per project • Warp and weft color pickers with persistent hex values • Built-in Library of starter structures: Plain Weave, Twill 2/2, Basket Weave, Log Cabin, Herringbone, and M's and O's • Save drafts locally — your work persists across launches with no account required • Tap any cell to advance threading or treadling, tap a tie-up cell to toggle a peg • Clean linen-and-indigo palette designed for long studio sessions DESIGNED FOR THE STUDIO Whether you're sketching a structure on the bus or working out a final tie-up before warping the loom, Loom keeps the draft in front of you and the noise out of the way. PRIVACY No tracking. No accounts. Your drafts live on your device.

Screenshots

makeART4 screens
Loom Weaving Drafts3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Loom Weaving Drafts at none against makeART's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. makeART sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Loom Weaving Drafts asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
makeART versus Loom Weaving Drafts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermakeARTLoom Weaving Drafts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size424 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMake Art Inc.Linh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

makeART

Subscriptions2
  • makeART+ Monthly Membership$7.991 Month
  • makeART+ Annual Membership$39.991 Year
None

Loom Weaving Drafts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is makeART free?
makeART is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loom Weaving Drafts free?
Loom Weaving Drafts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do makeART or Loom Weaving Drafts have ads?
Neither makeART nor Loom Weaving Drafts shows ads.

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