Comparison

TourBox Console vs ArtDeck

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

Head to head
About

TourBox Console

This app allows for powerful customization of creative software workflows. It enables quick setup of functions and creation of unique presets for different applications and tasks, enhancing drawing, animation, and editing experiences.

Highlights
  • Multi-scene support
  • Cross-app functionality
  • Powerful customization
  • Exclusive built-in features
  • Intuitive canvas control
  • Convenient system operations
  • Diverse setting modes
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Multi-Scene Support, Cross-App Functionality Effortlessly use TourBox Elite Plus with apps like Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, Artstudio Pro, LumaFusion, and Final Cut Pro for drawing, animation, editing, and retouching. Powerful Customization, Simple Setup Quickly set up functions with just one step. Create unique presets for different software and workflows. Exclusive Built-In Features, Intuitive Canvas Control Easily zoom, rotate, and reset views in Procreate. Convenient System Operations Adjust volume, brightness, perform quick searches, and take screenshots with a single click. Diverse Setting Modes Choose from multiple key sending modes like AB, UP and REP mode to suit your personal workflow. Frequently Software Updates for More Features

About

ArtDeck

Organize visual inspiration and study images with this app. Create moodboards by collecting images, videos, links, and notes, then analyze their composition, color, and values. Seamlessly sync your boards across all your Apple devices for easy access.

Highlights
  • Collect images, videos, and links
  • Create moodboards and reference boards
  • Analyze image values, color, and composition
  • Sync boards across Apple devices
  • Offline access to boards
  • Annotate and draw on images
  • Organize with infinite canvas
Features
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ArtDeck is a reference board for iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Collect images, videos, links, and notes, then arrange and zoom them on an infinite canvas. Make a moodboard or open the built-in tools when you want to analyze value, color, composition, or motion. You can also keep references next to Procreate on iPad or your creative apps on Mac. iCloud sync is optional. CAPTURE NOW, USE IT ANYWHERE See a texture, a color combination, or a striking composition while you're out? Take a photo right inside ArtDeck and drop it on a board. Because your boards sync, it's there on your Mac and iPad, ready next to your design, 3D, or drawing tools. COLLECT FROM ANYWHERE • Shoot photos and video on iPhone and iPad; on Mac, take the photo with the webcam or your iPhone • Import from Photos or Files • Scan a document on iPhone or iPad, or use Continuity Camera on Mac • Save any link as a card, or paste a link to an image, video, or PDF to import it • Drag and drop, paste, or use the Share menu from any other app • Opens all common image formats, plus WebP, AVIF, JXL, HDR, EXR, and SVG. Video, GIFs, and PDFs up to 300 pages • HDR images and video at full brightness on capable screens, for the whole app or per board STUDY WHAT YOU COLLECT Study any image or video frame through the ToolBox's five lenses, without touching the original: • Values: grayscale, a value ladder, and Notan to read your darks and lights • Color: pull a palette from any image, or see its temperature and saturation zones • Composition: overlay grids, test new framings, or check the symmetry • Read: simplify to the big shapes, find where detail piles up, follow the edge hierarchy • Measure: drop plumb lines, read an angle off a snapping guide, and compare two lengths The Analysis panel shows value range, a histogram, hue, saturation, and color distribution. Export a study, or keep a copy on your board. Step through GIFs and video frame by frame, with onion skin and a GIF filmstrip ANNOTATE AND DRAW • Mark up an image, or draw directly: pen, highlighter, and shapes • Draw a stroke, then hold at the end to straighten it ARRANGE IT YOUR WAY • An infinite canvas to drag, scale, rotate, and zoom • Snap to objects and grid; align, distribute, and tidy up • Group and nest, reorder, lock, with undo and redo YOUR BOARDS, EVERYWHERE • The same boards on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, synced through your iCloud • Works fully offline: sync catches up when you're back online • Choose which boards sync • Split View and Stage Manager on iPad • Keep your window on top of the others on Mac YOUR GALLERY • Carousel and grid views of every board • Labels and multi-label filtering • Favorite, archive, rename, or duplicate any board MAKE IT YOURS • Dark, light, and high-contrast themes • Set one theme for the whole app, or one per board • An editor to fine-tune the colors and create your own themes • Import and export themes by file or link ACCESSIBILITY • VoiceOver support across the app, including items on the canvas • Respects Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion • A theme editor that checks color contrast and flags colors that are hard to tell apart EXPORT AND HAND OFF • Export a whole board or just a selection • PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or PDF, up to 8K, with a transparent background where the format allows • Save a whole board as one .artdeck file to back up or hand off TRY IT FREE, KEEP IT FOR LIFE Start with a free, individual 7-Day Trial. It does not renew. Lifetime Access is a one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription. No separate ArtDeck account is required. Keep what catches your eye.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ArtDeck at 100% against TourBox Console's 43%. ArtDeck also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). TourBox Console's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (32 vs 4). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ArtDeck holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TourBox Console has 32 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of TourBox Console's written reviews are positive against 100% of ArtDeck's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TourBox Console ships an update every 3 weeks, ArtDeck weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
TourBox Console versus ArtDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTourBox ConsoleArtDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (32 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTourBox Tech Inc.Alexandre Alves

Customer experience

TourBox Console

All ratings32 ratings
Positive53.1%
Neutral15.6%
Negative31.3%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

ArtDeck

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TourBox Console

No in-app purchases

None

ArtDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TourBox Console free?
TourBox Console is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArtDeck free?
ArtDeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TourBox Console or ArtDeck?
ArtDeck is rated higher. TourBox Console averages 3.3 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while ArtDeck averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do TourBox Console or ArtDeck have ads?
Neither TourBox Console nor ArtDeck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TourBox Console or ArtDeck?
TourBox Console ships an update every 3 weeks, and ArtDeck weekly. Most recently, TourBox Console was updated on October 20, 2026 and ArtDeck on October 8, 2026.

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