Comparison

TourBox Console vs Pocket Easel

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

Pocket Easel

This app facilitates quick color studies for painting from life, offering a unique palette system that allows color mixing without leaving the canvas. It helps artists maintain color harmony by limiting palettes and provides tools to analyze values and import master palettes.

Highlights
  • Intuitive color mixing gesture
  • Gamut masks for palette harmony
  • Painterly brush textures
  • Value check with grayscale conversion
  • Import master palettes
  • Save and duplicate color studies
  • Export studies with color analysis
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Pocket Easel is a color-study app for painting from life, wherever you are. It works like a painter's palette: a gamut mask decides which colors are on your palette, and a simple gesture lets you mix as you paint — a little warmer, a little cooler, lighter, darker — without ever leaving the picture. The mask is what's on your palette. The gesture is how you mix. Pick Color Without Leaving the Painting Most apps make you stop, open a color panel and drag sliders to an exact value, then find your place again. In Pocket Easel you push the current color from the corner of the canvas, relative to where it is, the way you'd work a touch more paint into a mix. No numbers to hit, so adjusting often costs nothing. Gamut Masks Before you start, choose a mask shape on the color wheel — a preset, or your own triangle or quad. It limits your palette to colors that belong together, so the whole study stays in harmony. Mixing never steps outside it. Painterly Brushes Round and flat brushes, lines and shapes, all with a subtle painterly texture that varies the color as real paint does. Smudge blends the paint already on the canvas. See Your Values Value Check shows your study in grayscale. While you adjust brightness, a ten-step value scale appears beside the wheel. Master's Palette Import a painting you admire and see where its colors sit on the wheel — then fit a mask to its gamut. Color Studies Every study is saved as you go. Name them, duplicate one to try an idea, and pick up any of them later. Share Your Process Export your study with a frame that shows the gamut wheel and the colors you used, or a time-lapse that shows each stroke and where its color came from on the wheel. Made for Phone and iPad Turn your phone sideways to paint with both hands. Left-Handed mode, Dark mode, and the same tools on iPad. Pocket Easel is built for quick color studies, not detailed illustration — the constraint is the point. All painting tools and image export are free. Pocket Easel Pro, a one-time purchase, lets you turn off the frame, remove the watermark or use your own name, and export time-lapse videos.

Screenshots

Pocket Easel3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pocket Easel at 100% against TourBox Console's 40%. Pocket Easel also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). TourBox Console's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (32 vs 10). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pocket Easel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TourBox Console asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket Easel holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of TourBox Console's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pocket Easel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TourBox Console ships an update every 3 weeks, Pocket Easel every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
TourBox Console versus Pocket Easel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTourBox ConsolePocket Easel
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (32 ratings)4.9 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTourBox Tech Inc.彬 王

Customer experience

TourBox Console

All ratings32 ratings
Positive53.1%
Neutral15.6%
Negative31.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative44.0%

Pocket Easel

All ratings9 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

1 purchases

Pocket Easel

One-time1
  • Pocket Easel Pro$5.99

Questions

Is TourBox Console free?
TourBox Console is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Easel free?
Pocket Easel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TourBox Console or Pocket Easel?
Pocket Easel is rated higher. TourBox Console averages 3.3 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Pocket Easel averages 4.9 from 10 ratings.
Do TourBox Console or Pocket Easel have ads?
Neither TourBox Console nor Pocket Easel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TourBox Console or Pocket Easel?
TourBox Console ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pocket Easel every 4 days. Most recently, TourBox Console was updated on November 5, 2026 and Pocket Easel on November 10, 2026.

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