@Doodle vs Painter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
@Doodle
Unleash your creativity with this intuitive painting app. Explore a variety of brushes and an infinite color palette to create drawings, edit photos, or color in a digital book. Share your masterpieces with friends and family.
- Variety of brushes with configurable options
- Infinite color palette and color picker
- Import and edit photos
- Coloring Book mode
- Online gallery for sharing and voting
- Automatic drawing saving
- Undo/redo functionality
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Stimulate your creativity with @Doodle, the easiest-to-use painting app around! @Doodle is really intuitive and has a very simple interface, which makes drawing on iPhone and iPad a child’s play for everybody. @Doodle allows you to explore your imagination thanks to its variety of brushes and an infinite color palette. You will be free to create as many fantastic drawings as you want just using your fingers; and then start all over again with no effort. @Doodle challenges and entertains you in many ways: you can doodle freely or with the Coloring Book. It is also possible to draw directly on photos imported from the Photos Album, so you can enjoy applying colorful effects on them. Drawings are saved automatically, so you don’t have to worry about storing them. With @Doodle it’s also very easy to share your most hilarious drawings with friends and family on Facebook and Twitter! Everybody can be an artist with @Doodle, just let your fantasy flow! @Doodle includes: - A very fun and easy-to-use drawing App, designed specifically for the most imaginative and curious. - Various brush types, with many configuration options, including- size, opacity, etc… - The possibility to import photos from your Photos Album and edit them. - An online gallery to share drawings between users, learn and vote. - A very cool color picker with almost an infinite color set to choose from, a pipette to pick colors directly from an image or drawing and a list of recently used colors. - A Coloring Book, with many drawings in black & white to fill. - A Paint Pot, to fill spaces with just one touch. - Drawings will be stored automatically, so you can manage your files easily and send them by email and publish them to Twitter and Facebook. - The possibility to undo and redo all the actions and traces. - A soft eraser. - A rotatable interface to adapt to all situations. - A shaking control to go back to the main screen or hide the menus. - A design thought to memorize and adapt to your preferences. - The possibility to upgrade to a Pro, ad free version of the App with an In-App Purchase. - It is available in various languages, including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. Contact: mobile@evolutive.co Website: https://evolutive.co/
Painter
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Painter Pro is a fun painting/drawing program. There are 23 functions available. Colours - Allows you to select the paintbrush colour. Emoticons/Stickers - Add stickers or emoticons with options to expand and/or rotate the image. Brush Stroke - Allows you to select the brush stroke style (solid or dash lines) and stroke thickness. Pattern Background - You can choose from 40 backgrounds. Plain Background - You can choose from 40 background colours. Pattern Brush Stroke - You can choose from 40 patterned strokes. Camera - Take a photo and use the photo as a background for your drawing. Photo Album - Select a photo from the photo album to use as a background. Gallery - Display drawings in the Gallery. Save - Save the drawing to the Gallery and/or Photo Album. Photos saved in the Gallery can be viewed in the Gallery, emailed, printed or uploaded to Facebook. Email - You can email the current drawing or the Gallery photos. PDF File - Create 1 PDF file of the current drawing or Gallery photos. Twitter - Select a photo to post and upload to Twitter. Print - Prints the current picture or Gallery pictures to an iPhone supported printer with options to print a single or multiple copies. Slideshow - Displays the Gallery photos in a slideshow with 'Slide' or Fade' mode, manual or automatic display. Option to add music when playing slideshow. Carousel - Displays the Gallery photos in a carousel with styles like Linear, Rotary, Inverted Rotary, Cylinder, Inverted Cylinder, Coverflow, Coverflow2, Time Machine, Inverted Time Machine or Custom with horizontal or vertical display. Option to add music when running the carousel. Scroll - Scroll through Gallery Photos. Shapes - You can draw arc, line, circle, filled circle, ellipse, filled ellipse, semicircle, filled semicircle, rectangle, filled rectangle, square, filled square, diamond, filled diamond, triangle and filled triangle. Paintbrush - Revert back to paintbrush mode after you've finished drawing shapes. Undo - Undo the last stroke drawn. Redo - Redo the last stroke. Trashcan - Clear the drawing on the canvas. Help - Provides a description of each icon on the screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: @Doodle at Free against Painter's $2.99. @Doodle also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Painter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, 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
@Doodle is free to download; Painter costs $2.99 up front. @Doodle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Painter asks for nothing beyond the download.
@Doodle ships an update every 3 months, Painter every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | @Doodle | Painter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evolutive Apps S.L. | Jessica Tunnicliffe |
In-app purchases
@Doodle
- @Doodle Pro version$0.99
Painter
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is @Doodle free?
Is Painter free?
Do @Doodle or Painter have ads?
Which is updated more often, @Doodle or Painter?
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