@Doodle vs Beaconator
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/
Beaconator
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Beaconator is an all-in-one iBeacon broadcaster and detector for developers, testers, and educators. Whether you're building an indoor navigation app, testing proximity interactions, validating hardware, or learning about Bluetooth beacons, Beaconator makes iBeacon development simple. Configure a custom UUID, Major, and Minor, then instantly turn your iPhone into an iBeacon transmitter. On another device, detect nearby beacons, monitor signal strength, verify your configuration, and troubleshoot deployments without additional hardware. Features • Broadcast fully configurable iBeacon signals • Detect nearby iBeacons in real time • Adjustable UUID, Major, and Minor values • Generate random UUIDs for testing • Share beacon configurations with QR codes • Scan QR codes to configure another device instantly • View beacon proximity, RSSI, and estimated distance • Clean SwiftUI interface optimized for quick testing Perfect for • iOS developers • Bluetooth LE developers • Indoor positioning projects • Museum and exhibit installations • Retail and proximity marketing prototypes • Classroom demonstrations • QA and field testing • Hardware validation Typical Workflow 1. Configure a beacon on one device. 2. Display a QR code containing the beacon UUID. 3. Scan the QR code with a second device. 4. Begin ranging immediately to verify the broadcast. No typing. No extra hardware. No complicated setup. Beaconator was created by a developer who needed a simple way to test iBeacon-enabled applications in real-world environments. It has helped validate countless Bluetooth beacon deployments and continues to evolve with modern iOS and SwiftUI. All of the code is open-source and available at https://github.com/jeffreality/beaconator . Whether you're shipping a production app or experimenting with Core Location and Bluetooth LE, Beaconator gives you the tools you need to test quickly and confidently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beaconator at none against @Doodle's 1. @Doodle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.2). 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
Both are free to download. @Doodle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beaconator asks for nothing beyond the download.
@Doodle ships an update every 3 months, Beaconator every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | @Doodle | Beaconator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evolutive Apps S.L. | pushplay.net |
In-app purchases
@Doodle
- @Doodle Pro version$0.99
Beaconator
No in-app purchases









