ExcalidrawZ vs TypeMetrics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ExcalidrawZ
This app enhances a popular web-based drawing tool by adding essential file management features. It offers automatic saving, file grouping, and cloud synchronization to ensure your creations are always accessible and secure across devices.
- Automatic file saving
- File grouping
- iCloud backup
- Cross-device synchronization
- Enhanced security for drawings
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ExcalidrawZ is a native Excalidraw client for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, designed for hand-drawn whiteboards, diagrams, sketches, visual notes, and technical explanations. It keeps the familiar Excalidraw canvas experience, then adds native file management, iCloud sync, history, import and export tools, and Apple-platform interactions around it. Hand-drawn whiteboards and diagrams - Create flowcharts, architecture diagrams, wireframes, study notes, and visual sketches - Work with the familiar hand-drawn Excalidraw style - Use Apple Pencil, keyboard shortcuts, mouse, and trackpad controls - Continue editing across Mac, iPad, and iPhone Manage Excalidraw files - Autosave drawings managed inside the app - Organize work with groups, sorting, and local folders - Sync app-managed files across devices with iCloud - Review file history and restore important versions - Open and edit .excalidraw, .excalidraw.png, and .excalidraw.svg files Import, export, and share - Import PDFs and organize them on the canvas - Convert Mermaid diagrams into editable Excalidraw content - Insert LaTeX formulas and function graphs - Export images, PDFs, Excalidraw files, and editable PNG/SVG files - Share through the clipboard, system share sheet, and backup archives More advanced tools - Use Excalidraw collaboration when drawing with others - Ask AI to understand, create, and revise canvas content - Preview AI-generated proposals before applying them to your real canvas - Lock sensitive files and control which content is visible to AI - Expose MCP services for compatible AI clients ExcalidrawZ is useful for product design, engineering notes, study diagrams, teaching, documentation, brainstorming, and everyday whiteboard work. Privacy Policy https://excalidrawz.chocoford.com/privacy/ Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
TypeMetrics
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TypeMetrics helps you learn to type with lessons built around real words and a keyboard that shows your progress, key by key. QWERTY AND AZERTY Beginner lessons introduce keys progressively. French lessons cover accents, apostrophes and capital letters. Separate learning paths help you switch from AZERTY to QWERTY and back. LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE Profiles for ages 6–8, 9–11 and 12+ offer age-appropriate goals. Young beginners practise without speed pressure. Keep several profiles on one device and review your typing history. PLAY TOGETHER For profiles aged 12+, enable Game Center and join Speed, Accuracy or Balance races. Matchmaking separates keyboard types, modes and languages. Invite the same players to a rematch and compare personal records with sessions using the same keyboard type. FOR FAMILIES Purchases, external links, history exports and profile deletion require an adult. Game Center is off by default. PRIVACY No app-specific account, advertising or analytics SDK. Solo results stay on your device. Online races exchange race data through Game Center after you enable it. The camera is not used on iPhone or iPad.
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Verdict
ExcalidrawZ and TypeMetrics are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. ExcalidrawZ sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and TypeMetrics sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ExcalidrawZ ships an update weekly, TypeMetrics every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ExcalidrawZ | TypeMetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Chocoford Tech | Christine Martin |
In-app purchases
ExcalidrawZ
- Starter$2.991 Month
- Pro$9.991 Month
- Max 3×$29.991 Month
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- Starter$29.991 Year
- Max 10×$99.991 Month
- Pro$99.991 Year
- Max 3× (Yearly)$299.991 Year
- Max 10× (Yearly)$999.991 Year
- Buy me a coffee$2.99
- Buy me two coffee$4.99
TypeMetrics
- Tip Jar - Small Coffee$1.99
- Developer Pack$2.99
- TypeMetrics Pro$9.99
Questions
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