Comparison

ESMAC vs SketchTutor

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

Head to head
About

ESMAC

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Your personal guide to the ESMAC 2026 in Maastricht. You will be informed in time about everything important before and during the conference. Full conference programme, detailed information, the ability to communicate with colleagues through networking - all simply in your pocket.

About

SketchTutor

Learn to draw step-by-step with AI assistance. The app guides each stroke and can intelligently correct or add elements to your drawings. Explore a vast library of lessons and challenges, with optional advanced drawing packs available for purchase.

Highlights
  • AI-powered stroke correction and addition
  • Step-by-step drawing lessons
  • Extensive library of 233 drawings
  • Doodle Challenge mode
  • Drawing gallery with progress tracking
  • Apple Pencil support
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Learn to draw one stroke at a time. When a part goes wrong, let the AI fix just that part. AI FIX House came out crooked? Can't draw hands or a face in profile? Circle that part and the AI redraws it in your own style. Nothing outside the circle changes. It works on drawings you make here and on any picture from Photos. Circle an empty spot and say what to add, and it draws that in your style too. Hold to compare before and after, then keep it, save it or share it. Two fixes are included; packs of 10 and 50 are sold separately, no subscription. Images are uploaded only when you choose AI Fix; see Privacy below for processing and retention details. AI Fix is not available in the mainland China App Store. LESSONS, ONE STROKE AT A TIME • A dashed guide shows the next stroke: where it goes and how big. • Draw over it with your finger or Apple Pencil. Every stroke is checked for shape, position and size. Redo it, or keep it and move on. • A kept stroke settles onto the guide, and the line still looks like yours. Switch this off in Settings if you prefer. • At the end, your lines appear beside the corrected drawing with a similarity score. • Then the guide goes away and you draw the same subject from memory. 233 DRAWINGS 114 are included: the whole Easy level, 110 drawings of 1 to 12 strokes across animals, food, nature, everyday objects and vehicles, plus four harder samples such as The Great Wave and Girl with a Pearl Earring. The Advanced Set unlocks the other 119 Medium and Hard drawings, up to 121 strokes: anime characters, chibi animals, scenes such as a torii gate in the water, a castle and a Ferris wheel, plus the Mona Lisa and The Scream as simple line art. One-time purchase, no subscription. Future advanced drawings are included, and the purchase restores on your other devices. ALSO INSIDE • Search drawings by name or category, alongside the difficulty filter. • Doodle Challenge: draw a named subject from memory in 20 seconds and see whether the app recognizes it. • A gallery of your last 500 drawings, shareable as images. • Progress for every drawing, a difficulty filter, pinch-to-zoom, and "skip this stroke" so a lesson never gets stuck. • An optional daily reminder, and Apple Pencil double-tap to undo. • Made for iPhone and iPad. PRIVACY No account, no ads, no tracking. Lessons, progress and your gallery are stored on your device. Purchases use Apple’s StoreKit. Optional AI Fix sends the selected region, a small reference image (or the whole picture in whole-picture mode), and your hint through our server to Google’s image model. A random installation identifier is sent only to our server for usage limits. We do not save the image, hint or result on our server; daily installation counters expire after 36 hours. Google may retain prompts and responses for up to 55 days for abuse monitoring. See our privacy policy for details.

Screenshots

ESMAC4 screens
SketchTutor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ESMAC at none against SketchTutor's 3. ESMAC also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). SketchTutor's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 months). 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. SketchTutor sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. ESMAC asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ESMAC ships an update every 5 months, SketchTutor every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
ESMAC versus SketchTutor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterESMACSketchTutor
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperT.R.I., s.r.o.Hanyue Zhou

In-app purchases

None

ESMAC

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

SketchTutor

One-time3
  • Advanced Set$2.99
  • AI Fix ×10$2.99
  • AI Fix ×50$9.99

Questions

Is ESMAC free?
ESMAC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SketchTutor free?
SketchTutor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ESMAC or SketchTutor have ads?
Neither ESMAC nor SketchTutor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ESMAC or SketchTutor?
ESMAC ships an update every 5 months, and SketchTutor every 8 days. Most recently, ESMAC was updated on October 25, 2026 and SketchTutor on October 26, 2026.

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