Comparison

VAnime Creator vs Boxy SVG for iOS

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

Head to head
About

VAnime Creator

Features
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VAnime Creator is an intuitive sketching, painting, and drawing app designed for artists and illustrators, offering a professional-grade feature set and customizable tools. Its elegant interface provides a distraction-free environment, allowing users to focus on capturing and expressing their creative ideas seamlessly. - Users can adjust brush type and colors. - Highly customizable brushes allow for personalized looks. - Layers provide flexibility for building and exploring drawings and colors. - Clean, purpose-built interface enhances focus on sketching. - Users can save their artwork in image format and share it across multiple applications - Easy access to Dropbox to store the artworks

About

Boxy SVG for iOS

This application is a powerful vector graphics editor designed for both beginners and professionals. It offers extensive on-canvas editing tools, supports various export formats, and integrates with stock photo and font libraries.

Highlights
  • On-canvas editing of geometry, transform, and paint properties
  • Save to SVG/SVGZ, export to PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF, HTML5
  • Pixabay and Google Fonts integration
  • Configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Path and arrangement operations
  • SVG and CSS code inspector
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SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS (SVG) EDITOR. VISIT PROJECT WEBSITE FOR AN ONLINE DEMO -> Boxy SVG project goal is to create the best tool for editing SVG files. For non-technical users as well as for professional designers and developers. CORE FEATURES • Clean and intuitive UI heavily inspired by Inkscape, Sketch and Adobe Illustrator • Extensive support for on-canvas editing of object geometry, transform, paint and other properties • Save to SVG and SVGZ formats, export to PNG, JPG, WebP, PDF and HTML5 • Pixabay integration with over a million free stock photos and vector assets • Google Fonts integration with hundreds of free fonts • Configurable keyboard shortcuts for over 100 commands • Manual guides, smart guides and grid • Path operations (unite, intersect, subtract, exclude, close, reverse, etc.) • Arrangement operations (align to, rotate, flip, order, group, etc.) FOR WEB DEVELOPERS • WebKit-based rendering engine • SVG and CSS code inspector similar to Chrome Dev Tools • Clean SVG output that preserves IDs, classes, titles and other metadata • SVG sprites editing support

Screenshots

VAnime Creator4 screens
Boxy SVG for iOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: VAnime Creator at 12.0 against Boxy SVG for iOS's 18.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VAnime Creator ships an update monthly, Boxy SVG for iOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
VAnime Creator versus Boxy SVG for iOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVAnime CreatorBoxy SVG for iOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating—2.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSURESH KOLPURUJaroslaw Foksa

In-app purchases

None

VAnime Creator

No in-app purchases

None

Boxy SVG for iOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VAnime Creator free?
VAnime Creator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boxy SVG for iOS free?
Boxy SVG for iOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do VAnime Creator or Boxy SVG for iOS have ads?
Neither VAnime Creator nor Boxy SVG for iOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VAnime Creator or Boxy SVG for iOS?
VAnime Creator ships an update monthly, and Boxy SVG for iOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, VAnime Creator was updated on November 8, 2026 and Boxy SVG for iOS on October 31, 2026.

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