Comparison

EtchDraw vs Kaleidoscope

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

Head to head
About

EtchDraw

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MagicDrawing is a nostalgic drawing app inspired by the classic etch-a-sketch toy. Turn the dial to draw lines, just like the old days โ€” simple, relaxing, and fun! โ€ข Choose from multiple colors and line widths โ€ข Use dials or directional buttons โ€ข Shake to erase your drawing Bring back your childhood creativity in a modern way!

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Kaleidoscope

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Kaleidoscope is a drawing toy. You scribble and every stroke gets mirrored across a set of rotated axes, so a few lazy lines fall out as a full symmetric mandala. Change how many ways the canvas folds, switch between true mirror symmetry and plain rotation, pick colors or let them run through a spectrum, and draw with your finger or an Apple Pencil โ€” it feels the pressure. Drawing and downloading are free, no account. Sign in and you can save a piece to the gallery, where it gets its own link, browse what other people have made, and open someone else's to keep drawing on top of it. When you save, it'll suggest a name for the piece if you want one. It's the same gallery as kaleidoscope.ponderance.dev, so anything you make here shows up there, and the other way around. No ads. It collects nothing while you draw. Make something symmetric and see where it goes. Update 1.1 is accessibility, the whole app. VoiceOver works everywhere now, including the canvas itself, so you can draw without seeing the screen and hear each stroke land. Every piece in the gallery gets a spoken description of what it actually looks like, from the same model that suggests names when you save. Text scales as big as you need. Animations calm down when your phone asks them to, and the colors finally have names instead of hex codes. If something still doesn't work the way you need it to, tell me and I'll fix it.

Screenshots

EtchDraw4 screens
Kaleidoscope4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kaleidoscope at none against EtchDraw's shown. EtchDraw's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 3 level
EtchDraw versus Kaleidoscope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEtchDrawKaleidoscope
PriceFreeFree
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size17 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBetaphoniaAnmol Saxena

In-app purchases

None

EtchDraw

No in-app purchases

None

Kaleidoscope

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EtchDraw free?
EtchDraw is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kaleidoscope free?
Kaleidoscope is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EtchDraw or Kaleidoscope have ads?
EtchDraw shows ads; Kaleidoscope does not.

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