Comparison

SVGify vs Kreyon

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

Head to head
About

SVGify

Features
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SVGify: Instantly Vectorize Your Photos into SVGs! Transform your everyday photos into stunning, scalable vector graphics with SVGify! Whether you're a designer, artist, or just love to experiment, our app provides a powerful yet intuitive way to convert any image from your camera or gallery into a versatile SVG file, all processed directly on your device. Unleash Your Creativity with Powerful On-Device Vectorization: SVGify is packed with features to give you complete control over your SVG creations: Image to SVG in Seconds: Simply snap a photo with your camera or select an existing image from your gallery, and watch as SVGify intelligently converts it into a high-quality SVG vector graphic. Perfect for logos, illustrations, web graphics, and more! Fine-Tune Your Vision with Advanced Filters: Go beyond basic conversion. Our comprehensive suite of filters allows you to meticulously control every aspect of your SVG output. Adjust parameters like detail, smoothing, and complexity to achieve the exact look you desire. Precision Editing Tools: Need to refine your vector? Our built-in crop tool lets you perfectly frame your subject, while the eraser functionality provides granular control to remove unwanted elements, ensuring a clean and professional result. Customize Your Colors: Don't settle for monochrome! Easily change the color of your vectorized output to match your brand, project, or artistic vision. Experiment with different hues to bring your SVGs to life. Intuitive Parameter Controls: We believe in powerful tools that are easy to use. SVGify offers simple, understandable controls for critical parameters like thresholds, edge detection, and simplification. Adjust these settings with a slider to see real-time changes and achieve the perfect vectorization for any image. Designed for Simplicity: You don't need to be a vector graphics expert to use SVGify. Our user-friendly interface and intuitive workflow make the conversion process a breeze, from capture to export. Manage Your Creations: Never lose track of your vectorized masterpieces! SVGify includes a convenient "Previous Converts" section, allowing you to easily access, review, and re-export your past projects. Seamless Exporting & Sharing: Share your SVGs with the world! Directly export your vectorized images to your device's storage, or effortlessly share them with other apps, social media, or cloud services. Your SVGs are ready for use in popular photo editors, graphic design software, and any application that supports SVG files. Your Privacy is Paramount: On-Device Processing: Unlike many other apps, all processing in SVGify is done entirely on your device. Your images are never sent to the cloud, ensuring your privacy and data security. Create freely, knowing your content stays with you. Unlock the Power of Vector Graphics in Your Pocket: Whether you're vectorizing a hand-drawn sketch, a detailed photograph, or a simple logo, SVGify empowers you to create stunning, scalable graphics that can be used anywhere. Download SVGify today and transform your camera into a powerful vectorization studio!

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Kreyon

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Kreyon is a drawing, painting and comic studio for iPad and iPhone. It gives you brushes that behave like real media, a full layer system and a workspace that stays out of the way, whether you are doodling for the first time or finishing a page for a client. Free to start, one purchase for the full studio Draw, paint, letter and export for free, with no account and no ads. Kreyon Studio is a single one-time in-app purchase with no subscription. It unlocks non-destructive Adjust, the Brush Studio, more than five layers, 4K canvases and full-resolution export. If you bought the app before it became free, Kreyon Studio is already unlocked for you. Start drawing today • Learn & Play: 10 colouring pages with fill that stays inside the lines, and guided lessons on your own canvas • Shading course: value scale, sphere, cube and cylinder, one step at a time • Figure course: the head from the front and in three-quarter view, body proportions, pose and torso muscles • A command dial under your hand keeps tools, colour and layers one thumb away • The app is available in English and Tamil Drawing and painting • 40+ brush engines and 47 stamps: pencil, ink, charcoal, watercolour, airbrush and more • Brush dynamics: taper, pressure curves, and size, opacity, rotation, scatter or hue driven by pressure, tilt or speed • Brush Studio: build your own brushes, or import .brushset and .abr brush files you already own • Layers with folders, subfolders, blend modes, masks, clipping, alpha lock and per-layer noise for grain • GPU liquify, warp, perspective and gradient map, reshaping artwork in real time • Selection bar with automatic, freehand, rectangle and ellipse selection, feathering, saved selections, and freeform, distort and warp transforms Comics, characters and lettering • Tools tuned for line art, character design, manga and webtoon panels • An infinite canvas you can join into one scrolling book or long-form comic page • 10 bundled lettering fonts for titles, speech balloons and logos • Character and perspective guides to plan a pose or a panel before you commit a line Sketchbooks and sharing Bind your artwork into a flipbook you can turn page by page. Choose the paper and the cover cloth, set the page weight, letter your own title, then record the book turning and share the video. Export PNG, PDF, layered PSD and a timelapse of your drawing. On iPad • Apple Pencil pressure and tilt for natural, expressive line work • Artwork version history: Kreyon saves checkpoints as you work and always before a merge, liquify or flatten • Name milestones such as Sketch, Lineart, Flats or Final. Pinned milestones never expire • Try an idea on a side path and keep it or throw it away, with your main artwork untouched • Compare any two versions side by side, as an overlay, or as a map of what was added and erased Why artists choose Kreyon • One purchase instead of a subscription • No account and no ads • Exact tools for line art, colour and comics in one canvas • Guided lessons for beginners inside the same studio professionals use Projects now save as .kreyon files. Files from earlier versions (.apexo) still open. Whether you are colouring your first page or building your next comic from cover to cover, Kreyon keeps the whole process on one canvas. Made in Madurai, India, by people who draw.

Screenshots

SVGify4 screens
Kreyon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SVGify at none against Kreyon's 1. SVGify also leads on price ($5.99 vs $9.99). Kreyon's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 12 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

SVGify costs $5.99 and Kreyon $9.99 up front. Kreyon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SVGify asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SVGify ships an update every 12 months, Kreyon every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
SVGify versus Kreyon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSVGifyKreyon
Price$5.99 — better$9.99
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndy BallLumivance Technologies Private Limited

In-app purchases

None

SVGify

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Kreyon

One-time1
  • Apex Pro$9.99

Questions

Is SVGify free?
SVGify costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kreyon free?
Kreyon costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do SVGify or Kreyon have ads?
Neither SVGify nor Kreyon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SVGify or Kreyon?
SVGify ships an update every 12 months, and Kreyon every 2 days. Most recently, SVGify was updated on October 30, 2026 and Kreyon on November 10, 2026.

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