Comparison

Doodle Daily vs Skadoodle

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

Head to head
About

Doodle Daily

Connect with friends through daily creative drawing prompts. Share your unique, human-made art and see what your friends create, without algorithms or endless feeds. Build a personal gallery of your doodles and engage with their work.

Highlights
  • Daily drawing prompts
  • Friend-only chronological feed
  • Simple drawing tools
  • React and comment on friends' art
  • Personal drawing gallery
  • Home screen widget
Features
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Tired of AI, endless feeds, and fake photos? Doodle Daily is a refreshingly simple way to connect with friends through creativity. No algorithms, no influencers. Just your doodles and your friends. HOW IT WORKS: A new drawing prompt is revealed to everyone, every day. Draw your take on it, submit your masterpiece, and only then do you unlock the feed to see what your friends created! A SOCIAL APP THAT RESPECTS YOUR TIME & CREATIVITY: - No AI, Just You: 100% human-made art. Celebrate the unique, imperfect, and wonderful creativity of real people. - A Feed for Friends: See drawings only from people you know in a simple, chronological feed. - One Prompt a Day: Say goodbye to doomscrolling. Get one creative idea, see how your friends interpret it, and get on with your day. FEATURES: - Daily Prompts: A new, fun idea every day to spark your imagination. - Simple Drawing Tools: An easy-to-use canvas, fun colors, and tools like the pen, marker, and crayon. - React & Comment: Cheer on your friends' work with likes and comments. - Personal Gallery: All your drawings are saved to your profile, building a history of your creativity. - Home Screen Widget: Keep the daily prompt on your Home Screen so you never miss a day! UPGRADE TO DOODLE DELUXE: Unlock your full artistic potential with a 7-day free trial! - More Tools & Colors: Get the marker and crayon, plus a full palette of 32 vibrant colors. - Submit Your Own Prompts: Have a great idea? It might be featured for the whole community! - Practice Pad: Doodle freely without a prompt, anytime you want. Join us and make creativity a fun, daily habit with your friends Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Skadoodle

This app lets you draw anything without needing artistic skill. An AI then generates a caption and tags for your creation. You can keep your drawings private in a diary or share them with a global community.

Highlights
  • AI-generated captions and tags
  • Personal doodle diary
  • World gallery for sharing
  • Drawing tools (pen, eraser, undo/redo)
  • No artistic skill required
Features
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Everyone gets the same prompt. Every doodle tells a different story. Welcome to Skadoodle—the daily drawing game where creativity wins. Each day brings a new prompt. Create your doodle before time runs out, then discover everyone's creations, vote for your favorites, and see which doodle takes the win. Express yourself with dozens of unique pens including watercolor, chalk, neon, spray paint, confetti, braided rope, calligraphy, and more. Build with layers, add emoji, text, and photo cutouts, then let AI write a caption inspired by your masterpiece. Save your favorites, share them with the world, discover incredible artists, and build a following of your own. Features • Daily Doodle challenges • Unique artistic pens and brushes • Layers for professional-style editing • Emoji, text, and photo cutouts • AI-generated captions • Personal and global galleries • Like, comment, and follow other doodlers Whether your doodle takes five seconds or fifty minutes, today's prompt is waiting.

Screenshots

Doodle Daily4 screens
Skadoodle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Skadoodle at none against Doodle Daily's 1. Skadoodle also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days). Doodle Daily's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.1 vs 26.5). On price, rating, 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. Doodle Daily sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Skadoodle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Doodle Daily against 5.0 for Skadoodle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doodle Daily has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doodle Daily ships an update every 10 days, Skadoodle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Doodle Daily versus Skadoodle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoodle DailySkadoodle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (19 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.1 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTEBCO LABSEdward Brayman

Customer experience

Doodle Daily

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Skadoodle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Doodle Daily

Subscriptions1
  • Doodle Deluxe7 Days trial$2.991 Month
None

Skadoodle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doodle Daily free?
Doodle Daily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skadoodle free?
Skadoodle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doodle Daily or Skadoodle?
Doodle Daily and Skadoodle are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 19 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Doodle Daily or Skadoodle have ads?
Neither Doodle Daily nor Skadoodle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doodle Daily or Skadoodle?
Doodle Daily ships an update every 10 days, and Skadoodle every 2 days. Most recently, Doodle Daily was updated on November 5, 2026 and Skadoodle on November 2, 2026.

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