Comparison

Comic Day vs Drawsy Studio

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

Head to head
About

Comic Day

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Turn your everyday moments into comics and illustrated storybooks, with no drawing skills needed. Comic Day is a visual diary and art journal that turns your stories and photos into hand-drawn comics. Describe a coffee with a friend, a weekend hike, or a small thing you don't want to forget, pick an art style, and watch it become a comic you'll want to keep. NEW: STORYBOOKS Turn one idea into an illustrated story of 2 to 6 pages. Your characters stay consistent from page to page, the book is drawn in the background, and every page is saved to your device, ready to read, zoom and share. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Make comics with 1 to 8 panels, in portrait or landscape 16:9 • Choose from 10 art styles: manga, cartoon, webtoon, sketch, chibi, newspaper, doodle, lineart, scrapbook and soft pencil • Build a cast of up to 12 recurring characters (friends, family, pets or your own avatar) from a photo or a simple text description • Keep the same characters looking like themselves in every comic and storybook • Write in any language, and the speech bubbles follow your story • Keep comics and storybooks on separate shelves in your library • Save to Photos or share single pages and whole stories with friends PERFECT FOR • Daily journaling and gratitude logs • Travel diaries and memory books • Bedtime stories and family keepsakes • Photo journals: pair a photo with a scene • Quick personal comics to share with friends PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your finished comics are saved on your device. You don't need to draw or caption anything. Just type a moment and Comic Day handles the rest, giving you a diary that's part scrapbook, part photo journal, part comic. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://comicday.app/privacy

About

Drawsy Studio

Features
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Drawsy Studio is a clean, focused drawing app built for quick sketches, visual notes, and creative exploration. Start with a simple canvas and use expressive drawing tools including pencil, ink pen, marker, airbrush, eraser, shapes, color selection, opacity control, and fill bucket. Drawsy Studio is designed to stay out of your way so you can focus on the idea, not the interface. Features: • Smooth freehand drawing • Pencil, ink pen, marker, airbrush, and eraser tools • Shape tools including line, rectangle, ellipse, and polygon • Fill bucket for quickly coloring enclosed areas • Color picker with quick swatches • Brush size and opacity controls • Stroke smoothing • Undo and redo • Canvas backgrounds including plain, paper, grid, and dots • Finger drawing toggle • PNG export • Drawing dashboard with saved artwork previews Drawsy Studio is made for artists, students, designers, makers, and anyone who wants a lightweight place to sketch ideas visually.

Screenshots

Comic Day4 screens
Drawsy Studio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drawsy Studio at none against Comic Day's 2. Comic Day's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Comic Day sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Drawsy Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Comic Day ships an update weekly, Drawsy Studio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Comic Day versus Drawsy Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComic DayDrawsy Studio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developercloud dream, llcAbhijnan Maji

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Comic Day

Subscriptions2
  • Starter$6.991 Month
  • Pro$14.991 Month
None

Drawsy Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Comic Day free?
Comic Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drawsy Studio free?
Drawsy Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Comic Day or Drawsy Studio have ads?
Neither Comic Day nor Drawsy Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Comic Day or Drawsy Studio?
Comic Day ships an update weekly, and Drawsy Studio every 2 months. Most recently, Comic Day was updated on October 2, 2026 and Drawsy Studio on September 28, 2026.

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