Tiny Paint Studio vs Slate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Paint Studio
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Make room for big ideas and little fingers. Tiny Paint Studio is a playful drawing and coloring app for kids on iPad and iPhone. Start with a blank page, choose an illustrated picture, or try a drawing adventure. Paint with a finger or Apple Pencil and make every picture your own. DRAW YOUR WAY Choose Brush, Crayon, Rainbow, and Eraser from a simple toolbox. Explore extra brushes and colorful effects in Magic & more, with adjustable brush sizes and plenty of colors. COLOR AND EXPLORE Discover 23 illustrated coloring pages, including a friendly monster. Tap to fill a shape, or turn on Stay Inside to help Brush, Crayon, and Rainbow marks stay within a coloring region. MAKE IT YOURS Stamp stickers again and again, then move, resize, and turn them. Try four optional adventures: Funny monster, Rocket party, Ocean friends, and Happy garden. Or follow your own imagination with free drawing. KEEP CREATING Undo and redo as you experiment. Save pictures to your gallery, reopen them to add more, and pick up an unfinished picture when you return. Save artwork to Photos or share it with family. SIMPLE FOR FAMILIES Tiny Paint Studio works offline, with no ads, accounts, tracking, or in-app purchases. Drawings are stored on your device. Free to use, with room to create at your own pace.
Slate
This app transforms your device into a digital drawing slate for children, offering a pressure-free creative experience. It features multiple unique pens, drawing surfaces, and essential tools like undo and redo, with options to save or share creations.
- Digital drawing slate for kids
- Six unique pens with different effects
- Two drawing surfaces: white paper and green chalkboard
- Undo, redo, and clear functions
- Save and share drawings
- Kid-safe design with no personal information collection
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Digital Slate turns any iPhone or iPad into a colorful drawing slate for kids. No levels, no scores, no pressure — just tap a pen and draw. SIX PENS, EACH WITH ITS OWN PERSONALITY Classic pencil — always free Eraser — always free, so a mistake is never permanent Rainbow — every stroke shifts through color Sparkle — draws with a trail of glittering particles Neon — bold, glowing lines Bouncy — thick, playful strokes with a bounce of their own DRAW YOUR WAY - 10 vibrant colors and 3 stroke thicknesses for every pen - Two drawing surfaces: a white paper slate or a green chalkboard - Undo, redo, and clear, always one tap away - A satisfying sound for every stroke - Save or share a finished drawing straight from the app - Designed to lie flat in landscape, like a real slate on a table — comfortable for little hands, and easy to share between them BUILT FOR KIDS, FROM THE GROUND UP Digital Slate has no accounts, no logins, and no chat — there's nowhere in the app for a child to enter personal information, because we never ask for any. Any purchase or optional video unlock is protected by a simple math question a young child can't answer but a grown-up can solve in a second. UNLOCK THE MAGIC PENS The Classic pencil and Eraser are free forever — draw and undo, always, no purchase required. The four magic pens (Rainbow, Sparkle, Neon, Bouncy) can be unlocked permanently with a single one-time purchase — not a subscription, and it never expires or charges again. Prefer not to buy? Watch one short, kid-safe video to unlock every pen for 24 hours, completely free, as many times as you like. No ads appear during normal drawing. The only advertising in the app is that single optional video, always non-personalized and G-rated. A FULL SETTINGS SCREEN FOR PARENTS Behind the same parental gate, find a straightforward settings screen: the option to unlock every pen, share the app, rate it, contact us with questions, and read our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions in full. Digital Slate: a pocket-sized slate for imagining, scribbling, and creating. Terms & Conditions : https://keycoder.in/digital-slate-terms-and-conditions/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tiny Paint Studio at none against Slate's 1. Slate's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Slate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tiny Paint Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tiny Paint Studio ships an update every 2 months, Slate every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Paint Studio | Slate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Timor Leiderman | Sumangaury Marsoniya |
In-app purchases
Tiny Paint Studio
No in-app purchases
Slate
- Lifetime Premium$4.99









