ManimStudio vs Draw & Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ManimStudio
Create mathematical animations on your iPhone or iPad using a powerful open-source engine. Write code to define scenes and mathematical formulas, then render them into videos directly on your device. Ideal for educators, students, and creators visualizing math concepts.
- Create animated videos with manim's mobject API
- Render at multiple qualities up to 4K
- Compose mathematical formulas with bundled LaTeX
- Auto-detect Scene classes with built-in picker
- Preview rendered videos instantly
- Works entirely offline
- Bundles manim and all dependencies
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ManimStudio renders mathematical animations on iPhone and iPad using manim, the open-source animation engine behind 3Blue1Brown's videos. Type a Scene class, tap Render, and watch the math come to life as a video — entirely on-device, no signup, no cloud. Built for math educators, content creators, and students who want to visualize mathematics without leaving their iPhone or iPad. ManimStudio bundles everything manim needs — there is nothing to install or configure. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Author Scene classes that produce animated videos using manim's full mobject API: Text, MathTex, Circle, Square, Arrow, Graph, NumberPlane, Transform, FadeIn, Write, Create. • Render at multiple qualities (480p, 720p, 1080p, 4K) with hardware video encoding via Apple VideoToolbox. • Compose mathematical formulas with LaTeX-backed Tex and MathTex mobjects — the LaTeX engine is bundled, no internet needed. • Auto-detect every Scene class in your file with the built-in scene picker. • Preview the rendered video the moment manim finishes — saved as MP4 to the Files app or shared to Photos, AirDrop, Mail. WHAT'S BUNDLED manim, numpy, scipy, sympy, matplotlib, plotly, PyAV, Cairo, and a full LaTeX engine. ManimStudio works entirely offline. No account, no telemetry, no internet required.
Draw & Paint
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Create without limits on a calm, powerful canvas built for iPad. Creative Canvas is a digital art studio for sketching, painting, and illustration. Start a new canvas, pick expressive brushes, and shape every stroke with size, opacity, and color controls that stay out of your way. Made for real creative work • Sketch, paint, smudge, erase, and fill with precision • Layered artwork with lock, alpha lock, duplicate, and reorder • Brush library for sketching and painting styles • Color Studio with eyedropper and rich color control • Guides, shapes, text, and vector tools for clean layouts • Paper styles, adjustments, zoom, and undo/redo • Export and share—or save finished pieces to Photos Whether you’re doodling ideas, building illustrations, practicing calligraphy, or finishing a portrait, Creative Canvas keeps your tools close and your focus on the art. Privacy policy: https://digitalhole.github.io/DHPrivacy.html Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ManimStudio at none against Draw & Paint's 1. ManimStudio also leads on ads (none vs shown). Draw & Paint's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, 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. Draw & Paint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ManimStudio asks for nothing beyond the download.
ManimStudio ships an update weekly, Draw & Paint every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ManimStudio | Draw & Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 761 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | chienchung Yu | Arima Jain |
In-app purchases
ManimStudio
No in-app purchases
Draw & Paint
- Remove Ads$5.99









