Comparison

ArtDeck vs Manga Draft

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

Head to head
About

ArtDeck

Organize visual inspiration and study images with this app. Create moodboards by collecting images, videos, links, and notes, then analyze their composition, color, and values. Seamlessly sync your boards across all your Apple devices for easy access.

Highlights
  • Collect images, videos, and links
  • Create moodboards and reference boards
  • Analyze image values, color, and composition
  • Sync boards across Apple devices
  • Offline access to boards
  • Annotate and draw on images
  • Organize with infinite canvas
Features
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ArtDeck is a reference board for iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Collect images, videos, links, and notes, then arrange and zoom them on an infinite canvas. Make a moodboard or open the built-in tools when you want to analyze value, color, composition, or motion. You can also keep references next to Procreate on iPad or your creative apps on Mac. iCloud sync is optional. CAPTURE NOW, USE IT ANYWHERE See a texture, a color combination, or a striking composition while you're out? Take a photo right inside ArtDeck and drop it on a board. Because your boards sync, it's there on your Mac and iPad, ready next to your design, 3D, or drawing tools. COLLECT FROM ANYWHERE • Shoot photos and video on iPhone and iPad; on Mac, take the photo with the webcam or your iPhone • Import from Photos or Files • Scan a document on iPhone or iPad, or use Continuity Camera on Mac • Save any link as a card, or paste a link to an image, video, or PDF to import it • Drag and drop, paste, or use the Share menu from any other app • Opens all common image formats, plus WebP, AVIF, JXL, HDR, EXR, and SVG. Video, GIFs, and PDFs up to 300 pages • HDR images and video at full brightness on capable screens, for the whole app or per board STUDY WHAT YOU COLLECT Study any image or video frame through the ToolBox's five lenses, without touching the original: • Values: grayscale, a value ladder, and Notan to read your darks and lights • Color: pull a palette from any image, or see its temperature and saturation zones • Composition: overlay grids, test new framings, or check the symmetry • Read: simplify to the big shapes, find where detail piles up, follow the edge hierarchy • Measure: drop plumb lines, read an angle off a snapping guide, and compare two lengths The Analysis panel shows value range, a histogram, hue, saturation, and color distribution. Export a study, or keep a copy on your board. Step through GIFs and video frame by frame, with onion skin and a GIF filmstrip ANNOTATE AND DRAW • Mark up an image, or draw directly: pen, highlighter, and shapes • Draw a stroke, then hold at the end to straighten it ARRANGE IT YOUR WAY • An infinite canvas to drag, scale, rotate, and zoom • Snap to objects and grid; align, distribute, and tidy up • Group and nest, reorder, lock, with undo and redo YOUR BOARDS, EVERYWHERE • The same boards on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, synced through your iCloud • Works fully offline: sync catches up when you're back online • Choose which boards sync • Split View and Stage Manager on iPad • Keep your window on top of the others on Mac YOUR GALLERY • Carousel and grid views of every board • Labels and multi-label filtering • Favorite, archive, rename, or duplicate any board MAKE IT YOURS • Dark, light, and high-contrast themes • Set one theme for the whole app, or one per board • An editor to fine-tune the colors and create your own themes • Import and export themes by file or link ACCESSIBILITY • VoiceOver support across the app, including items on the canvas • Respects Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion • A theme editor that checks color contrast and flags colors that are hard to tell apart EXPORT AND HAND OFF • Export a whole board or just a selection • PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or PDF, up to 8K, with a transparent background where the format allows • Save a whole board as one .artdeck file to back up or hand off TRY IT FREE, KEEP IT FOR LIFE Start with a free, individual 7-Day Trial. It does not renew. Lifetime Access is a one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription. No separate ArtDeck account is required. Keep what catches your eye.

About

Manga Draft

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Capture the idea before you over-draw it. Manga Draft is a storyboard ("name") app for comics, where panel layout, character poses, perspective and composition all live on one canvas. = Panels by dragging a line Drag across the canvas to split panels horizontally, vertically or diagonally. Adjust the gutter, undo a split, and merge or delete the panels you select. = Poses for people and animals Choose from 49 human and 22 four-legged poses by category, by name search, or from real skeleton thumbnails. Adjust facing, size and thickness, human head-to-body ratio, and an animal's leg, torso and neck proportions. Colour coding keeps multiple characters readable at a glance. The monthly plan lets you drag joints directly and tune front-to-back overlap. = Check depth with perspective Drag the vanishing point and the horizon to shape a perspective grid. Set width and depth increments, and figures or items resize along the guide as you move them back. Guides and figures can be shown only inside the panel you selected. = Block out a scene quickly Pick from 194 scene items in 9 categories: everyday objects, furniture, school and work, places and transport, food, nature and weather, story and action, emotion and dialogue, animals and the body. Search by name too. Combine them with text, speed lines, focus lines and tone, then drag, resize and rotate to rough out a scene. = Build a story across pages A project can hold many pages. Add, duplicate and delete pages, and move between them to check how the story flows. = Organise, save and share Projects live in nested folders you can rename and reorganise, and your work saves automatically as you edit. Export a finished page as an image and share it through the standard iOS share sheet. No account required. Your work is stored on your device. Thinking before drawing, made faster and freer. --------------- ABOUT TICKETS AND THE MONTHLY PLAN Creating each new page costs one ticket. That covers the first page of a new project, adding a page, and duplicating a page. You start with 20 tickets. Watching a rewarded video ad through to the end adds 3 more, free and with no limit. Editing an existing page or simply opening a project costs nothing. The optional monthly plan, "Unlimited Pages + Pose Editing", removes ticket costs for page creation and unlocks detailed joint position and front-to-back adjustment for people and animals. It renews every month and continues until cancelled. Prices vary by region and are shown before you confirm. You can cancel any time from Subscriptions in the App Store. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://yutty31523152-coder.github.io/manga-draft/privacy.html

Screenshots

ArtDeck4 screens
Manga Draft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ArtDeck at none against Manga Draft's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. ArtDeck sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Manga Draft sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ArtDeck ships an update weekly, Manga Draft every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ArtDeck versus Manga Draft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArtDeckManga Draft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexandre Alvesyuuta uehara

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ArtDeck

One-time2
  • 7-Day TrialFree
  • Lifetime Access$5.99
1 purchases

Manga Draft

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited Pages + Poses$1.991 Month

Questions

Is ArtDeck free?
ArtDeck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Manga Draft free?
Manga Draft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ArtDeck or Manga Draft have ads?
Manga Draft shows ads; ArtDeck does not.
Which is updated more often, ArtDeck or Manga Draft?
ArtDeck ships an update weekly, and Manga Draft every 4 days. Most recently, ArtDeck was updated on November 7, 2026 and Manga Draft on November 10, 2026.

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