Storyboard Creator vs BladeDraw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Storyboard Creator
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Storyboard Creator brings eBook, storyboard, and presentation production together in one powerful app. Organize ideas, build scene plans, prepare shot lists, and create card-based layouts that turn creative concepts into structured, elegant, shareable projects. Whether you're crafting an EPUB eBook, designing a PDF publication, or building a PPTX presentation flow, you keep full creative control from start to finish. Design your projects visually with a flexible card system that lets you plan, arrange, and refine your content with precision. Draw directly on each card with layers, images, SVG assets, speech bubbles, and text. FREE Up to 10 projects Up to 20 pages per project Full drawing tools, layers, and card editing Import up to 10 images or SVG files from your device or cloud Import up to 10 projects from ZIP or PNG files PREMIUM ā one-time purchase, no subscription Unlimited projects and pages All export formats Unlimited imports Unlocks on every device signed in with your Apple Account If you purchased the app before it became free, Premium unlocks automatically EXPORT FORMATS (Premium) EPUB for eBooks PDF for publications PPTX for presentations PNG for individual cards, ready to reuse across platforms and workflows HTML with Base64-embedded images, or with linked image assets ZIP packages for archiving, sharing, and moving projects between devices Storyboard Creator supports a flexible workflow that adapts to project structures from other platform versions, helping you continue your creative process smoothly across devices and environments. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the app delivers a fluid, flexible, and professional experience across the Apple ecosystem ā so your creativity is always within reach.
BladeDraw
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BladeDraw is the vector drawing studio for iPad, iPhone and Mac ā made for Apple Pencil and fingers. Every stroke is a curve, not pixels. That means you can zoom in as far as you like without anything fraying ā and everything stays changeable, even weeks later. DRAW ⢠Pressure-sensitive vector brushes: pressure pen, ink, marker, calligraphy, sketch pencil ⢠Texture brushes: airbrush, chalk, charcoal, graphite, watercolor, spatter ⢠Import Photoshop-compatible brushes (.abr) ⢠Auto-straighten lines, line tool with angle snapping ⢠Symmetry: mirrored, fourfold, radial ⢠Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, polygons, star, heart, arrows, speech bubbles CUSTOM VECTOR BRUSHES ⢠Four types: width profile with nib, pattern brush, art brush and pure outline ⢠Apple Pencil pressure and tilt control width and nib angle ⢠Create your own brushes, try them out right away on the test pad and organize them in folders ⢠Searchable brush library with favorites ā it also shows which drawings use a brush ⢠Assign a brush to a drawing without copying it IMPORT PDF AND TEXT ⢠PDF pages become real vector paths ā and can be rotated before import ⢠Continuous text arrives as a text object, not as a pile of individual letters ⢠Text recognition entirely on device ⢠Document scanning with the camera, also from imported images and PDF pages without text ⢠Insert recognized text or simply copy it CHANGE IT LATER ⢠Tap an element and set a new color, opacity, width and brush in the object inspector ⢠Edit nodes: drag, add or delete individual points ⢠Stretch and distort shapes, images and text at their corners and edges ā or straighten them ⢠Smooth or simplify strokes ⢠Freely change the order of elements ⢠Rotate the canvas afterward, swap portrait and landscape ⢠Rotate crooked imported background images by 90° or flip them EDIT ⢠Layers with opacity, lock and visibility ⢠Lasso for moving, scaling, rotating, flipping and recoloring ⢠Paint bucket for filling and erasing areas ⢠Area eraser and whole-element eraser ⢠Text with all system fonts, your own fonts (.ttf/.otf) and text on an arc ⢠Insert images from Photos or Files, crop them right away and cut out subjects automatically PAPER & FORMATS ⢠All ISO sizes (A, B, C), US sizes, plus photo, card, screen and social media formats ⢠Freely selectable resolution up to 16,384 px ⢠Papers: grid, 5 mm dot grid, graph paper, stationery, watercolor paper, aged canvas ⢠Custom paper templates from HEIC, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG and PDF ORGANIZE & SHARE ⢠Gallery with folders, search and sorting ā for drawings and for brushes ⢠Save versions and edit side by side in multiple windows ⢠Export as PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PDF (vector), SVG and PSD with layers ⢠AirDrop, Files app, iCloud Drive ⢠Back up the entire library as a single file ā drawings, folders, versions, images, brushes, fonts and templates ⢠Light and Dark Mode, automatically following your system setting No ads. No account. No data collection. Everything stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BladeDraw at none against Storyboard Creator's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Storyboard Creator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BladeDraw asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Storyboard Creator | BladeDraw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Murat Saygin | Bitblade |
In-app purchases
Storyboard Creator
- Storyboard Premium$3.99
BladeDraw
No in-app purchases
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