Vectora vs BladeDraw

Vectora is a vector drawing tool built for play. Skip the steep learning curve of design suites — draw, bend, and explore shapes with your fingers or Apple Pencil. No subscription, no setup. Designed for mobile from the ground up. Every gesture, every interaction is tuned for the way your hands actually move on a screen. Made for iPhone Duo: closed, Vectora is a focused pocket sketchbook. Open it and the document re-centers into a full tablet workspace with tool panels, layers and modifiers. What you can do: - Draw freehand with smart shape recognition and taper - Illustration Mode: trace, PATH FILL and BUILD new shapes from overlapping regions - Draw precise paths with the Pen tool - Algorithmic LINE brushes: outline, 3D, spray, noise, camo - Combine, subtract, merge and blur shapes - Repeat shapes in linear and radial patterns - 2D and isometric grids, symmetry-aware erasers - Layer, group, and organize your work - Apply gradients, fills, text and stroke effects - Apple Pencil pressure and tilt on iPad - Haptic feedback on every snap and action - Import and export SVG, export PNG, or share directly Who it's for: Designers who want a sketch-grade vector tool in their pocket. Illustrators experimenting on the go. Built by one person who got tired of stretched iPad apps pretending they were mobile. No accounts. No cloud lock-in. Your designs live on your device.

BladeDraw is the vector drawing studio for iPad, iPhone and Mac – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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.