drawnal vs Tappy Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
drawnal
A minimalist digital sketchbook for capturing quick ideas with simple sketches and notes. Animate your drawings, create collages, and export them in various formats. It's a private space for creative expression without social pressure.
- Quick sketching
- Add notes to drawings
- Frame animations
- Visual diary
- Collage creation
- Export as PNG, GIF, SVG, MP4
- Overlay drawings on photos/videos
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drawnal is a tiny drawing journal for quick ideas between places. Draw simple sketches, add a short note, and bring your drawings to life with frame animations. Keep a small visual diary, rearrange your drawings, create little collages, and export them as PNG, GIF, SVG, or MP4. You can also place your drawings on photos or videos before sharing. drawnal is intentionally minimal: no feeds, no pressure, just a quiet place for small drawings.
Tappy Paint
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Tappy Paint is a calm, ad-free coloring app with 1,100+ offline pages, tap-to-fill coloring, and a bead studio that turns pictures into fuse bead patterns. Choose a curated coloring page, pick a color, and tap a closed area to fill it neatly. You can also use a brush, crayon, and eraser when you want a more hands-on drawing moment. New: the bead studio Every coloring page comes with a bead pattern in three board sizes, 29Γ29, 50Γ50, and 70Γ70, made for standard 5 mm fuse beads. Follow the pattern bead by bead on the pegboard, or recolor it cell by cell in free edit. Then check the bead list to see which colors you need and how many, and export the pattern as PNG or PDF. Turn any picture into beads Pick a photo from Photos, take one with the camera, or use a picture you already colored. Crop it, remove a plain background, choose a board size, and it becomes a bead pattern in seconds. Colors are matched to real bead color codes, so shopping for beads is easy. Built for simple, private creativity: β’ 1,100+ curated coloring pages across animals, vehicles, food, nature, shapes, patterns, and more β’ 1,100+ matching bead patterns, each in 29Γ29, 50Γ50, and 70Γ70 β’ Tap-to-fill coloring plus brush, crayon, and eraser tools β’ Guided and free-edit beading with place, run, and eraser tools, and a touch-and-hold preview of the finished board β’ Bead list with color codes, bead counts, and finished size β’ Photo, camera, and artwork import for your own bead patterns β’ Favorites, boards in progress, and My Art for finished pictures and boards β’ Bead milestones in your profile β’ Works offline with bundled artwork and patterns β’ No ads, no accounts, no social feed, and no third-party tracking Lifetime Pro unlocks every collection and bead pattern, 70Γ70 imports, Fill All, and future Pro pages with a one-time purchase. Made for anyone who wants a quiet, private creative space on the device.
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Verdict
drawnal and Tappy Paint are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. drawnal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tappy Paint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | drawnal | Tappy Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 β better | 18.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pascal Monaco | εδΊ¬ιͺθ―η§ζζιε ¬εΈ |
In-app purchases
drawnal
- Unlock Forever$1.99
Tappy Paint
- Tappy Paint Pro Lifetime$0.99









