Comparison

Kreyon vs Vectorize 2

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

Head to head
About

Kreyon

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Kreyon is a drawing, painting and comic studio for iPad and iPhone. It gives you brushes that behave like real media, a full layer system and a workspace that stays out of the way, whether you are doodling for the first time or finishing a page for a client. Free to start, one purchase for the full studio Draw, paint, letter and export for free, with no account and no ads. Kreyon Studio is a single one-time in-app purchase with no subscription. It unlocks non-destructive Adjust, the Brush Studio, more than five layers, 4K canvases and full-resolution export. If you bought the app before it became free, Kreyon Studio is already unlocked for you. Start drawing today • Learn & Play: 10 colouring pages with fill that stays inside the lines, and guided lessons on your own canvas • Shading course: value scale, sphere, cube and cylinder, one step at a time • Figure course: the head from the front and in three-quarter view, body proportions, pose and torso muscles • A command dial under your hand keeps tools, colour and layers one thumb away • The app is available in English and Tamil Drawing and painting • 40+ brush engines and 47 stamps: pencil, ink, charcoal, watercolour, airbrush and more • Brush dynamics: taper, pressure curves, and size, opacity, rotation, scatter or hue driven by pressure, tilt or speed • Brush Studio: build your own brushes, or import .brushset and .abr brush files you already own • Layers with folders, subfolders, blend modes, masks, clipping, alpha lock and per-layer noise for grain • GPU liquify, warp, perspective and gradient map, reshaping artwork in real time • Selection bar with automatic, freehand, rectangle and ellipse selection, feathering, saved selections, and freeform, distort and warp transforms Comics, characters and lettering • Tools tuned for line art, character design, manga and webtoon panels • An infinite canvas you can join into one scrolling book or long-form comic page • 10 bundled lettering fonts for titles, speech balloons and logos • Character and perspective guides to plan a pose or a panel before you commit a line Sketchbooks and sharing Bind your artwork into a flipbook you can turn page by page. Choose the paper and the cover cloth, set the page weight, letter your own title, then record the book turning and share the video. Export PNG, PDF, layered PSD and a timelapse of your drawing. On iPad • Apple Pencil pressure and tilt for natural, expressive line work • Artwork version history: Kreyon saves checkpoints as you work and always before a merge, liquify or flatten • Name milestones such as Sketch, Lineart, Flats or Final. Pinned milestones never expire • Try an idea on a side path and keep it or throw it away, with your main artwork untouched • Compare any two versions side by side, as an overlay, or as a map of what was added and erased Why artists choose Kreyon • One purchase instead of a subscription • No account and no ads • Exact tools for line art, colour and comics in one canvas • Guided lessons for beginners inside the same studio professionals use Projects now save as .kreyon files. Files from earlier versions (.apexo) still open. Whether you are colouring your first page or building your next comic from cover to cover, Kreyon keeps the whole process on one canvas. Made in Madurai, India, by people who draw.

About

Vectorize 2

Effortlessly convert pixel-based images into scalable vector artwork. Transform logos, sketches, photos, and drawings into high-quality vector graphics for further editing. Supports multiple export formats.

Highlights
  • Convert pixel graphics to vector
  • Supports logos, sketches, and photos
  • Export as PDF, SVG, or Logoist
  • Adjust detail level and smoothing
  • New, more accurate vectorization engine
  • Improved interface with Liquid Glass design
Features
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Vectorize 2 is the ideal tool for quickly and conveniently turning pixel graphics into resolution-independent, fully scalable vector artwork. Whether you have a logo that only exists as a small JPG file, a comic drawing, a sketch, or even a complete photo, Vectorize 2 for Mac, iPhone and iPad turns your pixels into vectors. Converting a pixel-based graphic such as a photo or drawing into a resolution-independent vector graphic is remarkably simple. Just choose a file or use your iPhone to take a picture, and let Vectorize 2 do the rest. Then adjust the level of detail and decide whether you would like to add contours or edge smoothing. After that, the finished result is only one click away: export your graphic as a PDF, SVG, or Logoist file for further editing. NEW IN VECTORIZE 2 With Vectorize 2, turning images into resolution-independent vector artwork is more accurate than ever – thanks to an entirely new vectorization engine. Shapes and curves are detected with much higher precision, fine details are preserved more faithfully, and color gradients are translated with greatly improved accuracy. In some cases, the app can even understand how a background color gradient continues behind an object. This leads to cleaner, more convincing, and more natural-looking results. The interface has also seen major improvements and now shines in Apple’s new “Liquid Glass” design language. In addition, we have made the app even more comfortable and easier to use. Core Features of Vectorize 2 - Supported Export Formats: PDF, SVG, Logoist - Supported Import Formats: JPG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC, GIF - Fields of Application: Vectorize photos, logos, drawings, graphics, and more in order to upscale at will

Screenshots

Kreyon4 screens
Vectorize 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vectorize 2 at none against Kreyon's 1. Vectorize 2 also leads on chart position (#183 vs unranked). Kreyon's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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

Kreyon costs $9.99 and Vectorize 2 $9.99 up front. Kreyon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vectorize 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Kreyon versus Vectorize 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKreyonVectorize 2
Price$9.99$9.99
Rating—3.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#183 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLumivance Technologies Private LimitedSynium Software GmbH

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Kreyon

One-time1
  • Apex Pro$9.99
None

Vectorize 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kreyon free?
Kreyon costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Vectorize 2 free?
Vectorize 2 costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kreyon or Vectorize 2 have ads?
Neither Kreyon nor Vectorize 2 shows ads.

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