Drawing vs Smudjo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drawing
This app offers a simple yet feature-rich sketching and drawing experience for all ages. Create detailed artwork with tools like symmetry, stabilizers, and layers, and easily save your creations to the cloud.
- Instant symmetry for mandalas and faces
- Stabilizer and rulers for smooth lines
- Webtoon-style text tool
- Up to 100 layers
- Worry-free undos
- Auto-save and cloud backup
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It's easy! Open the app and start sketching freely, just like doodling on paper. With no complicated menus, it’s a lightweight sketching and drawing app that anyone—kids and adults alike—can enjoy right away. Plus, it’s packed with clever, fun features to explore as you draw. • Instant Symmetry – Draw once to easily create mandalas or symmetrical faces • Stabilizer & Rulers – Draw smooth, clean straight lines and curves without jitter • Webtoon-Style Text – Add fun messages over your art with custom outlines and colors • Layer Drawing – Stack up to 100 layers when needed (varies by canvas size) • Worry-Free Undos – Relax and undo up to 100 times if you make a mistake • Auto-Save & Cloud Backup – Safely preserve your precious drawings to Google Drive From casual doodles, journal decorating, and hand-drawn notes to vibrant illustrations! Unleash your imagination on a clean, lightweight canvas today. [Key Features] ▶ Drawing Tools - Diverse brushes (Standard pen, pencil, paintbrush, brush pen, neon pen, rainbow, stamps, etc.) - Brush size and opacity control, eraser with blur mode - Freehand lines, straight lines, rectangles, and circles - Eyedropper, paint bucket (fill), and gradients ▶ Layers & Editing - Up to 100 layers (Alpha lock, merge, duplicate) ※ Maximum layers depend on canvas resolution (e.g., up to 100 on 1024x1024, 31 on 2048x2048) - Restore deleted layers - Up to 100 undos and redos - Stroke stabilizer for smooth lineart - Precision cursor and pen tool for detailed drawing and cutting out subjects from images ▶ Drawing Aids - Straight, ellipse, and curve rulers; grid guides - Mirror mode and symmetrical cursor (decalcomania) - Custom canvas sizes, pinch-to-zoom, and canvas rotation - Text tool with custom outlines and cartoon/webtoon effects - Selection tool: cut, copy, and paste ▶ Files & Storage - Google Drive sync for backing up and restoring project files - Import images directly from your gallery or camera - Save and load works in progress - Export and share finished artwork to your photo album If you have any suggestions or encounter any issues, please reach out via a review or email. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/drawingboard-privacy-policy ※ App Permissions [Optional Permissions] "Camera": Required to take photos and import captured images directly onto your canvas.
Smudjo
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Smudjo is a painting app for people who like making a mess. Twelve brushes that answer the way real ones do — pencil, technical pen, fineliner, brush pen, marker, gouache, charcoal, chalk, spray, airbrush and two rounds — all of them pressure-, tilt- and speed-sensitive, on a canvas with no edges. Smudge, fill, selections and symmetry. Layers, groups, clipping, blend modes. Undo as far back as you like, and a time-lapse of the whole thing at the end. PAINT TOGETHER The part no other painting app does. Share a six-character code and up to eight people paint on one canvas, live, watching each other's strokes land as they're drawn. Everyone gets their own layer so nobody paints over anybody by accident, and you can follow someone's view or jump to where they're working. On the same Wi-Fi it connects directly, device to device. Anywhere else it goes through a relay that passes along messages it cannot read: sessions are end-to-end encrypted from the code itself, and the relay only ever sees a room number. REAL FILES Your paintings are files in a folder you choose, on your device or in your own cloud storage. Open them, move them, back them up, or stop using Smudjo entirely — they are yours either way. No account, nothing to sign up for. WHAT'S FREE Every brush and every tool, forever. Five paintings, five layers each, exports up to 1080 pixels across, and joining anyone's session with no limits at all. One purchase unlocks unlimited paintings and layers, full-resolution export, hosting a full room, and keeping the paintings you make in someone else's session. It covers every device you own, and it is not a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Drawing at none against Smudjo's 1. Smudjo's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Smudjo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Drawing asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Drawing | Smudjo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | seongmi Jung | Gargant |
In-app purchases
Drawing
No in-app purchases
Smudjo
- Smudjo Unlocked$12.99









