Comparison

Paintlustrator vs BladeDraw

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

Head to head
About

Paintlustrator

Features
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Create on iPhone and iPad. Export SVGs for free. Paintlustrator gives you space to sketch, draw, and turn your ideas into vector artwork. Draw with touch on iPhone or Apple Pencil or touch on iPad. Organize your work with layers and share your creations as scalable SVG files. FREE SVG EXPORT Export your artwork as SVG files for free. Save to Files or share with other apps. No subscription. No account required. IMPORT PDFs AND PHOTOS Import a PDF page or photo as a reference, then sketch or trace over it on separate layers. MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN Create in portrait or landscape. On iPhone, compact tools, settings sheets, and scrollable sidebars leave more room for your canvas. KEEP YOUR WORK Undo and redo changes, save projects locally, and reopen them to continue drawing. Export editable project backups to move your work between devices. Privacy policy: https://www.paintlustrator.fun/privacy Terms of use: https://www.paintlustrator.fun/terms

About

BladeDraw

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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 β€’ Pressure-sensitive vector brushes: pressure pen, ink, marker, calligraphy, sketch pencil β€’ Texture brushes: airbrush, chalk, charcoal, graphite, watercolor, spatter β€’ Import Photoshop-compatible brushes (.abr) β€’ Auto-straighten lines, line tool with angle snapping β€’ Symmetry: mirrored, fourfold, radial β€’ Shapes: rectangle, ellipse, polygons, star, heart, arrows, speech bubbles CUSTOM VECTOR BRUSHES β€’ Four types: width profile with nib, pattern brush, art brush and pure outline β€’ Apple Pencil pressure and tilt control width and nib angle β€’ Create your own brushes, try them out right away on the test pad and organize them in folders β€’ Searchable brush library with favorites – it also shows which drawings use a brush β€’ Assign a brush to a drawing without copying it IMPORT PDF AND TEXT β€’ PDF pages become real vector paths – and can be rotated before import β€’ Continuous text arrives as a text object, not as a pile of individual letters β€’ Text recognition entirely on device β€’ Document scanning with the camera, also from imported images and PDF pages without text β€’ Insert recognized text or simply copy it CHANGE IT LATER β€’ Tap an element and set a new color, opacity, width and brush in the object inspector β€’ Edit nodes: drag, add or delete individual points β€’ Stretch and distort shapes, images and text at their corners and edges – or straighten them β€’ Smooth or simplify strokes β€’ Freely change the order of elements β€’ Rotate the canvas afterward, swap portrait and landscape β€’ Rotate crooked imported background images by 90Β° or flip them EDIT β€’ Layers with opacity, lock and visibility β€’ Lasso for moving, scaling, rotating, flipping and recoloring β€’ Paint bucket for filling and erasing areas β€’ Area eraser and whole-element eraser β€’ Text with all system fonts, your own fonts (.ttf/.otf) and text on an arc β€’ Insert images from Photos or Files, crop them right away and cut out subjects automatically PAPER & FORMATS β€’ All ISO sizes (A, B, C), US sizes, plus photo, card, screen and social media formats β€’ Freely selectable resolution up to 16,384 px β€’ Papers: grid, 5 mm dot grid, graph paper, stationery, watercolor paper, aged canvas β€’ Custom paper templates from HEIC, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, SVG and PDF ORGANIZE & SHARE β€’ Gallery with folders, search and sorting – for drawings and for brushes β€’ Save versions and edit side by side in multiple windows β€’ Export as PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, GIF, PDF (vector), SVG and PSD with layers β€’ AirDrop, Files app, iCloud Drive β€’ Back up the entire library as a single file – drawings, folders, versions, images, brushes, fonts and templates β€’ Light and Dark Mode, automatically following your system setting No ads. No account. No data collection. Everything stays on your device.

Screenshots

Paintlustrator3 screens
BladeDraw3 screens

Verdict

The call

Paintlustrator and BladeDraw are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Paintlustrator versus BladeDraw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaintlustratorBladeDraw
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaytee ChinavanichkitBitblade

In-app purchases

None

Paintlustrator

No in-app purchases

None

BladeDraw

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paintlustrator free?
Paintlustrator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BladeDraw free?
BladeDraw is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paintlustrator or BladeDraw have ads?
Neither Paintlustrator nor BladeDraw shows ads.

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