Comparison

Drawing Ciao Lite vs Birdathon

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

Head to head
About

Drawing Ciao Lite

A simplified painting and drawing application designed for young children. It addresses common usability issues found in other art apps, allowing kids to create and save their work independently. This app helps children focus on their art without needing constant adult assistance.

Highlights
  • Simplified interface for children
  • Easy pen selection
  • Start new paintings easily
  • Save artwork independently
  • Focus on creative expression
Features
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Start drawing right away—no complicated setup required. Drawing Ciao is a simple art app designed for young children, families, and anyone who wants an easy canvas for quick sketches. Its straightforward controls help you focus on creating. Features • Pen, crayon, brush, and other drawing tools • Adjustable colors and line widths • Eraser • Undo and redo • Start a new drawing • Automatic saving of your latest drawing • Save artwork to Photos • Made for both iPhone and iPad The uncluttered interface is easy for children to learn and fun for the whole family. This free version displays ads. When required, advertising privacy choices can be reviewed from within the app.

About

Birdathon

This app helps birdwatchers create and organize detailed checklists of their observations. It automatically records time and location, allowing for easy editing and customization. Users can visualize their sightings on maps, add field notes, and export data for sharing or further analysis.

Highlights
  • Observation-centric checklists
  • Automatic time and location recording
  • Customizable maps with boundary overlays
  • Field notes for additional observations
  • Multiple checklist sorting options
  • Data export to CSV and other formats
  • Create checklist templates
Features
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Birdathon is an observation-centric tool for creating birding checklists. It helps you organize your checklists and share them with others. Use Birdathon in the field to quickly record whether and where a bird is seen or heard and the number observed. The time and location of each observation is automatically recorded. You can adjust the location, time entries and the count of birds observed at any time to ensure your records are accurate. You can add breeding codes to your observations. Checklist maps display the locations of your observations. You can overlay county boundaries for every US state. You can add a range circle such as a 5MR (5-mile Radius) to your maps. You can import and overlay custom kml/kmz files onto your maps. An Overview feature lets you see your combined observations for any time period, and displays a map showing any boundaries you have selected, so you can utilize the map feature even when you are not actively checklisting. You can export Overview data into a csv text file or create a new checklist template from the Overview. Your checklists can be viewed in taxonomic order, alphabetically, by rarity or as a timeline of species. You can enrich your checklist with field notes and add observations such as mammals, butterflies, wildflowers, etc., to make it a more complete record of your experience. You can organize your checklists into categories such as Day List, Year List, County List, Life List, etc., and assign color themes to your lists. Bird species may be added and deleted from your lists at any time. You can create new checklist templates from your previous lists or import templates created by others. You can change which template is being used. You can import text files into Birdathon, making them into templates or new checklists. Different export options for your checklists allow you to import into eBird or another copy of Birdathon. The bird species source data and other resources used in this app come from the following sources: AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, is the core data set used for Birdathon. https://www.avilist.org. Some data has been integrated from the following sources: The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world (https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/), the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (https://checklist.americanornithology.org), and the American Birding Association's (ABA) checklist of North American Birds (https://www.aba.org/listing-taxonomy/) Alpha codes come from The Institute for Bird Populations’ Standardized 4- and 6-letter Bird Species Codes. https://www.birdpop.org/pages/birdSpeciesCodes.php. County boundary data is from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) TIGER/Line 2019 Shapefiles found on the United States Census Bureau's website at https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.2019.html. Boundaries should be used as general guidelines and not be considered precise. Note especially where county boundaries follow creeks, rivers, ridge lines and other natural features, and so are of much finer resolution than can be shown on Birdathon’s maps. California breeding bird atlas blocks come from the California Bird Atlas, https://www.californiabirdatlas.org. California Bird Atlas logo and breeding code descriptions used with permission.

Screenshots

Drawing Ciao Lite3 screens
Birdathon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Birdathon at 100% against Drawing Ciao Lite's 36%. Birdathon also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Ciao Lite ships an update every 15 months, Birdathon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drawing Ciao Lite versus Birdathon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing Ciao LiteBirdathon
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—15 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB192 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHoly IncBarry Langdon-Lassagne

Customer experience

Drawing Ciao Lite

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral27.3%
Negative36.4%

Birdathon

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Drawing Ciao Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Birdathon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Ciao Lite free?
Drawing Ciao Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Birdathon free?
Birdathon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drawing Ciao Lite or Birdathon have ads?
Drawing Ciao Lite shows ads; Birdathon does not.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Ciao Lite or Birdathon?
Drawing Ciao Lite ships an update every 15 months, and Birdathon every 4 months. Most recently, Drawing Ciao Lite was updated on November 1, 2026 and Birdathon on November 2, 2026.

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