Arrette Scale sketch drafting vs eJournal Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arrette Scale sketch drafting
This app allows designers to sketch freehand while maintaining precise scale, similar to vector drafting tools. It offers intuitive drawing tools and features for easy sharing and collaboration, simplifying the design process for professionals.
- Freehand drawing pens with vector scaling
- Adjustable grid system (metric/decimal feet)
- Straight edge and circle edge tools
- Distance and area measurement tools
- Lasso tool for selection and manipulation
- Layer support for organized designs
- Easy sharing via email or saving to device
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Rated #1 Technical App for Architects by ArchDaily! Arrette Scale for iPad is an app for designers who want to draw freehand while maintaining a measurable drawing scale like vector drafting tools. Architects, urban planners, surveyors, home remodelers, field archaeologists and dozens of other kinds of professionals will find this app useful. Unlike some other vector drawing tools, Arrette is simple to use. Arrette provides the platform to begin design work and generate ideas without moving too quickly to rigid straight lines and curves. We want to help you draw much as you would normally draw on paper, but to give you the extra tools and ways to share your work that make your life easier and make the design process simpler and more productive. The basic drawing structure is a familiar one - drawing layers which can be overlayed on a base image. The Grid keeps you aware of the size of what you're drawing, and the Edge helps you draw straight lines when you want. When you're ready, you can easily share drawings by email or save them to your device. We've designed Arrette to be extremely easy to learn. In about five minutes, you'll understand how to zoom and scale your canvas, draw lines, and load base images to work on top of. Our tools will seem familiar from other structured drawing applications, but every tool we've built has been simplified and optimized with scale in mind. Uses for Arrette: * An urban designer drafts plans for a new sub-division in a small town * A real estate agent snaps a photograph of a living space and begins to sketch out ideas for staging * A new home owner sketches the plan for an elaborate garden in the back yard * An archaeologist precisely records the provenience of a newly discovered artifact, including its location on an aerial map and the outline of its form * A construction manager notes progress on a work site, sending annotated precision-scale documents back to the general contractor live from the work site These are just a few of the ways that we have envisioned Arrette becoming an essential tool for many professionals. Arrette is the ideal tool for sketching because of its ease of use, preservation of scale, and flexibility in working with original source material such as other drawings, photographs, and maps. Included drawing tools: * Freehand drawing pens that scale like vector lines but are as easy to use as pencil and paper * An adjustable grid system that you can easily flip between the metric system and decimal feet * A straight edge tool for drawing perfectly straight lines or arrays of parallel lines * A circle edge tool for drawing arcs and circles of arbitrary, but precise radius * Distance and area measurement tools for measuring the lengths, perimeters and areas of arbitrary pathways in your drawing at precise scale * A lasso tool to select, move, copy and paste previously drawn lines * Layers, for separating out parts of composite objects or for adding new ideas to an existing document that overlay earlier designs * The ability to share Arrette documents with other users or to e-mail documents in PNG or PDF formats * An eraser tool, for revising your designs or removing objects from previous work * The ability to adjust the width of all lines globally even after the lines have been drawn * A color picker to choose from a variety of different pen colors for your drawing Base image imports: * The ability to load base images to draw on top of; base images respect their original scale and direction when the document is zoomed or panned * Import base images from Email, Dropbox, and Adobe Creative Cloud * Copy and paste from other apps that support JPG, PNG or PDF Document sharing features: * Send PDFs with scale and direction information to colleagues, clients, and other parties via email * Save your work to your Photo Gallery * Share raster versions of your work with anyone via email, Twitter, or Facebook
eJournal Pro
This award-winning note-taking application allows users to create multimedia entries. It offers a robust platform for journaling and capturing ideas across devices.
- Multimedia note creation
- Award-winning design
- Cross-device support
- Journaling capabilities
- Idea capture
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eJournal is a 2 Award-Winning note taking app, now available for iPhone as well. ======================================== TechCrunch “9th Crunchies Awards” (The Oscars of Tech) TOP 10 "The Most Interesting, Creative and Successful” ======================================== ======================================== Microsoft App Circus Award runner-up Winner TOP 10 "The Most Interesting, Creative and Successful” ======================================== ======================================== Microsoft App Circus Award runner-up Winner ======================================== ======================================== In The News Lenovo: "eJournal Shines at Techcrunch" https://lenovodev.com/blog/metadata/2016/04/15/ejournal-shines-at-techcrunch-crunchies-awards ======================================== Much more: - Microsoft Staff Pick; - #1 Paid Productivity App (Windows 8 2013-2014), pre-cursor to Microsoft OneNote; - #1 Free Productivity App (smaller version). **If you enjoying playing the game, **If you enjoying using the app, please consider leaving a review on the App Store. We really appreciate it!** Follow us on Facebook: @ejournalapp Want to discuss a new feature? Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ejournalapp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: eJournal Pro at 4.0 against Arrette Scale sketch drafting's 2.6. eJournal Pro also leads on price ($1.99 vs $8.99) and device support (3 vs 1). Arrette Scale sketch drafting's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 44%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Arrette Scale sketch drafting costs $8.99 and eJournal Pro $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
eJournal Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Arrette Scale sketch drafting's written reviews are positive against 44% of eJournal Pro's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Arrette Scale sketch drafting ships an update every 3 months, eJournal Pro every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on July 28, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arrette Scale sketch drafting | eJournal Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $8.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 2.6 (14 ratings) | 4.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arrette, Inc. | eJournal Technology |
Customer experience
Arrette Scale sketch drafting
eJournal Pro
In-app purchases
Arrette Scale sketch drafting
No in-app purchases
eJournal Pro
No in-app purchases





