Comparison

TinyBlackboard vs TraceCraft

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

Head to head
About

TinyBlackboard

Capture inspiration with a simple, elegant drawing app. Recreate childhood blackboard memories with chalk effects, generate painting replays, and explore colorful creations. Ideal for fun, educational art or creative signage.

Highlights
  • Simulates blackboard effect with chalk fonts
  • Multiple blackboard styles
  • Finger-based eraser function
  • Free brush color selection
  • Drawing playback and video generation
  • Neon flickering animations
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A Simple, Elegant Drawing App, Capture Inspiration Anytime, Anywhere. Do you remember secretly writing the name of someone you liked on the blackboard as a child, writing beautiful poems, and counting down to exams? The beautiful sunset illuminated the words on the blackboard, while chalk dust swayed in the sunlight. All those wonderful memories are left in that time. This app has many useful features, such as generating painting replay videos, neon flickering animations, multi-board support, and more. Come and freely realize your childhood drawing dreams! Children love the chalk drawing feature, where you can draw blue skies, white clouds, and flowers with your kids, learn painting skills, and explore the world of colors in a fun and relaxing educational experience. Try it now! Of course, if you're a super fan, you can create drawings of your favorite stars or idols. You can even use it as a neon board for concerts or a welcome sign at airports. It's practical and creative, helping you stand out in a crowd. Features: 1.Simulates the blackboard effect with chalk fonts. 2.Supports multiple blackboard styles, easily switchable. 3.Eraser function, and you can erase with your finger. 4.Choose your brush color freely and create your unique colors. 5.Powerful playback function, which allows you to replay the entire drawing process. 6.Generate a video of your entire drawing process and share it with friends.

About

TraceCraft

Features
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Turn your own Chinese characters, pinyin, English words, or math exercises into worksheets you can print. TraceCraft helps families prepare daily practice and teachers make classroom materials. Start with a template or enter your own content, adjust the layout, and preview each page before exporting a PDF. MAKE THE PRACTICE SHEETS YOU NEED • Chinese: create character tracing sheets, word practice, poetry layouts, and stroke-order exercises. • Pinyin: generate tone-marked pinyin from Chinese text, enter syllables manually, or add pinyin above Chinese characters. • English: make tracing and copying sheets for uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and words, with four-line writing guides. • Math: create number tracing sheets and arithmetic problems in horizontal or column format. Add an answer page if needed. • Pencil control: practice with straight lines, curves, and shapes. • Blank sheets: print empty Chinese writing grids or four-line guides for pinyin and English. CUSTOMIZE GRIDS AND PAGE LAYOUT Choose from Tian grids, Mi grids, nine-square grids, inner-box grids, Mi inner-box grids, and plain squares. Adjust text size, cell size, cells per row, tracing cells, spacing, grid colors, and how light or dark the tracing guides appear. Set four-line guides for pinyin and English, or format a poem’s title, author, and verses separately. Choose A4, A5, B5, or Letter paper in portrait or landscape. Add fields for a title, name, class, and date as needed. START WITH A TEMPLATE AND SAVE YOUR SETTINGS Browse templates by practice type or search for the content you need. Save a draft and return to it later. Keep your preferred text size, spacing, colors, and arithmetic settings as reusable presets. MAKE A CLASS SET IN ONE PDF Use the class workspace to organize classes, student names, and presets. Select the students and practice content, then generate a class set with each student’s name. Each student’s worksheet starts on a new page, and the set is combined into one PDF for printing. PREVIEW, PRINT, AND SHARE Open the full-screen preview and zoom in to check text, spacing, and page breaks. Watermarks appear in the preview only. Export a clean PDF, print it through the system print menu, or share it with another app. FIND YOUR WORK AGAIN Worksheets, drafts, recent activity, classes, and student lists are saved on your device by default. Search or filter My Worksheets to reopen a draft, revisit a finished worksheet, or print it again. Export important worksheets as PDFs to keep a separate copy. The free version includes 5 exports per day and access to your 20 most recent local records. Some grid types and additional features require Pro or an in-app unlock. See the app for details. For common questions or to send feedback with screenshots, open Help & Feedback from your profile. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TinyBlackboard4 screens
TraceCraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

TinyBlackboard and TraceCraft are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. TinyBlackboard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and TraceCraft sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TinyBlackboard ships an update every 6 weeks, TraceCraft every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TinyBlackboard versus TraceCraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTinyBlackboardTraceCraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB194 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer利军 周Chengdu Yunbyte Network Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TinyBlackboard

One-time2
  • Buy pen & background color$0.99
  • Remove the ADs$1.99
3 purchases

TraceCraft

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly Membership$1.991 Month
  • Pro Annual Membership$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime Membership$12.99

Questions

Is TinyBlackboard free?
TinyBlackboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TraceCraft free?
TraceCraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TinyBlackboard or TraceCraft have ads?
Both TinyBlackboard and TraceCraft show ads.
Which is updated more often, TinyBlackboard or TraceCraft?
TinyBlackboard ships an update every 6 weeks, and TraceCraft every 2 months. Most recently, TinyBlackboard was updated on November 1, 2026 and TraceCraft on November 10, 2026.

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