Pencil Box vs Super Simple Draw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pencil Box
Unleash your creativity with a versatile drawing tool. Select from various brushes, pens, and shapes, customize their properties, and utilize layers for complex designs. Import and export your artwork seamlessly.
- Multiple drawing tools (airbrush, pen, pencil, line, shapes)
- Adjustable tool color, size, and transparency
- Layer support with transparency and visibility control
- Import drawings from Mail and iTunes
- Export drawings via iTunes
- Sync tool preferences with iCloud
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Pencil Box is a useful drawing tool that allows you to display your artistic talent. You can: - choose your preferred tool - airbrush - pen - pencil - line - rectangle - ellipse - eraser - control tool color, size, and transparency - add layers and control layer transparency and visiblity - import and export drawings via iTunes - import drawings from mail - sync tool preferences between devices using iCloud Pencil Box is an active development. New features are always in the works.
Super Simple Draw
A minimalist drawing application designed for quick sketches and notes, offering seamless integration with Apple Pencil and widgets. It supports various iPad features and standard iOS sharing, making it as easy to use as a physical whiteboard.
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Pencil gesture support
- iPad multitasking
- Grid and lined backgrounds
- Draw on images
- Save for Instagram
- Undo/redo functionality
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Minimalist drawing app. Supports Apple Pencil (new & old), widgets, both portrait & landscape, iPad multitasking, standard iOS share, the latest devices. Pick up & use. Like a white board or scratch paper. Features: • Widget to show case the latest or favorite drawing on the home screen • Apple Pencil gesture support • Multi-window and multitasking support on iPadOS • Original Apple Pencil support • Grid background and lined background • Draw on top of another picture • Save square images for Instagram submission • Draw in either landscape or portrait • Undo and redo • Standard iOS share/action button (copy, save, send to other messaging/social apps) Perfect for: • Jotting down notes • Illustrate something to friends/coworkers through drawing • Draw/sketch something casually • Tell stories to kids with quick illustrations • Play quick random games with friends (e.g. draw and guess, or any simple board game you just invented) • Practice some basic drawing skills (drawing straight line, parallel lines, circles, faces, etc) Draw for a better world: Super Simple Draw started as a way to reduce the use of papers because we believe that the current environmental degradation and the climate change are pressing issues that demand urgent actions. Now we took a step further: for every ~2000 lines you draw, we plant a tree through a partnership with Trees for the Future. More than ten thousand trees have been planted so far. Learn more at https://trees.theiosapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Super Simple Draw at 82% against Pencil Box's 0%. Super Simple Draw also leads on ratings volume (4K vs 1). Pencil Box's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). 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. Super Simple Draw sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pencil Box asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pencil Box holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Simple Draw has 4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Pencil Box's written reviews are positive against 82% of Super Simple Draw's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pencil Box ships an update fortnightly, Super Simple Draw every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pencil Box | Super Simple Draw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 82.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fays Lane Labs | Bao Lei |
Customer experience
Pencil Box
Super Simple Draw
Bugs and requests
Pencil Box
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Super Simple Draw
Reported bugs
2 issues- In-app purchase issues with ads still showing
- Compatibility problems on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add zoom and pan functionality
- Implement more brush/tool options
- Expand color palette
- Add ability to save and load drawings
In-app purchases
Pencil Box
No in-app purchases
Super Simple Draw
- Remove Ads$0.99
Questions
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