Comparison

Prêt à Template vs Light Designer

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

Head to head
About

Prêt à Template

Design fashion collections from initial sketches to finished concepts. This professional app offers specialized tools for fashion sketching, illustration, and product development, supporting both students and industry professionals.

Highlights
  • Fashion sketching and illustration tools
  • Realistic product and linework templates
  • AI-powered template suggestions
  • Integrated mood board workspace
  • Extensive fashion library (fabrics, trims, etc.)
  • Expressive digital sketching canvas
Features
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Bring your fashion design ideas to life, from the first sketch to the finished collection. Prêt-à-Template is a professional fashion design app created for fashion sketching, fashion illustration, outfit design, and product development. Built for students, creatives, stylists, and professional designers, it transforms inspiration into polished fashion concepts with tools designed specifically for the real fashion workflow. Whether you are learning fashion drawing, building a fashion portfolio, developing a collection, or exploring new styling ideas, Prêt-à-Template offers a complete workspace for modern fashion design. Unlike generic drawing apps, it is built specifically for the needs of the fashion industry, combining fashion sketch tools, realistic templates, visual research, and presentation workflows in one place. It supports both creative exploration and technical development, helping designers move from early concepts to more resolved and presentation-ready ideas with greater speed and confidence. The app lets you begin creating in two distinct ways, depending on your design style. You can work with linework templates that include front, side, and back guides, making them ideal for structured fashion sketches, technical development, and clean fashion illustration. Or you can start with realistic product templates, working directly over lifelike silhouettes with depth and volume, which is perfect for outfit design, product visualization, and concept development. Puzzle Look makes the creative process even faster and more intuitive. Simply describe the look you want, and it selects the most relevant templates from the library so you can begin designing right away. AI supports your process with fashion-aware suggestions while keeping the designer fully in control of every creative decision. Prêt-à-Template also includes a flexible mood board workspace where inspiration, materials, styling ideas, and product references can come together naturally. Its integrated fashion library includes fabrics, textile structures, prints, patterns, textures, trims, findings, sleeves, collars, cuffs, pockets, openings, construction details, care labels, and textile symbols, creating a rich environment for research, experimentation, and product thinking.  The canvas makes fashion sketching feel more expressive, natural, and realistic. You can sketch, shade, annotate, render, and refine using intuitive tools, realistic brush behavior, and a paper-like surface that gives the digital drawing experience a more tactile quality. Prêt-à-Template also uses AI with real fashion context. Its templates are built around garment proportions, silhouette logic, fabric behavior, drape, trims, and construction details, helping deliver results that feel realistic and aligned with professional fashion design workflows rather than generic image generation. From fashion design and fashion sketching to fashion illustration, outfit design, mood board creation, collection development, styling exploration, textile research, and fashion portfolio building, Prêt-à-Template supports every stage of the fashion design process in one creative workspace, whether you are just starting out or already working at a professional level. Subscription Pricing & Terms Prêt-à-Template is free to download. Unlock full access with a yearly or monthly subscription. Auto-renews unless canceled 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pretatemplate.com/privacy-policy

About

Light Designer

Create and share unique digital clothing designs, referred to as 'Lightfits'. Showcase your creations through an in-app feed and on social media platforms. Connect with a community of designers and get featured on the developer's Instagram.

Highlights
  • Create digital clothing designs
  • Share designs via in-app feed
  • Social media sharing
  • Community feed
  • Get featured on Instagram
Features
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Hey fashionistas! We're excited for you to try Light Designer, the best way to make and share clothing online. You're going to make beautiful, crazy, cute designs -- we call them Lightfits, outfits made of light. Share your Lightfits with the world through our feed and your own socials with #LightDesignerApp. Our favorite ones will be posted on our Instagram: http://instagram.com/lightfit_co/ Follow us on Twitter, maybe we'll shout you out :) http://twitter.com/lightfit_co. We're so excited to see all of the art you make, and feel free to send us feedback at founders@lightfit.co!

Screenshots

Prêt à Template4 screens
Light Designer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Prêt à Template at 4.2 against Light Designer's 3.0. Prêt à Template also leads on ratings volume (13K vs 2) and chart position (#132 vs unranked). Light Designer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Prêt à Template sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $13.90 per month. Light Designer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Prêt à Template holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prêt à Template has 13K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Prêt à Template versus Light Designer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrêt à TemplateLight Designer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (13K ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews23.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings13K — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#132 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.5 GB115 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPrêt-à-TemplateBased Apps and Games, LLC

Customer experience

Prêt à Template

All ratings13,373 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral5.4%
Negative15.7%
Written reviews1,257 reviews
Positive23.6%
Neutral10.7%
Negative65.7%

Light Designer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Prêt à Template

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Designs disappearing unexpectedly
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Syncing and saving problems

Requested features

5 requests
  • More free templates and tools
  • Ability to save and organize designs
  • Customizable color palettes
  • Improved undo/redo functionality
  • More body type options

Light Designer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Prêt à Template

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly7 Days trial$13.901 Month
  • Unlimited Access7 Days trial$25.993 Months
  • Yearly7 Days trial$98.901 Year
One-time8
  • Animal Print$1.99
  • Chess Pattern$1.99
  • Floral Pattern$1.99
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  • Tailoring Pattern$1.99
  • Winter Pattern$1.99
  • Bronze Pack$4.99
  • Silver Pack$10.99
  • Gold Pack$14.99
None

Light Designer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prêt à Template free?
Prêt à Template is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Light Designer free?
Light Designer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Prêt à Template or Light Designer?
Prêt à Template is rated higher. Prêt à Template averages 4.2 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Light Designer averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Prêt à Template or Light Designer have ads?
Neither Prêt à Template nor Light Designer shows ads.

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