Prêt à Template vs Custom Kicks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Custom Kicks
Unleash your creativity with a digital sneaker coloring book. Design unique colorways and patterns on various shoe models using intuitive tools like brushes, spray cans, and a bucket fill. Save and share your custom sneaker art, or use it as a virtual practice tool for real-life customization.
- Sneaker customization
- Digital coloring book
- Multiple brush and spray tools
- Bucket fill for quick coloring
- Eraser and undo/redo functionality
- Shading and texture options
- Save and share designs
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Calling all sneakerheads and art fanatics! We introduce to you Custom Kicks, the ultimate sneaker customization app for your inner creative spark. Create your own custom sneakers to relax or to practice your sneaker designing skills. Simply pick which sneaker you want to customize, and get creating with our intuitive system that makes designing your own colorways simple and easy. A number of options create endless combinations and styles to keep you busy, and the inbuilt color wheel gives you the power to make any colorway you see on the shelves. First, choose to brush or spray your sneakers with 5 different brush size and hardness settings. Or if you’re in a rush, use the bucket feature to paint entire panels in just one click. An eraser and an option to skip backward or forwards allow you to edit your creation and get rid of any possible mistakes until you are happy with what you’ve made. Lastly, decide how realistic you want your design to be, with pre-made shading at your disposal on a sliding scale. Different texture options give you the chance to use patterns like carbon fiber and elephant print or mess around with a range of materials from snakeskin to satin. Once you’re done, your sneaker art can be saved and accessed at any point in the “My Work” section, allowing you to come back to a piece later on and update it or share it with the world. This is also why our app is the perfect tool for sneaker customizers, who can test out their designs first virtually, and then use it as a reference when transferring the design onto a real pair of shoes. Your own sneaker coloring book in your back pocket, to keep you entertained on long haul flights, or to practice your skills late into the night! Link to Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Link to Privacy Policy: https://sneakerz.dev/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Custom Kicks at 85% against Prêt à Template's 24%. Custom Kicks also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Prêt à Template's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Prêt à Template sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $13.90 per month and Custom Kicks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Custom Kicks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Prêt à Template has 13K ratings behind it against 2.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Prêt à Template's written reviews are positive against 85% of Custom Kicks's.
Prêt à Template ships an update every 2 weeks, Custom Kicks every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prêt à Template | Custom Kicks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (13K ratings) | 4.7 (2.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.0% of reviews | 85.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 2.5K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #175 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.3 GB | 538 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Prêt-à-Template | Sneakerz FZCO |
Customer experience
Prêt à Template
Custom Kicks
User reviews
Prêt à Template
From 13K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Awesome app
- 👍 Great for fashion design
- 💡 Helpful for aspiring fashion designers
Room to improve
- 💰 Everything is behind a paywall
- 🔒 Limited free features
- 🐛 Crashes and glitches
- 🤔 Confusing UI
Custom Kicks
From 2.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game to customize shoes
- 🥶 Cold and fun for sneaker heads
- 🎨 Allows for creative expression
- 💰 Affordable premium access
Room to improve
- 🔍 Limited shoe selection
- 💢 Intrusive ads
- 🔧 Lacking key customization tools
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
Custom Kicks
Reported bugs
2 issues- Painting not registering properly
- Frequent crashes and app instability
Requested features
5 requests- Add more shoe models like Nike Air Force 1, Jordan 1, Dunks, etc.
- Implement an eyedropper tool for precise color selection
- Allow users to create and save their own shoe designs
- Introduce more materials and textures
- Add the ability to add custom logos and decals
In-app purchases
Prêt à Template
- Monthly7 Days trial$13.901 Month
- Unlimited Access7 Days trial$25.993 Months
- Yearly7 Days trial$98.901 Year
- 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
Custom Kicks
- Unlock All - 1 week3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Unlock All - Monthly$7.991 Month
Questions
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