Comparison

Prêt à Template vs Sketchbook®

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

Sketchbook®

This app provides a professional-grade drawing and painting experience for artists and illustrators. It offers a natural drawing feel with customizable tools, layers, and guides for precision. Unlock advanced features like custom brushes and canvas resizing with an optional premium purchase.

Highlights
  • Full complement of brush types
  • Highly customizable brushes
  • Guides, rulers, and stroke tools
  • Layers with blend modes
  • Clean and unobtrusive interface
  • Custom brush creation (premium)
  • Canvas resizing (premium)
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From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you. Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas. • A full complement of brush types: pencils markers, airbrushes, smear and more that look and feel just like their physical counterparts • Brushes are highly customizable so you can create just the look you want • Guides, rulers and stroke tools support precision when you need it • Layers with a full complement of blend modes deliver the flexibility to build up and explore drawings and color • Purpose-built for sketching, the interface is clean and unobtrusive so you can focus on drawing Purchase the Premium Bundle to unlock more... • Import and export brushes • Create your own custom brushes • Resize your canvas or image • Set canvas resolution in px/inch or px/cm • Clipping masks • Time-lapse recording: choose fixed canvas view or show pan/zoom navigation • Additional layer adjustments including blur, sharpen, brightness/contrast, greyscale, and invert • Additional color harmonies • Additional custom gradients • Select color from reference images • Extract color palettes from images • Import and export color palettes • Layer grouping • Layer masking Blend Modes • Draw Outline tool • Lasso Fill tool • Export to PDF • plus more to come!

Screenshots

Prêt à Template4 screens
Sketchbook®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sketchbook® at 77% against Prêt à Template's 24%. Sketchbook® also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (221K vs 13K). Prêt à Template's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Sketchbook® sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sketchbook® holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sketchbook® has 221K ratings behind it against 13K, 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 77% of Sketchbook®'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Prêt à Template ships an update weekly, Sketchbook® every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Prêt à Template versus Sketchbook®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrêt à TemplateSketchbook®
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (13K ratings)4.8 (221K ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.5% of reviews76.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13K221K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#151#38 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.5 GB144 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrêt-à-TemplateSketchbook, Inc

Customer experience

Prêt à Template

All ratings13,424 ratings
Positive79.0%
Neutral5.4%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews1,266 reviews
Positive23.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative65.9%

Sketchbook®

All ratings220,588 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews1,715 reviews
Positive76.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative16.3%

User reviews

Prêt à Template

From 13K App Store ratings

What 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

Sketchbook®

From 221K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Amazing, free, and no ads
  • 👍 Lots of brushes and customization options
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 👍 Great for beginners and professionals
  • 👍 Smooth performance and no lag

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional freezing and crashing issues
  • 🐛 Blurry or corrupted images when saving or copying
  • 🐛 Glitches with color selection and layers
  • 🐛 Inability to rotate canvas or access gallery easily
  • 🐛 Lack of blurring and clipping mask 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

Sketchbook®

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Layers randomly deleted or corrupted
  • Freezing when using certain tools like the eyedropper
  • Saving issues leading to loss of progress
  • Incompatibility with newer iPad Pro devices

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add blurring and clipping mask tools
  • Improve gallery and canvas rotation functionality
  • Allow custom font import
  • Add effects like glow, stroke, and drop shadow
  • Implement layer grouping and organization
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  • Add real-time collaboration features
  • Improve time-lapse recording and saving

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
1 purchases

Sketchbook®

One-time1
  • Premium Bundle$2.99

Questions

Is Prêt à Template free?
Prêt à Template is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sketchbook® free?
Sketchbook® is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Prêt à Template or Sketchbook®?
Sketchbook® is rated higher. Prêt à Template averages 4.2 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Sketchbook® averages 4.8 from 221K ratings.
Do Prêt à Template or Sketchbook® have ads?
Neither Prêt à Template nor Sketchbook® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Prêt à Template or Sketchbook®?
Prêt à Template ships an update weekly, and Sketchbook® every 2 months. Most recently, Prêt à Template was updated on October 28, 2026 and Sketchbook® on October 28, 2026.
Which is more popular, Prêt à Template or Sketchbook®?
Prêt à Template currently peaks at #151 in the App Store charts, and Sketchbook® at #38. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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