Sketchbook® vs ViviPix
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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!
ViviPix
A straightforward drawing application for children, featuring a variety of art tools like crayons, markers, and watercolors. Its intuitive interface allows young artists to create freely without complex menus.
- Crayons, markers, watercolor, pens
- No complex menus
- Intuitive interface
- Designed for children
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ViviPix is simple painting app for kids. ViviPix was designed by a four-year-old girl and her dad. Draw whatever is in your imagination with crayons, markers, watercolor, and pens. All tools are available from the main screen -- no menus to navigate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ViviPix at none against Sketchbook®'s 1. ViviPix also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Sketchbook®'s advantage is ratings volume (221K vs 2) and chart position (#35 vs unranked). 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
Both are free to download. Sketchbook® sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ViviPix asks for nothing beyond the download.
ViviPix holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sketchbook® has 221K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Sketchbook® | ViviPix |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (221K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 221K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #35 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sketchbook, Inc. | Ford Parsons |
Customer experience
Sketchbook®
ViviPix
Bugs and requests
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
ViviPix
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sketchbook®
- Premium Bundle$2.99
ViviPix
No in-app purchases









