MagicTrace vs Tracecolor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MagicTrace
This app allows you to trace images directly from paper onto your smartphone or tablet. It eliminates the need for tracing paper or lightboxes, enabling sketching, drawing, and even character learning on the go. Capture inspiration and draw landscapes instantly.
- Trace images from paper
- No tracing paper or lightbox needed
- Sketching and drawing tool
- Character learning aid
- Capture and draw landscapes
- Uses device tilt for tracing
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This is a revolutionary hand drawing software! It is an application that can be traced by hand on paper. You can run anywhere at any time if there is a pen and smartphone stand. You do not need the Tracing paper or light box! You can be many uses as described below. · Sketching · Trace of picture · Drawing · (Such as foreign language. Especially Kanji) learning of character · To the drawing doll to take a photo of people You can draw by hand immediately the landscape you are looking at now. Therefore, it is also possible to arrange the picture as it is in your inspiration. By detecting the inclination of the device, the tilt angle of the image, and has realized the trace. Because it is the application that does not exist until now, please write in the review if there is a demand something. Cartoon screen shot app uses the image below. Title: Give My Regardsto Black Jack Author name: SHUHO SATO Site Name: Manga on Web URL:http://mangaonweb.com/ *On the profitability of the problem, we added a time limit. You can increase the usage time by looking at the video ad. Please for your understanding.
Tracecolor
Transform your photos into coloring pages with this app. Easily create custom outlines from your own pictures or provided materials, then color them digitally. Simple controls make it accessible for all ages.
- Convert photos to outlines
- Customizable outline sliders
- Coloring with pen and color selection
- Zoom for detailed coloring
- Import from camera, library, or materials
- Invert colors and edit original picture
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Tracecolor is a coloring program. You can take a picture and convert it into its outline traces and then you can color it as you like. It is designed to be simple to use for kids or older adults who enjoy drawing. There are small set of controls for pen size, opacity, and color selection. There is a zoom page to enlarge a section of the picture in order to focus on the detail in that section. Pictures can come from your camera, library, or our materials page. On the photo edit page, you can color over the original picture, invert the colors, or create an outline (there are various sliders for changing your outline). The program is free, except if you want to save your picture to your photo library, then you need to unlock the app on the materials page. Art therapy can be useful for keeping the mind active. Coloring books are typically either simple books for children and quite complex books for adults. But it is harder to find books in middle which have simple images that are interesting for adults. With this program, you can take photos and create your own materials. It might also be more meaningful and fun to have images that come from their own life (e.g., a favorite place or pet).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tracecolor at 3.0 against MagicTrace's 1.5. MagicTrace's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 42 months) and review sentiment (26% vs 0%). 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
Both are free to download. MagicTrace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tracecolor sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tracecolor holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MagicTrace has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of MagicTrace's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tracecolor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MagicTrace ships an update fortnightly, Tracecolor every 42 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MagicTrace | Tracecolor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (8 ratings) | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 42 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nobuhiro Watanabe | Franklin Chang |
Customer experience
MagicTrace
Tracecolor
In-app purchases
MagicTrace
- Remove the ad.$2.99
Tracecolor
- Brutalist Building 1$1.99
- Traditional Japanese House 1$1.99
- Storefront 1$1.99
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- Large Sakura$1.99
- Blocks$1.99
- Rakugo$1.99
- Rice Plants$1.99
- Shirts$1.99
- Smokestack$1.99
- Sphere$1.99
- Sphere2$1.99
- Sphere3$1.99
- Tamade$1.99
- Unlock this app$4.99









