Comparison

Draw Keyboard HD vs mazec

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

Head to head
About

Draw Keyboard HD

Create and send custom drawings directly from your keyboard. Express yourself with doodles and sketches in your messages. Features include multiple brush types, color selection, and the ability to draw on photos.

Highlights
  • Custom drawing keyboard
  • Multiple brush and pen selection
  • Color selection
  • Transparent background
  • Undo support
  • Draw on photos
  • Save drawings to camera roll
Features
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Don't just send text. Start drawing your messages. Be more expressive. Draw Keyboard HD lets you doodle/draw directly from your iOS keyboard and send those drawings as messages to your friends and family. ** Features ** - Custom Drawing Keyboard ( works with many messaging apps). - Simple Color Selection - Transparent background on drawings - Simple Brush Selection (Many different brushes and pens) - Undo support for mistakes. - Reloads last drawing when launching the keyboard. Stop accidentally losing drawings. - Works in IMessage, WhatsApp, FBMessage, Twitter, Kik, Line, WeChat, Email, and Line. - Draw on photos - Save image to Camera Roll ** Disclaimer ** The app requires Full Access to be enabled so that we can copy your drawings to the Clipboard. The app will not work without this permission enabled. Note, we do not log what you type with your keyboards. As a matter of fact, our keyboard does not even provide a text keyboard to avoid this confusion.

About

mazec

This app provides a handwriting input method as an alternative to your keyboard for any application. It offers accurate handwriting recognition, predictive text, and customizable dictionaries to speed up your writing tasks. You can also input emojis and use it for emails, social posts, searches, and filling out forms.

Highlights
  • Real-time handwriting to text conversion
  • Accurate predictive text
  • Customizable learning dictionary
  • Emoji input
  • Works in all applications
  • Handwrite emails, social posts, and searches
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### This is the English handwriting recognition app. Mazec offers you handwriting input as an alternative to your keyboard within any app on your device. If you want to write an email, make a social post or quickly jot your notes, mazec handwriting input technology offers you a speedy alternative to handwrite the message instead of using a keyboard. The Mazec handwriting input method app offers extremely accurate handwriting recognition and predictive text to intelligently guess your handwriting on the fly. It even allows you to enrich the dictionary with your own favorite terms and phrases, or your favorite URL’s and email addresses. Mazec handwriting input method for iOS saves you time writing emails, notes and social posts. Instead of fumbling with a keyboard (which often causes you to use both hands), with mazec all input can be completed with the touch of a finger. Mazec handwriting input provides handwriting conversion while you are on the go. Its advanced technology is due to vast semantic databases built over MyScript, the world leader in handwriting recognition technology. Mazec handwriting input features include: 1. The most advanced experience for real-time conversion of handwriting to text, due to MyScript , the leader of handwriting recognition technology. 2. Extremely accurate predictive text due to natively-authored dictionaries of technical terms and popular phraseology 3. Auto and manual learning dictionary mazec can intelligently “learn” frequently used phrases automatically. You can also ”teach” mazec to memorize short sentences, such as "TYVM" to "Thank you very much" and allows you to customize the user dictionary to your own favorite phrases 4. Emoji input Mazec includes more than just emoticons, but over 100 selected Emojis in 12 categories. Just write "Emoji" or one of category name as "face", "moon", "animal" etc. , then the list of Emojis will pop up. Categories of Emojis include: Faces, Fingers, Weather, Moons, Animals, Hearts, Balls, Fruit, Flowers, Buildings, Trains and Cars 5. Handwriting Input available to all applications on the device Because mazec is written as an input method to iOS, it acts as an alternative keyboard within any application on the device that accepts input. 6. Handwriting Emails and Social Posts Mazec makes writing emails, blogs and social posts quick and fun and saves you time 7. Handwrite Google Searches With the mazec Handwriting Input app, browsing the internet and conducting Google searches has never been easier 8. Quickly fill out web forms and important documents online With mazec, it becomes extremely easy and quick to fill out web forms and critical documents online, thus saving time from printing PDF files and scanning to be sent back 9. Multiple languages The app itself supports English language only. Handwriting recognition add-ons for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), and Korean are available as in-app-purchase apps. We’d love to hear your feedback and feature requests. Email us at: support_anytime@metamoji.com or join our community at https://getsatisfaction.com/mazec

Screenshots

Draw Keyboard HD4 screens
mazec4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Draw Keyboard HD at Free against mazec's $12.99. Draw Keyboard HD also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months). mazec's advantage is rating (3.6 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (43 vs 3). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Draw Keyboard HD is free to download; mazec costs $12.99 up front. Draw Keyboard HD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and mazec sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mazec holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mazec has 43 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Draw Keyboard HD's written reviews are positive against 63% of mazec's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Draw Keyboard HD ships an update every 2 months, mazec every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Draw Keyboard HD versus mazec: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraw Keyboard HDmazec
PriceFree — better$12.99
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)3.6 (43 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews63.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings343 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.08.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFunPokes Inc.MetaMoJi Corporation

Customer experience

Draw Keyboard HD

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative44.4%

mazec

All ratings43 ratings
Positive62.8%
Neutral7.0%
Negative30.2%
Written reviews81 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral6.2%
Negative30.9%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Draw Keyboard HD

One-time1
  • Draw Keyboard HD Pro Upgrade$1.99
10 purchases

mazec

One-time10
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Japanese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (French)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (German)$9.99
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  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Italian)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Spanish)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Russian)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Portuguese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Chinese)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (Korean)$9.99
  • mazec Language Add-Ons (All languages)$24.99

Questions

Is Draw Keyboard HD free?
Draw Keyboard HD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is mazec free?
mazec costs $12.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Draw Keyboard HD or mazec?
mazec is rated higher. Draw Keyboard HD averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while mazec averages 3.6 from 43 ratings.
Do Draw Keyboard HD or mazec have ads?
Neither Draw Keyboard HD nor mazec shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Draw Keyboard HD or mazec?
Draw Keyboard HD ships an update every 2 months, and mazec every 10 months. Most recently, Draw Keyboard HD was updated on October 5, 2026 and mazec on October 16, 2026.

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