Comparison

miniDraw 2 vs iPencil

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

Head to head
About

miniDraw 2

Create vector illustrations and designs on your mobile device. Seamlessly sync your work across all your Apple devices via iCloud and export your creations as SVG files for use in professional design software.

Highlights
  • Vector illustration and design
  • Intuitive mobile UI
  • iCloud synchronization
  • SVG export
  • Pen Tool
  • Nested Groups
Features
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miniDraw 2 is a vector illustration and design app for iPhone and iPad. Draw precise, scalable artwork wherever you are and take it into any desktop vector editor as SVG. miniDraw 2 is now completely free: every feature is included, with no ads and no in-app purchases. DRAW • Rectangles, squares, ellipses and circles • Pen tool for Bézier curves, point-to-point lines, and a freehand pencil that smooths your strokes • Variable stroke width: make a line thicker or thinner along its length • Boolean operations: union, intersect, subtract and exclude • Text in a choice of fonts STYLE • Solid colours, linear and radial gradients, opacity • Dashed lines, line caps and joins ORGANISE • Layers and nested groups • A background image from Photos to trace over • Undo and redo SHARE • Import and export SVG for Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, CorelDRAW and other vector tools • Export PNG, save to Photos, or share straight from the app • Keep your drawings in sync across your devices with iCloud

About

iPencil

Create sophisticated vector graphics on your iPad with unlimited layers, powerful editing tools, and extensive import/export options. Customize your workspace with light, dark, or tinted themes.

Highlights
  • Unlimited layers
  • Path and text manipulation
  • Gradient fills
  • Boolean operations
  • Color wheel and swatch library
  • SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG import/export
Features
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iPencil is a vector illustration app designed from scratch for the iPad . It supports paths, compound paths, text, text on a path, images, groups, masks, gradient fills, and an unlimited number of layers. * Take control with unlimited layers. Feel free to add as many or as few elements in each layer to organise your drawings. Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers as you draw. Isolate the active layer for easy editing. Adjust each layers transparency independently to get your ideal composition. * Powerful editing at your fingertips. Easily manipulate single or multiple elements with powerful scale and rotate tools. Associate individual elements into groups. Interactively edit gradient fills on the canvas. Perform a range of Boolean operations on paths, including Unite, Intersect, Exclude and Subtract Front. * Colors to match your imagination. Picking the perfect color is easy with the freedom of the expressive color wheel. Or modify colors using RGB and HSB sliders. Enter the hexadecimal value to precisely match existing artwork colors. Sample colors using the dropper. Store and recall colors from the swatch library. * Import, export and sharing. Import drawings from desktop vector applications as SVG and include photos directly from your camera roll, or import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services. Export your drawings for sharing or importing into other apps as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services. Send drawings as photos directly to your camera roll. * Light, dark or tinted themes. Choose between the light and dark monochrome themes or the classic Inkpad with user interface tints. The light and dark themes make minimal use of color so that tints in the user interface do not distract from or influence your artwork color choices. Geti Pencil Premium. Unlimited access to the tools during the subscription period. The subscriptions are $0.99 week with 3 day trial period, $2.99 for 1 Months or equal to the same price tier as Apple App Store Matrix, determined as the equivalent of subscription price in USD. You may cancel a subscription or free-trial anytime via the subscription setting through your iTunes account. This must be done 24 hours before the end of the free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a Sketch Pad Unlimited subscription. Terms & Conditions : http://ipencilpro.com/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy : http://ipencilpro.com/privacy-policy.html

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: miniDraw 2 at 4.1 against iPencil's 3.5. miniDraw 2 also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). iPencil's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 57 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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. iPencil sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. miniDraw 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

miniDraw 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of miniDraw 2's written reviews are positive against 0% of iPencil's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

miniDraw 2 ships an update every 57 months, iPencil every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
miniDraw 2 versus iPencil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterminiDraw 2iPencil
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (12 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 57 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlack Bunny StudioBon Tran

Customer experience

miniDraw 2

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative53.3%

iPencil

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

miniDraw 2

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

iPencil

Subscriptions4
  • Activity tools in a week$0.997 Days
  • Activity tools in month$3.491 Month
  • Activity tools in 3 month$6.493 Months
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  • Activity tools in year1 Year trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is miniDraw 2 free?
miniDraw 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iPencil free?
iPencil is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, miniDraw 2 or iPencil?
miniDraw 2 is rated higher. miniDraw 2 averages 4.1 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while iPencil averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do miniDraw 2 or iPencil have ads?
Neither miniDraw 2 nor iPencil shows ads.
Which is updated more often, miniDraw 2 or iPencil?
miniDraw 2 ships an update every 57 months, and iPencil every 3 weeks. Most recently, miniDraw 2 was updated on October 18, 2026 and iPencil on October 8, 2026.

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