Graff Builder vs Art Around Me
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Graff Builder
Create realistic graffiti art with a variety of surfaces and tools. Utilize alphabets from renowned graffiti artists and explore over 100 effects to design unique pieces. This app offers a seamless and enjoyable experience for artists and fans.
- Realistic graffiti art creation
- Over 40 paintable surfaces
- Alphabets from famous graffiti artists
- Over 100 effects and functions
- Expandable artist list
- High-quality original art
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Graff Builder is the first and only app based on creating graffiti art in a real-world process and setting. The user of the app is supplied with over 40 paintable surfaces of every type, and aided by alphabets from world famous graffiti artists. The 1.0 artist list includes Ewok MSK, Amuse 126, Roachi, River, Omens, Sabot, Meloh, Hamer, Sobekcis, Utah&Ether and many more great graffiti writers. Using their letter structures as a basis, from there the creative possibilities are endless, with over 100 effects and functions available to be used easily and readily. Creating high-quality and uniquely original graffiti art has never been this seamless, enjoyable, or unlimited in possibility. It is the perfect creative tool graffiti writers and fans of the art form. The 1.0 artists who have graffiti art fonts in Graff Builder are:Amuse 126 DE Ewok MSK HM Hamer Lucks YUMAD Mek FUA SM FX ATT Meloh LTK Merlot Naks SDK Omens MSK Villyz River TCI Roachi TGS Sabot Sobekcis HM Taste FUA ATT Utah & Ether Yaksap OFB WIL Our artist list will be continually expanding with more graffiti artists soon. Updates, improvements, and new introductions will be constant as well.
Art Around Me
Explore and contribute to a global database of public art. Discover murals, sculptures, and installations near you, catalog new finds, and save your favorites. Enhance your experience with a subscription for expanded search and navigation features.
- Discover public art nearby
- Catalog new art installations
- Search art on a map
- Save favorite art pieces
- Community-curated database
- Expanded search radius (subscription)
- Turn-by-turn directions (subscription)
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Discover Public Art Everywhere You Go We're building the world's largest community-curated database of public art — and you're invited to help. Art Around Me connects a passionate community of art lovers who discover, catalog, and share public art with each other. Every mural, sculpture, and installation has a story. How It Works Discover — Find art others have cataloged near you. Catalog — Add new art you discover to share with the community. Explore — Search the map for hidden gems in any neighborhood. Save — Favorite pieces to build your personal art collection. Free Features • Search for art within 1 km of your location • Up to 100 art pieces per search • Save favorites and share discoveries • Add art to the community database Aesthete Subscription Unlock the full experience: • Expanded 50 km search radius • Up to 1,000 art pieces per search • Movable map search — explore anywhere • Turn-by-turn directions to art pieces • Plus all free features --- Go find art. Go share art. Join the community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Art Around Me at Free against Graff Builder's $1.99. Art Around Me also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (100% vs 65%). Graff Builder's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.6). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Art Around Me is free to download; Graff Builder costs $1.99 up front. Graff Builder sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Art Around Me sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Art Around Me holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Graff Builder's written reviews are positive against 100% of Art Around Me's.
Graff Builder ships an update every 2 weeks, Art Around Me weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Graff Builder | Art Around Me |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jared Wright | Relative Logic Inc |
Customer experience
Graff Builder
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In-app purchases
Graff Builder
- Amuse StyleFree
- Ewok StyleFree
- Merlot StyleFree
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- River StyleFree
- Roach StyleFree
- Taste StyleFree
- UtahEther StyleFree
- Naks StyleFree
- Meks StyleFree
- Meloh StyleFree
Art Around Me
- Aesthete Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
- Aesthete Annual Subscription$20.491 Year
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