Sketchbook® Downloads & RevenueSketchbook® · App Store & Google Play
Sketchbook® gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Sketchbook® by Sketchbook, Inc is on App Store and Google Play. Active Users (MAU & DAU), Downloads, rankings, keywords, revenue, and rating totals.
Full timeline · 50 events
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: traceiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Sketchbook® reached Top 10 for “pocket”iOS#9 in Poland search · popularity 34
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: traceiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🔎Sketchbook® reached Top 10 for “design”Android#10 in Netherlands search · popularity 42
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: digitaliOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: art, tattooiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Sketchbook®: categories changediOS− Productivity
- ✏️Sketchbook®: needs a newer iOSiOSiOS 14 → iOS 15
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · US
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: boardiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· 8 countries
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· RU
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· KR
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· JP
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· IT
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· FR
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· DE
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· CN
- ✏️Sketchbook®: description updatediOS· BR
- 📦Sketchbook® updated to version 6.3iOSNew in the Premium Bundle!
• Time-lapse recording: choose whether you want to see a fixed canvas view or pan/zoom navigation
• Option to change the speed of the time-lapse: 4x (default), 8x, or 32x
General updates:
• News item added to the main menu. When we have new features or other app info to share, we'll post it here. News can be disabled in Preferences.
• Option to see layer names in the Layer Editor. On by default, can be disabled in Preferences.
• Removed offset to color picker when drawing with a stylus
• Improved infrastructure to ensure time-lapse recordings will be able to be saved… more - ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: paint, drawing, artiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📦Sketchbook®: first update in 147 daysiOS
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · ES
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100iOSTop Grossing · Graphics & Design · KR
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100 in 3 chartsAndroidTop Grossing · Art & Design · TH · Top Grossing · Art & Design · TR · Top Grossing · Art & Design · VN
- 🔎Sketchbook® reached #1 for “art”iOS#1 in India search · popularity 50
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · TW
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Art & Design · NL
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · SE
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Art & Design · MX
- 🔎Sketchbook® reached Top 10 for “color”iOS#10 in Germany search · popularity 70
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · ES
- 📈Sketchbook® charting in a new countryAndroidSpain
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100 in 2 chartsAndroidTop Free · Art & Design · TH · Top Free · Art & Design · TW
- 📈Sketchbook® charting in a new country in 2 chartsAndroidThailand · Taiwan
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · NL
- 📈Sketchbook® charting in a new country in 5 chartsAndroidMexico · Netherlands · Sweden · Turkey · +1 more
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100 in 4 chartsAndroidTop Free · Art & Design · MX · Top Free · Art & Design · SE · Top Free · Art & Design · TR · Top Free · Art & Design · VN
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 100AndroidTop Grossing · Art & Design · KR
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: paint, cricut, doodleiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- ✏️Sketchbook® added hidden keywords: drawingiOSwords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 📈Sketchbook® entered the top 10AndroidTop Free · Art & Design · IT
- 🌟Sketchbook® featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · CA
- 🌟Sketchbook® featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · CA
- 🆕Sketchbook® first spotted by AppInsiderAndroidUnited States
- 🆕Sketchbook® first spotted by AppInsideriOS#52 in Top Free · Graphics & Design · Saudi Arabia
- 🌟Sketchbook® featured by Apple: “TRY NOW”iOStoday · CA
- 📦Sketchbook® version 6.2.8iOSNo release notes
- 🆕Sketchbook® released on the App StoreiOS
- 🆕Sketchbook® released on Google PlayAndroid
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Art & Design FreeSketchbook® at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Sketchbook is a free, professional-grade digital drawing and painting application designed for artists and illustrators seeking a distraction-free interface with customizable brushes and layer support. The app maintains strong visibility in the Art & Design Free charts across major global markets, including top-10 positions in Russia, the Netherlands, South Korea, Australia, Germany, the US, and the UK.
Similar apps: Procreate, Adobe Fresco, ibis Paint X
App Store
App details
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v6.2.6, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Sketchbook® downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 1k+ | 50M+ |
| Google Play | 10k+ | 100M+ Measured |
| Total | 10k+ Confidence | 100M+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Sketchbook®'s downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Sketchbook® makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium Bundle |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
| Store | Best rank | Charting in | US Top Free | US Top Grossing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | #15 Graphics & Design Free | 16 of 30 countries | #30 | – |
| Google Play | #4 Art & Design Free | 23 of 23 countries | #8 | #99 |
Full chart lists: App Store · Google Play.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings by country (10)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
 United States | 20 | 39% | ▼ -27% |
 China | 12 | 22% | ▼ -55% |
 United Kingdom | 6.5 | 13% | ▲ +15% |
 Germany | 4.2 | 8% | ▼ -42% |
 Brazil | 2.2 | 4% | ▼ -17% |
| Australia | 1.5 | 3% | – |
 France | 1.5 | 3% | – |
 Italy | 1.5 | 3% | – |
| Russia | 1.5 | 3% | – |
 Canada | 1.2 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 221k |
| Google Play | 4.1 ★ | 707k 31k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.2 ★ weighted by ratings | 928k |
What users say about Sketchbook®
From the 92 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (74% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and good value. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and missing features or content.
What people like
- Features & content: “*No Ai, and good for all skill levels in digital art”
- Price & subscription: “I do not have premium, yet there are so many options!!”
- Useful: “Extremely useful but it takes forever to load”
- Ads: “Amazing app regardless of skill and NO ADS EVER”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “This app literally crashed and ruined my painting I won’t say it’s good till it fixes”
- Features & content: “Also, I would love to have snapping options to close objects correctly”
- Useful: “It doesn’t have pictures to draw on like ibisPaint it’s a scam to buy I don’t recommend it buying it”
- Ease of use
About Sketchbook®
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!
Sketchbook® App Store
Sketchbook® gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Sketchbook® is #30 in Graphics & Design Free in United States and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 Graphics & Design FreeSketchbook® on the App Store
App details
Sketchbook® downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Sketchbook®'s downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Sketchbook® before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Sketchbook® makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium Bundle |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Graphics & DesignFree | #30 |
 South Korea | Graphics & DesignFree | #17 |
| China | Graphics & DesignFree | #39 |
| United Kingdom | Graphics & DesignFree | #25 |
 Japan | Graphics & DesignFree | #52 |
| Germany | Graphics & DesignFree | #28 |
| Russia | Graphics & DesignFree | #15 |
| Canada | Graphics & DesignFree | #21 |
| France | Graphics & DesignFree | #30 |
| Australia | Graphics & DesignFree | #25 |
| Brazil | Graphics & DesignFree | #30 |
 India | Graphics & DesignFree | #42 |
| Italy | Graphics & DesignFree | #33 |
 Indonesia | Graphics & DesignFree | #30 |
| Saudi Arabia | Graphics & DesignFree | #45 |
 United Arab Emirates | Graphics & DesignFree | #47 |
Apps near Sketchbook® on the chart
Graphics & Design Free, around #30.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings by country (10)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 20 | 39% | ▼ -27% |
| China | 12 | 22% | ▼ -55% |
| United Kingdom | 6.5 | 13% | ▲ +15% |
| Germany | 4.2 | 8% | ▼ -42% |
| Brazil | 2.2 | 4% | ▼ -17% |
| Australia | 1.5 | 3% | – |
| France | 1.5 | 3% | – |
| Italy | 1.5 | 3% | – |
| Russia | 1.5 | 3% | – |
| Canada | 1.2 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Sketchbook®
From the 92 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (74% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and good value. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and missing features or content.
What people like
- Features & content: “*No Ai, and good for all skill levels in digital art”
- Price & subscription: “I do not have premium, yet there are so many options!!”
- Useful: “Extremely useful but it takes forever to load”
- Ads: “Amazing app regardless of skill and NO ADS EVER”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “This app literally crashed and ruined my painting I won’t say it’s good till it fixes”
- Features & content: “Also, I would love to have snapping options to close objects correctly”
- Useful: “It doesn’t have pictures to draw on like ibisPaint it’s a scam to buy I don’t recommend it buying it”
- Ease of use
About Sketchbook®
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!
Latest updates
Store changes
What Sketchbook® changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Sketchbook Android
Sketchbook gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, November 2026, rounded down to a band).
Sketchbook is #8 in Art & Design Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 23 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Art & Design FreeSketchbook at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Sketchbook is a free, professional-grade digital drawing and painting application designed for artists and illustrators seeking a distraction-free interface with customizable brushes and layer support. The app maintains strong visibility in the Art & Design Free charts across major global markets, including top-10 positions in Russia, the Netherlands, South Korea, Australia, Germany, the US, and the UK.
Similar apps: Procreate, Adobe Fresco, ibis Paint X
Sketchbook on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v6.2.6, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Sketchbook downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Sketchbook's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Sketchbook before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Business model: In-app purchase-led
How Sketchbook makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Premium Bundle |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
Taiwan
Spain
Netherlands
Mexico
Sweden
Turkey
Thailand
VietnamApps near Sketchbook on the chart
Art & Design Free, around #8.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Sketchbook
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users highly value the ad-free experience and natural drawing tools, often comparing it favorably to competitors like IbisPaint. However, significant complaints exist regarding premium subscription persistence, export failures, and lack of animation features.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. The main complaints are about speed and performance, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Features & content: “Omg, a blur tool is here!”
- Ease of use: “No ads, simple, also has a PC version”
- Ads: “it's very good no ads just drawing”
- Useful: “perfect, without ads so useful very nice offline etc”
Common complaints
- Speed & performance: “The pencil is too heavy and slow”
- Price & subscription: “for that time I've also had premium purchased”
- Crashes & bugs: “I cant save my work its always error”
- Updates: “hanging and no More updates are given”
About Sketchbook
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
What's new
• Choose to capture pan/zoom navigation or a fixed canvas view.
• Option to increase the speed - 4x (the current/default), 8x, or 32x
General updates:
News item added to main menu
Improved time-lapse recording infrastructure to ensure recordings can be saved.
• A soft (non-enforced) warning that recording has been running for a long time
• A required save when recording file becomes large
Layer names visible in the Layer Editor
• Can be disabled in Preferences
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