Sketchbook®: iPhone vs Android
Sketchbook® gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Sketchbook® by Sketchbook, Inc is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Art & Design FreeSketchbook® at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-30. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Sketchbook is a free, professional-grade 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, ranking as high as #2 in Russia and consistently placing within the top 15 in regions including Europe, North America, and Asia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 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.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 ★ | 221k |
| Google Play | 3.8 ★ | 707k 31k written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.0 ★ weighted by ratings | 927k |
What users say about Sketchbook®
From the 69 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and being hard to use. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “*No Ai, and good for all skill levels in digital art”
- Useful: “Extremely useful but it takes forever to load”
- Ads: “Amazing app regardless of skill and NO ADS EVER”
- Price & subscription: “I do not have premium, yet there are so many options!!”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “This app literally crashed and ruined my painting I won’t say it’s good till it fixes”
- Ease of use
- Design: “No SVG support for design and export?”
- Features & content: “Also, I would love to have snapping options to close objects correctly”
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
• 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® iPhone
Sketchbook® gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Sketchbook® is #35 in Graphics & Design Free in United States and charting in 16 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 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 | #35 |
 China | Graphics & DesignFree | #43 |
 South Korea | Graphics & DesignFree | #20 |
 United Kingdom | Graphics & DesignFree | #29 |
 Japan | Graphics & DesignFree | #49 |
 Germany | Graphics & DesignFree | #28 |
| Russia | Graphics & DesignFree | #14 |
 Brazil | Graphics & DesignFree | #30 |
 Australia | Graphics & DesignFree | #30 |
 India | Graphics & DesignFree | #31 |
 France | Graphics & DesignFree | #39 |
 Canada | Graphics & DesignFree | #38 |
 Italy | Graphics & DesignFree | #35 |
| South Korea | Graphics & DesignGrossing | #92 |
| Russia | Graphics & DesignGrossing | #49 |
 Indonesia | Graphics & DesignFree | #31 |
| Saudi Arabia | Graphics & DesignFree | #40 |
 United Arab Emirates | Graphics & DesignFree | #56 |
Apps near Sketchbook® on the chart
Graphics & Design Free, around #35.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about Sketchbook®
From the 69 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mostly positive (75% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being useful. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and being hard to use. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “*No Ai, and good for all skill levels in digital art”
- Useful: “Extremely useful but it takes forever to load”
- Ads: “Amazing app regardless of skill and NO ADS EVER”
- Price & subscription: “I do not have premium, yet there are so many options!!”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “This app literally crashed and ruined my painting I won’t say it’s good till it fixes”
- Ease of use
- Design: “No SVG support for design and export?”
- Features & content: “Also, I would love to have snapping options to close objects correctly”
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
• 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!
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Sketchbook Android
Sketchbook gets 10k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Sketchbook is #11 in Art & Design Free on Google Play in United States and charting in 23 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Art & Design FreeSketchbook at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-30. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Sketchbook is a free, professional-grade 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, ranking as high as #2 in Russia and consistently placing within the top 15 in regions including Europe, North America, and Asia.
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.
Spain
Taiwan
Netherlands
Mexico
Sweden
Turkey
Thailand
VietnamApps near Sketchbook on the chart
Art & Design Free, around #11.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about Sketchbook
From the 200 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app for being free of ads and offering a robust set of customizable brushes suitable for stylus use. However, significant complaints focus on performance issues like lagging, file corruption bugs, and frustrating UI changes such as an unmovable brush puck.
Mixed but leaning positive (72% 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 crashes and bugs, and speed and performance.
What people like
- Features & content: “Omg, a blur tool is here!”
- Ease of use: “simple to use yet powerful”
- Useful: “it was so good drawing in this highlyyy recommend”
- Ads: “A GOOD ART APP WITH NO ADS?”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “there is a bug and it is not opening”
- Speed & performance: “some of my drawings reset to the beginning, and laggy”
- Features & content: “It was an okay app, with mediocre tools and things like that”
- Price & subscription: “aku mau gak premium deh BEGO ELU MATI KAMU!!!!!!!!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬”
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
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