- Price$5.99
- CategoryEntertainment
- First releasedApril 1, 2010
- Versions3 archived
- Installable3 of 3
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerDarren Murtha Design
- Bundle IDorg.pogi.dp
RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Previously iPad App of the Week in 12 countries! (http://drawingpadapp.com/apple-features-drawing-pad-as-ipad-app-of-the-week)
Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio for all ages! Create your own art using photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and more! ■ ACCOLADES Winner of a Parents’ Choice Gold Award (bit.ly/parents-choice) Featured on nytimes.com (bit.ly/nytimes-drawingpad) Featured on usatoday.com (usat.ly/2x5xrKx) Featured on the iLounge 2011 Buyer's Guide 100 Essential Apps of 2010! Featured by iLounge as First runner up to kids' iPad App of the Year! Featured on Gizmodo's 2010 Gift Guide (bit.ly/gizmodo-drawingpad) Featured in November 2010 MacWorld Magazine in the UK 4 out of 5 stars Awarded Editor's Choice Award from Children's Technology Review
■ IN BOOKS Featured in the book “iPad Apps for Kids for Dummies” - by Jinny Gudmundsen Featured in the O’Reilly book “Best iPad Apps” - by Peter Meyers
■ IN MUSEUMS As seen in the Star Studio Exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art! (bit.ly/ima-museum)
■ QUOTES "Drawing Pad is a fantastic drawing app!" 9to5mac.com
“Wonderful chalk tools! You can almost taste the dust!” Mickey Paraskevas, Illustrator and Creator of the Maggie and the Ferocious Beast TV show.
"Drawing Pad is a fun and easy to use iPad art app for kids and adults alike. It has very visual menus giving you instant access to a broad range of useful art tools. There are amazing features for kids including downloadable colouring books and additional advanced features for more ambitious artists." Kyle Lambert - Artist - www.kylelambert.com
■ HOW TO USE DRAWING PAD
Watch the video inside the App! (or drawingpadapp.com/tutorial)
Tap a tool, choose a color, and start drawing. It’s really that simple.
Your artwork is automatically saved in the Drawing Pad album.
For brush options like size and spacing, tap the brush thumbnail at the bottom of the drawer.
Import photo backgrounds by first tapping the stationary icon in the drawer, then the filmstrip.
Import photo stickers by first tapping the sticker icon, then the stack of photos. Use one finger to move your photo and two fingers to rotate and resize.
Blender tool allows you to soften and blend colors!
■ SHARING OPTIONS Export to the Device Camera Roll, print via AirPrint, share via Email, and other favorite apps like Instagram & Facebook. Even assign your artwork to a contact in your address book!
■ ALL THESE TOOLS ARE INCLUDED! Crayons Markers Paint Brushes Colored Pencils Sketch Pencils Roller Stamp Pens Erasures Stickers Construction Paper Blenders Text Sticker Tool Photo Background Import Photo Stickers Gradient Brushes & Crayons Advanced Brush Control Color wheel and Gradient Panel Pinch Zoom Autosave Two Coloring Books
■ EXTRA FUN Download extra coloring books via in app purchase! Restore prior "Coloring Book in app purchases" by tapping the "Redeem prior purchase" button on the Coloring Book store details page. See drawingpadapp.com/restore
■ DEMONSTRATION Video at http://drawingpadapp.com
■ CONTACT Email us at "support" -at- "drawingpadapp.com"
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CREDITS:
"Birds," "Panda Bear," and "Turtle" by Igor Cheban instagram.com/icheban
"Dinosaur," and "Kitten" by Kyle Lambert www.kylelambert.com
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 8 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 6, 2010 | 1.2 | — | 16 | $1.99 |
| February 23, 2011 | 2.1 | — | 729 | $0.99 |
| January 3, 2012 | — | — | 1,073 | $1.99 |
| June 16, 2013 | — | — | 1,628 | $1.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25The app hasn’t been updated for a year, would be nice if the app would be updated to work full screen on new iPads. Other than that, the app is nice but blurry graphics ruin it. If you have one of the new iPads(2020) better get different app.
I’m glad you fixed the update! But now whenever I press the arrows to get to my other drawings, it kicks me out of the game and it’s really annoying. Could you please fix that?
I love this app I made sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Many drawings
This app is absolutely brilliant for all ages! It doesn’t force you to buy a premium like all other drawing pads do, and it also, remarkably, has NO ads-they make their money off of one dollar coloring books you can buy in game instead. It works for drawing, painting, and gradient (smear tool!) and also for photo editing (you can take a photo from your gallery and stamp it down on the page) I can’t think of any issues I’ve had. Oh, wait, layers-so that you don’t have to worry about coloring in lines and you can delete an unwanted layer easily-I’m clearly not good at describing layers but I would really like it if the devs looked into layers and added a feature like that. Please also add an option where we can add filters to our drawings, however I’m not too hung up on these requests and, although I do think they would improve the game, it’s plenty good for now, at least for me! I especally recommend for non-professionals who just wanna have some fun, not pay some subscription.
I really like this app. It’s one of the apps I use most. Even though it isn’t the best option when it comes to professional art, I really like to use it and have created some the art that I am most proud of on it. Would recommend
I used this app before this update and liked it’s simplicity and ease of use. Then I explored procreate, infinity painter and some others. Way too much stuff and too many choices. My work became overburdened with stuff. Keep it simple, you know. Glad I am using this app again with all its updates and still retaining and expanding its simplicity and ease of use. Given the price of physical material this app and some other art apps are a bargain for a digital artist. We are lucky as artists to have this approach to creating.
I have used this for several years and just yesterday went to add a photo to a greeting card and it said I need to do it through iTunes? Not happy. Grammie 1 July 2023
In 2019 (I believe) I stopped using this. I was looking for a better drawing app that was free. I never found one until 2020 when I decided to give Flipaclip a shot. It was an awesome animation software. Today (July 4 2020) I decided to revisit my old drawings. Visiting them felt nostalgic and this time it never crashed. Looking at my old drawings gave me some thoughts about how Flipaclip could improve.
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.