Art & Design
Drawing Pad -
Doodling, sketching, photo decoration and colouring pages in one iPhone and iPad app, with video recording.
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- Developer
- Sunny Side Hurricane LLC
- Score
- 4.3
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 16.1
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Sketching, doodling, photo decoration and colouring are the four desks of Drawing Pad. The doodle desk has 3D brushes, stamps and stickers; the sketch desk has pen, pencil and highlighter tools; the photo desk adds brush effects, frames, stickers and a crop tool to imported pictures; and the colouring book offers illustrated pages in more than ten categories. A Kids Doodle mode adds swappable canvas backgrounds and preset palettes. Undo, redo and an eraser are available throughout, and Apple Pencil is supported on iPad. A drawing can be recorded as a video while it's made and shared afterwards, photos can be imported from Facebook, Instagram and Flickr, and finished work can be posted to social networks or ordered as phone cases, posters, cushions and other printed goods. The basic tools are free; an auto-renewing Drawing Premium subscription opens up the fuller feature set.
Drawing Pad -: the full guide
What the app is
Four workspaces make up Drawing Pad from Sunny Side Hurricane: one for doodling with 3D brushes and stickers, one for sketching with pen, pencil and highlighter, one for decorating imported photos with effects, frames and a crop tool, and a colouring book whose illustrated pages span ten-plus categories. Kids Doodle mode gives younger users swappable backgrounds and preset palettes.
An eraser plus undo and redo run throughout, with Apple Pencil support on iPad. Drawings can be captured as video while they're made, pictures import from Facebook, Instagram or Flickr, and finished pieces go out to social networks or onto printed phone cases, posters and cushions.
How it works day to day
A child's session is colouring: pick a page from a category, fill it in with the preset palette, show a parent. An adult's might be a sketch on the iPad with the Pencil, or a quick frame and sticker job on a holiday photo before posting it.
The video recording runs in the background if you want a timelapse of the drawing. Most people stay in one desk; the four-in-one structure is more about covering a family's uses than about a single workflow. The Premium subscription opens the fuller tool set when the free brushes run out.
Why people look for it
Families search for it because one app serves a six-year-old's colouring and a parent's sketching, with a Kids mode that simplifies the interface. The colouring pages and sticker tools are the main pull. A 4.3 rating from 10K+ reviewers is respectable, and the subscription gate is the likely source of the less enthusiastic reviews.
Look and feel
Five screenshots on the page will show each of the four desks and probably a colouring page in progress. Apps aimed partly at children use bright, chunky toolbars with big icons, and the stamps and stickers give the doodle desk a playful look. The sketch desk will be plainer, closer to a conventional pencil-and-paper feel.
