ibisPaint vs Sketchbook
ibisPaint
ibispaint.com
Sketchbook
sketchbook.comSide by side
| Figure | ibisPaint | Sketchbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $2.33/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 15 | 4 |
| Spec score · Graphic Design Software | 9.3 (#5) | 8.6 (#45) |
| Spec score · Design tools | 9.3 (#5) | 8.6 (#44) |
| Spec score · Digital Painting Software | 9.1 (#3) | 8.0 (#17) |
| Spec score · Sketching Software | 9.1 (#2) | 7.9 (#11) |
| Brushes | The app offers over 47,000 brush types, with drawing speeds up to 120 fps. | The app includes customizable pencils, markers, airbrushes, paint, smear brushes, and other brush types. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Privacy | IBIS INC. says it processes personal data under applicable data protection laws, including Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and identifies itself as the data controller. | Sketchbook's privacy policy says Sketchbook Inc. is the data controller for personal data provided through its services and says it does not sell customers' personal information. |
| System requirements | Official minimums are Windows 10 version 2004 or newer, Windows 11 version 21H2 or newer, macOS 11 or newer, iOS/iPadOS 15 or newer and Android 7 or newer. | The listed desktop requirements include Windows 10 or 11 and macOS 12 or later; Android requires Android 9 or later. |
Plans
ibisPaint
- Free versionFree
- Premium Membership$4.49 a month
- Premium Membership annual$27.99 a year
- Ad Removal Upgrade$15.99 a month
- Pro Upgrade$62.99 a month
- ibisPaint XFree
- Windows Free trial / Demo ModeFree
- Premium Membership$4.49 a month
- Windows Premium Membership$4.49 a month
- Mac Premium Membership$4.99 a month
Sketchbook
- FreeFree
- Premium BundlePrice not published
- Sketchbook Pro for MacPrice not published
- Sketchbook Pro direct license$24.99 a year
In their own words
ibisPaint
ibisPaint is a social drawing app for smartphones, tablets, and other devices, available for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. Its drawing tools include over 47,000 brush types and more than 23,000 color and monochrome materials, along with over 80 filters such as background removal and watercolor-style conversion. Manga features include 46 screen tones, frame division, speech bubbles, and ruler tools. Animation tools support frame copying and onion-skin display for drawing successive frames. Cloud Storage syncs artwork across smartphones, tablets, and PCs; Premium Membership includes 20GB. The free version includes 64MB of cloud storage and advertisements. Premium Membership removes ads and includes premium features, with listed prices of $4.49 a month or $27.99 a year. AI Disturbance adds noise intended to prevent fine-tuning by image-generating AI, while AI Super-resolution improves small-canvas image quality. Drawing-process videos can be posted to ibispaint.com or shared through LINE, X, and Facebook. Listed system requirements include Android 7 or later, iOS/iPadOS 15 or later, macOS 11 Big Sur or newer, and specified Windows 10 and 11 versions.
Sketchbook
Sketchbook is a drawing app for work ranging from quick sketches to finished artwork. It runs on Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, with customizable pencils, markers, airbrushes, paint, smear brushes and other brush types. Drawing tools include rulers, French curves, Predictive Stroke, and vertical, horizontal and radial symmetry. Layers, blend modes, color fill, and linear and radial gradients support organizing and coloring work; stylus pressure and tilt are represented in strokes. Sketchbook imports and exports PSD files across its platforms, preserving layers, groups, names and most blend modes. PSD export rasterizes text layers, changes Sketchbook-specific Glow and Alpha Mask modes to Normal, and may change the background color to white. The free mobile app includes brushes, layers, guides, rulers and stroke tools. The mobile Premium Bundle adds advanced brush creation, color management, layer management and export options. The Pro direct license is $24.99 a year, billed per seat, with a 10-seat minimum for enterprise purchases; it covers Windows or macOS, not mobile.