Sketchpad vs Tayasui Sketches
Sketchpad
sketchpad.appTayasui Sketches
tayasui.comSide by side
| Figure | Sketchpad | Tayasui Sketches |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 2 |
| Spec score · Sketching Software | 8.4 (#7) | 7.4 (#15) |
| Audience | The FAQ describes Sketchpad as suitable for beginners, professional artists, educators, and students. | Tayasui describes Sketches as serving casual and professional graphic artists who want a powerful drawing tool with an easy-to-grasp interface. |
| Security | The privacy policy says data on Sketchpad’s servers, storage, backups, replicas, and snapshots is encrypted at rest and in transit. | The FAQ says iCloud sync cannot be disabled as a measure to prevent loss of drawings. |
| Support | Users can request deletion of a shared image by emailing its URL, and Sketch.IO says it will review and respond within 72 hours. | Users can report bugs by emailing [email protected] with a screenshot or recording and reproduction steps where possible. |
Plans
Sketchpad
- Web-Based AppPrice not published
- Desktop App$4.99 a month
- Web appFree
- Desktop app$4.99, paid once
Tayasui Sketches
- Sketches FreeFree
- Sketches Pro featuresPrice not published
In their own words
Tayasui Sketches
Tayasui Sketches is a digital drawing app for Android, iOS, and macOS, designed to make drawing resemble work on paper. Brushes include pencil, acrylic, watercolor, airbrush, ink, and smudge, with many tools responding to Apple Pencil pressure, speed, orientation, and tilt. The app also offers color mixing, gradients, patterns, canvas rotation, guides, and an iPad sidebar. Pro features add unlimited layers, extra tool variations, an extended brush editor, wet watercolor, palettes, and extra rulers. Cloud Sync backs up drawings to iCloud and synchronizes them between devices; the FAQ says this sync cannot be disabled. Pro enables PNG and layered PSD export to other apps. On iPad, two apps can be opened together and layers or documents dragged between them. The free version costs nothing; Pro is a separate one-time purchase with no listed price. Each platform version requires a separate purchase, and drawings cannot sync across versions.