Updated August 2026 · every figure re-read from the six Play listings, a decision table added, and the entries no listing was read for in this pass withdrawn
This page reports what six Play listings publish about six Android drawing apps on one date: rating and review count, install band, price and in-app purchase range, the Contains ads label and the Data Safety section. It does not describe how any of them behaves, because nothing here rests on running them.
Widest purchase range, to $119.99
Rating 4.4 from 47,617 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free to install · in-app purchases $0.99 to $119.99 per item · The listing description sets out a free trial, and states under its Tablet heading that an annual or monthly plan is needed to save or export · Version 5.1.1 · listing updated 30 July 2026 · Developer CELSYS,Inc. · Category Art & Design · Data Safety: no data shared with third parties, the app may collect some data types, data encrypted in transit, deletion can be requested · Contains ads: No · checked 16 August 2026
Google Play listing · 4.4 (47,617) · read 16 August 2026
Clip Studio Paint is the entry to take if paying on a plan is acceptable, and the plan is also the blunt part. Under its Tablet heading the developer's own description on the Play listing, read on 16 August 2026, states: You need an annual or monthly plan to save or export your artwork
. The same listing shows in-app purchases from $0.99 to $119.99 per item, the highest ceiling of the six listings on this page, a rating of 4.4 from 47,617 reviews, an install band of 10,000,000+, a free install and no advertising label.
The second line of its Data Safety section is the one to read twice: it is a declaration that collection may happen, and may is the listing's own word, so it is not a statement that nothing is collected. Skip this one if you want to pay once rather than keep paying, and look at Sketchbook first: its listing publishes a single purchase price rather than a range.
Largest review sample, ads label
Rating 4.5 from 2,983,023 reviews · Installs 100,000,000+ · Free to install · in-app purchases $2.99 to $79.99 per item · The listing description names the purchase plans: a paid version, an Ad Removal Upgrade, and a Premium Membership on a monthly or yearly plan · Version 14.0.9 · listing updated 28 July 2026 · Developer ibis inc. · Category Art & Design · Data Safety: the app may share data types with third parties, may collect data types, data encrypted in transit, deletion can be requested · Contains ads: Yes · checked 16 August 2026
Google Play listing · 4.5 (2,983,023) · read 16 August 2026
ibis Paint X has by far the largest published sample on this page: 4.5 from 2,983,023 reviews on an install band of 100,000,000+, read on 16 August 2026. Two things come attached to it. The listing carries the Contains ads label, which is the store's own statement that the app contains advertising, and the Data Safety section declares that the app may share data types with third parties, one of only two listings here that declare sharing. In-app purchases run $2.99 to $79.99 per item.
Both of the sharing and collection lines in its Data Safety section are hedged: the listing says the app may share and may collect, and may is its own word, so the section records what the developer declares rather than what the app does. Skip this one if an advertising label decides it for you, and look at Infinite Painter first, the other listing here that publishes the same rating figure but carries no advertising label: the ibis label is on the listing, and how often advertising appears is not something a store record answers.
Newest listing, smallest sample
Store title MediBang Paletta：Drawing App · Rating 4.6 from 327 reviews · Installs 10,000+ · Free to install · in-app purchases $6.99 an item · The listing description states the model: two hours a day without advertising, an extra hour for watching an advertisement, and a purchase that is a one time permanent licence with no subscription required · Version 4.15.2 · listing updated 6 August 2026 · first published 12 May 2026 · Developer MediBang Inc. · Requires Android 11 or newer · Data Safety: no data shared with third parties, no data collected, data encrypted in transit, and data cannot be deleted · Contains ads: Yes · checked 16 August 2026
Google Play listing · 4.6 (327) · read 16 August 2026
MediBang Paletta is the only one of the six listings on this page that first appeared in 2026, and its figures have to be read with that in mind. The store shows 4.6, the highest of the six ratings on this page, and it rests on 327 reviews against an install band of 10,000+. The listing also carries the Contains ads label, and in-app purchases are listed at $6.99 an item, read on 16 August 2026.
Read this first. That rating comes from 327 reviews. It is far too small a sample to set beside the ratings on this page that rest on hundreds of thousands or millions of reviews, and this page does not treat the two as comparable. A figure built from a few hundred people can move a long way in a week.
The listing read here is titled MediBang Paletta：Drawing App, with a full width colon, and its package is com.medibang.android.medibangpro. If you are looking for MediBang Paint, the older app from the same developer, that is a different listing and nothing on this page was read from it. Skip this one if you want a settled record before installing, and look at ibis Paint X or Sketchbook first, two listings here whose ratings rest on far larger samples: this listing was first published on 12 May 2026, so everything it publishes is a few months old.
Self declared beta, lowest rating here
Rating 3.3 from 6,082 reviews · Installs 1,000,000+ · Free to install · in-app purchases $2.49 to $13.99 per item · The listing description calls this a beta release, currently aimed at big screen devices rather than phones · Version 5.3.3 · listing updated 4 August 2026 · first published 8 April 2024 · Developer Stichting Krita Foundation · Category Art & Design · content rating All ages · Data Safety: no data shared with third parties, and no data collected · Contains ads: No · checked 16 August 2026
Google Play listing · 3.3 (6,082) · read 16 August 2026
Krita is the entry on this page whose own listing sets the expectation before any figure does. The developer's description on the Play listing, read on 16 August 2026, says: This is a beta release of Krita and is not suitable for real work yet.
The same description states that the interface is currently optimised for big screen devices, tablets and chromebooks, and that the app is not being made available for phones yet. That listing also publishes a rating of 3.3 from 6,082 reviews, the lowest of the six ratings here, a Data Safety section declaring no data shared with third parties and no data collected, no advertising label, and in-app purchases from $2.49 to $13.99 per item.
The rating and the count are the aggregate figures in the listing's own structured data, which give 3.3 and 6,082 reviews on 16 August 2026. The record does bear on that score in one respect, and in the developer's own words rather than ours: a build the description calls a beta and does not offer for phones is not the same proposition as a finished phone app, and a reader weighing the score should weigh it against that. Nothing further is offered here as an explanation. Skip this one if a published score is what you decide on, and look at Sketchbook first, the other listing here that pairs a declaration of no collection at all with no advertising label, and one that publishes a higher figure.
No data collected, on a large sample
Rating 4.1 from 705,347 reviews · Installs 100,000,000+ · Free to install · in-app purchases $2.99 an item · Listing updated 30 May 2026 · first published 8 October 2014 · Developer Sketchbook · Category Art & Design · Data Safety: no data shared with third parties, and no data collected · Contains ads: No · checked 16 August 2026
Google Play listing · 4.1 (705,347) · read 16 August 2026
Sketchbook pairs the second largest published sample on this page with the second lowest rating on it: 4.1 from 705,347 reviews, read on 16 August 2026, against an install band of 100,000,000+. Its Data Safety section declares no data shared with third parties and no data collected, the listing carries no advertising label, and every in-app purchase on it is priced at $2.99. The blunt part is age: the listing was last updated on 30 May 2026, about two and a half months before this check, and the record read for this page carries no version number at all.
The record read for this page came back with no version number at all, and this is the only one of the six where that happened. That is a gap in what was read rather than a finding about the app, and it means the version shipping today cannot be named here. What can be named is the date the developer last touched the listing, 30 May 2026, and every figure above carries the date it was read, 16 August 2026. Skip this one if you want the current version number in writing before installing anything, and look at Clip Studio Paint or Krita first, two listings here that do publish one.
Sharing declared, ceiling at $9.99
Rating 4.5 from 242,535 reviews · Installs 10,000,000+ · Free to install · in-app purchases $1.99 to $9.99 per item · Version 7.2.9 · listing updated 11 May 2026 · first published 2 April 2012 · Developer Infinite Studio LLC · Category Art & Design · Data Safety: the app may share data types with third parties, may collect data types, data encrypted in transit, deletion can be requested · Contains ads: No · checked 16 August 2026
Google Play listing · 4.5 (242,535) · read 16 August 2026
Infinite Painter is the listing whose two halves pull in different directions. It carries no advertising label and publishes 4.5 from 242,535 reviews, read on 16 August 2026, and its Data Safety section declares that the app may share data types with third parties, one of only two listings here that declare sharing. In-app purchases run $1.99 to $9.99 per item, and the record read here publishes version 7.2.9.
Its listing was first published on 2 April 2012, the oldest of the six here, so its 242,535 reviews have accumulated across many years and many versions of the app. An aggregate that old describes a long history rather than the build a reader would install today, which is worth holding against every rating on this page but most of all against the oldest ones. Skip this one if a Data Safety section declaring no third party sharing is what you want, and look at Krita or Sketchbook first, two listings here whose sections declare no sharing and no collection at all: this one declares that sharing may happen.
The six records agree on more than they differ on, and the differences are where the decision actually is.
All six are free to install, so free is not a reason to pick any one of them over another, and all six list in-app purchases, so none of them is free of money either. Two of the six carry the Contains ads label: ibis Paint X and MediBang Paletta. Two declare that they may share data types with third parties: ibis Paint X and Infinite Painter. Three declare that no data at all is collected: MediBang Paletta, Krita and Sketchbook. One listing sits in the ads group and the no collection group at once, which is worth noticing rather than smoothing over: an ads label and a declaration of no collection can sit on the same listing, and this page prints both instead of picking the flattering one. Where a listing description says what the money buys, this page says so too: Clip Studio Paint and ibis Paint X both set out a recurring plan, and MediBang Paletta sets out a one time permanent licence instead.
Take Clip Studio Paint if paying on a plan is acceptable and the widest purchase range here is what you want. Take ibis Paint X if the size of the published sample is what reassures you, and accept the ads label and the declared sharing that come with it. Take Krita or Sketchbook if a Data Safety section that declares no collection matters more to you than the score printed beside it: they are the two that pair that declaration with no ads label. Their two scores are far apart, and only one of them carries a description that calls itself a beta and says the app is not being made available for phones yet, so read both in their own sections before choosing between them. Take Infinite Painter if you want a listing with no ads label and can live with declared sharing. Take MediBang Paletta only with its sample size in front of you.
The ratings on this page are not comparable with one another, and this page does not treat them as if they were. A score built from a few hundred reviews and a score built from millions of them are different kinds of measurement, and the oldest listings here have collected their reviews across many years and many versions of the app. That is why every rating on this page is printed beside the count it rests on, in the fact line and the store line of the app's own section.
One freshness rule applies to all six, stated once: a listing that has not been updated for more than eighteen months is called out as stale on this site, and not one of the six is anywhere near that line. Four were updated within about three weeks of this check, one about two and a half months before it, and one about three months before it.
A store record answers what the store publishes and nothing else. It does not say how an app draws, how it behaves on a mid range phone, or what any single purchase unlocks. For a wider shortlist rather than this year's listings, see our best drawing apps for Android roundup.
Of the six listings on this page, MediBang Paletta shows the highest figure at 4.6, but it rests on 327 reviews, which is far too small a sample to set beside ibis Paint X and Infinite Painter, both at 4.5 on samples of hundreds of thousands or millions of reviews. Krita shows the lowest at 3.3 from 6,082 reviews. Checked 16 August 2026.
Two of the six listings carry the Contains ads label: ibis Paint X and MediBang Paletta. The other four, Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Sketchbook and Infinite Painter, carry no advertising label on their listings. The label is what the store publishes about an app, not a count of how many advertisements a reader would see. Checked 16 August 2026.
All six are free to install, and all six list in-app purchases, so free to install is not the same as free to use everything. The ranges run from a single price on two of the listings to a ladder that reaches into three figures on one of them. The exact range for each app is in the table above and in its own section, each with the date it was read. Checked 16 August 2026.
Nothing on this page rests on running the app, so it cannot answer that. What the listing publishes, read on 16 August 2026, is a developer description calling this a beta release that is not suitable for real work yet and stating that the app is not being made available for phones yet, a rating of 3.3 from 6,082 reviews, an install band of 1,000,000+, in-app purchases from $2.49 to $13.99 per item, no advertising label, and a Data Safety section declaring no data shared with third parties and no data collected. The rating is the lowest of the six here, and this page prints it beside that beta notice rather than explaining it away. Checked 16 August 2026.
No. The listing read for this page is titled MediBang Paletta：Drawing App and its package is com.medibang.android.medibangpro. It was first published on the store on 12 May 2026, the only one of the six listings here that dates from this year. MediBang Paint is a different listing from the same developer, and nothing on this page was read from it. Checked 16 August 2026.
Checked 16 August 2026: Every figure on this page is now read from the app's own Google Play listing on 16 August 2026. The version of the page read today carried no rating, no review count and no install band for any of the six apps it linked, and what it said about price and advertising came from vendor release notes, a corporate announcement, a project site, a download mirror and trade coverage rather than from the listings themselves. Added: one decision table, which the page did not have at all, a dated How we verify box, a dated fact line with the whole Data Safety section for each app, three points for and three against each app drawn from its listing, and this changelog. The verdict capsule was rewritten rather than added, because the page already carried one. MediBang Paletta: the page stated that the Play rating and the install count could not be read because that listing renders in JavaScript. Both were read today, and the listing gives 4.6 from 327 reviews on an install band of 10,000+, a Contains ads label, and a Data Safety section declaring no data collected. Its store title today is MediBang Paletta：Drawing App, with a full width colon, and the page now names it the way the store does. The first publication date the page gave, 14 May 2026, is corrected to 12 May 2026, which is what the listing itself gives. The heading claim that it was the only new arrival on Android is withdrawn, because no listing supports a claim about everything that arrived on Android; what can be checked is that it is the only one of the six listings here first published in 2026. Clip Studio Paint: the monthly and yearly subscription prices quoted from a vendor announcement are gone, replaced by the in-app purchase range the listing itself publishes, and the claim that it made the largest version jump in this category is withdrawn as a comparison no listing supports. Krita: the page used to attribute to the project's own site the view that its Android build is not suitable for real work yet. That sentence is not withdrawn but re-sourced: the developer's own description on the Play listing, read on 16 August 2026, carries it word for word, so the page now quotes it from the listing with the store link in the same sentence and makes the self declared beta status, and the statement that the app is not being made available for phones yet, the blunt point against this entry. What the same listing publishes is 3.3 from 6,082 reviews, the lowest of the six ratings here, and the page states that plainly, with no explanation offered beyond what the description itself says. Infinite Painter: version 7.2.9 and the date the page attributed to a download mirror are now read from the listing itself, which agrees with both. Sketchbook: the two version numbers the page printed from release notes are gone, because the record read today publishes no version at all. Withdrawn from this page because no first party listing was read for any of them in this pass, which is a statement about this pass and not about whether they exist: Drawpile, which had no Play link on this page and rested on a project news page and a repository entry, and the closing survey of what was checked and found quiet, which named Concepts, HiPaint, Fossify Paint, Adobe Fresco, Procreate and Adobe Photoshop and rested on roadmaps and news coverage rather than on any listing read on the day. Drawpile in particular was not cut for being dead: it is named here so the decision is on the record and can be revisited. The FAQ was rewritten in full, five questions for five: one of the old five was entirely about an app withdrawn here, and a second named it. No testing claim was removed, because there was none to remove: the page already said in its own words that the apps had not been installed, and that sentence is replaced by the dated How we verify box rather than simply deleted. The Did you know box that sat in the MediBang block is folded into that section's prose, where the same MediBang Paletta and MediBang Paint distinction is now stated with the package name and the store title beside it. Added from the listings' own descriptions, which the earlier version of this page cited nowhere: the plan wording on Clip Studio Paint, the purchase plans on ibis Paint X, and the advertising and one time licence model on MediBang Paletta. The six screenshot strips are kept unchanged, each now inside the section of the app it shows, with its caption still naming who published the images.