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Head-to-head

Sketch a Day vs Whiteboard

Sketch a Day 4.8★ · Free + IAP 85
Winner Sketch a Day
Whiteboard 4.5★ · Free + IAP 50

Sketch a Day is the better choice for artists seeking daily inspiration and a supportive community, while Whiteboard is a simpler, more basic drawing tool, but suffers from significant reliability issues.

Full reviews: Sketch a Day · Whiteboard

Sketch a Day excels with its daily prompts and positive community, fostering creativity and skill development. Whiteboard, while simple and easy to use, is plagued by critical bugs like drawings disappearing and limited color options, making it unreliable for serious use.

Head to head

Features edge: Sketch a DayR2R5R9R11
Sketch a Day Sketch a Day offers daily prompts that challenge users to draw new subjects, helpful lessons and tutorials, and a gallery to share and view art R2R11. Users appreciate the ability to link their Instagram and filter by medium . However, some users experience glitches with the reward gallery, inability to see prompts, or issues uploading from their photo library R5R9.
Whiteboard Whiteboard provides basic drawing tools, including various colors and a rainbow brush . Users enjoy the simplicity and ability to draw freely . However, a major recurring complaint is the limited color palette, lack of a color wheel, and inability to blend colors or add shading R61R63R67. Users also desire features like textboxes and animation .
Ease of Use edge: Sketch a DayR3R9R22R24
Sketch a Day Sketch a Day is generally considered easy to use for sharing art and navigating . The daily prompts are straightforward, and uploading from the photo library is usually simple . However, some users report being logged out, difficulty seeing prompts, or the app freezing and crashing R3R9R22R24.
Whiteboard Whiteboard is praised for its simplicity and ease of drawing . However, users frequently report issues with controls, such as the delete button being too easy to press without confirmation, and difficulty with the fill background function . The UI can also stutter .
Reliability edge: Sketch a DayR5R6R9R15
Sketch a Day Sketch a Day users report various glitches, including the reward gallery not showing art, incorrect like and sketch counts, and posts appearing deleted but still showing on profiles R5R6. Some users experience the app freezing, crashing, or failing to load prompts R9R22R24. There are also issues with streaks resetting R15.
Whiteboard Whiteboard has severe reliability issues, with numerous reports of drawings disappearing or being deleted without user input, even after hours of work R64. Users also experience glitches like dots appearing that cannot be undone, the screen turning black, or flickering that messes up drawings . The delete recent drawings function is also buggy and deletes the wrong drawing .
Price/Value tieR1R2R7R13
Sketch a Day Sketch a Day is a free app with in-app purchases, and some users praise it for not being pushy about upgrades and being enjoyable even without paying R2. However, recent updates have introduced an 'absurd' amount of long, unavoidable ads, making the app nearly unusable for free users R7R13R19. There are also complaints about 'dark patterns' for subscriptions and one-time payments that don't unlock expected features R1.
Whiteboard Whiteboard is also a free app with in-app purchases, but some users report it as a 'bait and switch' that signs them up for monthly subscriptions immediately . There are complaints that the 'Creator Kit' offers too many advantages, making it unfair for kids without money . The app also shows pop-up ads for purchases .
Support tieR6R16R17R19
Sketch a Day Sketch a Day's customer service is described as non-existent, with users reporting no responses to messages about upgrade issues or problems with other members R17. Moderators are criticized for deleting posts without explanation, accusing users of plagiarism (even of their own work), and being unhelpful or even mean R6R16. One developer response was reportedly dismissive R19.
Whiteboard Whiteboard reviews do not provide specific feedback on customer support interactions, but the widespread and critical bugs suggest a lack of responsive development or support to address user issues R64.
Pick Sketch a Day if

You are an artist looking for daily inspiration and a supportive community to share your work and receive feedback R2R8. You want to challenge yourself with new drawing topics and improve your skills R11R23.

Pick Whiteboard if

You need a very simple, basic drawing app for casual use or for children, and are not concerned about advanced features, a wide color palette, or the risk of losing your work .

Evidence note: Whiteboard's reviews are overwhelmingly short and often express frustration, making it challenging to extract detailed insights beyond its core functionality and critical bugs. Sketch a Day has a smaller number of reviews, but they are generally more descriptive.

Frequently asked

Does Sketch a Day have a good community?
Yes, Sketch a Day is widely praised for its positive, nice, and supportive community, which many users find inspiring and motivating R2R8R20R23.
Can I use Whiteboard for detailed drawings?
No, Whiteboard is not recommended for detailed drawings because it frequently deletes users' work without warning, lacks advanced features like a color wheel or shading, and has a limited color palette R61R63R64R67.
Are there many ads in Sketch a Day?
Recent updates to Sketch a Day have introduced a significant number of 'absurd' and 'extremely long' ads that make the app nearly unusable for free users, despite some older reviews stating it had no ads or didn't push upgrades R2R7R13R19.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R2] Sketch a Day 5/5 · US I recommend this app!: This app is pretty good. It actually has NO ads, I’d say it doesn’t push on you to upgrade. There is a lot of positivity in the comments and it feels great! The lessons are helpful. Like learning how to properly draw hands and the way of clothing. And the daily prompts are simple, yet so big! Like we had ‘echo’ once, everyone thought many things. It’s nice to see multiple pe
  2. [R5] Sketch a Day 4/5 · US love this app but one small thing..: I love the idea of a different prompt everyday. It really helps you branch out and draw things you normally wouldn’t. The only thing I dislike is the glitch i’m having with the “reward gallery”. I cant see any of the art and it’s disappointing because I have 4 unclaimed rewards at the moment. Other than that I love this app.
  3. [R9] Sketch a Day 3/5 · US Good but could improve: Hey so sketch a day is great I can share my art work and I love that and I love discovering amazing artists but it will glitch we’re it will not let me see today’s prompt and I have great Internet connection but sometimes it will never load also sometimes the prompts are weird and just not fun to draw I think they should make multiple prompts for the day but overall it is p
  4. [R11] Sketch a Day 5/5 · US Beneficial: Having a daily prompt is brilliant. Challenges you to attempt topics you might not ever think about
  5. [R3] Sketch a Day 3/5 · US Annoyed: It logged me out and still kept my old account and now I don’t even no where to start but friendly community for me.
  6. [R22] Sketch a Day 1/5 · US Don’t know what to think: I was really excited for this app but whenever I click on it the app loads and then kicks me out
  7. [R24] Sketch a Day 3/5 · US Hmm: It worked for the first day but when I came back the second day which is today all it said was claim reward for maybe 15 minutes. After opening multiple I tried deleting and downloading the app again however the problem continued
  8. [R6] Sketch a Day 3/5 · US Good community: The only reason I’m giving a three star is because they deleted one of my posts and when I delete a post it still says it’s there. I have 25 sketches but it says I have 29. And it says I have 646 likes but I really only have 616. So the one they deleted had 30 likes. But it still shows on profile that it’s there (doesn’t even show the drawing). I like it when they can tell us why t
  9. [R15] Sketch a Day 3/5 · US Streaks??: Do you lose your streaks by deleting a picture because I have kept up everyday thus far and I’m back at 0 because I deleted on of my pieces or did I actually miss a day. Also is there a consistent time when these prompts come out because I feel like there isn’t
  10. [R1] Sketch a Day 1/5 · US Dark pattern: They changed the way you can see upcoming prompts (used to be ad supported). It says to unlock and gives the option for the monthly subscription and if you click “more” lets you do a 1 time payment as a supporter. Since I clicked “unlock” and then “more” I assumed the one time payment would unlock the thing I clicked unlock on. It did not. This is a dark pattern designed to steal yo
  11. [R7] Sketch a Day 1/5 · US Ads are absurd: There are so many ads the app is nearly unusable
  12. [R13] Sketch a Day 1/5 · US Don’t update if you have an older version - unbearable ads: The newer version of this app forces you to watch extremely long ads over and over, even to browse the app. This app is not usable anymore. Depressing. Give us a reasonable one time fee to have it free forever.
  13. [R16] Sketch a Day 1/5 · US Plagiarism: Was erased for paganism on my own work. Said they found out on Pinterest. Of course they did cause it was my Pinterest. 😂 jealous moderators I reckon!
  14. [R17] Sketch a Day 5/5 · US No customer service: The app is great for my purpose, which was getting every day prompts to get me drawing. I can’t complaint in that regard. However, customer service is non-existent. I sent a couple of messages through the app regarding an issue I’m having trying to upgrade, and I never received a response. It’s disappointing
  15. [R19] Sketch a Day 1/5 · US Development issues: The new update was very lack luster and you are not able to upload the daily prompts without ads taking over and see can no longer see the recent art from others as you were previously. I sent a message to the customer support just to get an message back from Tom telling me to delete the free app if I was so unhappy. Talk about a letdown I’ve been on the app for a couple years
  16. [R8] Sketch a Day 5/5 · US Love the community ❤️: I live sketch a day so much the community is so nice and supportive! I love the suggestions each day for the prompt to give you ideas! I wish that you could see who follows you though. But that’s ok because I really just do it for the streak not the likes 🙂
  17. [R20] Sketch a Day 5/5 · US Love this app: Bad thing first..it is glitchy when you try to write a comment. That’s why I gave 4 instead of 5 stars The good. I love this app. I love the positivity and this art community. It definitely sparks inspiration. I kept this review short sweet and to the point
  18. [R23] Sketch a Day 5/5 · US Inspiring & Helpful: Joined to improve/sharpen my illustration hand skills. Getting a daily random subject to illustrate is a great way for me to unlock my creativity. Drawing every day is helping me to hone my skills and style. Additionally I set a 30 minute time limit for myself to push myself to work rapidly. Love seeing the creativity ways others around the world interpret the same subject ma
  19. [R61] Whiteboard 2/5 · US No color wheel: Great drawing but stuck with 9 colors and just a rainbow brush for some reason with no color wheel despite how easy thatll be
  20. [R63] Whiteboard 3/5 · US ADD MORE COLORS OR ONE STAR: absolute cinema BUT PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ ADD MORE FREAKING COLORS
  21. [R64] Whiteboard 1/5 · US Stupid app🤬: This app makes me feel like 🤬 I’m 8 years old and I HATE it when it decides to delete my drawings it’s July 4th off to a bad start and it makes me feel so 😡 “best” app ever made FIX IT NOW!!!!
  22. [R67] Whiteboard 2/5 · US Whiteboard: Good but no shading 🫪

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store