ibis Paint X vs Pinterest
Choose Pinterest for a more polished user experience despite ad frustrations.
While both apps face criticism for ads, Pinterest offers a broader range of content and a more established platform. Ibis Paint X struggles with recent updates that have frustrated users, particularly around features that were previously accessible.
Head to head
you are primarily interested in drawing and digital art without needing extensive features.
you want a broader range of creative inspiration and don't mind dealing with ads.
Evidence note: Both apps have significant user bases and face criticism for ads, but Pinterest generally has a more stable reputation and broader content offerings.
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R3] ibis Paint X Eh: Good but not good. Too many ads and most good stuff you gotta pay for. Just make it a paid app at this rate.
- [R33] ibis Paint X Everything is literally premium: You literally can’t draw without paying for it
- [R66] Pinterest /: I’ve been using Pinterest for over a decade and the ads have started to out way the number of related pins. It’s very frustrating. This is my favorite app. I would love to see this change
- [R70] Pinterest BEGGING for an AD-Free Option: THERE IS AN AD EVERY TWO PINS NOW. I genuinely hate this app. And maybe people arent leaving reviews but they are talking about it on social media and they’re all in agreement: the ads have gotten INSANELY out of control. The app is almost unusable which is really really sad. This was once such an enjoyable ap and it’s been destroyed by capitalism just as everything
- [R9] ibis Paint X I geniuanlly don’t know: So this app made me crash out a lot of times and it’s so confusing but overall I still like it
- [R12] ibis Paint X stop taking me to the website: The app is good in general but when I updated it to the new version my account (okay@art NOT SELF PROMO) when I go to the online gallery it keeps taking me to the website (If yall don’t fix it im gonna die :P)
- [R62] Pinterest Please Fix Update: My favorite app but I am so sad about the new update. My board sections are so hard to access now, it's not very user friendly! The old format was perfect, please fix.
- [R78] Pinterest widgets??: fix the widget option bc what 💔 the option to pick a board aint even there
- [R36] ibis Paint X I keep having crashes all the time: Please remove the crashes
- [R39] ibis Paint X Ibis paint x: This app is ok but sometimes is really glitchy and laggy and hard to draw with
- [R87] Pinterest Bugs: I love Pinterest, use it everyday, but there’s a particular recurring bug that’s really frustrating. Boards disappear when you’re trying to save pins, and you can’t save anything to half of them. It’s happened many times, and the update usually fixes it, but I’ve been waiting for at least a week and I still can’t save to half my boards. Should be the bare minimum functionality for this app,
- [R91] Pinterest Ads, Ads, and You Guessed It…More Ads: Pinterest has become virtually unusable due to the amount of ads. I see one actual pin for SIX ads. The ads are hypersensitive and open if you get even CLOSE to them. Pinterest is no longer the enjoyable, creative platform it used to be. Now it is largely a platform for ads. It’s easy to tell that Pinterest no longer prioritizes the customer experience, becau
- [R79] Pinterest Too many ads and AI: Used to be one of my favorite apps but it is unusable now because of the amount of ads and AI slop rather than actual creative inspiration and projects
- [R1] ibis Paint X Uhmmmm why??: I would’ve rated this a 5 but ever since ibis paint x took away the google feature I can’t get the fonts I want to. Please bring that back. I also don’t really know why but it won’t let me view the online gallery. Please fix this and thank you. (This update honestly sucks tho plz bring back the google feature and online gallery)
- [R4] ibis Paint X new update: this new update sucks for like half the people that use your app. a lot of us are minors without web browsers and now we can't access our comics. please bring back the in app web browser. idk who told you guys that this was a good idea
- [R64] Pinterest Terrible bugs: I ran into this issue upon logging in on my laptop. After typing in the CORRECT credentials, the site not only logged me out on all devices but also reset my password. I wish I was making this up. Now, not only do I have to log back in on MULTIPLE devices, but I also have to set up an entirely new password. Highly upset.
- [R106] Pinterest Really Gone Downhill: This app really went downhill after they started implementing new “features” and design changes. The flagging and violation notice is completely broken where it can’t distinguish between art references and adult content. The majority of my dashboard for new pins is are ads (some of them being AI generated). I do NOT support the AI generation feature established and have turne
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store