“Pretty good app, wish there were less popup ads”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,054 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★3,305,579 ratings
100M+Downloads
4+Age rating
165 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
For everyone around the world who wants to draw and animate, freely and without pressure.
ibisPaint X is a full-featured illustration and animation app for smartphones and tablets, with over 500 million cumulative downloads across the series.
"Drawing looks hard" — this app is made especially for people who think that. A creative experience that doesn't compromise even for free, an interface simple enough to use without hesitation, and a comfortable familiarity that grows the more you use it. ibisPaint X keeps serving as an easy entry point for anyone to start "drawing," while continually expanding what's possible — from a single illustration to frame-by-frame animation, and on to videos with background music and audio.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 14.1.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.1.2, updated 2026-09-29.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 14.1.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 14.1.2, updated 2026-09-25.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 2.99 to USD 79.99 — a 27x spread across 8 items
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 35 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 1904 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 29 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 1904 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many ads!”
“too much ads, hate it.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 14.1.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown8
Lowest$2.99
Highest$79.99
Premium Membership (Monthly plan)$4.49
Premium Membership (Yearly plan)$27.99
Ad Removal Upgrade$15.99
Smart Credit 10,000pt$79.99
Smart Credit 5,000pt$44.99
Show 3 more purchases
Smart Credit 2,500pt$23.99
Smart Credit 300pt$2.99
Smart Credit 900pt$8.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.