“I've had this app for years, and I use it for my on-and-off drawing phases. It has WAY too many ads since I last used it. You can't save without an ad, you can't leave the app and resume your drawing without an ad, you can't even switch…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 434 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
MediBang Paint：Draw Art, Comic
MediBang Inc.MediBang Paint is an art app for sketching, painting, drawing, and coloring u…
3.7 ★302,595 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
MediBang Paint is an art app for sketching, painting, drawing, and coloring using pencil and pen tools. Designed for artists of all skill levels, it supports creating digital art, sketches, comics, and illustrations with ease. Whether you’re starting your first art book or refining your next dibujo, MediBang Paint offers powerful features for every creator.
With over 180 brushes included, from pencil and pen to airbrush and watercolor, it makes sketching and painting intuitive and smooth. Artists who subscribe can access 700+ additional brushes and create their own custom sets for a fully personalized workflow.
This art app is perfect for creating digital drawings, sketch-based concepts, and detailed illustrations. It supports PSD and CMYK formats for professional publishing, making it ideal for art books and comic production.…
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Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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.
This analysis describes version 28.25 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 28.25, updated 2026-08-04.
What we measured
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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
Under 65% 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
From the package we downloaded and read — version 28.25, scanned 2026-09-13.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
1–2 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
1–2 found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
10 or more found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
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.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Progress is gated behind watching an ad: "Watch Ad to Continue"
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 1
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: 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 18 distinct reviewers (4.1% of 434 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Great for light digital art but the ads are insane. also randomly get the app to crash or go black screen when leaving or taking too long to save. needs a bit of work and for the love of everything holy, save constantly”
“I recently updated this app after desperately holding onto a 2023 version. I wish I hadn't. This app's developers have only become MORE greedy. I didn't know it was even possible to have this level of greed. FREE brushes I have used for…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 28.25.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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