“I downloaded an unskippable video, and questions, with a bunch off settings, username, age, and profile pic sellection. I want to open and draw.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,637 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★1,100,958 ratings
10M+Downloads
4+Age rating
113 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Learn and practice drawing beautiful pencil drawings on paper.
Creator Reviews: * “Simply Draw makes creating art a very calming and fun experience! The app inspires you to draw your own way and gives you a personalized path that teaches you exactly what you’re interested in. It’s truly the best way to learn and develop your skills.” * “Simply Draw made me hang my art on the fridge! Never in my life did I ever think I’d be proud enough of my work to do something like that, it’s really amazing”.…
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 1.14.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.14.1, updated 2026-09-28.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 1.14.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.14.0, updated 2026-09-27.
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
80–89% 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.
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 3
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 5 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 1862 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 11 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 775 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Users describe the free version as usable
Reviewers repeatedly say the free version is worth using on its own. Nothing we can measure corroborates that — a free listing with in-app purchases looks identical whether the free tier is generous or a demo — so this is published as what reviewers say, not as a measured credit.
What we saw: Reviewers describe the free version as usable: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.6% of 775 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“so many ads bro”
“Theres too MUCH ads and I keep seeing the Dumbest Ahh girl and I'm turning of my WiFi forever please remove you Ads simply draw”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.14.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown5
Lowest$9.99
Highest$119.99
Simply Draw Premium$14.99
Simply Draw Premium$89.99
Simply Draw Premium$119.99
Simply Draw Premium$9.99
Simply Draw Premium$59.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.