drawsta vs Infinite Painter
drawsta is for people who want to trace and do not want to go hunting for something to trace first. That is what makes this the closest comparison on the list: Infinite Painter has an actual Trace mode, and it is the only app here that does.
| Feature | drawsta | Infinite Painter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. | Free to download, with a Pro unlock. The listing sets out what is free and what is Pro but does not publish a price, and we could not verify one, so there is none here. |
| Subscription | None. | None found on the listing. |
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad. iOS 17 or later. | iPhone and iPad, iOS 16 or later. Also on Android. |
| Tracing | A feed of pictures, and one tap puts the one you like on your canvas as a ghosted trace layer you draw straight over. Turn the ghost off and your line is what is left. | A genuine Trace mode — its listing lists “Solo & Trace modes” and “Add multiple reference images”. On the mechanics this matches or beats drawsta: more than one reference at a time is something drawsta cannot do. The difference is where the picture comes from. You bring yours. |
| Who it is for | People who want to draw more and keep not drawing, usually because they cannot think of what to draw. | Painters who want desktop-class tooling on a tablet, and anyone preparing work for print — it does CMYK and print presets. |
Where Infinite Painter wins
- A real Trace mode, and multiple reference images at once. On the feature this site is named for, it does more than drawsta does.
- Print-ready output: CMYK colour modes, print presets and layered PSD export.
- Smart layers for repeated transforms without quality loss, and a project history you can step back through.
- An image search built in, over a million images cleared for commercial use.
The honest version
Take the free tier seriously before you choose: everything is open for 7 days, after which the free app is 5 layers at device resolution, with adjustments, layer groups, masks and HD canvases behind Pro. That is a normal way to sell an app and it is not a criticism — it is just the thing to know, because the free version you try is not the free version you keep. drawsta has no second tier; what you install is what you get.
Where these claims come from
Every statement about Infinite Painter on this page is from one of these, checked 29 September 2026. Prices move and differ by region — go and look rather than taking our word for it. If something could not be verified from a listing or an official site, it is not here.