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Best apps for drawing on pictures

Add a dash of your personality in your photos by doodling on them! Make your pictures more artsy with the help of this list compiled by the community. It contains apps that allow you to freely sketch on your photos.

List of the best apps

1.PicsArt

with in-app purchases

PicsArt is an app with tools, effects, collage maker, camera, free clipart library, millions of user-created stickers and drawing tools. You can use your own photos or free-to-edit pictures in the app and turn them into collages and memes.

  • Website:https://picsart.com/

  • Age rating:12+

  • Category:Photo & Video

  • Publisher:PicsArt, Inc.

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  • Sean Liang

    by Sean Liang

    PicsArt is my go-to photo editor and drawing app. Well basically everything is on this app so i do not have to install other apps to do such things pa More

  • by Marie Jordan

    PicsArt Photo Studio was recommended by a friend I know. I didn't take the time to try it out until now and I'm disappointed I didn't listen sooner. I More

  • Judith Mason

    by Judith Mason

    This is a good reputable app for drawing on pictures because it has good reviews.

2.Photofunia

Free download
Photofunia is an online image editor that allows you to add effects on your pictures. It offers a wide variety of filters, frames, effects and templates. If offers a mobile version for Android and iOS devices.
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  • Raymond Mendoza

    by Raymond Mendoza

    I see you are looking for a good app to draw on pictures. I remember a good site in which you can do this. Photofunia is a good site that has a lot of More

  • Judy Holmes

    by Judy Holmes

    This isn't really good for drawing. Just not meant for that. More for editing and adding effects which some people might consider drawing, but I would More

3.Draw On Pictures

Free download
Draw on any of the pictures and share it with your friends, family using any photo sharing application. Add stickers to photos from our collection of stickers and add text to your photos.
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  • Ao Yi

    by Ao Yi

    I love this app to customize my pictures! It's so much fun because I can be as creative as I want and I'm not limited to pre-established stickers and  More

  • Isabel Hernández

    by Isabel Hernández

    Been using Draw on Pictures to doodle and draw on the photos saved on my phone. This app has a small file size of less than 4mb so it won't really aff More

  • Liu Cao

    by Liu Cao

    This was so much fun to use. Great time waster and hilarious sharing with friends.

  • Donald Burke

    by Donald Burke

    This is a perfectly adequate solution to the problem posed. It could only improve by providing multiple app selections or ratings for those apps.

  • Larry Payne

    by Larry Payne

    This is a cute little app that can make your pictures more fun! My kids and I enjoy sitting down together and make silly photos.

4.Scribble Lite

Free download
With Scribble Lite you can draw on photos with various colors and pen sizes. Then, you can shake your device to erase.
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  • Wayne Wallace

    by Wayne Wallace

    This is good since it is an app to draw pictures. Unless the person meant to doodle on top of a real picture?

  • Virginia Butler

    by Virginia Butler

    Great mobile app for when you are out and about and want to draw and doodle

  • Tian Ye

    by Tian Ye

    Its like a new age etch a sketch. It keeps my toddler busy and entertained for hours!

5.Atom Draw

Paid: $1.99
Atom Draw is a minimal, beautifully designed drawing app for quickly drawing on photos, writing on pictures, circling something, visualizing and communicating.
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  • Michael Stephens

    by Michael Stephens

    I like to play with pictures I take and make them look good for me or goofy to get a good laugh from my kids. Atom Draw IOS lets me draw on my picture More

  • Tyler Contreras

    by Tyler Contreras

    I really enjoyed this app, it was awesome. I still use it all the time when I want to play around with my photos.

  • by Eric Jiang

    Making drawing so much easier was a main reason that I bought this App. Its so much easier to try and use my tablet to draw things now.

6.You Doodle

with in-app purchases
You Doodle is a great app for Android to create art and draw on photos and draw on pictures. Doodling on a friend, or marking up a picture or adding text has never been easier. With its useful text tool and simple brush tool, you can draw on photos and add text quickly and easily.
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  • Kenneth Tran

    by Kenneth Tran

    YouDoodle is a great Android app to have if you're looking to creatively edit your pictures, like drawing on them. It also provides a blank canvas opt More

  • by Amanda McDonald

    This is the only app where i can draw on photos that don't suck. It has cool native brushes with different patterns not just that it also supports usi More

  • Ronald Price

    by Ronald Price

    This is a fun little app that I spend way too much time on. Rather than just sending my family the photo, I add a little flair and humor to it. They e More

  • Benjamin Rios

    by Benjamin Rios

    This is such a fun app and so easy to use. I love decorating and customizing my photos. Like other users, I've encountered a bug when cutting. Hopeful More

  • by Phillip Brown

    This app is so cute and has a lot of fun things you can do to alter pictures! Since it is an app, you can use it anywhere and make those crappy cellph More

  • Edward Bates

    by Edward Bates

    Helped make my photos come alive with captions and just a splash of fun.

7.Sketch

with in-app purchases

Sketch brings a fun drawing and photo editing experience to everyone who wants to be creative, regardless of skill level. 

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  • Pablo Mora

    by Pablo Mora

    I love this app Sketch. It's got some basic photo editing features like you'd expect. The real fun part though is drawing on the pictures you've taken More

  • Ethan Owens

    by Ethan Owens

    super fun and easy to use app

  • Willie Turner

    by Willie Turner

    Drawing apps are huge and can be used by adults and children alike. The community being able to provide different sources of photos and ideas is also  More

  • by Joshua Ray

    A premier app for drawing, I've had hours of fun with this. And the best part is, it was free!

8.ArtStudio

Paid: $4.99 with-in app purchases

ArtStudio features a beautiful new user interface and a powerful new graphics engine to make creating works of art faster, easier, and more fun.

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  • Benjamin Walker

    by Benjamin Walker

    I love editing my new and existing photos. I have used many different apps for this. My favorite by far is ArtStudio on IOS. The user interface is eas More

  • Ryan Hamilton

    by Ryan Hamilton

    This is like photoshop, but for your phone! It has way more tools and functionality than any of the other photo editing apps out there. It is also gre More

  • Bob Ma

    by Bob Ma

    Very easy to use and full of features.

  • Phillip Martin

    by Phillip Martin

    So much easier to draw using this, and I don't even need to use alot of space on my HDD. Its easy and more convenient to edit images for my photos.

9.Scribble On It

Free download

Scribble On It is a free app for Android devices which offers you a white board to sketch on it. You can draw and take notes and add speech bubbles. You can also upload your own pictures and add funny items or write on them.

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  • Shirley Douglas

    by Shirley Douglas

    Wonderful app, works great and flawlessly. Its easy to use, smooth n friendly. Good app but make it more clear It allows us to scribble on a white board, or we can upload our own pictures to add a mustache on our loved one , add googly eyes to your b More

10.Scribble It!

Free download

Scribble It! is a free app for Android devices where you can draw, add notes and drawings to photos and write hand-drawing notes. It allows you to create a real-time live canvas using Bluetooth. *NO LONGER AVAILABLE*

Scribble It!

Scribble It!

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  • Jessica Wu

    by Jessica Wu

    This is a great app, my whole family loves to use it. My kids will steal the phone away if they see me using it. I use it to write on my pics before p More

  • Hansika Tata

    by Hansika Tata

    My friend has been using Scribble It! to draw and doodle on her photos but i was unaware that she has been using this until now. I just checked this o More

11.Luminar

Paid: $69

Luminar is an image editing software for Windows and Mac that allows you to edit pictures with an easy-to-use interface. It allows you to apply filters, process raw images, shift hues, and much more. 

  • Website:https://macphun.com/
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    DID YOU KNOW

    According to an Instagram statistics posted on Omnicore Agency website, the photos uploaded daily is 95 million photos in an average, updated on January 23, 2017.

    Since the ownership of a smartphone is becoming normal, the access to a camera is getting more and more convenient. Another factor is the growing number of people who use social media platforms. These factors add to the growing number of photos uploaded each day. For this reason, because photos are a huge part of one's social media account, many applications related to photo editing are becoming more and more popular. Examples are the famous crown filter of Snapchat up to the famous GIFs and stickers on Instagram stories. Meanwhile, there are also apps for smartphones that offer users to draw on their pictures. One of these pic drawing apps is Draw On Pictures. This application not only allows users to draw on a photo, but it also allows them to add stickers and texts on photos. Another tool that can be used to draw on pictures is the Scribble Lite application. This features pens in different sizes and colors to allow users to draw on photos without much effort. Drawing on pictures make photos more catchy and creative. Some people use this method for fun.

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