Coloring Book vs DrawAnywhere
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Coloring Book
A coloring book for kids at age two and above. You can choose a color and paint the animals, plants and things with a simple tapping. There is a variety of colors and pictures. You can save the image on your device or share it via email and in social networks. If you send an image to this app, it will be transformed to a coloring book image of black lines around white areas. This way you can add hand-drawn pictures or color pictures of cars, houses, animals, people and more in a comic style. You can add new pictures to the app by placing them in the current saving location. As you can choose from pictures you saved there, your own added pictures will show up when a new picture can be chosen. If the images on the app are not enough, you can choose from the online image gallery. This gallery is also open to you to contribute more images to the app.
DrawAnywhere
DrawAnywhere lets you sketch, annotate, and highlight directly on top of any screen — great for video courses, tutorials, and presentations. Drawing tools Freehand pen, rectangle, ellipse, and laser pointer Pixel eraser; stroke eraser via stylus button 50-step undo/redo HSV color wheel, 18 presets, recent colors, hex input Stroke width and opacity sliders Canvas and gestures Infinite canvas — pan and pinch-to-zoom freely Three-level lock (none, zoom only, all) with HUD indicator Two-finger pinch: zoom | double-tap: reset zoom | triple-tap: reset position Three-finger double-tap: toggle passthrough | triple-tap: hide canvas Toolbar Horizontal and vertical layout, draggable anywhere via long‑press Auto-dims after 3 seconds of inactivity Hide canvas or pass touch events through to the app below Finger-drawing toggle for stylus-only mode Convenience Quick Settings tile to toggle the service Drag the toolbar to the bottom of the screen to close the app Second-launch closes the service Brush hover preview while drawing Tips Turn on Clear canvas on hide to auto-clear when hiding the canvas (passthrough is also disabled). Turn off Open canvas on start to hide the canvas on startup. Source: https://github.com/DrawAnywhere/DrawAnywhere
| Feature | Coloring Book | DrawAnywhere |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | AGPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Photo EditingGallery | ProductivityPhoto EditingGallery |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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