[ Comparison ]
How DoodleSync compares
There are some lovely apps that put a friend's doodle or photo on your home screen. Here's an honest look at how DoodleSync stacks up against the popular ones — where it shines, and where the others do.
DoodleSync
- Real-time shared canvas (both draw at once)
- ✓
- Freehand drawing
- ✓
- Photo + scribble on top
- ✓
- Lands on home-screen widget
- ✓
- Emoji reactions
- ✓
- Private, just the two of you
- ✓
- No feed, no likes, no followers
- ✓
- Platforms
- iOS (Android soon)
- Price
- Free
noteit
- Real-time shared canvas (both draw at once)
- —
- Freehand drawing
- ✓
- Photo + scribble on top
- ✓
- Lands on home-screen widget
- ✓
- Emoji reactions
- ✓
- Private, just the two of you
- Up to friends
- No feed, no likes, no followers
- ✓
- Platforms
- iOS + Android
- Price
- Free + sub
Locket
- Real-time shared canvas (both draw at once)
- —
- Freehand drawing
- —
- Photo + scribble on top
- Photo only
- Lands on home-screen widget
- ✓
- Emoji reactions
- ✓
- Private, just the two of you
- Up to 20 friends
- No feed, no likes, no followers
- ✓
- Platforms
- iOS + Android
- Price
- Free + Gold
Doodles
- Real-time shared canvas (both draw at once)
- —
- Freehand drawing
- ✓
- Photo + scribble on top
- —
- Lands on home-screen widget
- ✓
- Emoji reactions
- ✓
- Private, just the two of you
- ✓
- No feed, no likes, no followers
- ✓
- Platforms
- iOS + Android
- Price
- $1–25 / sub
Widgetable
- Real-time shared canvas (both draw at once)
- —
- Freehand drawing
- Basic
- Photo + scribble on top
- Pin only
- Lands on home-screen widget
- ✓
- Emoji reactions
- ✓
- Private, just the two of you
- Friends & partner
- No feed, no likes, no followers
- ✓
- Platforms
- iOS + Android
- Price
- Freemium
Details on other apps are based on their public listings and can change. DoodleSync is live on iOS; Android is in closed testing.
The apps, honestly
- noteit
- The closest rival and the giant of the category, with 19M+ users and a mature app on both platforms. You draw or snap a photo and send it to a friend's widget. DoodleSync's difference is the live shared canvas — you both draw on the same surface at the same time, not just send a finished note.
- Locket
- The viral one — dead-simple photo sharing straight to your friends' home screens, and it's great at exactly that. But it's photos only — no drawing. DoodleSync adds a real canvas and lets you scribble on your photos before they land.
- Doodles
- A polished, cross-platform couples app that bundles doodles with games, streaks, and mood widgets. If you want a bag of relationship extras, it's a strong pick. DoodleSync is deliberately focused: one shared canvas for two people, drawn together in real time, with nothing else to distract.
- Widgetable
- The broadest of the bunch — virtual pets, mood bubbles, distance widgets, and dozens of pin types for besties and couples. Doodling is one small feature among many. DoodleSync trades that breadth for a purpose-built drawing experience shared live with one person.
the short version
DoodleSync is the only one where you both draw on the same canvas, live — plus photos you can scribble on, in a private space built for exactly two people. No feed, no likes, no crowd.