[ 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 offers dead-simple photo sharing straight to your friends' home screens, and it's great at exactly that. But it's photos only, with 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 includes 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.