# Pixaki 4 Pro — user reviews > 164 indexed App Store user reviews of Pixaki 4 Pro by Rizer Creative Ltd, rated 4.00/5 from 123 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixaki-4-pro/id1447665380/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixaki-4-pro/id1447665380.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 69 · 4★ 16 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Pixaki 4 Pro? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Efficient workflow - 👍 Intuitive user interface - 💡 Powerful animation tools - 🚀 Seamless Apple Pencil integration - 👍 Great for pixel art on iPad - 💡 Dithering brushes - 👍 Pixel perfect drawing **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently - 🐛 Glitches causing loss of work - 🐛 Unintuitive color picker and palette management - 🐛 Unreliable file management and saving - 🐛 Lack of layer management features - 🐛 Animation tools are lacking **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when exporting animated images - Layers disappearing or getting corrupted - Selection tool issues causing unintended changes - Unreliable cloud/file sync - Zooming and panning glitches **Most requested features** - Layer groups/folders - Clipping masks - Layer blend modes - Gradient tools - Symmetry/mirroring tools - Keyboard shortcuts - Spritesheet import/export - Onion skinning improvements - Multiple animation sequences per file ## Newest reviews (11 of 164) ### 2/5 — I want to like this app… *2025-09-11, version 4.6* This app has a lot of great features, and i’ve been using it for years, but there are so many breaking bugs that at some points it’s just completely unusable. The animation feature often results in discrepancies in the artwork, where the animation that’s playing shows one thing, but the layer editor shows another. The select tool is also unintuitive, because you have to “confirm” a selection by switching to another tool before it will actually be pasted where you want it. Besides that, copy/pasting stuff between files and working on multiple files is such a slog that it’s almost unbearable, though that is partly an iOS problem so I can’t be too hard on them for that. Another breaking bug is that new files just won’t show up properly, so i have to close and reopen the app any time i want to work on a new file. For a paid app, that is just totally unacceptable. If the devs ever fixed these bugs, this would be a 4 or 5 star review, because other than that the app is great. But as-is it is barely functional. ### 3/5 — Useful, but buggy *2025-07-28, version 4.6* Pixaki 4 has nice, easy to use features. The UX is a lot like Procreate, which is a plus. However, right now, after spending $20 on it, I can give it no more than 3 stars due to the bugs I’m experiencing. If these get fixed it will be 5 stars. Occasionally after drawing a line, or even a single pixel, the app appears to immediately undo it. It “won’t” create layers during this time either. I have to either exit the app or go back to gallery and tap my project again. After reopening the project, the last line I attempted to draw will appear and any layers I attempted to create will appear. ### 4/5 — First Time, it’s Decent *2025-05-31, version 4.6* One of the primary reasons I’m only giving it 4 stars is because upon trying to use the color picker on a reference image it couldn’t detect a bright red, but browns and other colors were working fine. I recognize this app is made by a solo dev so you have to give them some slack, and other than this issue the app is great so far. ### 4/5 — Pate keyframes *2025-05-27, version 4.6* Absolutely love his app! Just wish there was a paste and copy keyframe option. It’s very tedious to copy and paste each keyframe individually. This is the perfect ON-THE-GO pixel app. I wonder if there is a way to incorporate sound into this app, that would really add to the animation. ### 4/5 — It’s still ok *2025-02-26, version 4.6* It still works, but it has a little problems. Also, when you change into layers one part of it I couldn’t write on it. It still has a little mess up works. I still draw fine I have a problem grouping them together that might be a little problem in it. But I’m still using it. It’s great. ### 3/5 — Buggy *2025-02-14, version 4.5.9* Buggy but nice when it actually works. ### 4/5 — Good app but need update *2025-01-09, version 4.5.9* A lot of tools envy. Need a huge update. Best thing it is supporting asperity ### 3/5 — Apple Pencil Pro *2024-12-25, version 4.5.9* Please support the Apple Pencil Pro's capabilities fully. ### 4/5 — Pretty solid pixel art tool *2024-09-22, version 4.5.9* Isn’t super feature rich but does the essentials well. Animations and single sprites can exported to more powerful tools like aseprite if need be. Personally I get more done in Pixaki because I can work on the sofa or on the move. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-09-13, version 4.5.9* Really nice piece of software that’s become my main pixel art app/program. Are there any plans to add Pencil Pro support😭? ### 3/5 — Fun for learning *2024-09-09, version 4.5.9* I’ve found my time with Pixaki quite fun to learn the basics of pixel art. It has plenty of options both of features and exporting. It does take a little while to get used to but seamless using the Apple Pencil pro. It is missing a few quality of life features that you see in some desktop apps and it’s quite expensive (I paid half of this price for my alternative desktop app which is much better in my opinion.) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Broken file management *2025-08-07, version 4.6* The app doesn’t save files correctly, shows random files…. Fix asap! ### 1/5 — Poubelle *2025-07-12, version 4.6* Scandale ! Votre application bug ! Lors de l’enregistrement mon travail se dédouble ou s’efface. Résultat 4h de travail dans le vent. Franchement dégoûté c’est du foutage de g***** de payer ce prix pour avoir cette qualité d’application. ### 1/5 — Corrupted all saves when I upgraded *2025-06-28, version 4.6* Apps fine but that really upset me ### 1/5 — buggy *2025-04-11, version 4.6* If you switch to another app for more than a second then switch back, your strokes will disappear as soon as you lift your pen and you have to reload the canvas to get it to work again. ### 1/5 — Lacks features, no updates in years *2025-02-02, version 4.5.9* Updating my review to reflect the state the is in now. Would've been nice app for $5 but for $27 it lacks features: - no shade tool (like in Aseprite) - no magic wand selection - importing new palettes is unnecessarily cumbersome (can't import from photos, have to use some special format and import from files) - changing the size of created sprite is a pain: you have to drag the borders instead of simply entering the size you need to resize the image - no updates in years. There are far better alternatives on the store right now. I know it is developed by a single dev but it doesn't justify the greediness and laziness. ### 1/5 — Lost work a few times already *2025-01-23, version 4.5.9* I lost 5 hours of work be cause I had to close the app and open it again to see changes, thing that I’m not the only one having problems with, and now my work outside the layer I was working on is gone. All my lineart layers were gone and references and all. I bought this app and I can’t even finish an illustration properly. ### 1/5 — Glitchy *2025-01-01, version 4.5.9* I should have listened to the negative reviews. It has good features but I just lost hours of work. The pencil tool freezes on my iPad and even layer editing freezes. ### 1/5 — Not good *2024-12-30, version 4.5.9* Everytime i draw something the files are corrupted afterwards. I have to restart the App otherwise it shows the wrong names of the files and saves them completely random… It happened so many times that I drew something and when I closed the app- boom- file was gone or ive been drawing on an already existing picture. I do not recommend. ### 1/5 — Crashing *2024-09-02, version 4.5.9* Constantly crashing, unable to work with this app. :( ### 1/5 — Fill broken *2024-07-15, version 4.5.9* Latest update broke the fill button. Now it just fills the entire canvas, every time. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great tool for Pixel Art *2026-04-17, version 4.6* The tool is nice! ### 5/5 — My Favorite Pixel App So Far *2026-04-04, version 4.6* I tried the demo version and had a multi layered animation by the end of my lunch break. I bought the full version right there. By the end of the day I updated the animation to 6 layers and 80+ frames. Never once did I have to look up how to do anything. This is the most intuitive pixel app I have ever used. I love the minimal interface, with no functional sacrifice. Most other pixel apps I used have functionality but are nowhere as easy to pick up. On top of this, the fact that it exports to and opens Aseprite files is amazing. For some things that are easier to do with a keyboard an mouse, I can easily bounce between my tablet and my computer thanks to iCloud saves. Top marks on this one! ### 5/5 — Overlooked *2025-11-20, version 4.6* Game development is (obviously) a ton of asset generation. After trying everything under the sun it's a simple fact that a refined platform with all of the nuance needed and none that isn't provides clarity in vision and efficiency in production. Pixaki is perfect for development it just gets spoken about less because most people aren't using the software any more than the treadmill they bought so they parrot opinions from echo chambers. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-11-02, version 4.6* Used for a couple years now, the best one. ### 5/5 — 使いやすい *2025-10-18, version 4.6* 3を使っていたのですが4に切り替えた時に簡単に3のデータも読み込んでくれてよかった。使い始めたばかりだけど期待してます。ソフトがなくなると困るので星5で！ 日本語対応してくれたらうれしいな。 ### 5/5 — Best pixel art app *2025-10-03, version 4.6* Simply the best. After years i’m using it every day. Would be very cool to have an option to save layers to files - that’s for cases when i make hundreds of sprites in one file. Thx bruh :D ### 5/5 — I need a brush for tiles to draw levels *2025-05-03, version 4.6* Hi,I need a brush for tiles to draw Game levels conveniently,Thanks! ### 5/5 — Very solid pixel art app *2025-03-03, version 4.6* Some additional features could make it even more complete but this is a well-polished, easy to use pixel art app for all your static artwork and animations needs. Currently used for gamedev and artwork, very stable and reliable. ### 5/5 — Toujours un plaisir *2025-02-26, version 4.6* J’utilise cette application depuis sa sortie. Suivie et mise à jour, elle permet d’avoir un accès pratique avec de nombreuses options au dessin pixel. Peut-être certains ajouts serait agréable comme pouvoir changer la densité de son crayon plutôt que des calques, ou encore une brosse avec une texture graphique légèrement randomisée ( type bombe de peinture). En tout cas, 5 étoiles pour cette application indispensable aux dessinateurs pixel. ### 5/5 — Best App <3 *2024-11-11, version 4.5.9* I’ve been using this app from the last year and so and I honestly love it! The dev is always there whenever you need and the discord community is just down right awesome! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*