# Pixel You: Pixel Art Maker — Turn photos into pixel art

> Turn photos into pixel art (iPhone/iPad app by 铫 刘.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixel-you-pixel-art-maker/id6823249651 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [铫 刘](https://appshunter.io/developer/1807203451)
- Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 28 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-23
- Data updated: 2026-10-27

## What is Pixel You?

Pixel You turns a photo into a real low-resolution sprite. Not a blurry filter on top of the picture — an actual pixel grid, locked to a retro palette.

Take a picture, pick a palette, and every pixel becomes a deliberate choice: NES, Game Boy, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, PICO-8, CGA, Virtual Boy, DawnBringer 16, Sweetie 16, 1-bit black and white, and more.

WHAT IT DOES

• AUTO palette — pulls the 16 colours that fit your photo best with median-cut, so the result still reads like the picture you took.
• 13 built-in palettes — hardware palettes when you want the authentic look, modern pixel-art palettes when you want a clean portrait.
• Real dithering — Floyd–Steinberg, Atkinson and Bayer 4×4, with adjustable strength. Not a texture on top: the quantisation error is genuinely diffused across neighbouring pixels.
• Fine control — contrast, saturation and dither strength sliders, plus output widths from 32 to 512 pixels.
• Screen filters — CRT scanlines and vignette, VHS chroma shift and tape noise.
• Compare with the original — press and hold the preview to see the photo underneath, release to go back.
• Save and share — exports a clean 1024-pixel PNG to your gallery or the share sheet.
• History — everything you save or share is kept, ready to send again.

WHY IT LOOKS RIGHT

Most pixel-art filters blur the image and posterise it. Pixel You downsamples with proper averaging, maps every pixel to the closest palette colour using a perceptually weighted distance, and then dithers — which is exactly how a four-colour Game Boy screen manages to show a sky.

YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE

No account, no uploads, no ads. Your photos never leave the phone.

## Is Pixel You safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Pixel You.

## Is Pixel You legit?

Pixel You: Pixel Art Maker has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pixel You is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-24

Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-23

No release notes.

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All apps by 铫 刘: https://appshunter.io/developer/1807203451

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