# Sprite Pencil — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of Sprite Pencil by 256 Arts, rated 4.60/5 from 59 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sprite-pencil/id1437835952/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sprite-pencil/id1437835952.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 45 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (8 of 28) ### 4/5 — good but there are some small issues *2021-01-13, version 3.1.2* It works well but there is no undo button, zooming in/out is weird and doesn't work with a mouse. ### 4/5 — Almost the Best *2020-09-26, version 4.1* This sprite editor is phenomenal, but is missing some features that even free pixel art apps have. Here are some suggestions that I have. 1. Resize canvas / art This is probably the most basic one. Just being able to resize the canvas would be great. 2. Import photo Maybe be able to import a picture from inside the editor or something? 3. Animation? I’ve seen two apps so far that support animation within the app. That is all. 4. issue sprites won’t export as transparent That’s all I have. Other than these (especially number 1), this is a great app! ### 4/5 — Great *2020-08-29, version 3.1.3* I like the pixels in and it helps me draw, but the only thing I wish it had was where you can make an animation with the pixels, like an old video game. But it overall a great drawing app. Thank you for making this. ### 4/5 — Almost There ! *2020-07-27, version 3.1.3* I wish there is an animation tool .. and more updates .. Keep going ### 4/5 — Really good app! *2020-06-15, version 3.1* This is a really good pixel art app! It is perfect for beginners, and pros alike! I didn’t get the app for what I am about to report, but I wanna say this anyway so maybe you can fix it. Whenever I search for something, using search, it crashes. This is the same case for my brother too, so maybe you can fix it in the future! But overall, 5 star app except the crashing. ### 4/5 — Not bad *2020-01-10, version 2.3.1* Would be perfect if you could make custom palettes rather than having to use one of the three defaults, apart from that quite nice to use! ### 5/5 — Great! *2019-10-07, version 2.3* Please add animation and saving animation! ### 4/5 — Great, but could improve *2019-03-20, version 2.1* I just got this app and it’s definitely amazing what I can do with it but there’s a few glaring flaws that hold me back with what I make that I’d love to see improved upon. I gave this app 4 stars mostly because it could easily be a 5 star rated app with a few simple improvements. 1. Exporting Sprites: the app crashes for me whenever I try to export a finished sprite. I’m capable or screenshotting and saving it myself or even changing it to a transparent image, but that shouldn’t be on me to change. 2. Scrolling: using the scroll tool to move your sprite around the canvas is nice on paper, but it doesn’t tell you that anything you move off screen is deleted. I unfortunately had to redo a sprite cuz it was mostly cut off due to this. A little border or buffer to stop you from moving it off screen would be nice to avoid this 3. Zoom Tool, or lack thereof: working with extremely small sprites is difficult. I personally feel like I could make MASSIVE improvements in what I make if I had the ability to zoom in and work on smaller details. That would be a MASSIVE quality of life change, to be able to zoom in and work closely on pieces that use large layouts and small pixels that are normally unusable with my finger on an iPhone screen. Most importantly, if you take my advice on implementing this tool, PLEASE make it so zooming in would NOT delete the sprites that move off screen like the movement tool does currently. 4. More colors: after my other suggestions this one may seem small but I think adding a color wheel option would greatly improve how much could be done with this app. I know photo editing apps that offer an entire color wheel of the color spectrum, and that app is free. It would be nice to see that implemented here. If a developer happens to be reading this: thank you for your time and your effort. You’ve done great so far on this app but there is so much potential for improvement. This app has allowed me to make sprite art for original characters who I never before had the ability to represent visually (as someone with very little artistic skill with a pen and paper, using a pixel canvas gives me a lot more room to work.) I would absolutely love to see this app expand so I could put more time into it and just increase the detail and quality of my work and for once be able to make actual art ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No Undo … Not ready for prime time. *2025-10-19, version 4.10* Table stakes for an image editor is undo. Must be able to map it to a keystroke or action. The tool looks interesting otherwise, would love to revise this review if the product meets the minimum bar. ### 1/5 — Poor Quality. Crashes, Transparency Wrong *2024-06-04, version 4.9.1* This is a very poor app. The Transparency leaves colours behinds, so it actually creates a grid, not a tranparency, making it impossible to craft sprites. Further, just creating a new document seems to crash the app. I think this is the first time I will have ever had to ask Apple for a Refund. ### 1/5 — Crashes when creating a new document *2022-11-04, version 4.6.4* Using macOS Ventura the app crashes when creating new documents. ### 1/5 — App crashes upon launch. *2022-03-11, version 4.6.4* When I attempt to launch the app on my Mac (OS is Monterey version 12.2.1) the app crashes less than a second after the sprite editor screen loads. I attempted to reach out to the developer through the email provided on the support page of their website, however the email apparently doesn't exist as my message was bounced back to me. I would really like to use this app as it seems like it could be extremely useful if it were to work, so I will happily change my review if a solution is brought to my attention. Thanks ### 1/5 — Failed to import sprite *2020-08-21, version 3.1.3* Just got this app and it is unusable. When you click the + icon to create a new sprite it says failed to import sprite. ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2019-02-21, version 2.0* Not enough features to be considered anything more than a sprite doodling canvas. Your money would be better invested in a pad of grid paper and some coloured markers, Not worth the price. ### 2/5 — Didn’t save *2025-03-02, version 4.10* It asked to save. Chose save. It didn’t save. ### 3/5 — I CANT ANIMATE *2026-07-22, version 4.11* I can’t animate my phones screen is to small to see the animate stuff can you PLEASE HELP my making it where you can scroll to see the animation stuff ### 3/5 — Where is my colour picker?? *2019-03-12, version 2.1* I have no issues with anything else in the software but where is my colour picker?! Why do I have to use the colours that are preset for me?? Plz add this feature because in my opinion it is integral for this kind of app. ### 4/5 — Animating *2024-12-17, version 4.9* Seems pretty good, but is there a way I could animate with it? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best pixel art app ever *2025-08-03, version 4.10* Wow just wow I used to have the 32 pixel art app when I got this ‘good bye 32 out the window you go’The UI great Tools great app in general great I think you’d should also make a pixel animation software as well I hope you see this and like this review.👾👾👾👾 ### 5/5 — I love *2025-04-26, version 4.10* 10 out of 10 except for one thing. I’m trying to upload one of my sprites in the import tab but when I click the button it doesn’t do anything. I still love this app and it’s great for making simple sprites for coding games or animations ### 5/5 — Reported a bug and got it fixed within a week *2021-05-23, version 4.6.2* Read title. The guy who makes this is fairly responsive. ### 5/5 — Straight Forward, intuitive, and simple *2020-06-20, version 3.1.1* Does exactly what you want it to do and it does it well. ### 5/5 — Simple but completely functional *2020-06-05, version 3.0.1* This app is very simple to use, but it does everything that I was hoping it could and more! It is well worth the money. ### 5/5 — wow *2020-05-14, version 2.11* Wow ### 5/5 — Amazing app. *2020-04-27, version 2.7* Not sure how this became free, I’ve been meaning too buy it for a month however, I checked today however and it became free. Have been working on textures all day and I love using this app, it would have been well worth the purchase if I had, it’s a breeze and very easy too use. Some of the icons overlap on iPhone SE, not important but worth a note. ### 5/5 — Great app overall *2020-04-27, version 2.7* I like how this app allows someone Iike me who cannot draw at all to create little creations that I can be proud of. Easy and fun to use, this is an amazing app overall. **Developer response:** I’m happy you found the app easy and fun. This was the main goal of the Sprite Pencil! ### 5/5 — The best spire app on the App Store *2020-04-27, version 2.7* Dev, you have done a remarkable job. This app has a gorgeous UI and runs like butter. Thanks so much for blessing us with this great app! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2020-04-02, version 2.7* I highly recommend this app if you want to practice pixel art, or do some easy game design ideas. Very easy to use. --- *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.*