# Thirty-Two: Drawing — Pixel art made fun > Simple 32x32 pixel art drawing app with grayscale and sharing features. (iPhone/iPad app by Chad Sager.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/thirty-two-drawing/id918994570 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Chad Sager](https://appshunter.io/developer/441875701) - Category: Entertainment, Utilities - Price: Free - Rating: 3.44/5 from 9 App Store ratings · 11 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.6 · 17 MB - Released: 2014-10-05 - Data updated: 2026-08-08 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/thirty-two-drawing/id918994570/reviews.md ## What is Thirty? Thirty-Two: Black and white and square all over. Thirty-Two is a simple way to create and share drawings. Other than food and shelter there is no other need more powerful than the need to make small grayscale drawings. Old age is a myth, billions of people throughout history have simply died from lack of drawing in grids.* Thirty-Two is the solution!§ Features • Draw anything, as long as it fits in a thirty-two by thirty-two square! • Kick it 1-bit old school and draw with only black and white, or get ultra modern and use a plethora of grays!‡. • Duplicate a drawing, now duplicate a drawing! • Pinch to zoom while drawing, we know your chubby little fingers can't hit the squares you want, we're taking of that. See a little preview of the whole drawing while zoomed in, how cute. • Toolbar for the undo/redo to make them easier to get to. Didn't want to take three taps to undo something, we're considered two taps, but we decided one tap is best! • Super symmetrical mode, tap on the dotted line and pick vertical or horizontal so you can start drawing your favorite psychological inkblot tests. • Select and move pixels, tap and hold the pixels you want to move, tap other pixels to add to the selection, drag around, double tap to put the pixels in their final resting place. •Linear mode to draw straight lines. • Share from the app with your friends using sharing extensions. Any app that can share images will work, Mail, Messages, Facebook, Twitter, and any other third party apps that support sharing extensions. • Share with someone that's close to you, using AirDrop. • Watch your drawings on Apple Watch! • Search for your beauteous drawings in Spotlight. • Dance the hand jive while using Handoff between devices. Ideas for drawings • Unflattering portraits of your friends that you post online without their permission. • Replace the icons on your thirty year old computer. • Make reproductions of your favorite artist's square, black and white masterpieces. • Your hipster bike. • Your hipster glasses. • Your hipster bird you put on stuff. • Your hipster watch. • Your steampunk tophat. • Your hipster shark. • Drawings of pets you wished were yours, so that your sad meaningless life had a ray of hope.° • Illustrate the fourteen stations of the cross. • Illustrate the twelve signs of the zodiak. • A taxi-cab. • An old boot. • A urinal on it's side, with some letters scribbled on it. • And literally a couple more things... *Does not cure old age, athelete's foot or the plague. §There is no solution, because there is no problem. ‡A plethora in this context means six. °Users of Thirty-Two are prone to bouts of existential angst. ## Key features - 32x32 pixel grid drawing - Black and white or grayscale colors - Pinch to zoom with preview - Undo/redo toolbar - Symmetrical drawing modes - Pixel selection and movement - Sharing extensions and AirDrop ## Recent user reviews (10 of 11) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/thirty-two-drawing/id918994570/reviews.md ### 1/5 — the most simple and worst drawing app *2025-10-25* this is so simple all the colors they’ve got is white, light gray, gray, and black when I was drawing random squares pop up and could not take off the effect this app made me work on pixel art that I work on for 3 hours straight and the zoom isn’t look right ### 5/5 — Really Cool Little Pixel Art App *2025-09-01* I like the simplicity and just the great way your drawing strokes are input here in Thirty-Two Drawing. There is a neat animation performed when drawing on to the canvas. Big time kudos on the sweet style of that drawing effect animation, it’s rad. I also really like that it’s just grayscale colors that you have to use. That’s my all-time favorite color palette to be honest. I’m also pretty darn impressed with the Abraham Lincoln drawing that was done in this app, that is shown in the promo screenshots. I don’t think I have that talent in me with this program but that’s pretty impressive in my opinion. I don’t really foresee myself creating any complex or stunning pieces of art with this app. But it never claimed that feature either and I just find the app unique, novel and quite a lot of fun for what it is. You can tell a really passionate and cool creative mind built this program in my opinion. Not to mention that it is very generous of the developer to offer the full app for free it seems. I may have missed that there is a one-time payment for the full app, which I’d be happy to pay if that is the case. But it seems so far that the developer is just super generous in giving us all this app. So, in immense sincerity, I would like to say - thank you very much for this app, for all of the time and effort no doubt put into making this program so fun and cool and just for your kindness. I am very, very grateful for all of that. Thank you a bunch. If you enjoy creating and enjoy art/32px pixel artwork. Well, I highly recommend this extremely well built application. Addendum: I cannot fully say that I completely understand the tool that is first listed from the top left of the color selection screen. It seems, thus far at least, to be a cut and move type of tool, I think? Like you can use it to select portions of your drawing and then move them somewhere else on the canvas? I didn’t fully understand how it worked and I think one time after I used it I was no longer able to draw on the screen. Even after selecting a color. But, when I quit the drawing to go to the main menu and then went back into it. Well, everything seemed to work normally again. This is not a slight against the app’s performance at all and more to the point I believe I just don’t fully grasp how to use that tool yet. Again, though, this app is awesome and a ton of fun in my opinion. I highly recommend it and many thanks, again, to the very kind developer for giving us this great application free-of-charge. You’re a generous and rare entity among App Store developers in my opinion. And you’re also quite the artist to boot I believe if you constructed that Abraham Lincoln drawing, haha. I’m still amazed at that drawing and how easily I recognized it for who it was. Awesome 👍🏻👏🏻😬. Thanks and God bless to you and yours. iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS 18.6.2 ### 1/5 — It’s so hot. What is the wedding? *2025-08-08* The second time we going to take nothing nothing nothing I’ll delete you ### 4/5 — Good *2025-08-02, version 1.14.0* pretty good ### 1/5 — RED SQUARES OF DOOM *2025-07-17, version 1.14.0* Every 5 seconds of drawing, random red squares would start popping up 😭 also canvas size can’t be changed, only black and white colours and no other tools other than brush and eraser. ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2024-07-05* It’s a really good game and easy to draw but I wish it was easier to find out how to switch colours because I can’t find out how to. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2022-09-09* Excellent app, and one of the few apps that doesn't collect your data. Thanks! ### 3/5 — Has Potential *2019-03-01* I can’t get the images on my watch unless I use the photo app which makes this pointless. Some of the features like moving pixels are finicky and don’t work as they should. Things to improve on for the future would be more colors, horizontal and vertical symmetry at the same time, layers, and adjustable canvas sizes. ### 1/5 — I hate this *2018-04-15, version 1.7.5* The app crashes too often, not syncronising properly. Please fix this. ### 2/5 — Nice design but.. *2016-08-15, version 1.6.4* Nice design but the animations when adding pixels makes it seem very sluggish and it makes it really hard to create art. ## Frequently asked questions about Thirty ### What is Thirty-Two? Thirty-Two is a free application designed for creating and sharing simple pixel art drawings. It focuses on a 32x32 grid and offers black and white or grayscale color options. ### Can I draw in color with Thirty-Two? No, Thirty-Two specifically focuses on 1-bit old school drawing with only black and white, or a limited palette of six grays for an 'ultra modern' feel. ### How does the zoom feature work in Thirty-Two? You can pinch to zoom in and out of your drawing canvas. While zoomed in, a small preview of the entire drawing is displayed to help you maintain context. ### Does Thirty-Two support undo and redo functions? Yes, Thirty-Two includes a dedicated toolbar for undo and redo actions, allowing for quick corrections with a single tap. ### Can I move existing pixels in Thirty-Two? Yes, the app features a select and move tool. You can tap and hold pixels to select them, add to the selection, drag them to a new location, and double-tap to finalize their placement. ### How can I share my drawings from Thirty-Two? You can share your creations using the app's sharing extensions, which are compatible with any app that supports image sharing, such as Mail, Messages, Facebook, and Twitter. AirDrop is also supported for sharing with nearby users. ### Is Thirty-Two available on Apple Watch? Yes, you can watch your drawings on your Apple Watch, allowing for a convenient way to view your pixel art creations. ### What is the update frequency for Thirty-Two? The app was last updated on December 21, 2025, indicating recent development. The latest version is 1.15.0. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.16.1 — 2026-06-26 • Pinch to zoom stays put: Pinching to zoom out while drawing no longer accidentally closes the editor. • New drawings show up right away: Fixed an issue where a drawing could be missing from your list right after you created it. • Drawing tip: Added a gentle tip that helps you get started drawing on the canvas. • Toolbar tidy-up: Cleaned up the linear connect toolbar and refined a few labels. • Faster and lighter: The editor opens more quickly and the app uses less memory, especially with large drawing libraries. ### 1.16.0 — 2026-05-20 • Drag to fill: Drag a palette color onto the canvas to fill connected cells, with a loupe to help place the color precisely. • Drawing loupe: Adds an optional loupe while drawing that shows you the color of the cell you're drawing over. Turn on from the toolbar or app settings. • Smoother drawing: Drawing is now more responsive. • Other refinements: Includes widget rendering fixes, undo redo fixes, settings polish. ### 1.15.0 — 2025-12-21 • Brand new design: Thirty-Two has been completely rewritten from the ground up, with refreshed look and more robust base that will allow faster iteration in the future. • New minimum iOS and watchOS version: Now requires iOS 18.6 and watchOS 11.6 • Added iconography: Added iconography to many actions to improve scannability • Line Mode Improvements: New button to activate line mode. Tap a node to add or remove it. • Zoom improvements: You can now use the zoom overview to pan around while zoomed in. There are new zoom in/out controls and a new zoom button in the drawing actions menu. • Apple Pencil Improvements: You can now use the squeeze gesture to bring up the palette or switch tools (based on system setting for Apple Pencile Pro) and added hover feedback. • Native Apple Watch: Stand alone Apple Watch app that let's you browse your drawings from your watch. • New feature list: A new feature list will be shown after installing an update and in settings you can see a list of recent releases • Other refinements: There are also many other refinements and bug fixes, including, sorting, drawings being inset to make it easier to draw around edges and rename drawings by tapping on the title in the drawing view and many more ### 1.14.0 — 2023-12-26 Now requires iOS 16, this release has lots of bug fixes and some infrastructure changes Fixed • A crash that could happen on Apple Watch when viewing slideshow • Reliability of widget thumbnail generation • Deleted drawings were not properly deleted from widget thumbnails • Deleting all drawings from settings would not immediately save changes • When renaming a drawing twice in a. row the second time might not save • Fixed a bug that didn't properly dismiss the introduction cards • When launching the app in dark mode, a white screen would show • Lots of small bugs ### 1.13.3 — 2023-09-23 Fixed: Widgets not showing on some operating systems Fixed: Widget showing extra border ## Apps similar to Thirty | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Pixel Art - draw with dots](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixel-art-draw-with-dots/id1125373046) | 4.5 (560) | Free | Entertainment | | [MyArtTools](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myarttools/id1211838860) | 5.0 (1) | $3.99 | Entertainment | | [Air Pixels](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/air-pixels/id1612232904) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Entertainment | | [Amaziograph](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/amaziograph/id586076398) | 4.9 (6,657) | $1.99 | Entertainment | | [Calligraphy Art](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calligraphy-art/id434085666) | 4.7 (160) | $3.99 | Entertainment | | [Überdoodle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/uberdoodle/id372062013) | 3.8 (11) | $1.99 | Entertainment | ## More apps by Chad Sager - [Lotus Bud Mindfulness Bell](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lotus-bud-mindfulness-bell/id502329366) - [Lotus Bud Meditation Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lotus-bud-meditation-timer/id731742827) All apps by Chad Sager: https://appshunter.io/developer/441875701 --- *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 2026-08-08.*