Comparison

Sprite Creator vs Resprite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sprite Creator

Create pixel art for games or personal projects with this powerful yet easy-to-use drawing app. It supports sprite sheets, tile maps, and animated GIFs, with robust tools for editing, importing, and exporting your creations.

Highlights
  • Layer editing tools
  • Animation frame tools with onion skinning
  • Export to PNG, GIF, JPG, sprite sheets, and tile maps
  • Import sprite sheets, tile maps, and animated GIFs
  • Selection and transformation tools
  • Customizable color palettes
  • Up-scaling tool
Features
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Sprite Creator is a very powerful and easy to use pixel art drawing app. Create and import sprite sheets, tile maps, or even animated gifs. This app has been designed to be a simple and powerful tool for creating pixel art for games or for fun. Layer Editing Tools - Alpha sliders - Hide option to ignore layer - Copy - Merge down Animation Frame Tools - Onion skin - Onion skin alpha sliders - Live auto looping preview - Copy Exporting Features - png, gif, or jpg - Animated gifs - Sprite sheets and tile maps with full control over number of rows, columns, margin, and spacing - Single image series - Set Background Color (allows you to pick a specific background color for exporting) - Up scaling tool (increase the image size while keeping that pixel look) Importing Features - Import sprite sheets and tile maps and slice it into editable frames by setting width, height, margin and spacing. - Import animated gifs - Import png, gif, and jpg right from your camera roll Selection Options - Move - Flip - Rotate 90 degrees - Copy (copies a selected area for the selected layer) - Copy All (copies a selected area for all layers) - Paste (pastes whatever you have copied on a layer or even a new project's layer) Background options - Checkered - Color - Image Grid Options - On/Off Other Features - Save/Load right in the app - Create your own customized color palette with unlimited colors - RGBA and HSBA color sliders to find the perfect color - Create a new project at any size you want - Edit project size after creating it - Optional inspiration view (floating image from your camera roll for inspiration) - Tap and hold to load an image from your camera roll - Drag to move - Double tap to resize - Preview window to see your pixel art at a small size - Multiple brush sizes - Line, Square and Circle drawing tool - Hand Tool to make it easier to zoom and pan your canvas For more updates and to see Sprite Creator in action check out our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/spritecreator/

About

Resprite

This professional pixel art editor offers desktop-class features optimized for touch and pen input. Create pixel illustrations, animations, and game assets with an extensive toolset, advanced layers, and a high-performance renderer, all on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • High-performance drawing engine
  • Innovative palette and coloring tools
  • Advanced layers and timeline system
  • Optimized gesture and pen controls
  • Flexible interface layout
  • Import/export GIF, spritesheet, and PSD files
Features
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Resprite is a professional pixel art editor. Desktop-class features combined with touch/pen optimizations let you create efficiently anywhere. Resprite brings together a complete pixel toolset, an innovative coloring system, advanced layers and timelines, and a Metal-powered high-performance renderer so you can easily make pixel illustrations, spritesheets, GIF animations, and game art assets. Wherever you are—at home, camping, on the beach, or waiting at the gate—you can start creating. Resprite is your mobile pixel art studio. Resprite includes: - High-performance drawing engine - Innovative and efficient palette and coloring tools - Complete dithering pattern support - Flexible interface layout, always one tap away - Optimized gesture and pen controls for precision Flexible interface layout: - Arrange floating panels freely - All panels can be minimized - Shorten the distance between pen and target to boost efficiency - Cohesive pixel-styled UI All-in-one toolset: - Brushes, innovative coloring tools, three selection tools, eyedropper, paint bucket, three shape tools, plus rich sub-options - Pixel Perfect, Alpha Lock, dithering textures, and other advanced features - Place the toolbar anywhere for instant access - Copy, paste (including across files), flip horizontally/vertically, rotate, scale - Zoom and transform both canvas and image - Quick outline, HSV tuning, brightness/contrast adjustment, blur filter - Insert multi-line or vertical text, with custom fonts Convenient reference images: - Load multiple reference images - References can be zoomed and minimized - Place them anywhere Innovative palette: - Free placement layout - Linked workflow with coloring tools - Interpolate to create intermediate colors - Palette import and export - Automatically sample palettes from the canvas Import and sharing: - Import/export GIF, spritesheet, and Resprite packages - Export with scale, frame margin, spritesheet layout options, and more - Export per animation clip or by row - Import/export palettes (GPL, RPL formats) - Export PSD files - Import/export APNG animations - Export timelapse recordings of your drawing Layer and timeline system: - Comprehensive features for flexible layer-based creation - Copy, merge, flatten, rasterize, and other advanced operations - Onion Skin support - Set multiple animation clips and select them individually - Reliable performance—smooth even with hundreds of frames - Color tags, multi-level grouping, and opacity control Fast gesture operations: - Supports low-tilt and heavy-press stylus gestures - Two-finger/three-finger tap for undo/redo - Customizable pen Double-Tap actions - One-finger gestures to switch frames, play, and toggle onion skin - Long-press gesture - Flexibly map gestures to actions Pixel art in the demos comes from these artists: 史大巴、斯尔娜娜、扑倒奥利奥、吱小墨、妘归、KATLEE十三、石睐暮 PREMIUM: Your Resprite PREMIUM unlocks: - Remove export limits - Color adjustments - Stroke - Symmetry tool - Text tool All app features are available, and Premium is shared between iPad and iPhone. Customer support: Docs: https://resprite.fengeon.com/ Email: support@fengeon.com Optional in-app purchases: Charges are deducted from your iTunes account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. After purchase, you can manage auto-renewal anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms and conditions: Your use of this app is governed by the Terms at https://resprite.fengeon.com/terms and the Privacy Policy at https://resprite.fengeon.com/privacy, including future versions.

Screenshots

Sprite Creator4 screens
Resprite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Resprite at Free against Sprite Creator's $3.99. Resprite also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 330) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.5). Sprite Creator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#82 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Resprite is free to download; Sprite Creator costs $3.99 up front. Resprite sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Sprite Creator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Sprite Creator against 4.7 for Resprite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 330 and 1.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Sprite Creator's written reviews are positive against 80% of Resprite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Sprite Creator versus Resprite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSprite CreatorResprite
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (330 ratings)4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.8% of reviews — better79.6% of reviews
Number of ratings3301.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#82 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.516.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSkyler LaurenFengeon

Customer experience

Sprite Creator

All ratings330 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral6.8%
Negative12.3%

Resprite

All ratings1,441 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews284 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral7.0%
Negative13.4%

User reviews

Sprite Creator

From 330 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and easy-to-use interface
  • 🎨 Great for pixel art and sprite creation
  • ⚡ Quick to learn for beginners
  • 🎬 Excellent animation features
  • 📁 Layer system for organized editing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
  • 🔍 Poor scrolling and zooming functionality
  • ❌ Onion skin feature doesn't work as expected
  • 📤 Export functionality problematic
  • 🎨 Limited color palette options

Resprite

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Clean and intuitive UI
  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive
  • 💡 Customizable interface
  • 👍 Familiar Aseprite-like experience
  • 🚀 Powerful features for pixel art

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔒 Exporting limited on free version
  • 💰 Subscription model can be expensive
  • 🔍 Unintuitive UI navigation at times

Bugs and requests

Sprite Creator

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • App crashes when exporting files
  • App crashes when saving progress
  • App crashes when opening certain projects
  • Colors disappearing randomly
  • Red pixels appearing unexpectedly
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  • Zoom glitches and distortion
  • Freezing when pressing home button
  • Layers deleting unexpectedly
  • Image import deletes all frames
  • Cannot animate properly
  • Selection box doesn't allow moving without duplication
  • Hand/move tool not functioning
  • Onion skin causes grid to disappear
  • Background color not staying in place
  • Files won't open after updates
  • Export doesn't maintain transparency
  • White background instead of transparent on import/export
  • Accidental pixel drawing during pan/zoom
  • Palette colors not saving between sessions

Requested features

20 requests
  • Text tool for adding text to sprites
  • Ability to export more than 4 frames at once
  • Resize/scale tool for content on layers
  • Flip and rotate tools for selections
  • Static layer that doesn't animate
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  • Darken and lighten tools
  • Screen rotation support
  • Dithered gradients and outline edges
  • Redo button functionality
  • Copy and paste improvements
  • Auto-reverse animation layers
  • Palette import/save functionality
  • Color select tool for recoloring
  • Better file organization with folders
  • Transparency background support
  • True-size preview option
  • Hand/cursor tool for navigation
  • Cut option alongside copy/paste
  • In-app tutorial or guide
  • Apple Pencil support

Resprite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tools disappearing from the UI
  • Importing Aseprite files not working properly
  • Export function counting against trial limit even when cancelled

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add keyframe animation support
  • Implement tile set creation tools
  • Allow importing/exporting more file formats
  • Improve undo/redo functionality
  • Add cursor/crosshair display option
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  • Increase free export limit

In-app purchases

None

Sprite Creator

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Resprite

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month$1.991 Month
  • 12 Months$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • A Coffee$0.99
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime Standard$29.99

Questions

Is Sprite Creator free?
Sprite Creator costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Resprite free?
Resprite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sprite Creator or Resprite?
Resprite is rated higher. Sprite Creator averages 4.6 out of 5 from 330 ratings, while Resprite averages 4.7 from 1.5K ratings.
Do Sprite Creator or Resprite have ads?
Neither Sprite Creator nor Resprite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sprite Creator or Resprite?
Sprite Creator ships an update every 5 weeks, and Resprite every 5 weeks. Most recently, Sprite Creator was updated on October 17, 2026 and Resprite on October 21, 2026.

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