Comparison

Infinite Painter vs SpritePixels

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

Head to head
About

Infinite Painter

Create stunning digital art with a powerful painting, sketching, and drawing app. It offers a vast array of brushes, intuitive tools, and advanced features for artists of all skill levels. Share your creations with time-lapse recordings and enjoy a seamless creative workflow.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of built-in and custom brushes
  • Intuitive and customizable interface
  • Advanced layer management
  • Time-lapse recording
  • Perspective guides
  • Selection and transformation tools
  • Color correction and filters
Features
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Experience one of the best-designed painting, sketching, and drawing apps created for iPad and iPhone. Used by millions, this award-winning app brings a rich, powerful feature set to artists of all levels, whether art is your hobby, passion or career. HIGHLIGHTS - Best-in-class pencils - Minimal and intuitive interface - Easily group layers - Share Time-lapse recordings with your social networks - Convert any stroke into an editable shape REIMAGINING BRUSHES - Hundreds of built-in brushes: Airbrushes, Calligraphy, Chalk, Charcoal, Glow, Lasso Fills, Pencils, Markers, Oil Paint, Paint Splatter, Spray Paint, Screentones, and Watercolor - Realistic brush to canvas interaction - Over 100 customizable settings for every brush - Organize and share your favorite brushes and brush sets - Designed for the Apple Pencil with full pressure and tilt support - Apply real-time color adjustments and live filters to any brush - Sample lower layers when blending - Import and export custom brushes and sets GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR SPACE - More canvas, less clutter with a clean, customizable interface - Assign finger functions separate from the Apple Pencil - Expand and collapse layers with a flick - Dock brushes and brush settings for quick, easy editing - Quick access eyedropper - Rotate and flip canvas - Group layers with a pinch MAKING ART LESS WORK - Pin tools and actions to the main interface - Pull the color wheel right on the canvas with two fingers - Add multiple reference images - Lighting-fast saving and loading - Step back in time with Project History DIVERSIFYING TOOLS - Simple or complex symmetry with Radial or Kaleidoscope - Draw with precision using Guides or Shapes - Smart shape detection by pausing when drawing - Innovative Hatching guide NEVER LOSING PERSPECTIVE - Design 3D cityscapes with five different perspective guides or a standard 2D grid - Drag Rectangle and Circle shapes in perspective PIXEL-PERFECT EDITING - Seamless pattern projects - Selection tools: Lasso, Rectangle, Circle, Poly, Path, Wand, Brush, and Color Range - Industry-leading Transformations - Transform multiple layers at once - Gradient and Pattern Fill tools - Target separate layers or all layers with Fill tools - Drag with Fill tool or Magic Wand for live tolerance adjustment - Bring your painting to life with Time-lapse - Canvas Navigator with flip and grayscale support (for proportions and value checking) - Clone tool with offset - Tools for pattern creation EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO CREATE - 64-bit color when painting - Layer support with 30 blend modes - Masks for layers, adjustments, and groups - Clipping masks - Gradient map, Color Curves, and Filter layers - Industry-leading color correction - Over 40 live Filters - Focus and Tilt-shift masking - Liquify - Crop and Resize tool - Pattern and Array tools - Powerful selection workspace - Photoshop®-like smart layers for multiple transformations without loss of quality - Solo & Trace modes - Print presets & CMYK color modes ACCELERATE YOUR WORKFLOW - Import from Photos, Camera, Clipboard, or Image Search - Search over 1 million free for commercial-use images - Export images as JPG, PNG, ZIP, layered PSD files, or Painter projects - Share artwork to Infinite Painter's ever-growing community and see what others are creating, #InfinitePainter WHAT’S FREE? - 7 days to try out everything - 5 layers at the device resolution - Solid Fill, Lasso selection, Basic Transform and Symmetry - Seamless pattern projects - All the built-in brushes and brush editing - Smart shape detection WHAT’S PRO? - HD canvas sizes and tons of layers* - Adjustments and live Filter layers - Layer groups - Layer masks - Over 40 powerful, professional tools * Maximum number of layers depends on the canvas size and your device TAKE INFINITE PAINTER WITH YOU See what you can do.

About

SpritePixels

Create pixel art with intuitive multi-touch controls for fluid painting and precise editing. Zoom in for detail, copy and paste sections, and customize extensive color palettes. Save and export your creations as high-resolution PNGs.

Highlights
  • Multi-touch painting
  • Zoomable canvas
  • Drag-and-drop copying
  • Area fill tool
  • Rectangular region copy
  • Customizable 16-color palettes
  • Large canvas size
  • iCloud sync
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Designed for multi-touch! No more pecking one pixel at a time – fluidly paint pixel art using several touches at once. Tap a tile to zoom in and work with precision. The companion mini-view shows what it looks like at normal size. Drag any tile to instantly copy it to another tile. Great for making similar versions of a sprite. Press and hold with one touch to fill an area. Press and hold with two touches to lift and copy a rectangular region. Customize a palette of up to an incredible 16 colors! Expand your canvas to a staggering 512 by 512 pixels! Press and hold any color in the palette to adjust it to any of a mind-blowing 4,096 possible values! Experiment with color sets by pressing and holding the palette to replace an entire row of colors. Save your work in iCloud and resume it from another device. Export your art as a pixel-perfect PNG image.

Screenshots

Infinite Painter4 screens
SpritePixels2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Infinite Painter at 67% against SpritePixels's 0%. Infinite Painter also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 15 months). SpritePixels's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). On ads and device support 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

Infinite Painter is free to download; SpritePixels costs $0.99 up front. Infinite Painter sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. SpritePixels asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SpritePixels holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Infinite Painter has 10K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Infinite Painter's written reviews are positive against 0% of SpritePixels's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Infinite Painter ships an update every 2 weeks, SpritePixels every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Infinite Painter versus SpritePixels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInfinite PainterSpritePixels
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.1 (10K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 15 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#194 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSean BrakefieldSteve Barnes

Customer experience

Infinite Painter

All ratings10,099 ratings
Positive78.6%
Neutral6.9%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews1,754 reviews
Positive67.4%
Neutral13.4%
Negative19.2%

SpritePixels

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Infinite Painter

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Layers disappearing or becoming corrupted
  • Brush behavior changing unexpectedly
  • Canvas resizing causing crashes
  • Inability to export projects properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add text tool
  • Improve layer management and organization
  • Implement better palm rejection
  • Allow more customization of UI and tools
  • Add support for Photoshop brushes

SpritePixels

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Infinite Painter

One-time5
  • Get Everything!$3.99
  • Get Everything! (iPhone-only)$4.99
  • Get Everything$6.99
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  • Get Everything (Trial Discount)$7.99
  • Get Everything$9.99
None

SpritePixels

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Infinite Painter free?
Infinite Painter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SpritePixels free?
SpritePixels costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Infinite Painter or SpritePixels?
SpritePixels is rated higher. Infinite Painter averages 4.1 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while SpritePixels averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Infinite Painter or SpritePixels have ads?
Neither Infinite Painter nor SpritePixels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Infinite Painter or SpritePixels?
Infinite Painter ships an update every 2 weeks, and SpritePixels every 15 months. Most recently, Infinite Painter was updated on September 24, 2026 and SpritePixels on August 23, 2026.

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