New Pixels vs Pengios
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
New Pixels
Explore a unique pixel art creation experience using basic shapes and colors. Craft your own miniature worlds and share them with a community gallery or friends. This app offers a creative outlet inspired by renowned artists.
- Unique pixel art creation
- Basic shapes and colors
- World building
- Share art with friends
- Cloud gallery submission
- Inspired by artists
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Love pixel art? This is a new form of pixel art you gotta check out. Using basic shapes and colors and a sprinkle of imagination, a little world is swirling under your fingertips. Share your art with friends or post it to our cloud gallery, we'd love to stumble upon your little world of new pixels :) Quotes from our favorite artists: "Using #newpixelsapp is my self care." - Ken Wong, lead designer of mobile game Monument Valley & Florence. "New Pixels puts me in such a fun state. Different than doodling... though oddly similar. Like solving a tough puzzle and not knowing where I'm going at the same time." - Bob Flynn, cartoonist & character designer. (We follow CC BY-SA Copyright License for user uploaded artwork)
Pengios
Control a penguin using a joystick and a button to solve puzzles by sliding and crushing ice blocks. The objective is to defeat all SnowBees in each level by strategically using the environment and block mechanics. Features 16 challenging levels with unique gameplay elements.
- Slide ice blocks to crush enemies
- Crush blocks containing eggs
- Stun enemies by pushing against walls
- Arrange diamond blocks for bonus points
- 16 challenging levels
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********* GamePad MFI Control Compatible ******* Pengios uses a four-position joystick and a single button to control, a penguin. Pressing the button while pushing the joystick against an ice block will slide it in that direction until it hits another block or a wall. If that direction is occupied by another block, pressing the button will crush the block instead. The goal is to destroy every SnowBees of level, we have three ways to destroy them: 1. Sliding ice blocks to crush them. 2. Crushing blocks that contain eggs (Blinking blocks) 3. Running over them after stunning them at a wall. At the start of each Level blocks flash to indicate that they contain eggs. As the player destroys active SnowBees, new ones birth from the eggs to replace them. The SnowBees can crush blocks in an attempt to reach Pengo. Pushing against a wall causes it to tired and temporarily stuns any SnowBees in contact with it. Three blocks in each round are marked with diamonds and cannot be crushed. Arranging these blocks in a continuous horizontal or vertical line awards bonus points and temporarily tired every active SnowBee. The game includes a total of 16 Levels.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: New Pixels at every 2 weeks against Pengios's every 43 months. New Pixels also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (415 vs 4). Pengios's advantage is chart position (#185 vs unranked) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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
New Pixels costs $3.99 and Pengios $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
New Pixels holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New Pixels has 415 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of New Pixels's written reviews are positive against 75% of Pengios's.
New Pixels ships an update every 2 weeks, Pengios every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | New Pixels | Pengios |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (415 ratings) — better | 4.3 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.6% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 415 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #185 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丽 张 | Ivan Cerra de Castro |
Customer experience
New Pixels
Pengios
Bugs and requests
New Pixels
Reported bugs
11 issues- Canvas erased when changing size
- Upload/server functionality broken since server downtime
- App crashes when changing language settings
- iPad version stuck in foreign language
- Login authentication failing with correct credentials
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- Account creation button hidden behind keyboard
- Export to Photos not working (only Dropbox works)
- Top menu buttons inaccessible (grid size, grid lines)
- Image quality becomes fuzzy/has JPEG artifacts when saved
- Shapes not aligning properly
- Keyboard not dismissing after signup on iPad
Requested features
17 requests- Dark mode
- Larger canvas size options beyond 18x18
- Ability to lock selected shapes to avoid reselection
- Extended undo/redo history (multiple steps)
- More color combinations and wider color palette
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- Symmetry tool
- Shape rotation capability
- Landscape mode support
- PNG and SVG export support
- Color wheel for precise color selection
- Multi-finger undo/redo gestures (like Procreate)
- Artist follow/gallery features
- Ability to expand canvas without losing work
- Copy and paste functionality
- More shape variety
- Ability to drag elements
- Account recovery/forgot password feature
Pengios
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
New Pixels
No in-app purchases
Pengios
No in-app purchases









