Comparison

New Pixels vs KinoTaste

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Unique pixel art creation
  • Basic shapes and colors
  • World building
  • Share art with friends
  • Cloud gallery submission
  • Inspired by artists
Features
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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)

About

KinoTaste

Discover films, TV shows, and anime tailored to your mood with an AI-powered recommendation engine. Explore curated categories and enjoy a unique, retro-inspired interface. Track your viewing history and share your taste with others.

Highlights
  • Personalized AI recommendations
  • Track Movies, TV Shows, and Anime
  • Curated genre categories
  • Natural language search
  • Poetic recommendation insights
  • Retro film aesthetic UI
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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What should you watch today? Find the right movie, series, or anime for tonight. KinoTaste is a recommendation and library companion built around your mood, taste, and viewing history. Instead of endlessly repeating popular charts, it combines your explicit preferences, watch activity, and recent feedback to surface titles that better fit the moment. Three Content Universes Explore movies, international series, and anime in dedicated spaces. Move freely between universes and discover drama, comedy, science fiction, mystery, tokusatsu, cyberpunk, healing stories, and many other carefully organized categories. Contextual Recommendations and Taste Profile Tell KinoTaste how you feel, or directly adjust exploration, niche preference, and the genres you want to see more or less often. Your Taste Profile evolves from ratings, watchlist activity, viewing progress, and recommendation feedback. Recommendations You Can Understand KinoTaste explains why a title was selected whenever possible. Choose More Like This or Less Like This, review your feedback history, and undo any response at any time. AI Memory Search Forgotten the title? Describe a scene, character, premise, or atmosphere you still remember. Cloud AI interprets your natural-language query and matches it with movie, series, or anime information. Custom Collections and Library Build themed collections containing movies, series, and anime. Search within a collection, filter by content type or watch status, review completion and rating statistics, and copy, move, or remove multiple titles at once. Episode Progress and Calendar Record the season and episode you have reached. View the next episode date, announced episode schedule, season-finale indicators, and optional reminders on release day or one day earlier. Film Resume, Sharing, and Apple Watch Keep ratings, watchlists, viewing history, and your personal Film Resume together. Create film-inspired share cards, browse recommendations, and manage watchlist titles from the Apple Watch companion app. Privacy First Core taste calculations run locally on your device. Your library can sync through your private iCloud database. Queries are sent to cloud services only when you actively use AI Search or request generated trivia. Movie and series data and ratings are provided by TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Every frame deserves to be remembered.

Screenshots

New Pixels4 screens
KinoTaste4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: New Pixels at none against KinoTaste's 3. New Pixels also leads on ratings volume (415 vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). KinoTaste's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, monetization model 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

New Pixels costs $3.99 and KinoTaste $1.99 up front. KinoTaste sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. New Pixels asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KinoTaste holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: New Pixels has 415 ratings behind it against 5, 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 100% of KinoTaste's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

New Pixels ships an update every 2 weeks, KinoTaste every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
New Pixels versus KinoTaste: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNew PixelsKinoTaste
Price$3.99$1.99 — better
Rating4.7 (415 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings415 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB27 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer丽 张柏翔 单

Customer experience

New Pixels

All ratings415 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive77.6%
Neutral7.5%
Negative14.9%

KinoTaste

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

KinoTaste

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

New Pixels

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

KinoTaste

One-time3
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$2.99
  • Large Coffee$4.99

Questions

Is New Pixels free?
New Pixels costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is KinoTaste free?
KinoTaste costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, New Pixels or KinoTaste?
KinoTaste is rated higher. New Pixels averages 4.7 out of 5 from 415 ratings, while KinoTaste averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do New Pixels or KinoTaste have ads?
Neither New Pixels nor KinoTaste shows ads.
Which is updated more often, New Pixels or KinoTaste?
New Pixels ships an update every 2 weeks, and KinoTaste every 5 days. Most recently, New Pixels was updated on September 22, 2026 and KinoTaste on September 23, 2026.

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