New Pixels vs echoFT
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)
echoFT
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echoFT — explore the Internet Archive's audio universe Millions of free songs, live concerts, old-time radio shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and historic recordings — all from archive.org, all in one beautifully simple app. No account. No ads. No tracking. Just press play. What you'll find • Live Music Archive — fan recordings of thousands of bands, from Grateful Dead to indie tours • Old Time Radio — classic radio dramas, mysteries, and comedies from the 1930s–60s • 78rpm Records — historic shellac recordings digitized by collectors • Community Music — uploaded music across every genre imaginable • Podcasts — archived shows from around the web • LibriVox Audiobooks — free public-domain audiobooks read by volunteers • George Blood Audio — professionally digitized historic recordings Built for discovery • Discovery feed — curated sections refresh with new finds every time • Surprise Me — one tap drops you into something you'd never have searched for • Smart search — filter by collection, sort by popularity, rating, date, or pure chance • Multi-genre filters — pick up to four genres at once • Filter by year, era, language — narrow a century of audio into exactly what you want A proper player • Background playback with lock-screen and notification controls • Full queue management — reorder, shuffle, repeat • Autoplay continues into related items when your queue ends • Dynamic player backgrounds that adapt to album art • Mini-player follows you across tabs Your library, on your device • Favorite anything in one tap • Listening history with quick replay • Everything stored locally — your taste stays yours Privacy you can actually verify echoFT has no user accounts, no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no servers of its own. Your favorites and history live on your device and nowhere else. The only network traffic is fetching catalog data and streaming audio from archive.org — exactly what you'd expect. About the Internet Archive archive.org is a non-profit digital library preserving millions of audio recordings, films, books, and websites. echoFT is an independent client that makes its audio collection easier to explore on mobile. We're not affiliated with the Internet Archive — just big fans of what they do. Questions, feedback, or a feature request? info@echoft.com echoFT is made with care by Logic FT Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: echoFT at Free against New Pixels's $3.99. New Pixels's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence, 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
echoFT is free to download; New Pixels costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
New Pixels ships an update every 2 weeks, echoFT fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | New Pixels | echoFT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (415 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 415 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 丽 张 | Logic FT Inc |
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
echoFT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
New Pixels
No in-app purchases
echoFT
No in-app purchases









