Comparison

Xpage vs Pixel Edit Lite

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

Head to head
About

Xpage

Create and showcase interactive app prototypes directly on your mobile device. This tool offers data-driven and event-driven prototyping with real-world interaction, allowing for custom native components and animations. Publish and share your designs easily.

Highlights
  • Create and demonstrate app prototypes on mobile
  • Data-driven and event-driven prototyping
  • Real-world interaction and animations
  • Customize native components
  • Easy drag-and-drop design
  • Publish and share prototypes
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Create and show app prototype just on your mobile phone by Xpage. Key Features ● Create & demonstrate app prototypes directly on iPhone/iPad. ● Data-driven and event driven instead of draw-driven. ● Real interaction with real world. ● Animate with objects beyond imaging. ● Customize native components, even create your own. ● Publish &. share. Design ● make your designs by easy drop and drag. ● portrait and landscape orientation pages ● reusable styles, components and templates. ● group/ungroup. ● auto-alignment and auto-spacing. ● auto snap to objects, magnetic-lines, bounds, or shapes. ● re-use elements cross pages even projects. ● hundreds of icons and images in stock. ● Design with dynamic system color and adapt to dark mode automatically. ● linear gradient fill and radial gradient fill. Prototyping ● Screen Transitions ○ add touches, gestures, shakings, timers, data-monitors, AV events, or other triggers for mobile prototyping. ○ create the flow of your app with screen transitions. ○ customize the start page for preview. ● Animation ○ animate with moving, rotating, morphing, colorizing and fading. ○ animation curve. ○ integrated with events. ● Event-Driven ○ page events and actions. ○ stateful object event. ○ linkage for each item of tabBar, event-driven QR-code recognizers and switches, etc. ● Data-Driven: ○ flexible data binding. ○ input, scan or calculate real data in real world. ○ display, modify or clean the value in variable. ○ make a phone call by the numbers in the buffer. ○ visit the URL from QR-code. ● Data-Driven TableViews and CollectionViews: ○ table views are data-driving, so do collection views. ○ multi-sections support. ○ design styles for each section, then provide data. ○ work with real world data by user’s own Web-Service API. ● interactive native UI assets. ○ play back musics, sounds, videos. ○ interact with layers. ○ interact with action-sheets or alerts. ○ interact with albums, camera, map and location. ○ visit WEB site. Preview ● Add prototype to Home Screen. ● preview designs in a variety of screen sizes. ● backup & sync between devices via iCloud. ● share via e-mail. ● publish to community, share to everyone. Features in Pro version: $ landscape orientation pages $ unlimited projects and pages $ clone pages $ share & backup/restore $ paste from clipboard $ premium components $ manage fonts PS: Xpage is a free-to-try app with In-App-Purchase because I want to ensure the continued development and support of a product we and others enjoy so much. Thanks to everyone who sent in feedback for Xpage and have helped shape the future direction of new features and improvements. If you have any comments about Xpage, please feel free to let us know. We will reply every feedback email. If you enjoy using Xpage, we would really appreciate if you could take a moment to leave a review in the App Store. Thank you.

About

Pixel Edit Lite

Create detailed pixel art on a 16x16 canvas with a minimalist interface. This tool focuses on a clean design to help you craft beautiful retro sprites and artwork.

Highlights
  • 16x16 canvas
  • Minimalist interface
  • Retro sprite creation
  • Pixel art design
  • Clean editor
Features
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The pocket sprite editor for PICO-8. Copy a sprite on your Mac, edit it on your iPhone, paste it straight back. Pixel Edit Lite is a small, touch-first pixel art and sprite editor for iPhone. Draw with your finger, work offline, and create retro sprites whenever inspiration strikes. Work on a single sprite or build out a full sprite sheet — navigate between sprites, duplicate them, and copy and paste between sprites. Choose 8×8, 16×16, 32×32, or 64×64 canvases for sprites, game art, icons, and other pixel art projects. Built with PICO-8 and TIC-80 style sprite workflows in mind, with real PICO-8 clipboard format support: copy a sprite in PICO-8 on your Mac, paste it here, edit, and paste it back. Features • Clean, minimal interface • Always-on sprite sheet with navigation, duplication, and copy/paste • 8×8, 16×16, 32×32, and 64×64 canvases • Precision pixel drawing with pencil, eraser, and fill • Shape tools: line, rectangle, and circle, outlined or filled • Undo and redo • PICO-8 and TIC-80 color palettes • Grid-based editing • Rotate, flip, and shift tools • Fast, responsive touch controls • Automatic local saving • Recent Projects — reopen past sheets in one tap • Import and export through Files, including iCloud Drive • Share via the native Share Sheet — AirDrop, Messages, save to Photos, and more • Real PICO-8 sprite clipboard format support • Works offline Pixel Edit Lite is intentionally simple. No complicated desktop-style workflow — just a small pixel editor you can keep with you when you're away from your computer.

Screenshots

Xpage4 screens
Pixel Edit Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Xpage at Free against Pixel Edit Lite's $2.99. Xpage also leads on ratings volume (68 vs 6) and device support (3 vs 1). Pixel Edit Lite's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 58%). On 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

Xpage is free to download; Pixel Edit Lite costs $2.99 up front. Xpage sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Pixel Edit Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Edit Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Xpage has 68 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Xpage's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pixel Edit Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Xpage ships an update monthly, Pixel Edit Lite every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Xpage versus Pixel Edit Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXpagePixel Edit Lite
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.3 (68 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings68 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer刚 彭Apurva Mehta

Customer experience

Xpage

All ratings67 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral6.0%
Negative9.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative29.2%

Pixel Edit Lite

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Xpage

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription$4.991 Year
One-time8
  • Advanced Component Pack$1.99
  • Advanced Interaction Pack$1.99
  • Advanced Animation Pack$1.99
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  • Hardware & Communication$1.99
  • Skill-up Achievement Bonus$1.99
  • Table & Grid Elements$1.99
  • Professional$2.99
  • Ultimate$9.99
None

Pixel Edit Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Xpage free?
Xpage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Edit Lite free?
Pixel Edit Lite costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Xpage or Pixel Edit Lite?
Pixel Edit Lite is rated higher. Xpage averages 4.3 out of 5 from 68 ratings, while Pixel Edit Lite averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Xpage or Pixel Edit Lite have ads?
Neither Xpage nor Pixel Edit Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Xpage or Pixel Edit Lite?
Xpage ships an update monthly, and Pixel Edit Lite every 5 days. Most recently, Xpage was updated on October 21, 2026 and Pixel Edit Lite on October 27, 2026.

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