HatPick vs ARtist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HatPick
This app allows you to create custom lists for random selections, perfect for making decisions or playing games. Assign multiple 'slips' to choices for weighted outcomes and easily pick an item from your curated categories.
- Create custom decision categories
- Add multiple choices within categories
- Assign weighted 'slips' to choices
- Randomly select an item from a category
- No physical hat required for selections
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HatPick can help you make decisions or do any number of things that require random choices...and you don't need a hat to use this app!! You create your own categories and a set of choices within each category. Each choice has a counter so you can have multiple 'slips' for each choice. When you're ready, drop them in the hat and make your selection!
ARtist
Create and explore 3D drawings anchored in real-world space. Walk around your creations and view them from any angle. Save your 3D artwork directly to your device.
- Draw in 3D space
- Anchor drawings to real-world locations
- View creations from all angles
- Intuitive color picker
- Save artwork to camera roll
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Welcome to ARtist. Have you ever wanted to draw in 3D? Well, now you can! Everything you draw in this app is anchored to its location in space so you can walk around your drawings and view them from all angles! The app also has an intuitive color picker and allows you to save your artwork to your camera roll.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ARtist at 4.0 against HatPick's 3.1. ARtist also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (33% vs 25%). HatPick's advantage is ratings volume (25 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ARtist holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HatPick has 25 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of HatPick's written reviews are positive against 33% of ARtist's.
HatPick ships an update every 5 months, ARtist daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HatPick | ARtist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rick Hutchinson | Anirudh Natarajan |
Customer experience
HatPick
ARtist
In-app purchases
HatPick
No in-app purchases
ARtist
No in-app purchases
