Picopus vs Pixel Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Picopus
Transform your photos into personalized greeting cards, social media posts, and stickers. Enhance images with effects, custom backgrounds, and text to create unique designs.
- Photo background removal
- Customizable background patterns
- Photo enhancement tools
- Customizable borders
- Extensive font library
- Template inspiration
- Drawing tool
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With Picopus, turn easily your photos into magical memories. Add effects and custom elements to create social media posts, greeting cards, and stickers that will delight your loved ones. Boost your creativity and let your imagination run wild! POWERFUL AND FUN TOOLS • Remove the background from photos • Customize our numerous background patterns by changing colors • Fill stickers or shapes with beautiful patterns and change colors • Enhance, adjust, and customize your photos: adjust brightness, saturation, contrast, exposure, vibrance, sharpness, clarity, noise reduction, vignette, distortion, shadow, tint. • Create custom borders for your photos using patterns, colors, and shadows. • Browse through a large collection of fonts and edit text with color, shadow, frame, border, and precise alignment • Align photos, text, and other elements perfectly with automatic adjustment • Position elements with precision using the move tool • Have fun creating beautiful gradients • Add personality to a look with our many fashion accessories • Get inspired by our templates to create stunning publications • Unleash your imagination with the drawing tool Stickers for iMessage App also included. http://ghislainfortin.wixsite.com/mobile-apps
Pixel Map
Transform your photos into unique abstract pixel art. Sample pixels from your images and create custom color palettes to recolor your creations. Export your pixel maps for further use.
- Sample pixels from photos
- Create custom color palettes
- AI-powered color suggestions
- Recolor pixel maps
- Export pixel maps
- Identify pixels by row/column
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The central idea of Pixel Map is that you can take samples with different pixel sizes from your own photographs, and subsequently that you can compose one or two different color palettes to select which colors are used to recolor your pixel map. In Pixel Map you can select one of your own photos as the basis for a pixel map. Also, you can select the number of pixels to be used for your Pixel map (the app generates pixel map samples based on the original colors and the aspect ratio of your photo), and you can compose your own palettes by selecting colours from two separate sets of color patches. You can define your color palettes based either on the colors from your pixel sample, or from a fresh set of color patches. One set of color patches is based on the original pixel sample by employing Artificial Intelligence techniques. The other set of color patches contains a predefined set of several grey values, skin tones and general colors. The proces of recoloring your images also employs Artificial Intelligence techniques. Only a small thumbnail and of course the pixel maps and their palettes are stored locally on your device. The app supports manually copying your pixel map to an external canvas. You can also export your pixel map by email. To ease the process of copying, a detail view can identify each pixel by a row- and column number.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Picopus at 5.0 against Pixel Map's 4.0. Picopus also leads on chart position (#187 vs unranked). Pixel Map's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, 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
Picopus costs $2.99 and Pixel Map $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Picopus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Picopus | Pixel Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #187 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.3 GB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ghislain Fortin | Rob Duell PhD |
Customer experience
Picopus
Pixel Map
In-app purchases
Picopus
No in-app purchases
Pixel Map
No in-app purchases









