Pixelist vs Patterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixelist
This minimalist app helps you track daily habits by visualizing your progress. Over time, your check-ins form unique images, encouraging mindful awareness rather than perfection.
- Minimalist habit tracking
- Daily check-ins
- Visual progress over time
- Image formation from data
- Mindful awareness cultivation
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Thank you for trying this out, I hope it brings you joy like it has for me. Pixelist is a minimalist habit tracker designed to bring mindful awareness to daily life. Over time, the micro-details of daily checkins ("pixels") will form interesting large-scale images. The goal isn't to be perfect, but instead to simply cultivate awareness. Please reach out to pixelistapp@gmail.com if you have any feedback, we'd love to hear your thoughts.
Patterns
This app helps you build better habits and achieve your goals through personal analytics and visualization. Track routines, monitor progress with clear visuals, and stay motivated with streak counters to become the person you aspire to be.
- Habit tracking
- Goal setting
- Custom data tracking
- Progress visualization
- Streak counter
- Flexible goal targets
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Patterns is your personal analytics tool to build better habits and achieve your goals. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Join thousands of users who rely on Patterns to improve themselves by getting deep insights into the person you are -- and setting goals to become the person you want to be. Tracking health and fitness goals, keeping up good studying or practice habits, or even remembering special moments, Patterns can help record and keep track of your routines and behaviors. Why Patterns? Flexible Goals: Set specific targets like once a week, three times a month, or every day. Custom Data: Track metrics that matter to you for deeper insights. Progress Visuals: See your habits and achievements come to life with clear visuals. Streak Motivation: Keep your momentum going with a streak counter that counts each time you meet your goal. Actively developed with many new features coming soon. Let us know what you'd want to see! Start analysis today and make excellence your habit!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pixelist at 4.9 against Patterns's 4.5. Pixelist also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 77%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pixelist holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 100 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Pixelist's written reviews are positive against 77% of Patterns's.
Pixelist ships an update every 2 months, Patterns every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 24, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixelist | Patterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (100 ratings) — better | 4.5 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.1% of reviews — better | 77.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Crossley | Limit Point Software |
Customer experience
Pixelist
Patterns
Bugs and requests
Pixelist
Reported bugs
6 issues- App closes immediately on opening
- Cannot delete a habit
- Incorrect dates displayed for the month
- Deleting one of two habits with the same name crashes the app and deletes both
- Monthly reset feature was problematic (now fixed)
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- March data disappeared on April 1st (resolved)
Requested features
37 requests- Export data as CSV or to clipboard
- More themes/color options
- Widget for home screen
- Yearly view
- Customizable colors/hex code picker
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- Ability to scroll calendar forward/backward
- Outline individual squares and lines
- Sync with iCloud/Dropbox
- Yearly view
- Symbols instead of colors for colorblind users
- Dark mode theme
- Zoom out view with notations
- Ability to group tasks
- Scale task label size to length
- Customizable colors instead of themes
- Widget to show visual squares
- More pixel colors/hex code picker
- Yearly view
- See previous month after it ended
- Export data as JSON or CSV
- Import data
- Dropdown menu for themes with previews
- Sync with iCloud between devices
- Display info as a widget
- Customizable colors
- Yearly view
- See previous month after it ended
- Export features
- Yearly view
- Dark mode theme
- Custom theme features
- Zoom out part of the app have notations
- Export data as a file (JSON or CSV)
- Import data
- Dropdown menu for theme with preview
- Symbols instead of colors
- Sync with iCloud between devices
Patterns
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pixelist
No in-app purchases
Patterns
No in-app purchases
