Comparison

Pixel Studio vs MeshVault

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Studio

Create pixel art, animated sprites, and game assets with a comprehensive suite of drawing, animation, and color tools. Supports layers, frame-by-frame animation, and various export formats. Offers Apple Pencil support and a customizable workspace for efficient design.

Highlights
  • Layer-based pixel art drawing
  • Frame-by-frame sprite animation
  • Onion skinning for animation
  • Customizable brushes and tools
  • Palette creation and management
  • Export as GIF, MP4, and sprite sheets
  • Apple Pencil support
Features
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Create pixel art, animated sprites and game assets on iPhone and iPad. Draw with layers, animate frame by frame, and export your work as images, GIFs or sprite sheets. Start with a small character or build a detailed scene. Pixel Studio brings drawing, animation and color tools together, with Apple Pencil support and a customizable workspace. DRAW PIXEL ART • Work with layers, built-in and custom brushes, shapes and gradients • Draw symmetrically and add shading with the Dithering Pen • Use Dot Pen for precise drawing with a cursor • Customize your grid, background and toolbar • Resize and rotate your canvas, with pixel art scaling and rotation tools ANIMATE YOUR SPRITES • Create frame-by-frame animations with Onion Skin • Export animations as GIFs or sprite sheets • Add music and export videos to MP4 WORK WITH COLOR • Create your own palettes or use built-in palettes and palettes from Lospec • Pick colors with RGBA and HSV controls • Extract palettes from images and apply palettes to your artwork SAVE AND SHARE • Use autosave and backups to help protect your projects • Work with PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TGA and Pixel Studio Project files • Import Aseprite files • Share your artwork with the Pixel Network community UPGRADE TO PRO PRO is a one-time purchase. It removes ads and unlocks Google Drive sync, a dark theme, 256-color palettes, seamless texture tile mode, larger projects, unlimited color adjustments and MP4 exports, additional format support and extended Pixel Network storage. Google Drive sync requires PRO. Some export options and advanced features also require PRO. Sample images by lorddkno, Redshrike, Calciumtrice, Buch and Tomoe Mami are used under CC BY 3.0. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/hippogamesunity/PixelStudioHub/wiki/Privacy-Policy Terms of Use: https://github.com/hippogamesunity/PixelStudioHub/wiki/EULA

About

MeshVault

Features
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Open a 3D file, look at it properly, and get the numbers you actually need. OPENS WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE STL, OBJ, FBX, PLY, GLB/glTF, 3MF, USDZ, DAE and Alembic. Drop in a ZIP, 7z or tar.gz and the models inside open directly - no unzipping first. If an archive holds a whole assembly, tick the parts you want, or load all of them at once. BUILT FOR BIG FILES A 1.2 GB assembly with millions of triangles loads without falling over. When a model is larger than the device can hold at full precision, it is reduced automatically so you still get to see it, and a banner tells you exactly what happened. EXPLODED VIEW Drag the slider and the parts move outward from the centre - the assembly opens up like a workshop diagram. Drag it back and everything returns to where it was, exactly. Files loaded together from an archive separate part by part. MEASURE AND WEIGH Tap two points for a distance in mm, cm, m or inches. Pick a material - PLA, ABS, PETG, resin, nylon, aluminium, steel, stainless, brass, copper, titanium, gold, silver, wood or your own density - and get the weight, alongside volume, surface area, bounding box and triangle count. Volume comes from the full-precision mesh, so simplified display never changes the numbers. SEE IT THE WAY YOU WANT Front, back, left, right, top, bottom, isometric, and fit to view. Lighting follows the camera, so the underside is as clear as the top. Set the model colour, the background, the light direction and its strength. CONVERT BETWEEN FORMATS Export what you opened as STL, OBJ, PLY, GLB, 3MF, FBX or USDZ. Handy when a printer wants STL and the model arrived as FBX. ALSO A WORKING ARCHIVE TOOL Extract any ZIP, 7z or tar.gz, 3D file or not, and save the contents to Files. Compress files into a standard ZIP anyone can open. Everything runs on the device. Nothing is uploaded. One-time purchase removes ads, drops the watermark from exported images, and unlocks unlimited format conversion. Free without it: three conversions, plus one more each time you watch a short video, up to five a day. Not supported: RAR archives, and CAD formats such as STEP or IGES.

Screenshots

Pixel Studio4 screens
MeshVault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pixel Studio at 15.0 against MeshVault's 17.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pixel Studio sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and MeshVault sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pixel Studio versus MeshVault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel StudioMeshVault
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews93.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.1K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFarida YarullinaSui Fai Law

Bugs and requests

Pixel Studio

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Exporting animations not working as expected
  • Unexpected behavior when merging layers
  • Inconsistent performance on larger canvases
  • Glitches with the reference image feature

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add custom brush options
  • Improve layer management
  • Implement a color wheel
  • Add canvas resizing capabilities
  • Introduce mirroring/symmetry tools
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  • Enhance the animation workflow
  • Provide a more intuitive file management system

MeshVault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Pixel Studio

Subscriptions1
  • PREMIUM subscription$3.991 Month
One-time9
  • Sprite collection$0.99
  • PROMOTION IN PIXEL NETWORK$0.99
  • Disable Ads$1.99
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  • PRO -50%!$5.99
  • PRO PROMO -50%$5.99
  • PRO CROSS -50%!$8.99
  • PRO CROSS GIFT -50%!$8.99
  • PRO$12.99
  • PRO CROSS$17.99
1 purchases

MeshVault

One-time1
  • Remove Ads + Clean Export$2.99

Questions

Is Pixel Studio free?
Pixel Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MeshVault free?
MeshVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixel Studio or MeshVault have ads?
Both Pixel Studio and MeshVault show ads.

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