Sprite Pencil vs Pixelet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sprite Pencil
Create pixel art sprites easily on your mobile device. This app offers a powerful drawing engine with a simple toolset, supporting iCloud Drive and Apple Pencil. Edit existing pixel art files and share your creations with various scaling options.
- Pixel art sprite creation
- iCloud Drive support
- Apple Pencil support
- Import and edit existing pixel art
- Symmetric drawing mode
- Automatic shading brushes
- Share with scaling options
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Sprite Pencil enables you to create beautiful pixel art sprites on the go. Sprite Pencil has a simple set of tools, and a powerful drawing engine. Sprite Pencil allows you to open and edit pixel art images you may already have in Files. Sprite Pencil supports in-place file editing so you can use your own file organization. FEATURES: • iCloud Drive support • Apple Pencil support • Drawing engine built exclusively for Apple platforms • Handpicked color palettes • Import color palettes • Move, rotate, flip, fill, and posterize sprites • Easy outlines • Symmetric drawing mode • Automatic shading brushes • Share your pixel art with scaling options • Create pixel art stickers in the iMessage app • Display your sprites in a widget
Pixelet
Create pixel art and animations by writing simple programs. This tool offers editing assistance, syntax highlighting, and sharing capabilities for your pixel art creations. It's designed to make pixel art accessible through code.
- Create pixel art from programs
- Create animations from programs
- Editing assistance with toolbar
- Share images and animations
- Syntax highlighting and line numbers
- Customizable settings for size and animation
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Let's draw pixel art with coding! Pixelet is an app to create pixel art by writing a program instead of editing each pixel. It sounds difficult, but it's easy because you only have to learn a few patterns. You can also copy and paste the program, making it easy to repeat and reuse. # Features - Create pixel art from the program - Create animation from programs - Editing assistance with toolbar - Share the created images/animations - Syntax highlighting and line numbers - Settings for sizes, animation, anti-aliasing, grid, etc. This app is completely free. * Advertisement will be displayed. Feel free to draw something.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sprite Pencil at 68% against Pixelet's 0%. Sprite Pencil also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Pixelet's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs paid) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sprite Pencil holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sprite Pencil has 59 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Sprite Pencil's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pixelet's.
Sprite Pencil ships an update monthly, Pixelet every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sprite Pencil | Pixelet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (59 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 256 Arts | Tatsuya Tobioka |
Customer experience
Sprite Pencil
Pixelet
In-app purchases
Sprite Pencil
No in-app purchases
Pixelet
No in-app purchases
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