Sprite Pencil vs IconForge

Pixel art, made simple and made to feel great. Sprite Pencil is a focused pixel-art editor for sprites, icons, and game assets. A small set of carefully chosen tools and a drawing engine built exclusively for Apple devices make every pixel land exactly where you meant it, whether you draw with a finger or with Apple Pencil. Draw • Pencil, eraser, and fill tools • Highlight and shadow brushes that shade automatically • Symmetry mode to mirror strokes as you draw • Dithering for classic checkered patterns • Flip, rotate, and outline a whole sprite in a tap • Full undo and redo Color • Handpicked palettes, plus seasonal picks • Building Bricks colors • Import any palette from Lospec Your Files, Your Way • Sprites are plain PNG files, so any app can open them • Edit images in place wherever they live, including iCloud Drive • Share your art scaled up so it stays crisp Show It Off • Pin a favorite sprite to your Home Screen with a widget • Draw and send pixel-art stickers right in Messages

Describe your app in one sentence, pick a style, and get six app icon concepts. Choose one, render it in HD at 1024 × 1024, and see it at real size on every Apple device. Type what the app does and what the icon should show, for example "a paper crane, for a journaling app". Before anything is drawn, your sentence is expanded into a full design brief: subject, composition, colour and what to leave out. Six concepts are then drawn from that brief at once, so you get six different takes rather than six near-copies. Seven styles: Glassmorphism, Flat, 3D Clay, Gradient, Minimal, Neon and Skeuomorphic. Every concept is full-bleed square artwork with no text in it. iOS and macOS apply their own rounded mask, and one clear subject holds up when the icon shrinks. Preview Sizes puts your icon, with your app name under it, at the sizes people will actually see: a 24-point Apple Watch notification, iPhone Spotlight and Home Screen, iPad and iPad Pro, the Mac from 16 × 16 up to 512 × 512, and the 1024 App Store tile. Most icon problems only show up small, and this is where you catch them before you ship. When it looks right, save the 1024 × 1024 image to Photos or send it anywhere through the share sheet, then drop it into your Xcode asset catalog. You can start a new icon from Control Center, or ask Siri to "make an icon with IconForge". It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.