CityPainter vs Pixel Islet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CityPainter
Race through famous cities worldwide, painting roads while evading police. Use oil cans to disable pursuers and jump over obstacles. Collect balloons to warp to new countries for bonus points and extra lives.
- Global city locations
- Police pursuit evasion
- Oil can combat
- Jumping mechanics
- Balloon collection bonuses
- Collectible oil cans
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Controls -------------- · GamePad MFI Compatible: Joystick, change car direction. Button A,B: oil shooting and jump (press short jump, press and hold large jump). · Screen Controls: Left Joystick, change car direction. Right Buttons, oil shooting and jump (tap short jump, tap and hold large jump). The Game -------------- Must paint all the road throughout countries, each taking place in a famous city from around the world (USA, Spain, UK, France, Australia,...). Your car is constantly under pursuit by police and taxi cars, which you can take out by launching oil cans at them, stunning them, and then ramming into them with your car. Your car can jump over large gaps to reach higher sections of the stage. By collecting oil cans found in each stage, the player can shoot these at other cars. If the player remains on the same stage for an extended period of time, spikes will extrude from the ground... be careful with spikes and cats. Balloons may appear in the stage. The player should collect three of these balloons, they will be warped to a new country and be granted with a large sum of bonus points. Extra life each 100.000 Points! Enjoy!!!!
Pixel Islet
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A tiny pixel pet moves into a cozy 3D room on your iPhone. Feed, play, rest, clean, and pet. The way you care decides which adult form it grows into. Raise it differently and you get a different result: a relaxing idle pet game where the goal is to complete the whole collection. ▼ Features 【Live together in a 3D room】 The room has real depth. Tap the floor and your pet walks over, pet it and it beams, and it lets you know when it is hungry. When the room gets messy, you can actually see the dust and stains, so you know when to clean. The light shifts from morning to noon, dusk, and night, and at bedtime your pet lies down in its bed and sleeps. 【Grown-ups relax on a 3D island】 Once a pet reaches its adult form, you can let it live on the island. Spin the island with a swipe and watch your friends wander between the trees and the pond. At night, everyone sleeps. 【Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets】 Put the pet you're raising on your Lock Screen or a small widget to see its mood and progress at a glance. A wide widget shows your island friends (up to 8). 【They also live in the Dynamic Island (supported models)】 On supported iPhones, your pet stays in the Dynamic Island at the top of the screen and shows what it is up to at a glance: the time left on an outing, a souvenir waiting for you, napping, or feeling hungry. Even with the app closed, it switches on its own when your pet comes home or goes to bed. 【Your app icon becomes your pet】 Choose "Current pet" in Settings and the app icon on your Home Screen becomes the pet you are raising right now. When it evolves, the icon changes too. 【Evolution shaped by your care】 Forest, flame, water, star... the way you care decides which adult form a child grows into. The same species can end up looking completely different. 17 species plus one secret, and 84 forms to complete the collection. In the collection you can spin each 3D figure with your finger, read every pet's little story, and see its postcards. 【Bonds and the island】 Even after growing up, petting keeps raising the bond. Let a favorite live on the island and it brings you coins every day according to its bond level: a warm little economy. 【Minigames】 - Fruit Catch: catch falling fruit on your pet's head in the 3D room (while your pet is out or asleep, an island friend catches in its place) - Expedition: pick 2 to 4 island friends for an auto battle you watch unfold (3D) - Memory Match: a card-matching game with pets from your collection (unlocks at 4 registered forms) 【Outings and travel postcards】 Send your pet on an outing and it comes back later with coins, XP, and a souvenir. While it is out, it is not in the room, and it always comes home by bedtime. There are 20 souvenirs to collect. Each trip also brings a postcard of your pet, sometimes with island friends, at one of 12 places, from flower fields to hot springs. Time of day and weather vary, and rare ones show rainbows, whales, auroras, and more. Favorite, save, and share them in the Postcards tab. 【Daily task】 Clear one task a day for coins and XP. Watch a video to double the reward. ▼ Play at your own pace - Hunger and happiness fall slowly, and a short absence never kills your pet (only 48 hours of complete neglect does) - If hunger and happiness have never hit zero, a gentle notification lets you know before they do (until your pet grows up, when notifications are on) - No penalty for coming back after a while. The design is "oh, welcome back" - When a pet is fully grown, choose whether it graduates into a memory or keeps living on the island - Tap "Back up now" in Settings to save to iCloud and continue after switching phones or reinstalling Spend a little time with a little life on a little screen. Free to play with ads; a one-time Remove Ads purchase turns them off. Put Pixel Islet in your pocket today. Privacy Policy: https://rinblog.org/apps/pixel-pocket/support/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://rinblog.org/apps/pixel-pocket/support/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pixel Islet at Free against CityPainter's $1.99. Pixel Islet also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 38 months). CityPainter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Pixel Islet is free to download; CityPainter costs $1.99 up front. Pixel Islet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CityPainter asks for nothing beyond the download.
CityPainter ships an update every 38 months, Pixel Islet every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CityPainter | Pixel Islet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Cerra de Castro | Sho Iwasaki |
In-app purchases
CityPainter
No in-app purchases
Pixel Islet
- Remove Ads$5.99









