Comparison

Compo vs Resprite

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

Head to head
About

Compo

An intuitive app for creating dynamic and harmonious compositions using shapes and colors inspired by Bauhaus masters. Explore your creativity from a blank canvas or use a shuffle feature to generate ideas. Easily manipulate elements to express your unique style.

Highlights
  • Create compositions with shapes and colors
  • Inspired by Bauhaus masters
  • Blank canvas or shuffle feature
  • Move, rotate, copy, and overlap shapes
  • Express personal style
Features
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We imagined a fun and intuitive composition app. See shapes and colours like the Bauhaus masters and use them to create dynamic and harmonious compositions. Create from a blank canvas or use the shuffle feature to spark your creative process. Move, rotate, copy, overlap and add shapes to suit your mood or just fit your style. With Compo express yourself simply because you’re the master.

About

Resprite

This professional pixel art editor offers desktop-class features optimized for touch and pen input. Create pixel illustrations, animations, and game assets with an extensive toolset, advanced layers, and a high-performance renderer, all on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • High-performance drawing engine
  • Innovative palette and coloring tools
  • Advanced layers and timeline system
  • Optimized gesture and pen controls
  • Flexible interface layout
  • Import/export GIF, spritesheet, and PSD files
Features
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Resprite is a professional pixel art editor. Desktop-class features combined with touch/pen optimizations let you create efficiently anywhere. Resprite brings together a complete pixel toolset, an innovative coloring system, advanced layers and timelines, and a Metal-powered high-performance renderer so you can easily make pixel illustrations, spritesheets, GIF animations, and game art assets. Wherever you are—at home, camping, on the beach, or waiting at the gate—you can start creating. Resprite is your mobile pixel art studio. Resprite includes: - High-performance drawing engine - Innovative and efficient palette and coloring tools - Complete dithering pattern support - Flexible interface layout, always one tap away - Optimized gesture and pen controls for precision Flexible interface layout: - Arrange floating panels freely - All panels can be minimized - Shorten the distance between pen and target to boost efficiency - Cohesive pixel-styled UI All-in-one toolset: - Brushes, innovative coloring tools, three selection tools, eyedropper, paint bucket, three shape tools, plus rich sub-options - Pixel Perfect, Alpha Lock, dithering textures, and other advanced features - Place the toolbar anywhere for instant access - Copy, paste (including across files), flip horizontally/vertically, rotate, scale - Zoom and transform both canvas and image - Quick outline, HSV tuning, brightness/contrast adjustment, blur filter - Insert multi-line or vertical text, with custom fonts Convenient reference images: - Load multiple reference images - References can be zoomed and minimized - Place them anywhere Innovative palette: - Free placement layout - Linked workflow with coloring tools - Interpolate to create intermediate colors - Palette import and export - Automatically sample palettes from the canvas Import and sharing: - Import/export GIF, spritesheet, and Resprite packages - Export with scale, frame margin, spritesheet layout options, and more - Export per animation clip or by row - Import/export palettes (GPL, RPL formats) - Export PSD files - Import/export APNG animations - Export timelapse recordings of your drawing Layer and timeline system: - Comprehensive features for flexible layer-based creation - Copy, merge, flatten, rasterize, and other advanced operations - Onion Skin support - Set multiple animation clips and select them individually - Reliable performance—smooth even with hundreds of frames - Color tags, multi-level grouping, and opacity control Fast gesture operations: - Supports low-tilt and heavy-press stylus gestures - Two-finger/three-finger tap for undo/redo - Customizable pen Double-Tap actions - One-finger gestures to switch frames, play, and toggle onion skin - Long-press gesture - Flexibly map gestures to actions Pixel art in the demos comes from these artists: 史大巴、斯尔娜娜、扑倒奥利奥、吱小墨、妘归、KATLEE十三、石睐暮 PREMIUM: Your Resprite PREMIUM unlocks: - Remove export limits - Color adjustments - Stroke - Symmetry tool - Text tool All app features are available, and Premium is shared between iPad and iPhone. Customer support: Docs: https://resprite.fengeon.com/ Email: support@fengeon.com Optional in-app purchases: Charges are deducted from your iTunes account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. After purchase, you can manage auto-renewal anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms and conditions: Your use of this app is governed by the Terms at https://resprite.fengeon.com/terms and the Privacy Policy at https://resprite.fengeon.com/privacy, including future versions.

Screenshots

Compo4 screens
Resprite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Resprite at 1.4K against Compo's 5. Compo's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Compo sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Resprite sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Compo against 4.7 for Resprite. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Resprite has 1.4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Compo's written reviews are positive against 80% of Resprite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Compo versus Resprite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompoResprite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better4.7 (1.4K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better79.6% of reviews
Number of ratings51.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSylvain LambertFengeon

Customer experience

Compo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Resprite

All ratings1,441 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews284 reviews
Positive79.6%
Neutral7.0%
Negative13.4%

Bugs and requests

Compo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Resprite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tools disappearing from the UI
  • Importing Aseprite files not working properly
  • Export function counting against trial limit even when cancelled

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add keyframe animation support
  • Implement tile set creation tools
  • Allow importing/exporting more file formats
  • Improve undo/redo functionality
  • Add cursor/crosshair display option
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  • Increase free export limit

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Compo

One-time4
  • Leaves$0.99
  • Letters$0.99
  • Coals$0.99
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  • Fishes$0.99
5 purchases

Resprite

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month$1.991 Month
  • 12 Months$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • A Coffee$0.99
  • Lifetime$24.99
  • Lifetime Standard$29.99

Questions

Is Compo free?
Compo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Resprite free?
Resprite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Compo or Resprite?
Compo is rated higher. Compo averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Resprite averages 4.7 from 1.4K ratings.
Do Compo or Resprite have ads?
Neither Compo nor Resprite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Compo or Resprite?
Compo ships an update every 5 weeks, and Resprite every 5 weeks. Most recently, Compo was updated on October 1, 2026 and Resprite on October 15, 2026.

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