Comparison

Pixels vs Cauldron

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

Head to head
About

Pixels

Enhance your tabletop gaming experience with digital dice that offer customizable LED colors and animations. Set up unique profiles for specific rolls, add custom audio cues, and even integrate with smart home devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable LED colors and animations
  • Profile creation for specific rolls
  • Audible roll results
  • Custom audio clip integration
  • Web requests for smart home integration
  • Light and dark mode support
Features
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Light Up Your Game with Pixels Dice! Enjoy the analog feel of dice in your hand with all new digital features available when connected to this Pixels app. Use the Pixels app to customize LED colors and animations on your dice, using profiles and rules to make things happen exactly how you want to enhance your TTRPG session. Create a “Nat 20” profile that plays a unique animation of rainbow colors whenever you roll a natural 20, or a “Fireball” profile that plays a flickering orange color when your d6 rolls max damage. Use the app’s built-in Speak Numbers profile to make your roll results audible for the whole table! Or add your own audio clips to be played on rolls. Use web requests to communicate with external sites like IFTTT. Create rules that change the colors of your smart light bulbs based on your roll results. — COMING SOON: - ACCESSIBILITY: Improved navigation, screen reader compatibility, and new user settings. Switch between light and dark mode, increase contrast, adjust animation speeds, and more!

About

Cauldron

This app allows users to print game tokens and track life totals using voice commands. It supports various token types and game mechanics, and also includes dice rolling and coin flipping functionalities. Requires a specific thermal printer.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated token printing
  • Life total tracking
  • Commander damage tracking
  • Dice rolling and coin flipping
  • Monarch and status effects
  • Offline speech recognition
Features
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Say the name of a token. It comes out of your printer. Nobody can have every token handy when the situation calls for it. Cauldron is a life counter / token-printer. Hold the microphone, say "goblin" or "4/4 angel with flying" or "treasure," and the card is found, dithered and printed on receipt paper in about a second. LIFE COUNTER • Drag from one seat to another to deal commander damage. • Draw a glyph on a seat to give it the monarch, poison, energy, experience, rads or the city's blessing. • Three fingers across the board starts a new game. Two fingers opens the settings. • Supports up to 8 players in a pod (7+ on iPad / tablet only) • Say "2/4/6/8 players" to change the game size. • This is a full-fledged life counter, without menus. THE PRINTER • Cauldron drives the Phomemo M110 or MUNBYN FM226 over Bluetooth. • The printers use no ink - merely fast heat transfer to receipt paper, they will not smear. • The batteries last several days on a single charge over USB-C. DICE AND COINS AND MORE • Say "roll a d20" or "flip a coin." • Four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty and a hundred sides... • all announced out loud by a voice synthesizer that sounds like it was built in 1982. • "Momir {number}" to get a random creature. say "Calling Mr. Vig" for a standalone momir vig faux-payphone interface. THE TOKEN INDEX Say "token index" or hold four fingers on the board to open it. • Browse and search every printable token, by name or by artist, with filters for each kind of token. • Swipe through each token's artwork and print the one you like. • Tap an artwork to keep it out of random picks, or long-press to always print that one. • SHUFFLE, RANDOM and SEQUENTIAL control how artwork is dealt when you ask by voice. • A UB switch keeps Universes Beyond artwork out of random picks. • Add your own artwork to any token from your camera or photo library, with or without the token's text printed under it. • Favorites: drag the heart onto artwork you love, then print one, print them all, or share them as an Instagram story. • See any card full screen, with the artist credited underneath. • Tap (i) for a guide to everything. Every token is indexed on your phone, so lookup is quick. Speech is recognised on the device. Nothing about your game is uploaded anywhere. No Accounts. No Signups. WHAT YOU NEED A Phomemo M110 or MUNBYN FM226 printer and a roll of thermal paper. Cauldron will show you which paper and printer to purchase. Card data and images from Scryfall. Cauldron is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Apple's Standard Terms of Use apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pixels3 screens
Cauldron4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cauldron at every 4 days against Pixels's every 3 months. Cauldron also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cauldron holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Pixels's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cauldron's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixels ships an update every 3 months, Cauldron every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pixels versus Cauldron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelsCauldron
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (20 ratings)5.0 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2021 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB53 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSystemic Games, LLCJoseph Liechty

Customer experience

Pixels

All ratings19 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Cauldron

All ratings21 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pixels

No in-app purchases

None

Cauldron

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixels free?
Pixels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cauldron free?
Cauldron is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pixels or Cauldron?
Cauldron is rated higher. Pixels averages 4.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Cauldron averages 5.0 from 21 ratings.
Do Pixels or Cauldron have ads?
Neither Pixels nor Cauldron shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixels or Cauldron?
Pixels ships an update every 3 months, and Cauldron every 4 days. Most recently, Pixels was updated on October 10, 2026 and Cauldron on October 1, 2026.

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