ArtRef vs Pixel Network
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArtRef
This app helps artists and creatives find and organize high-quality images from popular stock photo sites. It also offers timed sketching challenges to improve art skills using saved images.
- Image search from multiple stock sites
- Create and organize image collections
- Timed sketching challenges
- Improve art skills
- Offline access to saved images
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ArtRef is intended for the use of artist and creative individual who like to look up image and some how find themselves running out phone storage space due to so many images. The ArtRef application allow you to look up amazing quality image thankfully to website such as Flicker, Unplash, Pexels, ,Pixabay ,and then having the functionality of creating collections of galleries to organize with those images so you can easily access anytime and anyplace as long as the creator who provide those image on the various platform don't remove the image. You can also do time trial image sketch with the app using various time such as 30s , 60s, 5 min , and 30 min to overall improve art skills with the images your saved in your collections.
Pixel Network
Connect with a vibrant pixel art community. Share your creations, discover inspiring artwork and animations, or simply relax and enjoy the visual content. This platform welcomes artists using any pixel art software.
- Pixel art community
- Share creations
- Discover artwork
- Watch animations
- Supports all pixel art software
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Join Pixel Network to become a part of a new pixel art community! No matter what pixel art software you use, we will be glad to see you! Don't want to draw? Just watch awesome pixel arts and animations and relax.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ArtRef at 5.0 against Pixel Network's 4.6. ArtRef also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 42 months). Pixel Network's advantage is ratings volume (65 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ArtRef holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Network has 65 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ArtRef ships an update every 3 weeks, Pixel Network every 42 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ArtRef | Pixel Network |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 42 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wisterdy Alcida | Farida Yarullina |
Customer experience
ArtRef
Pixel Network
In-app purchases
ArtRef
No in-app purchases
Pixel Network
No in-app purchases
