Pixel Painter vs Sketchy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Painter
Create pixel art with a variety of tools and export options. Customize your creations with different pixel styles and built-in color palettes. The app features a scrollable canvas for easy pattern creation and selection tools for precise editing.
- Basic drawing and editing tools
- Apply various pixel export styles
- Erase mode for clearing colors
- Selection and cropping tools
- Scrollable canvas for patterns
- Customizable color palettes
- Downsample/Upsample pixel resolution
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Create pixel art with various pixel styles. Pixel Painter is an easy to use pixel art editor, with these main features: • Basic Tools: pencil tool, block tool, color bucket tool, selection tool, eyedropper tool, scroll tool. • Pixel Styles: apply a style to pixels when export, such as perler, circle, square. • Erase Mode: in this mode, pencil, block tool and color bucket tool are used to clear colors. • Selection: crop to selection, duplicate selected pixels, or remove selected pixels. • Scrollable Canvas: the canvas is scrollable, which allow you create repeatedly patterns more easier. • Color Palette: select a builtin color palette, then customize it if you like. • Downsample/Upsample pixels to get less/more pixels. If you have any questions, please contact me at email: arrowgraphics@icloud.com
Sketchy
Collaborate on an expansive, shared digital canvas where users can add color to an infinite space. Once a pixel is colored, only its creator can erase it, leading to endless creative possibilities.
- Infinite canvas
- Shared group canvas
- Persistent coloring
- Creator-controlled deletion
- Endless creative possibilities
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Sketchy is an infinite canvas that everybody shares. However once a point is colored, only the creator may remove it. The possibilities are endless!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sketchy at 100% against Pixel Painter's 0%. Sketchy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Pixel Painter's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and 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
Both are free to download. Pixel Painter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sketchy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sketchy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pixel Painter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sketchy's.
Pixel Painter ships an update every 4 days, Sketchy every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Pixel Painter | Sketchy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 光建 张 | Ever Cole |
Customer experience
Pixel Painter
Sketchy
In-app purchases
Pixel Painter
- Size Limits Removal$1.99
Sketchy
No in-app purchases
