Mixter vs PicoChat for iMessage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mixter
Easily create stunning gradient backgrounds for your Instagram Stories. Enhance your visual content with beautiful color transitions and personalize your posts beyond the default options.
- Custom gradient backgrounds
- Instagram Story personalization
- Beautiful color transitions
- Enhance visual content
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Personalize your Instagram Stories - replace the default background with a beautiful color gradient!
PicoChat for iMessage
Relive the nostalgia of early 2000s handheld messaging with this retro drawing app for iMessage. Create tiny pixel art, use unique emoji, and share your creations with friends, even if they don't have the app installed. Features include undo, saving favorites, and customization options.
- Create tiny drawings in iMessage
- Dozens of pixel emoji
- Undo mistakes
- Save favorite drawings
- Customize name and color
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Remember sitting on the bus and messaging your friends via your favorite two-screened handheld? Relive those memories with PicoChat, a tiny retro drawing app for iMessage! Featuring all the nostalgic features you remember and a few extras including the ability to undo, save favorites, and more! This open-source iMessage app is perfect for sending drawings to your friends who can see you art even if they don't have the app installed. With PicoChat, you can: • Create tiny drawings right in iMessage • Use dozens of pixel emoji • Undo mistakes with the click of a button • Save favorites to come back to later • Customize your name and color scheme And much more, download PicoChat today and try it out for yourself! Note: The terms Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, and PictoChat are registered trademarks of Nintendo Co., Ltd. This app is in no way affiliated with Nintendo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PicoChat for iMessage at Free against Mixter's $0.99. PicoChat for iMessage also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and ratings volume (98 vs 2). Mixter's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and chart position (#141 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
PicoChat for iMessage is free to download; Mixter costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Mixter against 4.5 for PicoChat for iMessage. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PicoChat for iMessage has 98 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Mixter's written reviews are positive against 79% of PicoChat for iMessage's.
Mixter ships an update every 4 days, PicoChat for iMessage daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mixter | PicoChat for iMessage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (98 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 79.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #141 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minterly Limited | Idrees Hassan |
Customer experience
Mixter
PicoChat for iMessage
Bugs and requests
Mixter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
PicoChat for iMessage
Reported bugs
4 issues- Settings don't save
- Cursor turns into scribbles when writing too fast
- Rainbow pen lags the app and force closes messages
- Doesn't accommodate all screen sizes
Requested features
4 requests- Bigger keyboard size
- Dark Mode support
- Scaling fix for iPad
- Ability to transform photos into drawings
In-app purchases
Mixter
No in-app purchases
PicoChat for iMessage
No in-app purchases
