Comparison

StampFX vs Spriteer

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

Head to head
About

StampFX

Features
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Whether you're 8 or 80, a complete beginner or seasoned artist, StampFX makes pixel art animation approachable and fun for everyone. Create stunning animated stickers, GIFs, and pixel art with an intuitive frame-by-frame animation tool designed for all skill levels. No artistic experience required. Just tap, draw, and watch your creations come to life. Perfect for animated stickers, reaction GIFs, retro-style animations, and creative projects on your iPhone or iPad. POWERFUL ANIMATION TOOLS Bring your pixel art to life with intuitive creative features: • Frame-by-frame animation with instant preview • 12 specialized drawing tools (pixel, line, circle, rectangle, flood fill, and more) • Customizable brush sizes and shapes for pencil, eraser, ellipse, rectangle, and line tools • Quick frame cloning, duplication, and rearrangement • Pervasive undo for fearless creativity • Mini Sprites: stamp hand-picked 1-bit mini sprites right onto your canvas • Import Image: bring any photo or image onto your canvas to pixelate and remix • Rotation and flipping tools • Two-finger pinch and zoom for precise control • Eyedropper for perfect color matching CREATE FUN ANIMATIONS StampFX is perfect for making: • Animated stickers for iMessage • Reaction GIFs to share with friends • Pixel art characters and animations • Retro-style animated art • Creative projects and personal artwork BEAUTIFUL COLOR PALETTES Create your own, generate a palette from any image, or choose from carefully curated palettes inspired by: • Classic video game consoles • Retro operating systems • Nature themes (fire, ocean, forest) • Monochrome options (17 shades of gray, sepia) • Web-safe colors • Custom hue ranges FLEXIBLE CANVAS SIZES Create at your ideal resolution with canvases up to 512x512: • Tiny (perfect for 16x16 icons) • Small (great for 32x32 sprites) • Medium (ideal for detailed work) • Large (for high-resolution assets) • Custom sizes up to 512x512 pixels ANIMATION SPEED CONTROL Fine-tune your animation timing: • Slow (study details) • Medium (natural motion) • Fast (rapid action) EXPORT & SHARE ANYWHERE Your creations work everywhere: • Animated GIF export • iMessage sticker integration • AirDrop to Mac or other devices • Email sharing • Save to Files app • Compatible with any app that supports GIFs PRIVACY FIRST We respect your creativity: • Zero personal data collection • No analytics or tracking • Your art stays yours • Work offline anytime Whether you're creating animated stickers for messaging, making reaction GIFs for social media, or exploring pixel art as a creative hobby, StampFX gives you powerful frame-by-frame animation tools in a simple, fun iOS app. Download StampFX and start animating today!

About

Spriteer

Create animated pixel art characters and objects on an 8x8 canvas. Integrate your creations into 38 built-in arcade games or export them as PNGs or GIFs. Drawing, playing, and sharing are free.

Highlights
  • 8x8 pixel art canvas
  • Animated sprite creation
  • 38 built-in arcade games
  • PNG and GIF export
  • Customizable color palettes
  • Live walk preview
  • Undo functionality
Features
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The canvas is eight by eight. That is the whole rule — and it is enough. Draw a hero, a zombie, a gem, a door. One small frame per pose; the engine breathes in the rest — the walk beat, the floating treasure, the bounce of a slime. Your sprite starts living the moment you lift your finger. What you draw is yours to keep. Export any sprite as a PNG, or a character as an animated GIF, and take it wherever you like. Then prove it. Thirty-eight real arcade games are built in — mines, factories, haunted manors — and every one of them instantly wears YOUR art. Outrun boulders as the hero you drew; hunt the zombie you gave those red eyes. Your work lives in skins, like resource packs: each skin is a complete project — every character, tile, and item in one place, with your progress counted. Wear one skin at a time and switch styles in a tap. Share the file anywhere, or open it in Pythoneer and play whole worlds dressed in your sprites. Mirror drawing, a fixed sixteen-color palette, onion skin, a live walk preview, undo — serious tools, one simple rule. Unlock All — one purchase, no subscription: make as many characters of your own as you like. Five are free, and so are skins, every export, every color, drawing, playing and sharing. Sixty-four pixels. Yours.

Screenshots

StampFX4 screens
Spriteer4 screens

Verdict

The call

StampFX and Spriteer are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. StampFX sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Spriteer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StampFX ships an update fortnightly, Spriteer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
StampFX versus Spriteer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStampFXSpriteer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCyclic Software Development Inc.Swiftian Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

StampFX

One-time1
  • StampFX Pro$1.99
1 purchases

Spriteer

One-time1
  • Unlock All$1.99

Questions

Is StampFX free?
StampFX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spriteer free?
Spriteer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StampFX or Spriteer have ads?
Neither StampFX nor Spriteer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StampFX or Spriteer?
StampFX ships an update fortnightly, and Spriteer every 9 days. Most recently, StampFX was updated on October 27, 2026 and Spriteer on October 25, 2026.

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