Comparison

Halftone dot art vs Spritfill

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

Head to head
About

Halftone dot art

Transform your photos into striking black and white dot art with over fifty unique dot formats. Customize your creations by setting gradient backgrounds or coloring the dots with gradient hues for an artistic touch, perfect for laser engraving.

Highlights
  • Black and white dot art processing
  • Over 50 dot formats
  • Gradient background options
  • Color dot fill with gradients
  • Suitable for laser engraving
Features
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Process photos into black and white dots. There are more than fifty different dot formats, which can be used in laser engraving. You can set the background color of the gradient or paint the black and white dots with the gradient color, which is a pretty artistic picture.

About

Spritfill

Features
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Spritfill is a pixel art editor designed for iPad, built for both beginners and experienced sprite artists. Draw on a variety of canvas sizes — from 16×16 icons to massive 512×512 scenes. Choose from built-in color palettes like PICO-8, Endesga, and Spritfill 128, or create your own custom palettes. Powerful drawing tools: • Pencil, eraser, and fill bucket • Line, rectangle, ellipse, and shape tools • Gradient and dither tools • Color picker (eyedropper) • Selection tool — pick, shift, and move pixels between layers • Symmetry drawing (horizontal, vertical, and quad) • Shift and flip entire layers. Layer support: • Up to 8 layers with visibility toggles • Merge, reorder, and rename layers • Import other projects as new layers. Recreate mode: • Browse a catalog of premade sprites and practice pixel art by recreating them step by step • Track your progress and completion. Community features: • Submit your finished artwork for others to recreate • Browse and download community-submitted sprites. Export & share: • Save to your photo library with customizable tile sizes • Upscale exports for crisp, high-resolution sprites • Share directly from the app. Apple Pencil support with automatic detection and configurable settings. Unlock Spritfill Pro for the full experience — larger canvases, more layers, advanced tools, and unlimited custom palettes.

Screenshots

Halftone dot art2 screens
Spritfill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Halftone dot art at none against Spritfill's 1. Halftone dot art also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.2). Spritfill's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spritfill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Halftone dot art asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Halftone dot art versus Spritfill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHalftone dot artSpritfill
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 22 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYihang HuangEdmond Wu

In-app purchases

None

Halftone dot art

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Spritfill

One-time1
  • Spritfill Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Halftone dot art free?
Halftone dot art is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spritfill free?
Spritfill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Halftone dot art or Spritfill have ads?
Halftone dot art shows ads; Spritfill does not.

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