Halftone dot art vs Spritfill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Black and white dot art processing
- Over 50 dot formats
- Gradient background options
- Color dot fill with gradients
- Suitable for laser engraving
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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.
Spritfill
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Spritfill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Halftone dot art asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Halftone dot art | Spritfill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yihang Huang | Edmond Wu |
In-app purchases
Halftone dot art
No in-app purchases
Spritfill
- Spritfill Pro$2.99









