Comparison

Resprite vs Dudel Draw

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

Head to head
About

Resprite

This professional pixel art editor offers desktop-class features optimized for touch and pen input. Create pixel illustrations, animations, and game assets with an extensive toolset, advanced layers, and a high-performance renderer, all on your mobile device.

Highlights
  • High-performance drawing engine
  • Innovative palette and coloring tools
  • Advanced layers and timeline system
  • Optimized gesture and pen controls
  • Flexible interface layout
  • Import/export GIF, spritesheet, and PSD files
Features
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Resprite is a professional pixel art editor. Desktop-class features combined with touch/pen optimizations let you create efficiently anywhere. Resprite brings together a complete pixel toolset, an innovative coloring system, advanced layers and timelines, and a Metal-powered high-performance renderer so you can easily make pixel illustrations, spritesheets, GIF animations, and game art assets. Wherever you are—at home, camping, on the beach, or waiting at the gate—you can start creating. Resprite is your mobile pixel art studio. Resprite includes: - High-performance drawing engine - Innovative and efficient palette and coloring tools - Complete dithering pattern support - Flexible interface layout, always one tap away - Optimized gesture and pen controls for precision Flexible interface layout: - Arrange floating panels freely - All panels can be minimized - Shorten the distance between pen and target to boost efficiency - Cohesive pixel-styled UI All-in-one toolset: - Brushes, innovative coloring tools, three selection tools, eyedropper, paint bucket, three shape tools, plus rich sub-options - Pixel Perfect, Alpha Lock, dithering textures, and other advanced features - Place the toolbar anywhere for instant access - Copy, paste (including across files), flip horizontally/vertically, rotate, scale - Zoom and transform both canvas and image - Quick outline, HSV tuning, brightness/contrast adjustment, blur filter - Insert multi-line or vertical text, with custom fonts Convenient reference images: - Load multiple reference images - References can be zoomed and minimized - Place them anywhere Innovative palette: - Free placement layout - Linked workflow with coloring tools - Interpolate to create intermediate colors - Palette import and export - Automatically sample palettes from the canvas Import and sharing: - Import/export GIF, spritesheet, and Resprite packages - Export with scale, frame margin, spritesheet layout options, and more - Export per animation clip or by row - Import/export palettes (GPL, RPL formats) - Export PSD files - Import/export APNG animations - Export timelapse recordings of your drawing Layer and timeline system: - Comprehensive features for flexible layer-based creation - Copy, merge, flatten, rasterize, and other advanced operations - Onion Skin support - Set multiple animation clips and select them individually - Reliable performance—smooth even with hundreds of frames - Color tags, multi-level grouping, and opacity control Fast gesture operations: - Supports low-tilt and heavy-press stylus gestures - Two-finger/three-finger tap for undo/redo - Customizable pen Double-Tap actions - One-finger gestures to switch frames, play, and toggle onion skin - Long-press gesture - Flexibly map gestures to actions Pixel art in the demos comes from these artists: 史大巴、斯尔娜娜、扑倒奥利奥、吱小墨、妘归、KATLEE十三、石睐暮 PREMIUM: Your Resprite PREMIUM unlocks: - Remove export limits - Color adjustments - Stroke - Symmetry tool - Text tool All app features are available, and Premium is shared between iPad and iPhone. Customer support: Docs: https://resprite.fengeon.com/ Email: support@fengeon.com Optional in-app purchases: Charges are deducted from your iTunes account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. After purchase, you can manage auto-renewal anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Terms and conditions: Your use of this app is governed by the Terms at https://resprite.fengeon.com/terms and the Privacy Policy at https://resprite.fengeon.com/privacy, including future versions.

About

Dudel Draw

This app provides a daily unique shape to inspire your drawings. Transform basic forms into art by sketching directly on them, and explore creations from other users. It's designed to spark creativity for artists of all levels.

Highlights
  • Daily curated shapes
  • Random shape mode
  • Draw and sketch directly
  • Flip and rotate shapes
  • Share artwork with friends
  • Explore other artists' creations
Features
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Apple Design Award Finalist for Fun & Delight 2024 Every day, you get a shape. What your brain sees is entirely up to you. Maybe it becomes a cat. Maybe it becomes a spaceship. Maybe it becomes something unique to you. That's the whole point. Dudel Draw is a daily drawing challenge for people who love to doodle, want to get back into drawing, or just need a little creative spark in their day. No pressure, no rules; just you, a shape, and a few minutes of pure fun. Flip it. Rotate it. Zoom in. Draw. Then download your art and share it with friends to see who has the most creative mind in the group! Privacy Policy: https://www.sillylittleapps.com/dudel-privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.sillylittleapps.com/dudel-terms-of-service

Screenshots

Resprite4 screens
Dudel Draw4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dudel Draw at none against Resprite's 5. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Resprite sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Dudel Draw asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Resprite against 4.8 for Dudel Draw. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.4K and 551 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Resprite's written reviews are positive against 87% of Dudel Draw's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Resprite versus Dudel Draw: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRespriteDudel Draw
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings)4.8 (551 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews86.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better551
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFengeonSilly Little Apps LLC

Customer experience

Resprite

All ratings1,409 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral2.4%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews280 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative13.6%

Dudel Draw

All ratings551 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral8.8%
Negative4.4%

User reviews

Resprite

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Clean and intuitive UI
  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive
  • 💡 Customizable interface
  • 👍 Familiar Aseprite-like experience
  • 🚀 Powerful features for pixel art

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
  • 🔒 Exporting limited on free version
  • 💰 Subscription model can be expensive
  • 🔍 Unintuitive UI navigation at times

Dudel Draw

From 551 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fun and creative
  • 👍 Simplicity and ease of use
  • 💡 Sparks creativity and inspiration
  • 🤩 Enjoyable for all ages
  • 🎨 Helpful for artists and non-artists

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Lack of eraser tool
  • 🐛 Undo button not always reliable
  • 🐛 Drawing gets lost when navigating away
  • 🔧 Limited drawing features (no zoom, rotation, etc.)

Bugs and requests

Resprite

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tools disappearing from the UI
  • Importing Aseprite files not working properly
  • Export function counting against trial limit even when cancelled

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add keyframe animation support
  • Implement tile set creation tools
  • Allow importing/exporting more file formats
  • Improve undo/redo functionality
  • Add cursor/crosshair display option
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  • Increase free export limit

Dudel Draw

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Tapping on shape doesn't produce dots
  • Navigating away from drawing screen causes loss of work

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add eraser tool
  • Implement palm rejection
  • Allow for 90-degree rotation
  • Add ability to save and share drawings
  • Expand shape library and options

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Resprite

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month$1.991 Month
  • 12 Months$14.991 Year
One-time3
  • A Coffee$0.99
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime Standard$29.99
None

Dudel Draw

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Resprite free?
Resprite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dudel Draw free?
Dudel Draw is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Resprite or Dudel Draw?
Dudel Draw is rated higher. Resprite averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Dudel Draw averages 4.8 from 551 ratings.
Do Resprite or Dudel Draw have ads?
Neither Resprite nor Dudel Draw shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Resprite or Dudel Draw?
Resprite ships an update every 5 weeks, and Dudel Draw every 5 weeks. Most recently, Resprite was updated on September 24, 2026 and Dudel Draw on September 17, 2026.

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