Resprite vs Maple Theme Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Maple Theme Box
Personalize your phone with adorable characters and themes from a popular online game. Set custom alarms, use themed widgets, and connect with other fans. Express yourself with unique character creations and explore various design options.
- Customizable character widgets
- Daily fortune teller
- Themed alarms with missions
- Sleep Mode and Home Screen Widgets
- Variety of themes for devices and apps
- Social features for connecting with friends
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MapleStory is with you anytime, anywhere! Start your day alongside your character and decorate your phone with adorable MapleStory friends! ▶ Fortune of the Day Check your fortune with your character once a day and start your day off right! ▶ Alarm Set your alarm to MapleStory soundtrack - a range of fun alarm missions to get up on time! ▶ Sleep Mode & Home Screen Widgets Discover dates, clock, battery percentage display and other essential widgets in MapleStory designs. Set up Sleep Mode to use even while charging! ▶ Creating a Themed Character & Character Widget Create your own themed character with MapleStory avatars. Turn your and your friends' themed characters into widgets! Make new friends as you dive into themes and random widgets! ▶ Various Themes Check out a wide variety of themes in MapleStory Themed Box. From mobile, smartwatch, and PC wallpapers to KakaoTalk and Goodnotes themes! Fill your life with adorable MapleStory characters! ▶ Along with Friends Build new connections with Maple Theme Box. Customize your profile to express your personality! Visit other users' Rooms! Leave maple leaves and footprints! Make friends! ■ App Permission Information In order to provide services below, we are requesting certain permissions. [Optional Permission] Camera: To save and import decorated images, as well as to take screenshots and videos for attaching and submitting to Customer Support and other services. Photos: To save or load a decorative image Advertising ID: Your data is used to provide personalized advertising and analyze service usage. ※ You can still use the service without agreeing to the optional permissions. [Permission Management] ▶Go to Settings > Privacy, select a permission and toggle the button next to the app's name.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Maple Theme Box at none against Resprite's 5. Resprite's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 5) and review sentiment (80% vs 65%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Resprite sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Maple Theme Box asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Resprite against 4.6 for Maple Theme Box. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Resprite has 1.4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Resprite's written reviews are positive against 65% of Maple Theme Box's.
Resprite ships an update every 5 weeks, Maple Theme Box every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resprite | Maple Theme Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews — better | 64.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 589 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fengeon | NEXON Company |
Customer experience
Resprite
Maple Theme Box
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
Maple Theme Box
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Resprite
- 1 Month$1.991 Month
- 12 Months$14.991 Year
- A Coffee$0.99
- Lifetime$24.99
- Lifetime Standard$29.99
Maple Theme Box
No in-app purchases
Questions
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