Comparison

Resprite vs Retro Deck

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

Retro Deck

Features
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Learn to read tarot cards with Retro Deck — a beautifully crafted tarot guide and reading app featuring hand-drawn pixel art and on-device AI interpretations. Browse the complete 78-card deck, study upright and reversed meanings for every card, and practice three-card readings with AI-generated interpretations — all without an internet connection. LEARN THE CARDS - Complete guide to all 78 tarot cards - Major Arcana and all four Minor Arcana suits - Upright and reversed meanings for every card - Position-specific meanings: Past, Present, and Future - Full descriptions to deepen your understanding GET A READING - Three-card spread: Past, Present, and Future - Ask any question and let the cards answer - AI-powered reading interpretations - Animated card reveals with 3D flip effects PRIVACY FIRST Retro Deck runs completely offline. Your questions and readings never leave your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. PIXEL ART Every card is a hand-drawn pixel art original with a retro dithered aesthetic. Love the art? The full deck is available as real printed cards — in both tarot and poker formats — on Etsy. Whether you're learning tarot for the first time or deepening your practice, Retro Deck is a beautiful, private, and completely offline companion.

Screenshots

Resprite4 screens
Retro Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Resprite at none against Retro Deck's shown. Resprite also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). On price, in-app purchases 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. Resprite sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Retro Deck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Resprite versus Retro Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRespriteRetro Deck
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB508 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFengeonFederico Curzel

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

Retro Deck

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
1 purchases

Retro Deck

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Resprite free?
Resprite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Retro Deck free?
Retro Deck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Resprite or Retro Deck have ads?
Retro Deck shows ads; Resprite does not.

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