Comparison

Pixel Edit Lite vs Graintouch

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Edit Lite

Create detailed pixel art on a 16x16 canvas with a minimalist interface. This tool focuses on a clean design to help you craft beautiful retro sprites and artwork.

Highlights
  • 16x16 canvas
  • Minimalist interface
  • Retro sprite creation
  • Pixel art design
  • Clean editor
Features
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The pocket sprite editor for PICO-8. Copy a sprite on your Mac, edit it on your iPhone, paste it straight back. Pixel Edit Lite is a small, touch-first pixel art and sprite editor for iPhone. Draw with your finger, work offline, and create retro sprites whenever inspiration strikes. Work on a single sprite or build out a full sprite sheet — navigate between sprites, duplicate them, and copy and paste between sprites. Choose 8×8, 16×16, 32×32, or 64×64 canvases for sprites, game art, icons, and other pixel art projects. Built with PICO-8 and TIC-80 style sprite workflows in mind, with real PICO-8 clipboard format support: copy a sprite in PICO-8 on your Mac, paste it here, edit, and paste it back. Features • Clean, minimal interface • Always-on sprite sheet with navigation, duplication, and copy/paste • 8×8, 16×16, 32×32, and 64×64 canvases • Precision pixel drawing with pencil, eraser, and fill • Shape tools: line, rectangle, and circle, outlined or filled • Undo and redo • PICO-8 and TIC-80 color palettes • Grid-based editing • Rotate, flip, and shift tools • Fast, responsive touch controls • Automatic local saving • Recent Projects — reopen past sheets in one tap • Import and export through Files, including iCloud Drive • Share via the native Share Sheet — AirDrop, Messages, save to Photos, and more • Real PICO-8 sprite clipboard format support • Works offline Pixel Edit Lite is intentionally simple. No complicated desktop-style workflow — just a small pixel editor you can keep with you when you're away from your computer.

About

Graintouch

Create digital art with a unique printmaking aesthetic. This app simulates the look and feel of Risograph printing, allowing for layered colors, organic brush strokes, and textured effects. Export your work as clean vector stencils for print.

Highlights
  • Organic vector brush for layered colors
  • Realistic print simulation
  • Minimalist user interface
  • Curated color palette
  • Vector stencil export
Features
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Graintouch is a drawing app with the soul of print. Inspired by Risograph™ aesthetics, it lets you layer, blend, and create with the warmth of real ink—right on your screen. BOOL BRUSH A bold, organic vector brush that stacks colors like ink on paper. Blend, overlap, knockout and build rich textures with effortless strokes. PRINT SIMULATION See your artwork as if it just rolled off a risograph. Offset imperfections, layered tints, and the charm of real ink—without the mess. MINIMAL UI Nothing in your way, just pure drawing. A clean, focused space where tools feel like an extension of your hand. COLORFUL CONSTRAINTS A playful palette of 18 handpicked inks, straight from the riso universe. Instead of endless choice, you get meaningful constraints that spark creativity—just like mixing real inks on a print run. VECTOR STENCILS Every Layer becomes a crisp, resolution-independent stencil. Your drawings export as clean vector stencils, perfect for scaling, separating by color, and bringing straight to print—no loss, just pure shapes.

Screenshots

Pixel Edit Lite4 screens
Graintouch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pixel Edit Lite at 100% against Graintouch's 57%. Pixel Edit Lite also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and price ($2.99 vs $9.99). Graintouch's advantage is chart position (#110 vs unranked) and ratings volume (24 vs 6). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Pixel Edit Lite costs $2.99 and Graintouch $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pixel Edit Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pixel Edit Lite's written reviews are positive against 57% of Graintouch's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Edit Lite ships an update every 5 days, Graintouch every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Pixel Edit Lite versus Graintouch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel Edit LiteGraintouch
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better3.7 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better56.5% of reviews
Number of ratings624 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#110 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApurva MehtaIORAMA AB

Customer experience

Pixel Edit Lite

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Graintouch

All ratings24 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive56.5%
Neutral8.7%
Negative34.8%

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Edit Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Graintouch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Edit Lite free?
Pixel Edit Lite costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Graintouch free?
Graintouch costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Edit Lite or Graintouch?
Pixel Edit Lite is rated higher. Pixel Edit Lite averages 5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Graintouch averages 3.7 from 24 ratings.
Do Pixel Edit Lite or Graintouch have ads?
Neither Pixel Edit Lite nor Graintouch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Edit Lite or Graintouch?
Pixel Edit Lite ships an update every 5 days, and Graintouch every 3 months. Most recently, Pixel Edit Lite was updated on November 7, 2026 and Graintouch on November 8, 2026.

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