Asketch vs SpritePixels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Asketch
A digital sketchpad designed for both beginners and advanced artists. It offers a focused drawing experience with intuitive gesture controls, powerful zooming for detail work, and image transformation capabilities. Capture your ideas anytime, anywhere with this versatile tool.
- Gesture-based drawing interface
- Pressure-sensitive drawing support
- High-quality image zooming
- Image transformation (scale/rotate)
- 50 levels of undo/redo
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Asketch is a unique and versatile sketch pad. It allows creativity on the go, anytime, anywhere. Its deliberate simplicity makes it perfect for beginners who want to learn to draw; equally, advanced artists will find a wonderful buttery, tonal canvas for their life studies, cartoons, abstracts, landscapes and other subjects. The app is engineered to deliver rapid, but powerful image capture, facilitated by a great transform function that allows you to pick up the drawing, resize it and move it around the canvas, and a amazing zoom that lets you draw in minute detail. So if you want to put a traditional, but digital sketch pad in your pocket, this is the app for you. Features and functionality: Gesture based drawing interface: Changing the surface area of your finger on the screen controls the focus of the drawing. Supports pressure sensitive drawing on iPhones that support pressure sensitivity. Image zooming that actually works: Do amazing detail work when zoomed in. No pixelation of brushes while drawing. Image transformation: Scale/Rotate the image via a simple pinch gesture. 50 Levels of undo/redo. Swipe the undo/redo button to toggle back and forth. Hold down the button for rapid unwind/rewind.
SpritePixels
Create pixel art with intuitive multi-touch controls for fluid painting and precise editing. Zoom in for detail, copy and paste sections, and customize extensive color palettes. Save and export your creations as high-resolution PNGs.
- Multi-touch painting
- Zoomable canvas
- Drag-and-drop copying
- Area fill tool
- Rectangular region copy
- Customizable 16-color palettes
- Large canvas size
- iCloud sync
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Designed for multi-touch! No more pecking one pixel at a time – fluidly paint pixel art using several touches at once. Tap a tile to zoom in and work with precision. The companion mini-view shows what it looks like at normal size. Drag any tile to instantly copy it to another tile. Great for making similar versions of a sprite. Press and hold with one touch to fill an area. Press and hold with two touches to lift and copy a rectangular region. Customize a palette of up to an incredible 16 colors! Expand your canvas to a staggering 512 by 512 pixels! Press and hold any color in the palette to adjust it to any of a mind-blowing 4,096 possible values! Experiment with color sets by pressing and holding the palette to replace an entire row of colors. Save your work in iCloud and resume it from another device. Export your art as a pixel-perfect PNG image.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Asketch at 65% against SpritePixels's 0%. Asketch also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (224 vs 1). SpritePixels's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Asketch costs $1.99 and SpritePixels $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SpritePixels holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Asketch has 224 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Asketch's written reviews are positive against 0% of SpritePixels's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Asketch ships an update every 2 months, SpritePixels every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Asketch | SpritePixels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (224 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 224 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #56 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Kern | Steve Barnes |
Customer experience
Asketch
SpritePixels
Bugs and requests
Asketch
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes on startup
- Eraser not working as expected
- Brush strokes moving to unexpected locations
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save and export drawings
- More brush/pencil options
- Color support
- Layers and blending tools
- Background/paper texture options
SpritePixels
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Asketch
No in-app purchases
SpritePixels
No in-app purchases
Questions
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