SpritePixels vs Crystalzoa
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Crystalzoa
Create dynamic, evolving visual art with this interactive synthesizer. Respond to touch, sound, and motion to generate unique, shimmering forms. Export high-resolution images and production-quality movies, including 3D options.
- Interactive visual synthesis
- Responds to movement, sound, and touch
- Dozens of visual styles and controls
- High-resolution image and movie capture
- 3D stereoscopic movie options
- Scripting and MIDI integration
- AR mode for immersive experiences
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Crystalzoa Create is a cosmic synthesizer of graphics in motion - an interactive, simulated visual experience for iPhone, iPad, Mac (Apple Silicon), and Vision Pro. Crystalzoa responds to movement, sound, and your touch. It includes 8 original music tacks, and 3 nature soundscapes, dozens of visual styles, and hundreds of tunable controls - giving you an infinite canvas of shimmering, evolving forms. Share your creations with high-resolution image capture, and flexible, production-quality movie creation, with 3D (stereoscopic) movie options. Crystalzoa remembers your favorite style combinations and images, but nothing is uploaded or shared unless you choose to share it. Advanced users can script animations, integrate MIDI input/output, remote-control other devices, or issue commands via Siri and Shortcuts. Crystalzoa even includes a built-in synthesizer for performance on the go. Features - Mesmerizing simulations of color, form, and sound transport you into the Crystalzoa universe. - Each of the 20 Crystalzoa Styles brings its own unique characteristics to the environment The different components interact to create unique images and animations. With over 200 detail controls, the combinations are virtually unlimited. - The Shuffle function and Auto-Shuffle mode reveal new possibilities for combining Crystalzoa to create fantastic effects. Auto-Shuffle creates captivating animations as the Crystalzoa periodically shift from one configuration to another. - Extensive controls for Auto-Shuffle let you customize the Shuffle experience, letting you tune out unwanted elements and enhance the screen-time of your boosted Crystalzoa. - AR mode brings the Crystalzoa into your home and surroundings using iPhone or iPad. - Record screen video and save high-res screenshots directly from within the app. - High quality Movie export options include: - Crystalzoa density multiplier brings in vastly more Crystalzoa to your scene * - Supersampled rendering * - Slow-mo and fast-mo timing - Video frame sizes up to 4K, and image sequence output up to 16K! * - Optional 3D movie output, in Spatial MV-HEVC format for VisionPro, as well as Full-Side-by-Side format. - Export with transparent backgrounds for use in Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator, and other tools. - Save and sync Favorites across devices via iCloud. - Share images easily with friends and family. - Import your own images and photos to influence the Crystalzoa experience. - Draw onscreen to leave glowing trails of Crystalzoa that interact with their environment. - Crystalzoa Create’s “Connect” feature lets you remote control Crystalzoa running on other devices on your local network. Collaborate on your Crystalzoa Create scenes, or control devices used to display your creations. - A simple command-line style interface lets you issue any Crystalzoa action in real-time. Create scripts of commands to generate sequences and animations. Send commands via remote control to other Crystalzoa. - Siri and the Shortcuts app can also send Crystalzoa Create any command. - MIDI support lets you control Crystalzoa Create from MIDI devices, such as buttons, knobs and keyboards, and Crystalzoa’s MIDI output controls MIDI devices, and sets device status indicators. - A built-in synthesizer turns MIDI notes into instrument sound, for when a dedicated synthesizer is not at hand. ________ * Depending on resolution and device, performance may vary.
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Verdict
SpritePixels and Crystalzoa both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Crystalzoa's written reviews are positive against 0% of SpritePixels's. Crystalzoa also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 15 months) and chart position (#130 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
SpritePixels costs $0.99 and Crystalzoa $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SpritePixels against 5.0 for Crystalzoa. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crystalzoa has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of SpritePixels's written reviews are positive against 100% of Crystalzoa's.
SpritePixels ships an update every 15 months, Crystalzoa every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SpritePixels | Crystalzoa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.29 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #130 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 318 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Barnes | Michael McKenna |
Customer experience
SpritePixels
Crystalzoa
In-app purchases
SpritePixels
No in-app purchases
Crystalzoa
No in-app purchases
Questions
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