Comparison

SpritePixels vs Cob Paint

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Cob Paint

A minimalist pixel art sketchbook designed for quick, expressive creation. It offers a responsive painting experience with unique brushes and a focused color palette, encouraging users to experiment freely. The app aims to be a cozy creative space for personal artwork.

Highlights
  • Fast, expressive pixel art creation
  • Responsive painting engine
  • Unique brushes and focused color palette
  • Personal and cozy creative space
  • Experiment with new creative spaces
Features
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Cob Paint is a sketchbook made for fast, expressive pixel art. Your sketchbook should be a playground for quickly experimenting with ideas. Stop overthinking and just draw something now. Powered by a custom engine, painting feels instant and responsive, designed for perfectly imperfect artwork. Sketches in Cob Paint feel soft, warm, and personal. Expressive brushes and a focused color palette let you create freely without worrying about your tools. Cob Paint is your cozy home island that you’ll come back to anytime. Over time, new creative spaces may appear, each with their own tools, materials, and rules to explore. Each tool comes with it’s own story, from the familiar mechanical pencil to a chunky Japanese eraser you once fell in love with. You’ll fall in love with your tools. Now go make something and share it.

Screenshots

SpritePixels2 screens
Cob Paint4 screens

Verdict

The call

SpritePixels and Cob Paint both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Cob Paint's written reviews are positive against 0% of SpritePixels's. Cob Paint also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 15 months). SpritePixels's advantage is chart position (#194 vs unranked). On rating, ads, 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

Cob Paint is free to download; SpritePixels costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SpritePixels against 5.0 for Cob Paint. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of SpritePixels's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cob Paint's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpritePixels ships an update every 15 months, Cob Paint every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
SpritePixels versus Cob Paint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpritePixelsCob Paint
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#194 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteve BarnesFreddie Iboy

Customer experience

SpritePixels

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Cob Paint

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SpritePixels

No in-app purchases

None

Cob Paint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpritePixels free?
SpritePixels costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cob Paint free?
Cob Paint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SpritePixels or Cob Paint?
SpritePixels and Cob Paint are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do SpritePixels or Cob Paint have ads?
Neither SpritePixels nor Cob Paint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpritePixels or Cob Paint?
SpritePixels ships an update every 15 months, and Cob Paint every 5 days. Most recently, SpritePixels was updated on August 23, 2026 and Cob Paint on September 18, 2026.

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