SpritePixels vs Cob Paint
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.
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.
- Fast, expressive pixel art creation
- Responsive painting engine
- Unique brushes and focused color palette
- Personal and cozy creative space
- Experiment with new creative spaces
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | SpritePixels | Cob Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #194 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Steve Barnes | Freddie Iboy |
Customer experience
SpritePixels
Cob Paint
In-app purchases
SpritePixels
No in-app purchases
Cob Paint
No in-app purchases
Questions
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