Comparison

Pixelcos vs Unmounted

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

Head to head
About

Pixelcos

Create and edit pixel art with a variety of tools, including customizable brushes, layers, and shape drawing. Export your creations in high resolution with or without a background.

Highlights
  • Create and manage pixel artboards
  • Customizable canvas size and background
  • Multiple brush styles and colors
  • Mirror drawing and shape tools
  • Layer management
  • Ultra HD export up to 8K
Features
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Pixelcos is a pixel painting software. Using Pixelcos, you can draw fancy creative pixel painting style photos. Features of product - Create and manage pixel artboards - Customize canvas size - Set canvas background color or transparent grid - Set brush style, shape - Support mirror drawing - Built-in multiple brush color presets, custom colors can be added - Supports one-finger smearing and Apple Pencil smearing; supports two-finger zooming and moving the canvas - Supports shape drawing and filling - Support eraser erasing -Supports small window preview mode, when the canvas is enlarged, you can position it through the small window - Created artboards can save projects for easy editing next time - Support layer manager - Support floating image reference - Import stickers to draw into the pixel canvas - Support content export with background removal - Support export as perler beads pattern - Supports Ultra HD export up to 8K Privacy Policy : https://share.note.youdao.com/s/R6XX7x5P Terms of Service : https://share.note.youdao.com/s/7Miu84DE

About

Unmounted

Features
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Unmounted transforms your iPhone into a powerful photo preservation tool — bringing back the stories locked inside old scrapbooks, albums, and shoeboxes. Point your camera at any page of old photographs and Unmounted automatically detects each individual photo, draws precise crop boxes around them, and lets you extract them one by one at full resolution. It's the fastest way to go from a dusty album page to a set of beautifully preserved digital images. SMART PHOTO DETECTION Unmounted uses Apple's Vision framework to find photos on any background — dark scrapbook pages, light album paper, even loose prints on a table. It identifies individual photos even when they overlap, and lets you adjust every crop box by dragging handles with precision. Long-press any box to delete it. Long-press a buried box to bring it to the front. Or draw a new box freehand with your finger. PROFESSIONAL EDITING TOOLS Each extracted photo opens in a full editing suite: • Auto Enhance — one tap intelligently balances exposure, contrast, and black point • Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows • Black Point, Saturation, Vibrance, Warmth • Sharpness and Vignette • Filters: Noir, Chrome, Fade, Transfer, and more • Crop, rotate, straighten, and flip HIGH RESOLUTION OUTPUT Export at up to 4000px on the longest edge. RAW and ProRAW files from iPhone are handled efficiently so even 48-megapixel scrapbook pages load and process quickly. Works with JPEGs, HEICs, and ProRAW files. IPTC METADATA Add captions to each photo before saving. Captions are embedded directly into the IPTC Caption-Abstract field, so your descriptions travel with the image in Photos, Lightroom, and any app that reads metadata. DESIGNED FOR REAL SCRAPBOOKS Old photos are rarely perfectly aligned. Unmounted handles tilted prints, overlapping corners, and worn edges. When auto-detection needs a nudge, simply draw your own crop rectangle. No subscription. No account. No cloud upload. Everything stays on your device. Whether you're preserving family history, digitizing an estate, or archiving a local historical collection, Unmounted gives you the tools to do it right.

Screenshots

Pixelcos4 screens
Unmounted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pixelcos at Free against Unmounted's $0.99. Unmounted's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Pixelcos is free to download; Unmounted costs $0.99 up front. Pixelcos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Unmounted asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixelcos ships an update every 5 weeks, Unmounted every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pixelcos versus Unmounted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelcosUnmounted
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer晓航 郑Greg Anderson

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixelcos

One-time1
  • PRO$2.99
None

Unmounted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixelcos free?
Pixelcos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Unmounted free?
Unmounted costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixelcos or Unmounted have ads?
Neither Pixelcos nor Unmounted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixelcos or Unmounted?
Pixelcos ships an update every 5 weeks, and Unmounted every 2 months. Most recently, Pixelcos was updated on October 13, 2026 and Unmounted on September 19, 2026.

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