Pixelss vs Spriteer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixelss
Create pixel art animations with this intuitive application. Design your characters and scenes frame by frame, bringing your creations to life with simple tools. Perfect for aspiring animators and pixel art enthusiasts.
- Pixel art animation creation
- Frame-by-frame design
- Intuitive animation tools
- Character and scene design
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A pixel animation app
Spriteer
Create animated pixel art characters and objects on an 8x8 canvas. Integrate your creations into 38 built-in arcade games or export them as PNGs or GIFs. Drawing, playing, and sharing are free.
- 8x8 pixel art canvas
- Animated sprite creation
- 38 built-in arcade games
- PNG and GIF export
- Customizable color palettes
- Live walk preview
- Undo functionality
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The canvas is eight by eight. That is the whole rule — and it is enough. Draw a hero, a zombie, a gem, a door. One small frame per pose; the engine breathes in the rest — the walk beat, the floating treasure, the bounce of a slime. Your sprite starts living the moment you lift your finger. What you draw is yours to keep. Export any sprite as a PNG, or a character as an animated GIF, and take it wherever you like. Then prove it. Thirty-eight real arcade games are built in — mines, factories, haunted manors — and every one of them instantly wears YOUR art. Outrun boulders as the hero you drew; hunt the zombie you gave those red eyes. Your work lives in skins, like resource packs: each skin is a complete project — every character, tile, and item in one place, with your progress counted. Wear one skin at a time and switch styles in a tap. Share the file anywhere, or open it in Pythoneer and play whole worlds dressed in your sprites. Mirror drawing, a fixed sixteen-color palette, onion skin, a live walk preview, undo — serious tools, one simple rule. Unlock All — one purchase, no subscription: make as many characters of your own as you like. Five are free, and so are skins, every export, every color, drawing, playing and sharing. Sixty-four pixels. Yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pixelss at 100% against Spriteer's 0%. Pixelss also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). Spriteer's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Pixelss sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Spriteer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pixelss holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spriteer has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pixelss's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spriteer's.
Pixelss ships an update daily, Spriteer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixelss | Spriteer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sounds Creative LLC | Swiftian Inc. |
Customer experience
Pixelss
Spriteer
In-app purchases
Pixelss
- Unlock Five Save Slots$1.99
- Unlock Higher Resolution$4.99
- Unlock 64 Frames$4.99
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- Unlock All Save Slots$9.99
Spriteer
- Unlock All$1.99









