Comparison

Pixellate Camera vs CamSprite

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

Head to head
About

Pixellate Camera

Capture photos with a retro, 4-color dithered aesthetic. Adjust camera settings in real-time or import existing images to apply unique color schemes and advanced metadata.

Highlights
  • Retro 4-color dithered aesthetic
  • Adjust zoom, sharpness, contrast, brightness
  • Import and filter existing photos
  • Create custom color schemes
  • Advanced metadata with geotagging
  • 4x upscaled or pixel-perfect saves
Features
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Shoot in four colors. Pixellate is a live camera with the eye of a 1998 handheld. Every frame in the viewfinder is dithered down to four colors you can choose. Pick a palette, dial in brightness, contrast and dither, and shoot. Zoom in and out, flip to the front camera, and capture Live Photos and video in the same four colors as your stills. • Live four-color viewfinder for stills, Live Photos and video • 25 built-in palettes, or mix your own from any four colors • Brightness, contrast, dither and zoom controls • Import any photo, crop it, and pixellate it • Save upscaled copies for your library, or pixel-perfect 160 x 144 originals for homebrew projects • Optional geotagging and full capture metadata • Open the camera from Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button

About

CamSprite

Features
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CamSprite — point, shoot, pixel art. Turn your camera into a pixel-art machine. Point at anything, tap once, and get a clean sprite: cut out from its background, hard-edged, ready to send. No account. No cloud. No generative AI. ——————————— WHAT YOU CAN DO ——————————— • SEE IT FIRST — Turn on the live preview and your style appears in the viewfinder, before you press the shutter • CATCH A SPRITE — One tap lifts your subject off its background and redraws it in pixels • 9 LOOKS — Handheld greens, 8-bit, 16-colour, 1-bit mono, neon, pastel and more • 25 RETRO FRAMES — Drop your sprite into an arcade cabinet, a handheld, a CRT, a cassette deck • NAME YOUR HERO — Put your own name and stats on a trading card • ANIMATED GIFS — Export a looping sprite straight to Photos • THE HOOK — A 3-second reveal video, 9:16, built for Reels and TikTok. Four motions: Scan, Blocks, Iris and Curtain • STICKERS — Cut-out PNGs with transparent backgrounds, for any chat • SHARE, SAVE, PRINT, EMAIL — without leaving the screen ——————————— FREE AND PRO ——————————— Everything above is free, at full quality. Free exports carry a watermark. PRO removes the watermark and expands the in-app gallery from 50 sprites to 500. Saving to your Photos is unlimited either way. Monthly or Lifetime. Cancel subscriptions anytime in your Apple ID settings. ——————————— PRIVACY ——————————— Your photos are processed on your phone and are never uploaded to a CamSprite server. Cutting the subject out uses Apple's on-device Vision framework. Nothing is invented — every pixel comes from your own photo. CamSprite Pro Monthly $1.99 — auto-renews each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Lifetime $9.99 — one-time purchase, not a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://spritefix.app/camsprite/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://spritefix.app/camsprite/terms

Screenshots

Pixellate Camera4 screens
CamSprite3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixellate Camera at none against CamSprite's 4. CamSprite's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. CamSprite sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Pixellate Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixellate Camera ships an update every 2 months, CamSprite every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pixellate Camera versus CamSprite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixellate CameraCamSprite
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZachary ColemanPiyush Kaushik

In-app purchases

None

Pixellate Camera

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

CamSprite

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pro Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Pixellate Camera free?
Pixellate Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CamSprite free?
CamSprite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixellate Camera or CamSprite have ads?
Neither Pixellate Camera nor CamSprite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixellate Camera or CamSprite?
Pixellate Camera ships an update every 2 months, and CamSprite every 8 days. Most recently, Pixellate Camera was updated on October 24, 2026 and CamSprite on October 25, 2026.

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