Comparison

Pixel Art Creator Pixee vs Chroma8

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Art Creator Pixee

Features
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Create beautiful pixel art masterpieces with Pixee! KEY FEATURES: • Gallery View - Organize and browse all your pixel art creations • Custom Canvas - Create artworks from 5x5 to 100x100 pixels • Numerous Tools - Color palette, eyedropper, eraser, and custom colors • Precision - Zoom and pan for detailed pixel-perfect work • Undo/Redo - Never lose your progress with unlimited undo support • Export & Share - Save to Photos or share your creations instantly PERFECT FOR: • Digital artists and designers • Game developers creating sprites • Hobbyists exploring pixel art • Students learning digital art • Anyone wanting to create retro-style artwork EASY TO USE: Start creating immediately with our intuitive interface. Choose your canvas size, pick colors from the palette or create custom ones, and begin drawing pixel by pixel. Use zoom and pan to work on fine details, and the eraser tool for corrections. Your artwork is automatically saved and organized in the gallery, making it easy to continue working on projects or start new ones. Export finished pieces to your photo library or share them directly with friends and social media. Whether you're creating game sprites, icons, or artistic expressions, Pixee provides all the tools you need in a clean, distraction-free environment optimized for touch interfaces.

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Chroma8

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Chroma8 is a focused pixel-art studio for iPhone and iPad — draw, colour, layer and animate at true pixel resolution, then export your work anywhere. No account required to start creating. NEW: COLOUR & PALETTES • A palette bar under the canvas with 11 classic palettes: PICO-8, Game Boy, NES, Commodore 64, CGA, DawnBringer, Sweetie 16, Endesga 32, AAP-64, Resurrect 64 • Make your own: generate palettes from a colour harmony, a gradient, a photo or your art, with hue-shifted shading ramps • Import and export .hex, .gpl, .pal, .txt, .ase, .act and PNG palettes for Aseprite, Photoshop and game engines • Replace any colour across a layer, a frame or the whole animation, or remap art to a palette with dithering • Colour groups recolour a whole shade family at once, keeping shading intact • Colour versions: switch a sprite between looks — a night version, a red team — without changing a pixel, and export a sprite-sheet row per version • Add a palette card with hex codes to your exports AI ASSIST Describe what you want and Chroma8 draws it onto your canvas, where you can edit every pixel. Free for everyone. • Text to sprite — "a small green slime with a highlight" becomes pixel art, not a photo • Photo to pixel art on a reduced palette • Auto-shade, auto-outline and a clean-up pass for stray pixels • Turn one sprite into a walk, run, idle, attack, hit, death, explode or spin cycle • Tween between two keyframes, or retarget a video of yourself onto your sprite • Split a sprite sheet into frames automatically • Every generation kept in a history you can revisit or branch into a new Art It all runs on your device, with no network, no account and no API key. Already pay for an AI service? Optionally connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint or Anthropic — OpenRouter, OpenAI, Groq or your own Ollama. Your key stays in the Keychain on that device. DRAW WITH PRECISION • Grid-accurate canvas with brush, eraser, fill and selection tools • Round or square brush tips, 1 to 6 pixels across • Recolour Only — paint only where there is already colour • Eyedropper, recent colours and any colour from the system picker • Select, move and turn a block of pixels • Reference photos with quarter-turn rotation • Undo and redo across the whole frame LAYERS & FRAMES • Unlimited layers with visibility, lock and opacity • Frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning • Adjustable playback speed ORGANIZE YOUR WORK • Group related Arts into Projects • Search your library by name, or by what a piece looks like • Everything saved on your device — works fully offline EXPORT ANYWHERE • PNG, animated GIF, MP4 video and scalable SVG • Game-ready sprite sheets with a JSON sidecar CHROMA8 PRO Chroma8 is free to use, supported by ads. Chroma8 Pro removes ads and unlocks Cloud Sync (sign in with email, Google or Apple to back up and access your library across devices), offered as an auto-renewing subscription: • Monthly: $3.99/month after a 7-day free trial • Yearly: $24.99/year after a 7-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. A complete guide is built in, covering every feature. Terms of Use: https://colondev.com/apps/chroma8/Terms.html Privacy Policy: https://colondev.com/apps/chroma8/Privacy.html Chroma8 — pixel art, the way it's meant to be made.

Screenshots

Pixel Art Creator Pixee3 screens
Chroma84 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixel Art Creator Pixee at none against Chroma8's 2. Pixel Art Creator Pixee also leads on ads (none vs shown). Chroma8's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Chroma8 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Pixel Art Creator Pixee asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Art Creator Pixee ships an update every 2 weeks, Chroma8 every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Pixel Art Creator Pixee versus Chroma8: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel Art Creator PixeeChroma8
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJordan Hollandseer99 PVT LTD

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Art Creator Pixee

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chroma8

Subscriptions2
  • Chroma8 Pro7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Chroma8 Pro7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Pixel Art Creator Pixee free?
Pixel Art Creator Pixee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chroma8 free?
Chroma8 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pixel Art Creator Pixee or Chroma8 have ads?
Chroma8 shows ads; Pixel Art Creator Pixee does not.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Art Creator Pixee or Chroma8?
Pixel Art Creator Pixee ships an update every 2 weeks, and Chroma8 every 10 days. Most recently, Pixel Art Creator Pixee was updated on October 28, 2026 and Chroma8 on October 31, 2026.

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