Comparison

chunkybits vs How It Went

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

Head to head
About

chunkybits

Transform your photos into pixel art in real-time with classic retro color palettes. This app processes every pixel on your device, ensuring your images remain private and ad-free. Customize your look with various aspect ratios and import your own color palettes.

Highlights
  • Real-time pixel-art camera
  • Classic retro color palettes
  • Custom palette import
  • Multiple aspect ratios
  • On-device processing
  • Ad-free experience
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chunkybits is a retro camera that paints the world in pixels. Point it at anything: your dog, your coffee, a sunset, and watch reality transform into pixel art in real time. No filters applied after the fact. No "retro" preset that just lowers the saturation. chunkybits remaps every pixel through hand-crafted color palettes, the same way a retro console would have seen it. The result is unmistakably chunky, beautifully limited, and nostalgic. FEATURES • Real-time pixel-art camera with classic retro palettes • Supports taking pictures and recording videos • Swipe to switch palettes instantly • Import and create your own custom palettes • Three quality levels • Aspect ratios for every vibe: full, 16:9, 3:4, 1:1 • Pinch to zoom, tap to flip • Save straight to your own chunkybits album PRIVACY FIRST Every pixel is processed on your device. No cloud, no account, no tracking, no ads. Your photos belong to you and never leave your phone unless you share them.

About

How It Went

Features
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You get home with some photos, a couple of clips and a GPS track nobody is ever going to scroll through. How It Went turns all three into a short film that follows your route: one ride, or a whole trip with the rest days still in it. The route is the film. Your track draws itself across a tilted map, your photos appear at the spot on the route where you took them, and your clips play where they were shot. Underneath, the day's numbers — distance, elevation gain, moving time — read as narration. That's the part a slideshow can't do. A slideshow fails on exactly the day you most want to keep: the long solitary one where you were too tired to take pictures. The track is the only thing recorded densely enough to carry a day on its own. The film also picks out what the map alone doesn't show: the longest climb with its average grade, the highest point, named passes with their elevation, and the spot where you crossed a border. WHAT YOU BRING - Rides picked straight from your Strava account - Or the files themselves: Garmin FIT, including the zip you get from Export File in Garmin Connect, and GPX - One ride, or a whole trip at once. Several activities merge into one film, day by day, and rest days stay in as rest days instead of getting dropped - Photos, placed along the track by the time they were taken - Action-cam and drone clips, with more than one moment pulled out of a single recording. A four-minute file usually holds two or three keepers, not one Send a ride straight to How It Went from another app's share sheet, or open it from Files. WHEN THE CAMERA CLOCK WAS WRONG An action cam that was never set to local time will drop your lunch stop in the wrong valley, and you can't tell by looking at the photo. Fix the clock once and everything shot on that camera moves together. For anything still out of place, play the film to where you took it and place it there. It stays put while you keep editing. The times in your film are the times you rode at, not the times where you're sitting now. Edit after you've flown home and a photo taken at 1:30 still says 1:30. NOT A TRAINING APP No leaderboards, no segments, no percentiles, nothing that ranks you against anybody else. The numbers are there to say what kind of day it was. WHAT COMES OUT An ordinary video file — 9:16 for Instagram and TikTok, or 16:9 for YouTube. It's put together on your phone, so you can post it the evening you get in. FREE, AND WHAT PREMIUM ADDS Everything above is free: your whole trip from your own files, every export size, the Daylight map and the default soundtrack. Premium adds five more map looks, Golden hour and Dark slate among them, and a photos-first layout with the map in the corner. With it you also pick the soundtrack's style and what the film opens on. Pay once or yearly, and try it free for a week first. A free account carries Premium to your other devices: iPhone, iPad and Mac. Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

chunkybits4 screens
How It Went4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: How It Went at every 5 days against chunkybits's every 2 weeks. How It Went also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. chunkybits sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and How It Went sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

chunkybits ships an update every 2 weeks, How It Went every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
chunkybits versus How It Went: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterchunkybitsHow It Went
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeglock Jakub BilkoCodeUX.design

In-app purchases

1 purchases

chunkybits

One-time1
  • chunkybits Pro Lifetime$4.99
4 purchases

How It Went

Subscriptions1
  • Premium yearly$34.991 Year
One-time3
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • 30-day TrialFree
  • Premium for life$99.99

Questions

Is chunkybits free?
chunkybits is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is How It Went free?
How It Went is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do chunkybits or How It Went have ads?
Neither chunkybits nor How It Went shows ads.
Which is updated more often, chunkybits or How It Went?
chunkybits ships an update every 2 weeks, and How It Went every 5 days. Most recently, chunkybits was updated on October 30, 2026 and How It Went on October 31, 2026.

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