chunkybits vs Paignion

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.

Retro palettes and pixel patterns, rendered live. No editing after the shot — what you see in the viewfinder is what gets saved. LIVE PIXEL RENDERING Paignion runs a real Metal pixel-effect pipeline on every frame of the live camera feed — palette quantization, pattern, and dithering all happen before you tap the shutter, not as a filter applied afterward. 6 ICONIC PALETTES * Game Boy — the classic 4-shade green handheld display * NES — the 64-color palette from the original console's PPU * PICO-8 — the 16-color fantasy-console system palette * C64 — the Commodore 64's Pepto palette * CGA — the 16-color RGBI palette from early PC graphics * Master System — Sega's full 64-color, 6-bit RGB palette Palettes work on their own, or paired with any pattern. 4 PATTERNS + REAL BAYER DITHERING * Mosaic — chunky, blocky pixelation * Dot Screen — a single-channel dot grid * Halftone — a true CMY halftone rosette (three independently rotated ink-channel dot grids), full color or on a palette * Blocks — every pixel cell becomes a beveled, raised block for a chunky 2.5D, voxel-style look * Authentic ordered (Bayer) dithering, not a random-noise approximation — works with any palette, and it's never gated SCREEN FX Two screen finishes that turn the viewfinder into a tiny console display: CRT-style scanlines, and an LCD pixel-grid bezel overlay. FREE TO START Shoot with the Original (no filter), Game Boy Cam, and Mosaic Only presets at no cost — Bayer dithering is included free with every palette, always. Full Unlock adds the NES, PICO-8, C64, CGA, and Master System palettes, the Dot Screen, Halftone, and Blocks patterns, and both Screen FX finishes — a single one-time purchase, not a subscription. EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'D EXPECT * Pinch to zoom, tap to focus * HEIF capture, saved straight to a dedicated "Paignion" album in your Photos library — no separate account, no cloud * In-app gallery to browse, share, and delete your shots * The preset you shot with is written into every photo's own EXIF No ads. No tracking.