MotifChart vs Pixel

MotifChart is a premium app for pixel drawing, colorwork charts, and creative timelapses. Whether you want to sketch pixel art, build colorwork charts, or plan motifs for knitting, crochet, and tapestry, MotifChart gives you a focused workspace to create clearly and fast. Create your way Use MotifChart as a flexible pixel canvas for drawing ideas, building motifs, and refining color-based designs with precision. Built for chart making Turn ideas into structured motif charts that are easy to edit, organize, and use in real creative workflows. Make timelapses automatically Capture your process and turn your work into satisfying timelapses you can review or share. Stay organized Keep your work structured with projects, palettes, stamps, and packs, so your tools and designs stay easy to manage as your library grows. Great for • Pixel drawing • Motif design • Knitting charts • Crochet charts • Tapestry planning • Colorwork workflows • Creative timelapses Features • Material and color tracking and analytics • Row counter and knitting companion • Background removal, great for creating stickers • Design from images with automatic pixelation • Extract color from images and save illimited palettes MotifChart is made for creators who want a clean, modern tool for both freeform design and practical chart building. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.motifchart.com/terms/

Your photo, turned into a pattern you can actually make. Pixela turns any picture into a crisp pixel grid with a tidy color palette and a printable chart — so you can recreate it however you like: • Perler / Hama beads — get the bead-by-bead layout for your next fuse-bead art. • Cross-stitch & embroidery — symbols per color and a printable chart to stitch from. • Knitting & crochet — color-work charts (intarsia, tapestry, C2C, jacquard): one square per stitch/block. • Quilting & patchwork — each pixel becomes a fabric square. • Pixel art, sprites & icons — turn a photo or your own drawing/sketch into true pixels with a controlled palette; export a clean PNG. • Event & stadium mosaics — plan "pixel performances" and card stunts, seat by seat, sized in meters. • Wall decor & murals — set the centimeters per tile and get the real wall size to paint or tile. • LEGO & brick mosaics — each pixel is one brick on the baseplate. • LED matrices & low-res screens — a pixel map to wire or program each LED. • Gifts & keepsakes — turn a pet, a portrait, or a logo into a handmade piece. • Drawings, coloring pages & templates — a ready-made grid to trace, color, or hand off. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Pick a photo — Pixela builds the pattern in seconds. • Control the look — set the number of columns and palette colors with live sliders. • Color symbols — every color gets a letter so it's easy to follow (great for color-vision needs). • Printable PDF — a clean legend plus the full symbol chart, ready to print or share. • Export a clean PNG — the pure pixel art with no grid or symbols, ready to use as a sprite, sticker, or poster. • Real thread colors — see the nearest DMC floss for every color, and swap any color for the one you prefer. • Real finished size at any scale — stitches (Aida), beads, or big tiles; shown in cm or meters, so you can size a wall mural or a whole stadium mosaic. • Track your progress — mark finished cells and watch your % climb. • Pinch to zoom, tap "1:1" to see the whole thing — built for big, detailed pieces. • Works offline — everything is processed on your device. Your photos never leave it. FAIR PRICING Unlock everything with a single one-time purchase — no subscription, ever. Private by design: your photos are processed on-device and are never uploaded.