BigPixture vs Sublimo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BigPixture
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BigPixture turns your daily habits into pixel art. Create charts to track goals, paint mosaics one tap at a time, and race friends to see who finishes first. Start with free utensils, templates, and frames. Upgrade to BigPixture Pro for 7 premium utensils, 25 templates, 10 frames, and 10 backgrounds. Features: - Create habit charts with targets of 100, 1,000, or 10,000 - Paint mosaic art as you track progress - Race friends and compete on leaderboards - Customize with frames, backgrounds, and utensil textures - Sync across devices with cloud backup - Works offline, syncs when connected
Sublimo
This app plays your custom affirmations quietly in the background while you use your phone. You can write your own affirmations, choose ambient sounds, and track your progress. It offers visual cues within its own browser and an optional premium upgrade.
- Background affirmation playback
- Customizable affirmations
- Ambient sound layering
- Adjustable affirmation volume
- Progress tracking
- Optional visual cues
- Sleep timer
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Sublimo plays your affirmations quietly under ambient sound while you get on with your phone. Pick a program, press start, and it keeps going in the background while you scroll or read or work. WHAT IT DOES The sound plays everywhere on your phone, not just inside the app. Sublimo sits under whatever else you're playing, at a volume you set, from clearly there to almost nothing. The images are different. They only show inside Sublimo's own browser, because iOS won't let any app draw over the ones you're actually using. So if you want images flashing while you read, you read inside Sublimo. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. YOUR WORDS, NOT OURS Nothing's hidden. Every affirmation is there to read, change, or delete, the ones we ship included. If you can't see it, it isn't playing. - Write your own, or take a built-in program and rework it - Paste a whole list at once, as plain lines or JSON - 65 system voices in 46 languages, set per line if you want - Or record the affirmations in your own voice THE SOUND - Layer ambient beds like rain, brown noise, and soft pads, each with its own level - Set how loud the spoken part sits, down to a whisper under the bed - Choose how often the lines come, with a little natural drift so it never feels mechanical - Send a session to AirPlay speakers, a HomePod, or an Apple TV - A sleep timer winds it down, and it pauses when you do A SOUNDSCAPE OF YOUR OWN You don't have to use words at all. Leave the affirmations out and layer the ambient beds into a soundscape you build yourself, a backdrop for meditation, focus, or practices like spiritual cleansing and astral projection. Set the level, add a sleep timer, and let it run as long as you need. What you do with the quiet is yours. VISUAL CUES, IN THE BROWSER - Flash, Ghost, Ticker, or Random placement - Anything from a single screen frame up to five seconds - No strobing, and Reduce Motion is respected KEEPING TRACK - Time listened, session count, and a day streak - Progress photos on a day-numbered timeline if you like to compare over weeks - Your photos stay in your account and go nowhere else AN ACCOUNT, IF YOU WANT ONE Make one and your programs, history, and photos follow you to a new phone. Everything else works without it. You can wipe your data, or the whole account, from inside the app. PREMIUM The app's free. Premium is a one-off purchase, no subscription. It takes the ads away and lifts the limits, so you can keep as many programs, affirmations, and photos as you want and share programs as files. WHERE WE STAND The science on true subliminal messages, the kind pitched below conscious awareness, is weak, and Sublimo doesn't pretend otherwise. What you get is a steady, repeatable way to keep words you chose in front of you, at whatever volume suits you. Whether it helps is yours to decide, and the app's built so you can always check exactly what it's saying. Sublimo is not a medical device and is not a substitute for professional care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: BigPixture at none against Sublimo's shown. BigPixture also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. BigPixture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sublimo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | BigPixture | Sublimo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jason Tercall | Jens Varga |
In-app purchases
BigPixture
- BigPixture Pro$9.99
Sublimo
- Sublimo Premium$9.99
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