Comparison

Spritfill vs Bantam Tools Hatch

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

Head to head
About

Spritfill

Features
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Spritfill is a pixel art editor designed for iPad, built for both beginners and experienced sprite artists. Draw on a variety of canvas sizes — from 16×16 icons to massive 512×512 scenes. Choose from built-in color palettes like PICO-8, Endesga, and Spritfill 128, or create your own custom palettes. Powerful drawing tools: • Pencil, eraser, and fill bucket • Line, rectangle, ellipse, and shape tools • Gradient and dither tools • Color picker (eyedropper) • Selection tool — pick, shift, and move pixels between layers • Symmetry drawing (horizontal, vertical, and quad) • Shift and flip entire layers. Layer support: • Up to 8 layers with visibility toggles • Merge, reorder, and rename layers • Import other projects as new layers. Recreate mode: • Browse a catalog of premade sprites and practice pixel art by recreating them step by step • Track your progress and completion. Community features: • Submit your finished artwork for others to recreate • Browse and download community-submitted sprites. Export & share: • Save to your photo library with customizable tile sizes • Upscale exports for crisp, high-resolution sprites • Share directly from the app. Apple Pencil support with automatic detection and configurable settings. Unlock Spritfill Pro for the full experience — larger canvases, more layers, advanced tools, and unlimited custom palettes.

About

Bantam Tools Hatch

Transform photos into SVG line art for drawing machines. Explore four unique drawing modes and three color modes to create physical artwork from digital images. Export clean SVG files compatible with various pen plotters.

Highlights
  • Photo to SVG conversion
  • Four drawing modes (Crosshatch, Squiggle, Pixel, Stipple)
  • Three color modes
  • Intuitive visual workflow
  • Export clean SVG artwork
  • Compatible with Bantam Tools drawing machine and other pen plotters
Features
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Bantam Tools Hatch™ is a photo-to-drawing tool that transforms everyday photos into beautiful SVG line art, ready to draw with real pens on real paper using your Bantam Tools drawing machine or another .SVG compatible pen plotter. Choose from four distinct drawing modes and three color modes to control how your image is translated into lines, marks, and color. Crosshatch Build tone and depth with layered intersecting lines, turning photos into richly shaded pen drawings. Squiggle Use flowing, wavy lines to create playful drawings with a distinctly algorithmic feel. Pixel Turn photos into bold pixel-art compositions, translating tonal detail into structured, dithered patterns. Stipple Build images from clusters of short dots and marks, creating texture, shading, and detail through density. Hatch is designed for an intuitive, visual workflow. Adjust your image, explore different drawing styles and color modes, and export clean SVG artwork ready for your Bantam Tools drawing machine or another compatible pen plotter. From photographs and portraits to experimental generative compositions, Hatch makes it easy to move from pixels on a screen to physical drawings on paper.

Screenshots

Spritfill4 screens
Bantam Tools Hatch3 screens

Verdict

The call

Spritfill and Bantam Tools Hatch are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Spritfill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bantam Tools Hatch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Spritfill versus Bantam Tools Hatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpritfillBantam Tools Hatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdmond WuBantamTools

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spritfill

One-time1
  • Spritfill Pro$2.99
1 purchases

Bantam Tools Hatch

One-time1
  • Hatch Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Spritfill free?
Spritfill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bantam Tools Hatch free?
Bantam Tools Hatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spritfill or Bantam Tools Hatch have ads?
Neither Spritfill nor Bantam Tools Hatch shows ads.

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