Dotdotbird vs Spriteer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dotdotbird
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Dotdotbird is a pixel art maker for creating a bird of your own. Choose a bird, add accessories, adjust the colors, and refine individual pixels. Then place it on your Home Screen as a widget or save it for icons and sharing. Start from a ready-made bird such as a cockatiel, budgie, parrot, macaw, cockatoo, or owl. Then add hats, glasses, scarves, and other accessories to give the bird its own style. You can change the bird colors, accessory colors, and background, or touch up single pixels when you want more control. Bring a creation to your Home Screen as a Birds Only or Bird + Clock widget. Small and Medium sizes are supported, and a Medium Birds Only widget can show up to three birds together. Choose 12- or 24-hour time, four clock styles, adaptive colors, and background options. Save multiple widget setups to give different birds and looks their own place. What you can do: - Choose a bird and start editing quickly - Add hats, glasses, neckwear, and other accessories - Change palettes, bird colors, accessory colors, and backgrounds - Save your own colors and reuse them across designs - Draw and erase on a 24x24 pixel canvas - Save designs to Creations and edit them again later - Export PNG images to Photos or share them with other apps - Choose 24x24, 22x22, or 20x20 export areas and scale them up cleanly - Add Birds Only or Bird + Clock widgets to your Home Screen - Use Small and Medium widgets, with up to three birds together on Medium - Customize 12- or 24-hour time, four clock styles, adaptive colors, and backgrounds - Save multiple widget setups for different birds and looks Dotdotbird is designed around choosing and refining instead of drawing everything from scratch. It works well for profile images, chat icons, small stickers, and tiny bird characters. Additional accessories are available as optional paid packs. The free birds, free accessories, and editing tools can still be used to create and export designs.
Spriteer
Create animated pixel art characters and objects on an 8x8 canvas. Integrate your creations into 38 built-in arcade games or export them as PNGs or GIFs. Drawing, playing, and sharing are free.
- 8x8 pixel art canvas
- Animated sprite creation
- 38 built-in arcade games
- PNG and GIF export
- Customizable color palettes
- Live walk preview
- Undo functionality
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The canvas is eight by eight. That is the whole rule — and it is enough. Draw a hero, a zombie, a gem, a door. One small frame per pose; the engine breathes in the rest — the walk beat, the floating treasure, the bounce of a slime. Your sprite starts living the moment you lift your finger. What you draw is yours to keep. Export any sprite as a PNG, or a character as an animated GIF, and take it wherever you like. Then prove it. Thirty-eight real arcade games are built in — mines, factories, haunted manors — and every one of them instantly wears YOUR art. Outrun boulders as the hero you drew; hunt the zombie you gave those red eyes. Your work lives in skins, like resource packs: each skin is a complete project — every character, tile, and item in one place, with your progress counted. Wear one skin at a time and switch styles in a tap. Share the file anywhere, or open it in Pythoneer and play whole worlds dressed in your sprites. Mirror drawing, a fixed sixteen-color palette, onion skin, a live walk preview, undo — serious tools, one simple rule. Unlock All — one purchase, no subscription: make as many characters of your own as you like. Five are free, and so are skins, every export, every color, drawing, playing and sharing. Sixty-four pixels. Yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spriteer at every 2 weeks against Dotdotbird's every 2 months. Spriteer also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Dotdotbird sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Spriteer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dotdotbird ships an update every 2 months, Spriteer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dotdotbird | Spriteer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | birnimal APP | Swiftian Inc. |
In-app purchases
Dotdotbird
- Music Accessory Pack$0.99
- Party Accessory Pack$0.99
Spriteer
- Unlock All$1.99









