FORMA vs PixelCreater

FORMA is a fast, Metal-powered drawing & illustration studio for iPhone, iPad and Mac — with brushes, layers and tools for your next illustration. METAL DRAWING ENGINE A responsive canvas for sketching and painting — finger, Apple Pencil, mouse or trackpad. WORKS EVERYWHERE, ANY INPUT Sketch on iPhone, refine on iPad with Apple Pencil, or paint on your Mac with a mouse or trackpad. One app, all your devices. APPLE INTELLIGENCE (on supported devices) Generate an AI reference image from a prompt — or from your own sketch — with Image Playground, then drop it in as a layer to trace, recolor or transform. 100% on device. A COMPLETE TOOLKIT - Pressure-sensitive brushes: ink, paint, charcoal, airbrush, pastel, crayon + custom Brush Studio - Layers with 23 blend modes, alpha lock, clipping masks, merge & duplicate - Selection (rect/ellipse/lasso), transform/move, QuickShape, symmetry & perspective guides - Eyedropper, ColorDrop fill, color palettes (and palettes from a photo) - Live adjustments: hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, invert, Auto-Enhance - Rasterized Text tool, photo import as a layer, stroke stabilization - Free time-lapse MP4 of every painting — share your process EXPORT YOUR WAY PNG, JPEG, PDF, TIFF, per-layer PNGs, Save to Files or Share. No watermark on your art. PRIVATE BY DESIGN 100% on-device. No account, no tracking, no data collection. Your art stays yours. SIMPLE PRICING Free tier included. Premium unlocks the full brush set and pro tools; a one-time Lifetime option means you never pay again. Whether you're filling your first sketchbook, drawing comics and manga, designing, or illustrating professionally — FORMA gives you the tools without the heavy price. Terms: https://lastoneparis.github.io/forma/ Privacy: https://lastoneparis.github.io/forma/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

PixelCreater is a clean, modern pixel-art studio for iPhone and iPad. Sketch crisp sprites, pixelate your photos, and export transparent PNGs that are ready for games, stickers, emoji and icons. FEATURES • Precise drawing — pencil, eraser, fill, eyedropper, line and rectangle • Photo to pixel art — import a photo, pinch to choose the area, pick a resolution, done • True transparency — untouched pixels stay clear; export crisp 32-bit PNG • Pro tools — layers with opacity, mirror symmetry, adjustable brush, unlimited undo/redo • Tilemaps — arrange sprites into tilesets and level maps, export as a single PNG • Export up to 16× — sharp nearest-neighbor scaling; share or save to Photos • Stay organized — folders, duplicate, rename and manage every project • Made for touch — smooth pinch-zoom, pan and a delightful dark interface • iPhone & iPad — no account, no sign-up, just create Whether you're making game sprites, app icons, pixel emoji or just doodling, PixelCreater makes pixel art fast, precise and fun. Download PixelCreater and start creating today.