Lightbloop vs Koadro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Lightbloop
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Lightbloop is a dreamy drawing toy for making glowing color echoes, soft afterimages, and playful visual trips. Draw with your finger and watch simple strokes bloom into luminous trails. Freeze a layer, keep drawing above it, open Dream Lab to tune the mood, or shake your device to randomize the whole trip. When the canvas lands somewhere strange and pretty, save the visible artwork to Photos.
Koadro
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Turn any photo into pixel art you actually control, one pixel at a time. Pick a photo, a painting, a screenshot, a landscape, a pet, a face, and Koadro rebuilds it in real pixels. You decide the resolution. You decide how many colors. Every pixel comes straight from your picture, and every choice is yours. Make a piece you are proud of, or just have fun turning today's photo into pixels. Freedom to make it your way: - Set the resolution, from chunky retro blocks to fine detail. - Hold the color count wherever your eye likes it. - Choose a named palette, Nord, Noir, Matcha, Sepia, Dusk, Van Gogh, Ukiyo-e, Riso, CGA, or PICO-8, or let Koadro read an adaptive palette straight from your image. - Build your own palettes and save the looks you love. - Add texture and dithering for that classic pixel feel. - Or switch to Mosaic and rebuild the whole picture from tessellating tiles: square, triangle, diamond, hexagon. - Transparent backgrounds stay transparent: a cutout goes in, a clean pixel sticker comes out. Make what you like: a pixel avatar or PFP for your profile, a sprite for a game, a sticker, or a whole collection of your favorite images in pixels. How it works: 1. Pick any photo, or take one. 2. Set the resolution and the number of colors. 3. Choose a palette, or pull one from the image itself. 4. Add dithering, texture, or a mosaic of tiles. 5. Export your pixel art as a crisp PNG, and use it however you like. The free tier is a real tool, not a trial. Resolution up to 128 cells, up to 16 colors, every palette, dithering, transparent backgrounds, square and triangle mosaics, export up to 1024px, and 10 projects. No watermark on any of it. Koadro Premium, one purchase, unlocks the rest: resolution up to 256 cells, up to 64 colors, diamond and hexagon mosaics, exact sizing in centimeters or inches, export up to 2048px, custom palettes, saved presets, and unlimited projects. Pay once. No subscription. No ads. No watermark. Ever. Everything runs on your device. No account, no cloud, no upload. Your images never leave your hands. Anything you can picture, in pixels. You make every decision, Koadro just makes it easy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lightbloop at none against Koadro's 1. Koadro's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Koadro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lightbloop asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Lightbloop | Koadro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcin Denisiewicz | Paintingstack Technologies SpA |
In-app purchases
Lightbloop
No in-app purchases
Koadro
- Koadro Premium$9.99









