StarSeed vs Smudjo

StarSeed is a bead pattern maker and pixel art editor designed for fuse bead, Perler bead, Hama bead, Artkal bead, and pixel bead creators. Turn photos into printable bead patterns, draw original pixel art, create text-based pixel designs, count required bead colors, and export clean PDF patterns for real-world crafting. Main features: - Photo to bead pattern: convert pictures from your photo library into pixel bead grids. - Background removal: isolate the main subject before creating a cleaner bead pattern. - Real bead palette matching: supports common bead palettes including Perler, Hama, Artkal, MARD, and COCO. - Pixel art editor: draw with brush, eraser, fill, eyedropper, shapes, text, mirror, and move tools. - Text to pixel pattern: turn names, words, and short phrases into pixel-style bead designs. - Pattern library: save, rename, view, and continue editing your own bead patterns. - Material count: automatically calculate how many beads are needed for each color. - Printable PDF export: create bead pattern sheets with coordinates, color IDs, grid lines, material list, total bead count, and physical size. - Built-in gallery: browse curated bead pattern ideas and save them to your library. - Crafting timer: record your bead-making time and mood, with Live Activity support on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. - iCloud sync: keep your personal pattern library available across your devices. Great for: - Making Perler bead patterns from photos - Creating Hama bead, Artkal bead, MARD bead, and fuse bead designs - Designing pixel avatars, pixel gifts, keychains, coasters, charms, and handmade crafts - Preparing craft patterns for kids, family activities, DIY projects, and fan art - Printing clear bead grids, color charts, and material lists StarSeed is built around real bead-making workflows, from photo conversion and palette matching to printable patterns and focused crafting sessions.

Smudjo is a painting app for people who like making a mess. Twelve brushes that answer the way real ones do — pencil, technical pen, fineliner, brush pen, marker, gouache, charcoal, chalk, spray, airbrush and two rounds — all of them pressure-, tilt- and speed-sensitive, on a canvas with no edges. Smudge, fill, selections and symmetry. Layers, groups, clipping, blend modes. Undo as far back as you like, and a time-lapse of the whole thing at the end. PAINT TOGETHER The part no other painting app does. Share a six-character code and up to eight people paint on one canvas, live, watching each other's strokes land as they're drawn. Everyone gets their own layer so nobody paints over anybody by accident, and you can follow someone's view or jump to where they're working. On the same Wi-Fi it connects directly, device to device. Anywhere else it goes through a relay that passes along messages it cannot read: sessions are end-to-end encrypted from the code itself, and the relay only ever sees a room number. REAL FILES Your paintings are files in a folder you choose, on your device or in your own cloud storage. Open them, move them, back them up, or stop using Smudjo entirely — they are yours either way. No account, nothing to sign up for. WHAT'S FREE Every brush and every tool, forever. Five paintings, five layers each, exports up to 1080 pixels across, and joining anyone's session with no limits at all. One purchase unlocks unlimited paintings and layers, full-resolution export, hosting a full room, and keeping the paintings you make in someone else's session. It covers every device you own, and it is not a subscription.