Comparison

PixelCreater vs PIXIO Pixel Studio

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

Head to head
About

PixelCreater

Features
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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 16Ɨ — 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.

About

PIXIO Pixel Studio

Features
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PIXIO is a small, focused pixel-art studio for iPhone and iPad. Pick a canvas, pick a colour and start painting; when the picture is done, bring it to life as a looping animation. DRAW • 8Ɨ8, 16Ɨ16, 32Ɨ32 and 64Ɨ64 canvases. Switching size is lossless: the picture is always kept at 64Ɨ64, and a coarser size simply paints whole blocks. • Pencil, eraser, flood fill and colour picker. • Horizontal, vertical or both-ways symmetry, plus flip and rotate. • Layers on every frame: add, reorder, hide and delete them, with 50 steps of undo and redo per layer. • A quick palette of the colours already in your picture, a 132-colour grid, a saturation/brightness panel and a hue slider. ANIMATE • A frame timeline with duplicate and delete. • Onion skin with adjustable opacity, so the previous frame shows through while you draw the next one. • Playback from 1 to 60 frames per second. GESTURES • One finger paints. Two fingers pan, and pinch to zoom around your fingers. • Two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo. • Tap the zoom percentage to snap back to 100 %. EXPORT • Save the current frame as a crisp 2048Ɨ2048 PNG to Photos. • Export the whole animation as a looping 512Ɨ512 GIF and share it anywhere. Optional chiptune background music, silent until you choose a song. No accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking: your artwork stays on your device.

Screenshots

PixelCreater4 screens
PIXIO Pixel Studio2 screens

Verdict

The call

PixelCreater and PIXIO Pixel Studio 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 Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
PixelCreater versus PIXIO Pixel Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelCreaterPIXIO Pixel Studio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHung-Yu LinBitfarm AS

In-app purchases

None

PixelCreater

No in-app purchases

None

PIXIO Pixel Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PixelCreater free?
PixelCreater is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PIXIO Pixel Studio free?
PIXIO Pixel Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PixelCreater or PIXIO Pixel Studio have ads?
Neither PixelCreater nor PIXIO Pixel Studio shows ads.

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