Comparison

Spriteer vs PixSprite

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 8x8 pixel art canvas
  • Animated sprite creation
  • 38 built-in arcade games
  • PNG and GIF export
  • Customizable color palettes
  • Live walk preview
  • Undo functionality
Features
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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.

About

PixSprite

Features
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PixSprite is a pixel art and sprite animation editor built for iPhone and iPad. Start with a blank canvas or turn a photo into editable pixel art, then bring your ideas to life, pixel by pixel. Create • Work on canvases up to 1024×1024 pixels • Draw with pencil, eraser, eyedropper, line, shape, selection, lasso, and magic wand tools • Refine artwork with layers, opacity, blend modes, symmetry, and live preview • Build and manage your own color palettes, including transparency • Add pixel text with built-in fonts and adjustable size, line spacing, alignment, and color • Replace, adjust, and remap colors; reduce palette colors and remove unused colors Animate • Draw frame by frame, adjust timing, and preview your animation • Duplicate and reorder frames on the timeline • Organize animation sequences with tags • Use linked cels to share the same layer content across frames Turn images into pixel art • Import a photo or image and continue editing the result • Adjust crop, palette, scaling, and dithering • Split sprite sheets into animation frames Import and export • Import and export Aseprite files with support for layers, animation frames, tags, and linked cels • Import animated GIFs, APNGs, and sprite sheets • Export GIF, APNG, MP4, PNG sequences, and sprite sheets • Save and share your work as PixSprite project files Some features and export formats require the one-time PixSprite Pro purchase.

Screenshots

Spriteer4 screens
PixSprite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: PixSprite at weekly against Spriteer's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spriteer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PixSprite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spriteer ships an update every 2 weeks, PixSprite weekly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Spriteer versus PixSprite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpriteerPixSprite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSwiftian Inc.俊辰 江

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Spriteer

One-time1
  • Unlock All$1.99
1 purchases

PixSprite

One-time1
  • PixSprite Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Spriteer free?
Spriteer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PixSprite free?
PixSprite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spriteer or PixSprite have ads?
Neither Spriteer nor PixSprite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spriteer or PixSprite?
Spriteer ships an update every 2 weeks, and PixSprite weekly. Most recently, Spriteer was updated on November 6, 2026 and PixSprite on November 6, 2026.

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