8bit Painter vs Tipixel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
8bit Painter
Create fun and easy pixel art with intuitive controls. Perfect for beginners, this app lets you design SNS icons, game assets, or craft patterns. Import photos to pixelize them and export your creations as transparent PNGs.
- Beginner-friendly interface
- Essential pixel drawing tools
- Photo to pixel art conversion
- Customizable color palettes
- Transparent PNG export
- Multiple canvas sizes
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Over 6 million downloads! An easy-to-use app for creating pixel art and 8-bit style artwork. 8bit Painter is a simple pixel art drawing app that beginners can start enjoying right away. With intuitive controls, you can easily create pixel art for social media icons, game skins, illustrations, patterns, and more. It is also great for making designs for Perler beads, cross-stitch, knitting, and other handmade projects. Key Features - Simple controls that are easy for anyone to use - Clear, focused tools for creating pixel art - Perfect for beginners - Great for making social media icons and game skins - Import photos and convert them into pixel art - Choose colors intuitively with a color wheel, sliders, and palettes - Export transparent images in PNG format - Export and import your artwork data Canvas Sizes 16x16 / 24x24 / 32x32 / 48x48 / 64x64 / 96x96 / 128x128 / 160x160 / 192x192 Choose the right canvas size for your project, from small social media icons to detailed pixel art and craft patterns. Image Import Import your favorite photos and automatically convert them into pixel art. It is also useful for creating social media icons, game skins, and pixel art assets. Color Selection Choose a base color with the color wheel, then fine-tune it with sliders or HEX input. You can also pick colors quickly from preset palettes, or save frequently used colors to your custom color palette for reuse. Artwork Data Management Export artwork data saved in your Gallery from the Settings screen, and import it again when needed. This is helpful for keeping your pixel art safe, preparing for a device change, or reinstalling the app. Artwork Storage - The initial artwork storage limit is 30 artworks - Expand the limit up to 600 artworks by watching rewarded video ads or purchasing the Remove Ads add-on Image Export - Choose from 3 export sizes - Supports transparent PNG images - Useful for social media posts, game skins, and exporting assets Remove Ads Add-On - Hides all ads - Expands the artwork storage limit to 600 artworks - Can be restored after reinstalling the app - One-time purchase How to Expand Your Storage Limit - Each rewarded video ad you watch increases your artwork storage limit by 5 artworks, up to 600 - Purchasing the Remove Ads add-on expands your artwork storage limit to 600 artworks Recommended For - Anyone who wants to start creating pixel art - People who want to make their own social media icons - Anyone who wants to create game skins easily - People making designs for Perler beads or cross-stitch - People designing knitting patterns or handmade projects - Anyone who wants to turn photos into pixel art - People looking for a simple pixel art editor - Anyone who wants to manage their artwork data and keep using the app over time Enjoy creating pixel art and 8-bit style artwork with 8bit Painter!
Tipixel
Create dynamic pixel art with various tools and modes. Transform photos into pixel images, design unique wallpapers, and animate videos. Offers extensive customization for artistic expression.
- Dynamic pixel art creation
- Photo to pixel conversion
- Customizable wallpapers
- Animated video effects
- Multiple creation modes
- Brush and shape customization
- Advanced dynamic parameter adjustment
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Tipixel is an original dynamic pixel image production software, inspire unlimited creativity, simple operation, very artistic beauty.In addition to the creation of your own, you can also convert photos to the entire pixel image, more advanced is the picture can be set to the shape of each pixel, saving video or image and sharing to your friends~ Five modes, everything about pixel gameplay are here: 1, Pixel Photo: the main photo pixelated, with a variety of layout / color, support photos set to a single pixel, fun and good-looking 2, Pixel Number: multiple brushes are optional, coloring reduces fatigue, and it takes time to pass the time. If you can paint, it is a good choice for creating pixel paintings. 3, Magic Wallpaper: built-in multiple expressions, with animation / style, create your own magical wallpaper, also supports the use of photos as pixel elements 4, Funny Video: combined with pixel animation technology, so that the video produces very rich fluctuations, by adjusting the mirror / distortion level can create amazing works 5, Free Creation: This model has the greatest freedom of creation, is the core idea of the product - dynamic pixel art, come and create your own unique work. Main Function Introduction: 1, Brush: With different brush smear pixel area, will show different effects 2, Template: Built-in variety of a good template, very cool, for everyone to use 3, Layout: You can set the pixel image layout rendering shape 4, Style: including the pixel area of the common clear screen operation, to do dynamic or static pixel image, you can through the screen operation to achieve 5, Color: Built-in a variety of color patterns, colorful 6, Shape: Built-in a variety of shapes to choose from, mainly used to set the shape of each pixel 7, Dynamic: Built-in adjustment of good dynamic effect, easy to switch to experience dynamic diagram 8, Advance: Specially prepares for the friend who likes creating, may adjust the dynamic parameter more carefully, has the offset, the scale, the rotation, the color four kinds can adjust. Supported gestures: 1, single finger touch, pixel area, slide edit/paint 2, single finger touch, sliding area, can adjust the corresponding parameters, such as the lower left corner adjustment brush size/color 3, double finger touch move/zoom/rotate View or photo 4, double finger Click Reset View 5, three finger touch can adjust the background color Thanks to each and every user, more features coming soon ... Contact Us: Email:ia_fun@163.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 8bit Painter at 4.6 against Tipixel's 4.0. 8bit Painter also leads on ratings volume (6.5K vs 1). Tipixel's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. 8bit Painter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tipixel sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
8bit Painter holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 8bit Painter has 6.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of 8bit Painter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tipixel's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 8bit Painter | Tipixel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (6.5K ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Takayuki Miyagawa | 廷选 王 |
Customer experience
8bit Painter
Tipixel
Bugs and requests
8bit Painter
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing and crashing issues
- Distortion when importing images
- Inability to delete saved artworks
Requested features
5 requests- Custom canvas sizes
- More color options and palettes
- Ability to delete or rearrange colors
- Layers and animation support
- Copy/paste and selection tools
Tipixel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
8bit Painter
- Remove Ads$5.99
Tipixel
- Advance Drift Pro$0.99
- Advance Rotate Pro$0.99
- Advance Scale Pro$0.99
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- Advance Color Pro$0.99
- Brush Pro$1.99
- Layout Pro$2.99









