Comparison

pixel vs ScreenCap Studios

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

Head to head
About

pixel

Discover, save, and share colors with ease. This app allows you to find any color using intuitive gestures, capture colors from images, and even use a special keyboard to input specific hues. It's designed for precision and creative expression.

Highlights
  • Intuitive color discovery
  • Save and share color codes
  • Colored hex keyboard for input
  • Capture colors from images
  • Customizable themes
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pixel is a delightfully simple color finder. palette: intuitive gestures let you discover any color right at your fingertips share: save and send colors with their color codes edit: use a colored hex keyboard to type in hues and tones capture: snap an image and capture a color from the image theme: pick from a range of themes to suit your needs –––––––––––––––––––––––––– A pixel contains a single color. Color represents: a feeling, a kind of joy an emotion, happiness A dark blue for a dull but moving day A bright red for an exciting event A light yellow for the warm sun outside Or just a clean white, for your simple state of mind A pixel, from the millions or billions of pixels on your screen can tell so much To create something beautiful, you must be precise from the smallest of the smallest Starting from every pixel.

About

ScreenCap Studios

This app transforms your screenshots into an organized, actionable visual system. Capture, categorize, annotate, and search your visual information with ease. Export organized collections as polished PDFs and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Organize screenshots into custom Stacks
  • Add notes, URLs, and tags for context
  • Capture photos directly with CapCam
  • Browse visuals with CapCal calendar view
  • Export organized Stacks as PDFs
  • Sync across devices (Premium)
Features
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Your Camera Roll is for memories. ScreenCap is for information. Screenshots aren't memories — they're ideas, references, inspiration, and to-dos. They deserve their own system. ScreenCap is the Visual Operating System that turns screenshot chaos into organized, actionable clarity. A VISUAL OS FOR YOUR DIGITAL LIFE ScreenCap isn't just an organizer — it's an operating system for everything visual. Capture, organize, annotate, search, export, and sync. Your screenshots finally have a home that works as hard as you do. ORGANIZE INTO STACKS Create custom Stacks for anything — recipes, inspiration, work projects, travel plans, shopping lists. Drag screenshots into collections that make sense to you. Find what you need in seconds, not minutes. ADD NOTES AND CONTEXT Screenshots without context lose their meaning. Add notes, source URLs, and tags to every cap. Remember why you saved it and what to do next. CAPTURE WITH CAPCAM See something worth saving? CapCam lets you capture reference photos directly in-app. Whiteboards, labels, documents, inspiration — capture and organize in one seamless flow. BROWSE WITH CAPCAL View your visual history by date. CapCal gives you a calendar view of every screenshot, so you can find that thing you saved "sometime last week" instantly. EXPORT POLISHED PDFS Share your organized Stacks as beautiful PDF documents. Perfect for mood boards, project handoffs, research compilations, or printing reference materials. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Premium members can sync Stacks, notes, and organization across all their devices using end-to-end encrypted iCloud sync. Your data stays in your personal iCloud — we never see it. Coming Soon! 100% PRIVATE. ZERO DATA COLLECTION. ScreenCap is built with privacy at its core. All data stays on your device. No accounts or sign-ups. No analytics or tracking. No servers — we don't operate any. No third-party SDKs. Optional iCloud sync uses YOUR iCloud with end-to-end encryption. We can't see your screenshots, notes, or organization. Ever. That's not a feature — it's a promise. SCREENCAP PREMIUM Unlock the full power of your Visual OS: Unlimited custom Stacks Unlimited CapCam captures High-density PDF export (6 or 12 per page) iCloud Sync across all devices Free users get full functionality with limits on Stacks and CapCam captures. Upgrade when you're ready. NOTHING GETS LOST. EVERYTHING STAYS ACTIONABLE. Your Camera Roll is for memories. ScreenCap is for everything else. Download your Visual OS today.

Screenshots

pixel3 screens
ScreenCap Studios4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: pixel at free against ScreenCap Studios's freemium. pixel also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 16.6). ScreenCap Studios's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ScreenCap Studios holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: pixel has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of pixel's written reviews are positive against 100% of ScreenCap Studios's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

pixel ships an update fortnightly, ScreenCap Studios every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
pixel versus ScreenCap Studios: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterpixelScreenCap Studios
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.3 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYichen CaoKing Kobe Holding Co LLC

Customer experience

pixel

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%

ScreenCap Studios

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

pixel

No in-app purchases

None

ScreenCap Studios

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is pixel free?
pixel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ScreenCap Studios free?
ScreenCap Studios is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, pixel or ScreenCap Studios?
ScreenCap Studios is rated higher. pixel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while ScreenCap Studios averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do pixel or ScreenCap Studios have ads?
Neither pixel nor ScreenCap Studios shows ads.
Which is updated more often, pixel or ScreenCap Studios?
pixel ships an update fortnightly, and ScreenCap Studios every 10 days. Most recently, pixel was updated on October 24, 2026 and ScreenCap Studios on October 20, 2026.

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