Comparison

dotpict vs Nothing but Primes

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

Head to head
About

dotpict

Create and share pixel art with an intuitive drawing tool. Features include animation creation, autosave, and daily drawing challenges. Connect with a vibrant community of artists, browse thousands of daily artworks, and participate in events.

Highlights
  • Pixel art creation
  • Animation creation
  • Daily themes and events
  • Community posting and interaction
  • Autosave
  • Mesh pens, borders, and previews
Features
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More than 4 million downloads! "dotpict" is an application specialized to drawing pixel art! "dotpict" has a community function that allows you to post pixelart drawn with dotpict as well as those drawn with other applications! We recommend it to anyone like this. - Like pixelart! - Want to draw pixelart quickly and easily on a phone! - Want to show pixelart many users! - Want to communicate with pixelart creators! --------------------- What can you do with dotpict? --------------------- ◆Features specifically designed to create pixelart! - You can also create animations! - You can use most of the features for free, such as mesh pens, borders and previews. - Autosave your pixelart during creation, so you can create pixelart without worry. ◆Participate in daily themes and events! - If you are having trouble finding something to draw or an idea, try the daily challenges! - Event provides a palette of colors that are easy to draw, and templates making it easy! - You can also create your own events and other people to join in! ◆Browse, communicate and have fun with everyone's pixelart! - More than 2,000 artworks are posted on dotpict every day! - You can "like" your favorite pixelart and comment. - You can follow users you like and meet your favorite pixelart more and more! ◆You can also post your artwork created outside of dotpict! - About 99% of the artworks poosted have received a response.

About

Nothing but Primes

Features
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Numbers sink through deep water. As they sink, they come apart into their prime factors. 12 becomes 2 and 2 and 3. The primes drift to a number line at the edge of the screen, light up, and pass on. Some numbers do not come apart. Divisible only by 1 and themselves — primes. Those stop where they are and glow amber. - You do nothing No arithmetic. Tapping does not make anything go faster. There is no winning and no ending. Touch the screen once to begin, and then watch. - The number line is walked, not sampled Numbers are not thrown out at random. They are taken in order, one at a time, from 2. So twin primes — two apart — and prime deserts, long stretches with none at all, appear exactly as they really are. Nothing here is staged. - Amber means prime That colour is used nowhere else in the app. You do not have to learn which numbers are prime. The glowing ones are. - A codex When a number with some property drifts past, a card is added. Taxicab 1729, perfect numbers, amicable numbers, Mersenne primes, prime deserts, the sieve of Eratosthenes, semiprimes and RSA — twenty in all. Every prime you have passed, and the whole number line you have walked, stay readable. - You can slow it down You can make it faster, and you can always put the speed back to how it began. Nothing you have built up is lost by doing so. - It stops, eventually When the numbers grow too large, the app stops. Either it reaches the edge of what a 64-bit integer can hold, or it meets a number it cannot factor within the work allowed. Calling something prime when it is not known to be prime is not an option, so it stops and tells you why. That place is the foot of the wall the internet's encryption stands on: instant to multiply, forbidding to take apart. Everything is computed on your device. The network is used only to show ads.

Screenshots

dotpict4 screens
Nothing but Primes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nothing but Primes at none against dotpict's 1. dotpict's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. dotpict sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Nothing but Primes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

dotpict ships an update every 4 days, Nothing but Primes monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
dotpict versus Nothing but Primes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdotpictNothing but Primes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (791 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings791 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.715.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB67 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDOT PICTO LIMITED LIABILITY CO.Koki Tanisaka

Bugs and requests

dotpict

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and login issues
  • Drawing tools and cursor glitching
  • Inability to save or transfer canvases between devices
  • Inconsistent performance on older devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add layers and ability to rearrange them
  • Implement onion skinning for animations
  • Allow custom canvas sizes
  • Introduce a premium version to remove ads
  • Add a reference window for drawing
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  • Implement a color wheel and numerical color values

Nothing but Primes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

dotpict

Subscriptions1
  • dotpict Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
None

Nothing but Primes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is dotpict free?
dotpict is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nothing but Primes free?
Nothing but Primes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do dotpict or Nothing but Primes have ads?
Both dotpict and Nothing but Primes show ads.
Which is updated more often, dotpict or Nothing but Primes?
dotpict ships an update every 4 days, and Nothing but Primes monthly. Most recently, dotpict was updated on November 11, 2026 and Nothing but Primes on October 29, 2026.

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