Pixel Art Color Reviews

I’ve played faithfully for years. It’s one of the only games that I find relaxing and I enjoy the content. I understood that ads were necessary before and/or after each page, but adding multiple, long ads mid-game is a new low I’ve experienced from any app I’ve ever had. I’d considered upgrading previously, but was taken aback at how expensive the subscription was…. $15/mo or $47/yr?! That’s insane. I’d be willing to pay a one-time fee, or smaller subscription fee (another game I enjoy I gladly pay $3/mo and get a ton of content/perks). And now, disrupting the very thing that brings enjoyment from PixelArtColor , RELAXATION, in a way that feels like a shady tactic to push people to paying exorbitant subscription pricing…?! Disappointing. I guess it’s time to shop around for competitors.

EDIT: Forgot to add that over the past several months, it was also taking an insane amount of time to launch PixelArtColor (it would just have a blank white screen forever before the logo would eventually appear). The game also drains my battery quickly and causes my phone to run hot. All inconvenient, but easily overlooked, because of the other benefits. But those benefits are now negated by mid-game ads. No one is arguing is arguing against the presence of ads for a free app, but this is ridiculous. At least consider incentivizing them; I find I will willingly watch more ads if I can get something for it.

Yes, cross stitch world is a coloring app. It’s a color by letter and number coloring program that is THE BEST out there, and it’s totally free to use!! It’s only named that because they look like stitches. The outcome of the pictures are totally awesome! Lots of game options. Look at your gallery, look at other people’s galleries. Add folders and organize your photos. See how long it took others to color the same pic, upload a pic to share online, and many more features! The pictures that are offered by the developers seriously real pictures, not a baby picture of a dinosaur that looks horrible when finished. There are TONS of photo packages with like 10 photos per package. You can earn them easily start with tons of credits to buy a few packages! You get tons of colors!! Upload your own photos to color, whether they are personal or something you find on Pinterest or web search. Share pics with friends and in return get pics from friends. Every time you finish a pic, you get credits towards buying one of the many many packages of themed pictures to color. GUARANTEE If you try cross stitch world you’ll never use PixelArtColor. PixelArtColor is a serious joke! Unfortunately Cross Stitch world named their app that and not coloring, because they kinda look like stitches. BUT TRUST ME! It’s coloring by letter and numbers. Get tons of colors!

It was so much fun at first but as the game gets new updates it just gets worse and worse. It's not even enjoyable that much anymore. One suggestion is for the color board, make it by tens again since it takes SO long to get from one color to another. For example when you accidentally color 28 instead of one, you have to swipe so much longer to get to that color. Also make it so you can drag the color off screen like before. That is one thing I loved about PixelArtColor more than others like it, is the fact that it could continue to drag so it colored a bit faster but taking this out was a bad idea. One last thing, PixelArtColor lags like CRAZY. I can't play while on wifi or any connection really without it freezing and getting so frustrating. I am usually quite patient but I can't stand when this happens. I think it may be because of the adds so I do recommend put more time in helping the game work better and not the adds. I do recommend this and it is my all time favorite app but I just can't seem to enjoy it as much with the terrible updates. I ask you please take my suggestions and make another update that can improve PixelArtColor instead of making it worse. Thank you.

I really liked the previous version better. This new update I’ve had for about a week. There are a few differences in the appearance of the pictures while painting by number that change the feel of PixelArtColor . For example, the shades of the boxes for the different numbers isn’t as differentiated as it used to be. The boxes looked a little different and they seemed less... rigid? Modern? I’m not sure the word to use but it’s less relaxing now. Playing mostly at night after I put my kids to bed, I would turn off highlight cell, zoom out on my large screened iPhone and and click away until I was able to fall asleep. I was ADDICTED and finished pictures as they were added. The intricate ones of paintings, models/people and pretty cupcakes are always my favorite. Even my children enjoy it, I purchased them their own version on our family tablet so as to not deal with ads. But this update, I’m not liking it. And I don’t think I’ve gotten new pictures since the day after the update, where I believe it used to be updated daily or at least every couple of days.
Thank you for providing so many free pictures. And I’m glad to see that we can watch videos to unlock pictures. I appreciate that, as it was an unavailable feature for a while. I also greatly enjoy I can take a picture with my camera or upload from my photos saved on my phone. Pictures with 25+ numbers are most enjoyable.

I used to love PixelArtColor so much, and it used to be such a fun way to easy my anxiety and color. The pictures were beautiful, I loved that you could create your own, the 3D ones and books were a nice touch, and everything was great.
But I soon devolved a big problem with PixelArtColor : There were WAY too many crashes. It would freeze up ALL THE TIME! I can’t color one picture without it crashing at least five times, and I don’t color big pictures anymore because of it. Sometimes it will freeze for a few seconds, others for such a long time where even restarting the entire iPad doesn’t work. I wish they would take care of this problem, te app just isn’t fun anymore.
That’s not the only reason, there are lots of other problems as well. The update made PixelArtColor look so different, and Irish there was a setting to choose which type of way we wanted to make PixelArtColor look.
Another annoying this is that when you color the wrong space, it faintly colors the blank one, and it’s SO ANNOYING. It’s completely unsatisfying, it bothers me, and makes me miss lots of areas because of it. I wish there was a setting to change that.
One more problem is the ads. There are SO MANY of them, one after you color a picture, one before, and the ones WHILE you color the picture. Those are way to easy to click on. I know that’s probably the point, but it’s getting ridiculous.

I’ve had PixelArtColor for some time now, it was always my go to, a fave of mine. Just recently PixelArtColor started force closing, even when I put my device in airplane mode. It force closes at least 3x every time I open it now. They used to put about 6 new pics in every day now we 6 once maybe twice a week if we are lucky, the rest of the days it’s only 1-2 pics really? I’m no longer happy with it. It’s not my go to nor is it my fave any longer. If the force close issue gets fixed maybe I will go back to it and if they start putting more pics in like they used to. So my star rating is one for now, will change if the issues get fixed. Thank you for listening to me.
UPDATED REVIEW
I’m loving the new update of PixelArtColor with daily art to color, hiding completed work etc so now I give 4 ⭐️ but PixelArtColor force closed on me 5x in less than two minutes. My phone is running iOS 12.1 so that’s up to date and app is up to date. I’m wondering why the force close has gotten worse, can you please help me get PixelArtColor running properly again? It closes while I’m coloring in airplane mode, but force closes even worse with WiFi enabled. Please help

I do like PixelArtColor a lot. It is very relaxing and almost zen-like to color the pictures. And I love that there are so many pictures to choose from and always more being added. BUT . . . the ads are pretty annoying. Mostly because there are so many. I get 1 every time I open a picture, whether it is marked Premium or not (so seriously, what is the difference between them?) and 1 every time I finish. Plus every time I just want to go back to the main menu, and then when I accidentally hit the done button in the middle of coloring, which is too easy to do. So if I do a bunch of simple ones in a row, I am watching just ad after ad. I understand you have to make money, but a minimum amount of time between ads would be great. And if you had a 1 time charge to get rid of ads, I would pay it in a heartbeat. I refuse to pay monthly subscriptions for any app.

But my biggest complaint right now is about the latest update. Why did you change the way the pixels and the numbers look? I don’t like it at all! I miss the dark, thick lines between the cells, and just something about the way the colors are applied now. It’s just not as satisfying anymore. Please, please, please at least give us a menu option that allows us to pick which look we want. Also, an option to have it not color the cells I accidentally hit in error would be great too. It is distracting and bothers me for some reason.

Overall, good app that would be great with a few updates.

I enjoy using PixelArtColor. It runs a lot smoother than the other color by number apps, and I’m glad it doesn’t vibrate your phone or make you start over if you color a cell with the wrong color. Other apps do that but this is the exception, I believe. There is also a premium feature that allows you to unlock more art to color, removes ads, and removes the watermark. With the insane amount of ads, trust me, I want premium bad enough. It’s very expensive, though. However, I feel like a new unfair feature was introduced to the premium version. We can now create our own art out of photos taken by the camera or ones in our gallery. It’s just that you’re only able to make two of these before it gets locked into the premium version. I was very excited to start playing around with this new feature, and disappointed to learn that you can only use it twice. I think this feature should be changed and updated. Users already want to have premium badly enough, and I’m sure you’re making a lot of money off of the non stop ads, so please let go of it. I’d rather not download another app that works differently than this just to be able to insert and color my own images. Thank you.

My biggest problem is the freezing. This game will completely freeze up, sometimes I can’t even get back into the game if I restart it. I will have to power my phone all the way off sometimes. My second issue is the picture selection. I wish there was a way to filters by pixel count and also that there was a way to sort the pictures such as people, animals, flowers, etc. and then using the pixel filter you can find your perfect picture. I really like doing the high pixel count bird/animal ones, but I have to scroll for a really long time to find new ones. Maybe a way to go straight to the bottom? Third is the feature where I can see the pixels I did the wrong color. They sometimes make it very hard to find the square in looking for because they blend it. I think being able to remove them or at least lighten the opacity would be great. I also would like a way to remove the buttons at the top while coloring, because they get in the way and sometimes I accidentally click finish and have to watch two ads to get back into my picture. The new pop-up ads are also annoying, because they sometimes freeze my game too. This game has many upsides though. It has an amazing selection of pictures, is pretty easy to use and has lots of bonus pictures to get. I love collecting stuff so whenever I finish a book and get the high pixel count picture I am very pleased. If you fixed the issues I talked about this game would definitely be a five star for me!

The new update is spectacular! Though I have read very mixed reviews concerning the big update I personally enjoy it. I can find things more easily due to everything being so organized. A few things I want to mention:
💮 Stability could be improved to where PixelArtColor doesn't crash every 10 minutes.
💮 You know when you color over a non-highlighted square and it sort of shades it with that color? Then you have to exit the picture and refresh it, and that action sometimes crashes PixelArtColor , especially when it is glitching already. For those of you who hate to leave colors unfinished I would suggest a "refresh" button that refreshes the picture without having to exit the picture.
As I am reading the reviews, I see an abundance of fabulous ideas like a color-complete Power-up, or a zoom for finding the last few pixels of unfinished colors. Increasing the max resolution on created pictures and sorting them more efficiently would also be ideal, as well as having options for the fonts of the numbers. Aside from that, responsiveness could be improved, and pls include a few more full-screen pictures in the pic updates! Keep up the good work! Also it keeps defaulting to the magnifying glass every time I reload PixelArtColor .

The game is great! It’s just that the more artworks I have filled in, The more laggier it gets. It just freezes even with a internet connection. I don’t think it has something to do with storage. The developer responded to the same question as mine, the developer stated that I should just get the new update. I have only being playing this game for a couple of days and that message is outdated. I don’t know what to do. I closed out of my contact message to the moderators and I don’t want to be rude and retype.

Early into the game, the good out ways the bad. The design is simple, although I don’t like how if you zoom out the highlighted pixels blend in with the to-be-filled in black pixels. The price for premium is ridiculously high for no reason, but I get how they need money. The pop up ads in the middle of coloring doesn’t really upset me. I love their events, just wish they were shorter. Like 4 days or something. They should add a search feature, like if you want to color a certain thing. I love the diversity of how many pixels there are for each drawing because if you want something quick or long than you can choose. The camera feature is really cool!

This game is fantastic, just needs some more improvements.

Hi there! This is a wonderful app, it brings color by numbers to life and you can paint whatever picture you like! I love that you’re able to paint community creations and that you’re able to make them yourself too. I also love that there’s different types of creations and daily ones too!

One small issue that I would like to address. I’m fine with the ads, I understand that revenue is made through them. But whenever you tap the wrong square while making a piece of art, it colors in the square slightly with the color you’re using. Making mistakes are irreversible and gives the whole Pixel Art experience a lot more anxiety. I know this seems like a small issue and is my own opinion, but that feature just seems really unnecessary. I’ve seen similar reviews mentioning this issue as well. It would be wonderful if a feature was added so you could at least tap the accidental square again to make it blank again or if the feature was just removed entirely so that no color is added to the wrong number square.

Besides that, I think PixelArtColor is fantastic. Keep up the great work!

I absolutely Love this game it helps me relax much more especially when I've been out in a very stressful day. It really helps me take away like problems even though it's not perfect there is really good things about it like how the pixels or simple but so decorative one to finish it although I do have some minor complaints. It drains my battery so easily yes my device usually only takes about 2 1/2 or three hours to go to die but if I play this for just half an hour it goes from either like a 98 to 63 which really annoys me although still a good game. I still love it at the end of the day other there is another complaint I have. Sometimes the pixels are way too hard to fine and sometimes instead of being relaxing it's a little stressful and one thing that also does not help the ads Omar the at the ad really just don't help then make it much more stressful for me whenever I want to take a second to relax every picture that I just painted color show me an app for cars which is really not helpful. If I was you I will get PixelArtColor just ignore some of the minor issues at this game anyway other the skin is really good and I totally recommend it !

I litteraly love this game. It is my favorite out of all the other pixelated coloring apps out there and tbh the only one i use. I love the drawings and how detailed they are. I love how they post drawings so often and how the drawing keep a theme. The only thing is the update. Whenever i try to scroll it always accidentally clicks on a drawing which is kind of annoying. Also it is sooooo laggy. Sincethe update PixelArtColor had been lagging and bugging out soo much amd it only happens when im on PixelArtColor so its not my phone. Also i would like it if you changed the the big numbers back. Before the update the numbers on the coloring page were rhick and bold and i know this is wierd but i feel like making them thin was useless. They look like every other coloring app and the number being thin just makes me forget im even playing pixel art, it makes feel as if im playing amother pixel coloring game. It just tales away the uniqueness. GUYS DONT TRY TO BE LIKE OTHER COLORING APPS THIS GAMES UNIQUENESS IS WHY I PLAY IT RATHER THAN THE OTHER ONES IK ITS WIERD BUT I LOVED THE THICK NUMBERS WHEN COLORING NIW IT JUST LOOKS LIKE EVERY OTHER OF THESE APPS PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK AND FIX THE LAGGS. Overall this is an amazing game

In the time I have had it, I have fallen in love with PixelArtColor. I use it to calm down, and to color while listening to podcasts or doing other things. However, there are two things that really need to be improved.

The first is the battery usage. PixelArtColor drains battery faster than any other app I have ever used, including extremely graphics intensive applications. The battery drain is so bad that it can eat up 40 or 50 percent of an iPad battery in 30 minutes. It is something that desperately needs to be fixed.

The other problem is the inability to search or sort pictures. When looking for an image to color, even in your own gallery, all you can do is scroll all the way down to the bottom. There is no way of searching for specific types or filtering pictures, with the exception of making completed and 3D images not show up. It is very difficult to find things and look for new images to color as a result, and PixelArtColor would be greatly improved if the images were a bit better categorized and easier to find.

This is great app for adults and children. This was originally obtained for a pair of preschoolers who love playing games on screen devices and have extremely short attention spans, especially in public. I convinced myself that PixelArtColor may help with number recognition and fine motor skills, which helped assuage my guilt about using my phone as a short term pacifier. After hearing the apps praises, I sat down and received a short tutorial from a 4 year old. After we started a new picture, I found this paint by numbers concept was really fun. It's quite relaxing and a decent way to wind down. The biggest plus though, it is something to do with a youngster that is as interesting to me as it for the child.

PixelArtColor was free to download, and so far I have found that there is an ample amount of free content. I haven't found the ads to be intrusive. If you have a problem with those issues there is a premium service that can be purchased. As long as I wake up in a couple weeks and find that everything requires a subscription, which has happened with similar apps, this game absolutely worth a five star review.

I think this might be the first review I’ve ever written, but this is my favorite coloring app of all time. I have tried countless apps to try to find one I really liked and nothing compared to this one. I like that you can zoom in on the photo without a “magnifying glass” because I personally don’t think it’s helpful. It gets in my way of what I’m trying to color, but they have the option to turn it on and off. Additionally, you can drag your finger over pixels of the same number instead of having to press each one by one, which is not only time consuming but annoying. They come out with new pictures everyday and most of the designs are really really cute!! Everything is free, with ads that are skippable before and after a picture as well as locked pictures that you can access by watching a 30 second ad. They also have bonus coloring set links for their app on their Facebook if you want extra designs as well!

TL;DR
this is the best coloring app, you should get it

I love this game and it feels like I’ve spend hundreds of hours playing it. I love it so much that I’m writing a review, which I never do. I have a couple suggestions that I feel would make the game better—-being able to change the order of numbers/ their position on the image. what I mean by that is when I play I often like to start in the middle and fan outward but the numbers aren’t laid out like that so it requires me to switch back and forth between colors. First world problems right lol. Anyways i would like to be able to set the numbers to how I want to color the puzzle that day if that makes sense,, inward outward vice versa top to bottom etc. I think that option would be so helpful. I also think being able to change the speed of the gif would be awesome too. That’s a big part of why I love PixelArtColor so much. I really enjoy seeing my work at the end in a gif, but sometimes it goes so fast, especially on the bigger puzzles. It would be great to be able to change the speed on those. That’s all. It is really a beautiful app and I can’t say more great things about it. If these things aren’t doable, don’t even worry about it!! xo

I’ve devoted well over 100 hours to PixelArtColor and colored every picture (along with about as many of my own photos.) I figured with this much time spent on it, I should go ahead and sign up for the premium subscription. I’ve been very happy so far but do have a few criticisms/ suggestions.
First, increase the max resolution of the images you can make. I noticed that at some point, you decreased the highest difficulty setting to be fewer pixels. One thing I really love about PixelArtColor is finding other images of pixel art online and coloring them in, but it doesn’t work if I can’t match the resolution of the original pixel art image. I’m much more limited now with the reduced difficulty range.
Second, don’t show created images in the create an image tab. While I definitely want to be able to access images that I’ve previously created, it (understandably) takes a while to load that page for me and I don’t need to see it every time I go to create a new image.
Third, add a limit to the number of previously created images that are saved and, once you’ve reached that limit, automatically delete the oldest image when you create a new one (unless you favorite an image or something.)
Other than that, I love PixelArtColor and, while I do think the price is steep and am looking forward to a different payment model, I don’t regret spending the almost $20 a month on it!

PixelArtColor is honestly one of my favorite games I have played in my life. Every day there are new pictures and it’s very helpful when I’m bored. I’m always discovering new pictures and everything and it’s just great. I find it very calming and when I first downloaded PixelArtColor I thought it would be FLOODED with ads like any other game I had installed in the past. But when I started playing this, I noticed how few ads there were. The only time I’ve seen ads is when you first click I a picture that you want to do. Other than that there are pretty much no ads. It’s almost like I downloaded a program to block ads or something! I find PixelArtColor very calming and I totally recommend it for stressed/ impatient people. (Like me) PixelArtColor has always been my go to whenever I want to kill time. And the best part is that it’s totally free, AND you don’t have to be on WiFi when using it. I find that as such a problem with past apps. As if I’m in the car, at one of my brothers hockey games, on flights, etc. Most apps that I download never work in the car or something because they need WiFi. And it’s not even an ONLINE GAME!! Anyway, I love PixelArtColor and I totally recommend it!! <3