pau. vs Pixel Color

pau. is a minimalist adult coloring app for iPad, with hand-drawn pages, freeform coloring, and optional Apple Pencil support. Its free plan provides Fill, Soft Round, Fineliner, Marker, undo and redo, stroke adjustments, an eyedropper, and recent colors. Premium adds watercolor, oil, gouache, pastel, and chalk brushes, plus Smudge. It also unlocks reusable custom palettes, palettes made from photos, the full page library, and exports without the pau. mark. The maker says about four new hand-drawn pages arrive each Friday. Progress saves automatically on the iPad, and downloaded pages remain usable offline. Finished images and automatic time-lapse videos can be saved. The maker says there are no accounts, ads, or cross-app tracking; its policy describes pseudonymous events through TelemetryDeck and diagnostics through Sentry. An eligible non-subscriber can preview Premium brushes and Smudge once for 72 hours. The app requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.

Pixel Color is a paint-by-numbers app for coloring pixel art on Android and iOS. Choose a number from the palette, then fill the matching box in an image. Its selection includes meditative patterns, flowers, animals, holiday scenes, people and scenery, and the app is described as suitable for kids and adults. Completed pictures can be viewed as videos and shared with family and friends. Offline access and importing your own images are listed features. The app is free to download, with in-app purchases. Pixel Pro subscriptions unlock all content and features; after one expires, images marked Pixel Pro are no longer available. Plans are $3.99 a month for a weekly subscription, $9.99 a month for a monthly subscription, and $49.99 a year for a yearly subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. The App Store listing supports iPhone and iPad running iOS 13.0 or later.