Pixel Art: Sprite Editor

Pixel Art is a pixel art editor for phones and tablets. Draw game sprites, icons, avatars, tiles and retro 8-bit and 16-bit art, animate them frame by frame and save as PNG or GIF. No sign-up, no internet, and every artwork saves itself.

PIXEL-PERFECT DRAWING

• 12 tools: pencil, brush, eraser, fill, color picker, line, frame, block, circle, clone stamp, hand and zoom

• Undo and redo, a grid over the pixels, pinch zoom and fit-to-screen

• Lines, frames, blocks and circles land on whole pixels — no blur, no half-tones

• Canvas from 8 × 8 to 1024 × 1024, up to 4096 × 4096 in Pro as far as your device memory allows; ready sizes for an icon, sprite, tile and scene

• Transparent or white background — a sprite with transparency is ready for your game

• Symmetry on the vertical, horizontal or both axes: strokes, lines, shapes, stamp and fill are all mirrored

COLORS AND PALETTES

• Basic palette plus four gradients of 20 shades each

• Custom color: a saturation and brightness field, a hue bar, R, G, B sliders and HEX input

• Opacity from 0 to 255 and #AARRGGBB HEX — semi-transparent pixels for glass, water and Minecraft textures

• Custom palettes (Pro): save a set of colors and reuse it in any artwork

PHOTO TO PIXEL ART

• Turn a photo into pixel art: a picture from your gallery is scaled down to 16–256 pixels and reduced to 8, 16, 32 or 64 colors

• See the result next to the original before it lands on the canvas

ANIMATION, LAYERS AND TILES (PRO)

• Layers with visibility, duplicate and merge down

• Frame-by-frame sprite animation: a frame strip and preview from 2 to 24 frames per second

• GIF export — the file goes straight to Pictures / Pixel Art

• Tile mode for seamless textures: copies around the canvas show how the edges meet

MY ARTWORK

• Autosave: close the app and pick up right where you left off

• A gallery of your artwork with previews, size and last edit date

• Rename, duplicate, share or delete any artwork

EXPORT AND SHARING

• Open PNG and JPG from your gallery — your own artwork opens as is

• Save as PNG at ×1 and ×8, or ×16 and ×32 in Pro — upscaled with no smoothing, so a pixel stays a crisp square

• Share to messengers and social apps in one tap

PIXEL OF THE DAY

• A new topic and a four-color palette every day, the same for everyone

• A 32 × 32 canvas and a daily streak — a reason to draw every day

WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS

• Quick start 4×1, Latest artwork 4×2, Pixel of the day 2×2 and Showcase 2×2 widgets

• App shortcuts: new 32 × 32 canvas, continue, open PNG

SETTINGS AND LOOK

• Light and dark themes, or follow the system

• Grid color, zoom sensitivity, undo and redo with the volume keys

• Comfortable in portrait and landscape, on phones and tablets

• The interface is drawn pixel by pixel, so icons stay crisp on any screen

WHO IT IS FOR

Indie developers and gamedev — sprites, tilesets and icons for games. Retro artists — 8-bit and 16-bit art without extra menus. Beginners — a simple pixel drawing app that makes sense from the first launch.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

Here you draw yourself instead of coloring a picture by numbers. The editor works offline, never asks for an account and does not hide basic tools behind a subscription.

PIXEL ART PRO

No ads, canvas up to 4096 × 4096, custom palettes, export up to ×32, layers, animation with GIF export and tile mode. Subscribe weekly or yearly, or buy it once forever. You can also support development for free by watching a short video: ads switch off for an hour and one full-scale export unlocks.