Pixel Art Maker

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About this app

Unleash your retro creativity with Pixel Art Maker — the ultimate pixel art studio and sprite animation tool built for game developers, artists, and retro nostalgia lovers!

Whether you are crafting 8-bit characters, indie game assets, game sprites, or animated avatars, Pixel Art Maker provides professional-grade tools wrapped in an intuitive, lightning-fast mobile interface.

🎨 POWERFUL PIXEL DRAWING TOOLS
• Precision Pencil: Single-pixel accuracy with optional "pixel-perfect" stroke mode to eliminate double pixels.
• Smart Flood Fill: Fill regions instantly with contiguous edge detection and cross-layer fill options.
• Advanced Color Picker / Eyedropper: Sample exact colors directly from any active layer.
• Dithering Brush: Paint classic retro shading patterns effortlessly with custom dither matrices.
• Geometric Shapes: Crisp lines, rectangles, squares, and circles designed specifically for pixel grids.
• Selection & Transform: Marquee rectangle and freehand lasso tools to move, flip, rotate, and duplicate pixel selections.
• Symmetry Mirroring: Draw seamlessly with real-time Horizontal and Vertical symmetry axes.

🎬 FRAME-BY-FRAME ANIMATION STUDIO
• Timeline Controls: Add, duplicate, reorder, and remove frames with a responsive bottom timeline.
• Onion Skinning: Visualize previous and next frames with ghosted overlays to time walk cycles, attacks, and idle animations.
• Live Preview Player: Play your sprite animations in real-time with adjustable frame rates (FPS).
• Seamless Looping: Perfect for game character sprites, game VFX, and animated reaction GIFs.

📑 PRO MULTI-LAYER WORKFLOW
• Up to 16 Dynamic Layers: Organize complex compositions effortlessly (background, linework, shading, highlights).
• Individual Layer Controls: Adjust layer opacity with smooth sliders (0% - 100%), toggle layer visibility, and lock layers to prevent accidental edits.
• Layer Merge & Duplicate: Combine layers or duplicate elements with a single tap.

🌈 CURATED RETRO COLOR PALETTES
• Classic Preset Palettes: DawnBringer 16/32, PICO-8, Game Boy 4-color, NES, Commodore 64, Cyberpunk, and more.
• Custom Swatches: Build and save your own custom color ramps and palette libraries.
• Shade & Tint Ramp: Automatically generate darker shadows and lighter highlights for any chosen hue.

🖼️ PHOTO TO PIXEL ART CONVERTER
• Transform real-world photos or sketches into authentic pixel art sprites with smart downsampling and palette reduction.

🎮 GAME DEV & TILESET TOOLS
• 3x3 Tile Seamless Preview: Test recurring background tiles and map textures in real-time to ensure seamless patterns.
• Configurable Canvas: Create custom dimensions (8x8, 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 64x64, 128x128, or custom sizes up to 256x256).

💾 HIGH-DEFINITION EXPORT OPTIONS
• Animated GIF: Export smooth looping animations ready for social media or Discord.
• Game Sprite Sheets: Export horizontal or grid-based PNG sprite sheets ready for Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine, and GameMaker.
• Lossless PNG & JPEG: Export single frames with transparent or solid backgrounds.
• Crisp Scaling (1x up to 64x): Preserve razor-sharp pixel edges at up to 2K/4K resolutions without blurry interpolation.

🔒 100% PRIVATE & OFFLINE-READY
• No user accounts, logins, or trackers required.
• All artwork and projects are saved locally on your device storage.

Download Pixel Art Maker today and bring your pixel worlds to life!

What’s new

First Version Release