Pixly - Pixel Art Editor

Gustavo Maciel

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About this app

Pixly is a complete pixel art editor for Android devices. It excels where all other editors for phones and tablets fall short.

It has many useful features, and its design was made with phones and tablets in mind.

Here's a quick list of the features you may find in Pixly:

• Animations with onion skinning;
• Layers;
• Mini view with customizable level of zoom for quick preview;
• Dropbox and Google Drive integration;
• Controls intuitive for touchscreen;
Try pinching with two fingers to move and zoom the artboard, or pinching with three fingers to change the brush size!
• Contextual tools;
• Undo, Redo and History;
• Social features (Share, Twitter @DailySilhouettes and @PixelDailies);
• Text drawing;
• Palettes;
• Color ramps;
• Opacity;
• Transparent and non transparent background;
• Patterns;
• Arcs and Curves;
• Real time image tiling;
• Symmetry with customizable mirrors;
• References;
• Grids;
• Copy-Paste;
• Lots of color effects;
• And more!

Ratings and reviews

Nothing screams perfect more than the interface, the smoothness, and the versatility of usage. I speak from my experience using the app. I've also been using other apps like IsoPix and Pixel Station - both of which I didn't really find easy to navigate around; IsoPix only allows maximum of 5 redo(s) while Pixel Station requires high-end system to run smoothly. Pixly - the most optimized pixel art software that you're missing out on.

The overall experience with this app is good. It just lacks something that's found from other apps, and that is the function where you can import an image as a layer. It could be much more convenient if there's a function like that available in it. It would be easier and more convenient to stack pixelated images from different source files if there's such function around. Overall, it's a good app.

Pros: - The best image editor I've found. You'd think things like copy, paste, resize canvas, and nearest neighbor resize would be standard, but this is the only editor I've tried that has them all. Cons: - The only thing it seems to be missing is brush size. I occasionally wish I could scribble with more than 1 pixel. - There's a bug where I can't scroll the options of some tools because I'm touching the options themselves. This can be worked around by touching the very edge of your screen.

What's new

If you have any problems, contact me at [e-mail]
Version 1.702
• Fixed some crashes

Version 1.7
• PIXLY IS FREE NOW! NO ADS! NO IN-APP-PURCHASES!
• Undo now has a RAM limit, avoiding crashes (you can change it on the preferences menu if necessary)
• Pixly is now very conservative with battery, only re-rendering when necessary.
• Crashes because of RAM should be much less frequent now in lower-end phones
• Added a settings screen, with some settings you've been asking for some time :)