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.
Pixel art editor: sprites, GIF animation, photo to pixel art, PNG export