Everything in Pixelart Makers, in one list.

Keep every sprite of your game side by side.

Up to 100 artboards per file; each up to 256×256 px with its own palette, frames, layers, grid and symmetry axes.

Lay out a new sprite in one drag.

A, then drag, or click to drop a 32×32 artboard. New artboard sizes 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, with a starting palette.

Try a variant without touching the original.

⌘D (Hybrid) or Sprite › Duplicate artboard.

Get anywhere fast.

Hold Space to pan; pinch or ⌘-scroll to zoom from 10 % to 25,600 % (with a brush tool, ⌘-scroll sizes the brush); 1–6 jump to 100 %–3,200 %.

See exactly which pixels a click changes.

Pixel grid from 800 % zoom; per-artboard grid (default 16×16); brush footprint under the cursor.

Never lose a stroke to a forgotten save.

Every change saves as you draw; ⌘S confirms it (in the Classic keymap, ⌘S downloads a .pixelart copy).

Keep a complete copy of any file.

Download .pixelart file (⇧⌘S) writes a .pixelart with every artboard, layer tree, frame, linked cel, tag and the palette; Import… or a drop opens it as new artboards with their layout.

Fork any file you can open.

File › Duplicate file; the copy opens in a new tab as "… copy".

Find every sprite in one place.

All sprites and Shared with me, thumbnails, Owner and Editor badges; Open, Copy link and Rename on every card, Delete on files you own.

Step back to any point, not just the last one.

Edit › Undo history lists every step you took in this tab; click one to undo or redo up to it.

Place pixels precisely, big or small.

Pencil is 1 px; Brush 2–64 px; circle, square and line brushes, or an image brush made from a selection (Edit › New brush) and kept in Assets › Brushes; ⌘-scroll or + / − to resize; Shift-click draws a line from the last stroke.

Clean 1-px lines without cleanup.

Removes doubled corner pixels while you draw.

Erase, or swap one colour under the brush.

Right-drag replaces the foreground colour with the background colour.

Control how paint lands.

Simple, Alpha compositing, Copy alpha+color, Lock alpha, and Shading, which moves each pixel one step along a palette ramp (the right button steps the other way).

Even translucent shading.

0–100 %; overlapping passes in one stroke don't build up.

Draw half, get both.

Horizontal, vertical and both diagonal axes, placed per artboard in half-pixel steps; combine them to mirror four or eight ways.

Crisp shapes in one drag.

Outline or filled; Shift snaps squares, circles and pixel-art angles (1:1, 2:1); ⌘ draws from the centre; hold Space to move the shape.

Fill flats cleanly.

Tolerance 0–255, contiguous or global, 4- or 8-way, sample the current layer or all visible layers; stays inside a selection.

Pick colours without switching tools.

I, or hold ⌥ with any drawing tool; right-click picks the background colour.

Two colours on two buttons.

Paints the background colour by default; can open the context menu, pick a colour or erase instead (Preferences › General).

Reach for the right tool, not a workaround.

Spray, Gradient (linear or radial, with ordered dithering), Curve, Contour, Polygon, Text and Slice.

Paint a seamless tile and watch it repeat.

View › Tiled mode on the X axis, Y axis or both repeats the artboard around itself, and strokes wrap across its edges.

Grab exactly the pixels you mean.

Rectangular and elliptical marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso, magic wand.

Build complex selections fast.

Replace, add (⇧), subtract (⌥⇧ or right button), intersect (⇧⌘).

Common selections in a key.

Select all, Deselect, Reselect, Inverse, Select content.

Move and resize without redrawing.

Arrow-key nudge (⇧ = one grid cell), 8 scale handles, free rotation and skew with a pivot, X / Y / W / H / angle fields, RotSprite or Fast rotation, flip ⇧H / ⇧V; ↵ commits, Esc restores.

Select what you mean, not what you drag.

Select › Color range… picks every pixel of one colour in the cel (tolerance 0–255, replace, add, subtract or intersect); Modify › Border, Expand, Contract by 1–100 px; Selection as grid sets the artboard grid.

Edit the selection in one key.

F fill, S 1-px stroke, ⌫ erase.

Move art between layers and apps.

Cut, copy, copy merged, paste, paste as new layer, reference layer or artboard; PNGs paste in from other apps.

The right actions, right where you look.

Appears above the toolbar for pixels, cels, frames, layers and artboards; AI actions first.

Mix exactly the colour you want.

Saturation/value square, hue and alpha sliders, RGB, HSV and HSL fields, hex; "Not in palette" with Add.

Keep your palette organised.

Click for foreground, right-click for background; edit mode (F4) to reorder, copy and delete; [ and ] step through colours.

Start on a proven palette.

DawnBringer 32 (default), DawnBringer 16, PICO-8, NES, Game Boy, ENDESGA 32, ENDESGA 64, Sweetie 16, AAP-64, Resurrect 64, Arne 16.

Different sprites, different palettes.

Every artboard keeps its own palette of up to 256 colours. On RGB artboards, choosing a palette never recolours existing pixels; on Indexed ones pixels follow their entries, and Remap palette puts them back on the nearest new colour.

Share palettes with any tool.

Load and save .gpl, .hex, .pal, .act, .col and PNG strips; .txt loads too.

Pull a palette out of existing art.

1–256 colours; optionally keep semi-transparent colours.

Fit the palette to your limit.

4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 colours.

Turn a flat palette into shading you can pick from.

Sort palette… by hue, saturation, brightness, luminance or a channel; Gradient ramp… between two colours (RGB or by hue); Add shade ramps… builds hue-shifted shades of the colours you pick.

Work in the colour mode your game ships.

Start a new artboard in any mode, or convert between RGB, Indexed and Grayscale with dithering and a before / after preview; pick the transparent colour; Check palette… finds off-palette pixels.

Keep line art, colour and shading apart.

Groups nest 8 levels deep; drag to reorder, ⌥-drag to copy; up to 64 layers per artboard.

Shade and light non-destructively.

Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Lighten, Color dodge, Color burn, Hard light, Soft light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity, Addition, Subtract, Divide.

Focus on one part of the sprite.

Hiding or locking a group hides or locks its children; locks and visibility are shared with everyone in the file.

Tidy up when you're done.

Merge down, Flatten, Flatten visible, on every frame.

Split a part onto its own layer.

⌘J / ⇧⌘J.

A solid base that can't drift.

Convert to background / Convert to layer.

Paint levels from a reusable tileset.

New tilemap layer… on a tileset with its own tile size. Draw pixels and repeated tiles are reused while new ones join the tileset, or switch to Draw tiles and stamp tiles picked in the Tileset panel.

Trace over concept art without it printing.

New reference layer from file… or Paste as reference layer; it shows on the canvas in its place in the layer stack and never exports.

Outline every frame in one pass.

Colour, inside or outside, Circle / Square / Horizontal / Vertical presets or a 3×3 neighbour grid, a background colour that counts as empty, wrap at edges.

Recolour a character across the animation.

From → To with tolerance 0–255.

Fix brightness and colour without repainting.

Invert color, Brightness/Contrast and Hue/Saturation, with the same targets, channels and preview.

See the result before you commit.

Current cel, selected cels, all frames of this layer, or all layers and frames; R, G, B, A channels; live preview on the current cel; one undo step.

Change the whole animation at once.

Sprite size (nearest neighbour), Canvas size with an anchor, rotate 90° / 180°, flip, crop, trim; one undo step.

See every layer and frame at once.

Layers × frames grid in a resizable drawer (Tab); cel thumbnails, timeline zoom, solo a layer.

Build cycles in keystrokes.

New frame ⌥N, empty ⌥B, duplicate cels ⌥D, duplicate linked cels ⌥M, delete ⌥C, reverse ⌥I; up to 256 frames per artboard.

Make timing part of the art.

1–65,535 ms per frame (default 100); constant frame rate; ms and fps side by side.

Draw it once, reuse it everywhere.

Link, unlink and clear cels; continuous layers link new frames automatically.

Fine-tune a single cel.

Opacity, z-index, user data.

Keep every animation in one file.

Name, colour, direction (Forward, Reverse, Ping-pong, Ping-pong reverse), repeat count; drag a tag's edges to change its frames; up to 256 per artboard.

Loop just what you're polishing.

F2 sets it; F2 F2 turns it into a tag.

Preview at game speed or slower.

0.25×–4×, loop or play once, rewind on stop, play subtags and repetitions.

Draw in-betweens with confidence.

Red/blue tint or merge, 0–16 frames before and after, opacity, fade, behind or in front, loop through tag frames.

Watch it play while you draw.

F7; play in preview ⇧↵; 1×, 2×, Fit or fullscreen; pin an artboard.

Retime by dragging.

Select frames or cels, drag to move, ⌥ to copy, drop past the end to add frames; copy and paste frames across artboards.

Pixel art from a pixel-art AI.

Sprite · Fast, Balanced and Max, powered by PixelLab, for Make a sprite, Edit with prompt and Fill selection; Sprite tiers also run Variations, Render sketch, Erase and Isolate object, and the frame and clean-up actions below.

Start from a sprite, not a blank canvas.

Sizes 16–256; transparent background; palette lock; view and facing on Sprite · Fast; variations ×1 / ×2 / ×4 on Sprite · Max.

Cut out a sprite in one click.

PixelLab (Sprite · Fast); layer or artboard; no prompt.

Turn a pose into a cycle.

PixelLab; Walk, Run, Idle, Attack, Jump or Custom; 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16 frames, landing after the current frame with a layer and a tag; palette lock optional.

Fill the motion between two poses.

Select two frames and Generate in-betweens…: PixelLab draws the frames between them (Sprite · Fast or Max), with palette lock.

One pose becomes a full turnaround.

PixelLab draws a sprite facing 4 or 8 directions, as new artboards or as frames with one tag per direction (Sprite · Fast or Max).

Beat the blank prompt.

On a Sprite engine the wand uses PixelLab's prompt enhancer; Tab accepts.

Nudge outline and detail.

Preferences › AI › Sprite style: outline and detail hints for Sprite · Fast sprites, shading too for Sprite · Fast fills.

A painterly take, rebuilt into pixels.

Illustrative · Fast and Max; variations ×1 / ×2 / ×4; up to 4 reference artboards.

Illustrative results become real pixels.

Hard alpha, trimmed, grid-detected, your colour count or palette, optional ordered dither, stray pixels cleaned (Preferences › AI).

AI on your game's colours.

Every pixel of a generated sprite, edit, fill or animation frame matched to the artboard palette; set on the prompt card before you generate. Restyle to palette snaps existing art to it.

Review every result first.

Locked draft layer or new artboard; Keep ↵ (split into Merge into layer / Keep as new layer for layer and selection edits), Make changes ⇧↵, Try again, Discard; one undo step. Drafts you leave undecided are kept after 10 minutes unless Preferences › AI › Keep results automatically is set to Never (5, 10, 30 or 60 minutes).

Readable layer stacks in one step.

Renames default-named layers from what's on them; one undo step.

Readable tags and palettes without typing.

Name tags and Name palette colors fill in names from what the frames and colours show.

Shading colours that belong to your palette.

Add shade ramps… appends dark-to-light, hue-shifted steps of the colours you pick; runs on your device, free.

Start a game's look from a mood.

Three palettes of 4, 8, 16 or 32 colours as dark-to-light ramps; Replace or Append.

Keep drawing while it generates.

Jobs chip with Show and Review.

No surprises.

An estimate on every prompt card, the actual cost on every result, a confirmation for the biggest jobs, a monthly AI allowance per account. One-click actions (Remove background, Clean up pixels, Describe selection, the naming helpers) show their cost on the result; actions that run on your device are free.

AI without a detour.

✦ badge and ⌘↵ on any selection, ⌘K AI tab, AI toolbar mode, timeline ✦ Animate, palette ✦ menu.

No AI surprises for teammates.

Placeholders show whose job it is; the person who asked, or the file's owner, keeps or discards the result; a merge is refused if the layer changed.

Paint a prop away, or lift it out.

Select an area (or use Select area to erase or isolate…); Erase object fills in behind it, Isolate object to layer lifts it onto its own layer. On a Sprite engine (PixelLab) or Illustrative.

Explore takes, or finish a rough.

Variations… makes new takes on an artboard; Render sketch… turns a rough layer into finished pixel art. On a Sprite engine (PixelLab) or Illustrative.

Change a whole animation from one prompt.

Edit frames… applies one change to every selected frame; Reskin from reference… dresses them in a reference's look. On Sprite · Max (PixelLab) or Illustrative.

Tidy art that came from somewhere else.

Clean up pixels removes stray pixels and soft edges; Restyle to palette snaps art to your palette; Convert to pixel art… snaps an image to the pixel grid. Free on your device, or on a Sprite engine (PixelLab).

Turn art into words when you need them.

A short text description of a selection, layer or artboard.

Try other pixel settings without a new generation.

On an Illustrative result (or Convert to pixel art), change Colors, Palette lock, Dither, Size or Clean up and the draft re-renders from the original image.

Make and change sprites from your AI assistant.

A remote MCP server at /api/mcp (Streamable HTTP) for any MCP client that signs in with OAuth: coding agents, chat assistants, code editors. It asks for your consent once, acts as you on the sprites you can open, and its edits show up live for everyone in the file.

Your assistant learns the file first.

Your sprites, then one sprite's artboards, its layers from top to bottom with the frames they have pixels on, and its tags.

It sees exact pixels.

An enlarged view on a checkerboard, an optional grid with coordinates, a text grid with one symbol per colour, colours with counts and palette indices, left-right symmetry, and checks for stray pixels, a missing outline, look-alike colours and too many colours.

Clean pixels from a description.

Rectangles, ellipses, lines, polygons, single pixels, patches with a legend, bucket fills, colour swaps, mirror, flip, shift, outline and clear, on one layer of one frame or on a new layer. Drawn by the editor's own engine and saved as one change, with a preview and checks; one invalid step refuses the whole call. On indexed artboards colours snap to the palette, with a warning.

The rest of the editor, on request.

Finds editor actions, whole-sprite operations and AI features by task, runs one and reports what changed. Artboards, layers, frames and tags can be named instead of given ids, and frames counted from 1.

Big changes don't hold up the chat.

Waits a while for a job it starts, then hands back the job to follow later, with progress for clients that ask.

Pixelart Makers' AI, asked for in words.

Every AI feature except the assistant, on your monthly AI allowance and limits. The biggest jobs stop at their estimate until the assistant confirms them.

Connect and disconnect in one place.

AI agents, in the account menu and in the editor's Preferences, shows the server address, setup steps for common assistants and the apps you allowed. Disconnect ends an app's access at once; reconnecting asks for consent again.

The same tools in your open tab.

In browsers that support WebMCP, the editor offers its tools, all but creating sprites, to a browser agent for the sprite it has open. Edits are the tab's own, recorded in its undo history like yours. There's no Allow step: the browser decides which agent can use the tab.

Everyone works on the latest version.

Strokes, layers, frames, tags, palette and AI jobs update live.

Know where teammates are working.

Named cursors in each person's colour; avatars in the header.

Split an animation cleanly.

Avatars above the frame numbers, "F4" pills on the canvas.

Bring someone in with one link.

Share › Copy edit link; anyone with the link and an account can edit.

Undo your strokes without erasing anyone else's.

Undo skips pixels a teammate changed since, and says how many it kept; undoing a new layer or frame removes it with whatever is on it.

Nothing lost to bad timing.

Deleting a layer or artboard shows a toast with Undo; ⌘Z brings back layers, frames and artboards with their pixels; painting is paused, with the reason, while a resize or filter runs.

Your setup on every browser.

Keymap, right-click and AI preferences sync to your account.

Bring art in without dialogs.

Images, GIFs, numbered sequences, palettes and .pixelart files; a new artboard, or hold ⌥ to add a layer; an image that fits the artboard lands as floating pixels.

Use any reference or old sprite.

PNG, GIF, Animated PNG, JPEG, WebP (and BMP by drop); larger than 256 px scales down with nearest neighbour; up to 16 MB per file.

Edit any GIF frame by frame.

One frame per GIF or Animated PNG frame, original timing kept.

One animation from many files.

"Possible animation": load as frames, in natural order.

Turn a sheet into frames.

Import sprite sheet…: strips, rows or columns, frame size, gap, partial tiles, live grid.

Bring your colours.

.gpl, .hex, .pal, .act and .col by drop or Import palette…; PNG palettes through Import palette…; replace or add.

The right file for every destination.

PNG, GIF, Animated PNG, WebP, JPEG, PNG sequence (.zip), PNG strip; 0.5×–20× nearest neighbour; current, all, selected frames or a tag, in any direction; visible layers or one layer; the canvas, the selection or a slice; skip empty frames; apply pixel ratio.

Ready for your engine.

Horizontal or vertical strip, rows, columns or packed; padding; trim each frame or to all frames; extrude edges; merge duplicates; one set per layer or per tag; the standard JSON (hash or array) with frame tags, layers and slices; frame-name tokens.

Every size in one click.

Rows of format × scale × frames, downloaded together.

Re-export after every tweak.

⇧⌘X.

Share your game's palette.

.gpl, .hex, .pal, .act, .col, PNG strip.

Keep your muscle memory.

Hybrid (default) and Classic; keys match by position; browser-reserved shortcuts are never used.

Type any action.

Search, Recents, Suggested for your selection, AI tab.

Find any shortcut without leaving the canvas.

Press ?; searchable.

Only the tools the job needs.

Draw, Design, Animate, AI.

Switch tools without switching.

Hold Space (hand), ⌥ (eyedropper), ⌘ (move pixels).

Just you and the sprite.

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