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Pixel Art & Sprite Editor

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Draw pixel art and animate game sprites in your browser – a free alternative to paid sprite editors. Pencil with pixel-perfect lines, shapes, fill, mirror drawing, layers with opacity, frames with onion skin and a playable timeline, retro palettes (PICO-8, Game Boy, NES, Sweetie 16) and exports to PNG, animated GIF and sprite sheets with JSON for game engines.

Your artwork stays on your device and is saved in this browser. Save the project file to keep layers and frames.

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Using Pixel Art & Sprite Editor

A free pixel art and sprite animation editor in your browser for game art, icons, avatars and retro GIFs. Draw with a pixel-perfect pencil, lines, rectangles, ellipses and fill, mirror your strokes for symmetrical sprites, stack layers and animate frame by frame with onion skin and a playable timeline. Use retro palettes such as PICO-8, Game Boy, NES or Sweetie 16, then export a PNG, an animated GIF or a sprite sheet with JSON frame data for game engines.

  1. Click New and choose a size such as 16×16 or 32×32, or open a PNG, GIF or a saved project.
  2. Pick colours from the palette: left click paints with the primary colour, right click with the secondary. Load a retro palette from the palette list.
  3. Draw with the pencil (B), eraser (E), fill (G), line (L), rectangle (U) and ellipse (O). Turn on mirror X or Y for symmetrical sprites; hold Shift for straight lines and squares.
  4. Animate in the timeline: duplicate the frame (⧉), change what moves, turn on onion skin (🧅) to see the neighbouring frames, set the delay and press Play.
  5. Export a PNG, an animated GIF or a sprite sheet with JSON, scaled up with sharp pixels, and save the project to keep layers and frames.

Example

A 16×16 slime with two frames – one body one pixel lower – and a 160 ms delay makes a looping idle animation; export it as a GIF at ×8 for a 128×128 preview.
Open a sprite sheet PNG of 4 walking frames, use ✂ Split sheet with 32×32 tiles to turn it into 4 frames, fix a pixel and export the sheet again with JSON for your game engine.

Questions & answers

Is this a free alternative to Aseprite?

For most sprite work, yes: pixel-perfect drawing, layers, frames, onion skin, palettes, animated GIF and sprite sheet export are free with no install. It does not have tags, tilemaps or scripting.

How do I make an animated GIF of my pixel art?

Add frames with the duplicate button, change each frame, set the delay in milliseconds, then choose Export → Animated GIF and a scale such as ×4 or ×8 so the pixels stay sharp.

What is pixel-perfect drawing?

When you draw freehand lines, it removes the extra corner pixels that make lines look doubled, so curves stay one pixel wide.

Can I export a sprite sheet for Unity, Godot or Phaser?

Yes. Export → Sprite sheet PNG + JSON lays the frames in a row, column or grid and writes a JSON file with each frame's position, size and duration (in the common texture-atlas format).

Can I open my existing sprites?

Yes: PNG, GIF (all frames), JPEG and WebP up to 1024 × 1024 pixels, plus project files saved here. Use Split sheet to cut a sprite sheet into frames.

Will my work be lost if I close the tab?

It is saved in this browser automatically. Save the project file to keep a copy you can open on any computer.

Which palettes are included?

PICO-8, Game Boy, NES, DawnBringer 16, Sweetie 16 and 1-bit, and you can build your own or make one from the colours in your art.

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