PixelEven - Pixel Art Maker
Sprite editor & GIF animation
Free · In‑App Purchases
Draw sprites, animate frame by frame, and export GIFs and game-ready spritesheets. Native on iPad and Mac. Free to start, one-time Pro unlock, no subscription.
Make pixel art and bring it to life. PixelEven is a pixel art maker and sprite animator built natively for iPad and Mac: quick to open, calm to work in, and at home with Apple Pencil, touch, trackpad and keyboard.
Draw your first 16×16 icon or animate a whole character for your indie game. Start free and unlock Pro once if you need more. No subscription, ever.
DRAW
• Pencil, eraser, fill, line, rectangle, circle, eyedropper and dither tools
• Pixel Perfect strokes that clean up doubled corner pixels as you draw
• Symmetry: mirror left to right, top to bottom or four ways, with guides you can drag
• Select, move, resize, flip and rotate any part of your art
• Replace Color swaps a color across your artwork in one step
• Tile Preview repeats your canvas on every side, so seamless tiles stay seamless
• Pixel grid, canvas resize and crop to selection
• Canvas presets for icons, characters and scenes, plus Game Boy and NES sizes
ANIMATE
• Frame timeline with live playback
• Onion skin shows the frames before and after the one you are drawing
• Per-frame duration, so you can hold a key pose
• Animation tags keep idle, walk and attack in a single file
• Drag to reorder frames and set FPS per project
LAYERS AND COLOR
• Layers with opacity and Multiply, Screen, Overlay and Add blend modes
• Built-in palettes including PICO-8, NES, Endesga 32, Endesga 64, Sweetie 16 and Resurrect 64
• Import any palette from Lospec by name, or from .hex, .gpl and .pal files
• Pull a palette out of any image
• Save your own palettes and reuse them in every project
EXPORT AND SHARE
• PNG and animated GIF, scaled up to 4× so every pixel stays crisp
• Share with AirDrop, Messages or Mail
• Pro: spritesheets, APNG and Aseprite files
• Pro: Game Engine export for Godot, Unity and Phaser, with one animation per tag and no slicing by hand
MADE FOR IPAD AND MAC
• Apple Pencil and touch on iPad, full menus and keyboard shortcuts on Mac
• Handoff: pick up the same project on your other device, at the same frame
• Version History keeps automatic versions you can compare side by side and restore
• Quick Look previews and thumbnails for your projects in Finder
• Light and dark appearance
• A short guided tutorial takes you from your first pixel to your first animation
PIXELEVEN PRO: PAY ONCE, KEEP IT FOREVER
The free version includes 5 projects, canvases up to 128×128, 16 frames and 4 layers. Pro is a single one-time purchase that unlocks:
• Unlimited projects, frames and layers
• Canvases up to 512×512
• iCloud sync across your devices
• Aseprite (.ase) import and export, with every layer and frame intact
• Spritesheet, APNG and Game Engine export
• Custom keyboard shortcuts and a customizable tool panel
Terms of Use: https://pixeleven.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://pixeleven.app/privacy
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PixelEven 1.0.3 is a big update for animators and game makers.
NEW
• Per-frame duration: hold a key pose for as long as you like. Timing carries through GIF, APNG, Aseprite and Game Engine exports.
• Game Engine export (Pro): send your animation to Godot, Unity or Phaser, with one animation per tag and no slicing by hand.
• Tile Preview: see your canvas repeated on every side, and paint across the edges for seamless tiles.
• Version History: PixelEven keeps versions automatically. Compare any of them side by side and restore the one you want.
• Handoff: pick up the same project on your Mac or iPad, at the same frame.
BETTER DRAWING
• Resize a selection by dragging its handles, with crisp nearest-neighbor scaling.
• Hold Shift for perfect circles and squares.
• Pixel grid, flip and rotate canvas, and crop to selection.
• New canvas presets: 64×32 Wide, Game Boy and NES. Your last custom size is remembered.
FIXES
• The guided tutorial no longer gets stuck, clipped or covered.
• The selection outline now follows undo.
• Onboarding is centered on iPad.
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The developer, Yasin Onur, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Yasin Onur
- Size
- 17 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PixelEven Pro $7.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Yasin Onur

