Flash Pixel

Pixel art & retro icon editor

Free

Draw pixel art — then open, edit and save classic icon formats like .ico, .icl and .icns, right on your Mac and iPad. Free, no ads, no account. Flash Pixel is a native pixel-art editor for Mac and iPad with a specialty: it reads and writes the classic icon formats of the Windows and Mac past. ■ A pixel art editor - Nine tools: pen, eraser, fill, eyedropper, line, rectangle, ellipse, rectangular select and lasso - Layers with visibility, opacity and reordering - Animation: arrange frames on a timeline and export as GIF - Grid overlay (three line widths), checkerboard or solid background, transparent color - Smooth zooming with pinch and shortcuts ■ Palettes - Eleven built-in palettes: Crayons 48 (default), PICO-8, Game Boy-style, NES/Famicom, Mac 16/256, Windows 16/256, web-safe 216, 16 grays, black & white - Custom palettes, with GIMP (.gpl) and JASC (.pal) import and export - An "in use" palette that lists just the colors in your artwork ■ Classic icon formats - .ico (Windows icons): read and write, preserving resolutions and bit depths - .icl (Windows 3.x icon libraries): not just reading — Flash Pixel writes them too, keeping icon names and groups - .icns including old-generation variants, .cur with hotspot display, .ani - Icon extraction from .dll / .exe, and Classic Mac resource forks (Mac only) - Plus PNG, GIF, BMP, WebP, XPM, Xcursor and APNG ■ Multi-resolution documents - Keep dedicated canvases for 16, 32, 48, 256 px and more in a single document - Exports prefer the dedicated canvas for each size, so small sizes stay hand-tuned ■ At home on Mac and iPad - A document-based native app with QuickLook previews and iCloud Drive support - On iPad, draw with Apple Pencil, pan and zoom with your fingers, double-tap to swap pen and eraser, squeeze to switch tools ■ Respectful by design - Free. No ads, no account, no data collection - Documents live on your device or in your own iCloud Drive

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    Information

    Seller
    • Shinichi Nanbu
    Size
    • 6.1 MB
    Category
    • Graphics & Design
    Compatibility
    Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English and Japanese
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Shinichi Nambu
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