What's New in Chroma8 2.1.0 - AI Assist Describe what you want and Chroma8 draws it straight onto your canvas, where every pixel is still yours to edit. Type "a small green slime with a highlight", or start from a photo and get a clean sprite on a reduced palette. It runs on your device: no account, no API key, and no network needed. Free for everyone. - Animate in one step Turn a single sprite into a walk, run, idle, attack, hit, death, explode or spin cycle. Set two keyframes and let Chroma8 draw the in-betweens. Or choose a video of yourself moving and have that motion retargeted onto your character. - Finishing passes Auto-shade and auto-outline any drawing, tidy stray pixels and jagged edges with a clean-up pass, reduce a piece to a neater palette, or fill empty space with a pattern learned from what you already drew. - Sprite sheets, in reverse Point Chroma8 at a sheet and it finds the sprites in it and splits them into frames for you. - Ask for another Request a variation, a matching piece, or the same idea drawn across separate layers. Everything the AI makes is kept in a history you can revisit, drop back onto the canvas, or branch into a new Art. - Bring your own model Already pay for an AI service? Point Chroma8 at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint or at Anthropic — OpenRouter, OpenAI, Groq, or an Ollama on your own machine — and let it draw instead. Your key stays in the Keychain on that device and is never synced. If it is ever unreachable, Chroma8 quietly draws on device instead. - Undo that works the way you expect Undo and redo now cover the whole frame in the order you actually worked, rather than keeping a separate history per layer. Adding, deleting and reordering layers can be undone, moving a reference photo can be undone, and a generated drawing comes back in one tap however many layers it touched. Locked layers are left alone. On iPad, Command-Z and Shift-Command-Z work too. - A better brush Brush and eraser tips are now round by default, in any size from 1 to 6 pixels, so a wide stroke no longer leaves blocky corners to tidy by hand. Square tips are still there for straight edges and solid blocks. - Recolour mode Switch it on and painting only replaces pixels that already carry colour, so you can shade and recolour a finished sprite as freely as you like without a stroke ever spilling outside its shape. - Selections that behave Turn a selection a quarter turn with one tap. Drag it across your drawing without destroying what it passes over — whatever it crosses is put back as it moves on. And a selection can now hang off the edge of the canvas while you position it. - Reference photos, the right way up Photos brought in as a reference layer now arrive correctly oriented whichever way the camera was held, instead of upside down or on their side. You can turn one a quarter turn at a time too, and a photo turned on its side stays inside the canvas. - Search your library by look Find a piece by name, or by what it actually looks like. - A guide, built in Settings now has a complete guide to every feature — sixteen topics, from the brush to sprite sheets to connecting your own AI model. Read it straight through or jump to what you need, and search it by any word you saw on screen. There is a question mark in the editor too. Plus steadier AI generations — a frame that comes back a row out is fitted to your canvas rather than failing the whole drawing — and smaller improvements and bug fixes throughout. Thanks for using Chroma8 — keep the pixel art coming!

What's New in Chroma8 2.0 - AI Assist Describe what you want and Chroma8 draws it straight onto your canvas, where every pixel is still yours to edit. Type "a small green slime with a highlight", or start from a photo and get a clean sprite on a reduced palette. It runs on your device: no account, no API key, and no network needed. Free for everyone. - Animate in one step Turn a single sprite into a walk, run, idle, attack, hit, death, explode or spin cycle. Set two keyframes and let Chroma8 draw the in-betweens. Or choose a video of yourself moving and have that motion retargeted onto your character. - Finishing passes Auto-shade and auto-outline any drawing, tidy stray pixels and jagged edges with a clean-up pass, reduce a piece to a neater palette, or fill empty space with a pattern learned from what you already drew. - Sprite sheets, in reverse Point Chroma8 at a sheet and it finds the sprites in it and splits them into frames for you. - Ask for another Request a variation, a matching piece, or the same idea drawn across separate layers. Everything the AI makes is kept in a history you can revisit, drop back onto the canvas, or branch into a new Art. - Bring your own model Already pay for an AI service? Point Chroma8 at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint or at Anthropic — OpenRouter, OpenAI, Groq, or an Ollama on your own machine — and let it draw instead. Your key stays in the Keychain on that device and is never synced. If it is ever unreachable, Chroma8 quietly draws on device instead. - Undo that works the way you expect Undo and redo now cover the whole frame in the order you actually worked, rather than keeping a separate history per layer. Adding, deleting and reordering layers can be undone, moving a reference photo can be undone, and a generated drawing comes back in one tap however many layers it touched. Locked layers are left alone. On iPad, Command-Z and Shift-Command-Z work too. - Search your library by look Find a piece by name, or by what it actually looks like. Plus smaller improvements and bug fixes throughout. Thanks for using Chroma8 — keep the pixel art coming!

What's New in Chroma8 1.1 - Cloud Sync Chroma8 Pro subscribers can now sign in and back up their Arts and Projects to the cloud — sync across your iPhone and iPad automatically, or force a sync any time from Settings or right on an individual Art/Project. - New Hand Tool Pan and zoom your canvas without accidentally drawing — especially handy on iPad when you're zoomed in on fine detail. Tap the hand icon in the toolbar to switch modes. - Account Management You can now fully delete your account and all associated cloud data directly from Settings, any time you want. Plus smaller improvements and bug fixes throughout. Thanks for using Chroma8 — keep the pixel art coming!