Over 6 million downloads!
A beginner-friendly pixel art app featured on the App Store in 18 countries. Great for social media icons, game skins, and craft patterns.
Over 6 million downloads!
An easy-to-use app for creating pixel art and 8-bit style artwork.
8bit Painter is a simple pixel art drawing app that beginners can start enjoying right away.
With intuitive controls, you can easily create pixel art for social media icons, game skins, illustrations, patterns, and more. It is also great for making designs for Perler beads, cross-stitch, knitting, and other handmade projects.
Key Features
- Simple controls that are easy for anyone to use
- Clear, focused tools for creating pixel art
- Perfect for beginners
- Great for making social media icons and game skins
- Import photos and convert them into pixel art
- Choose colors intuitively with the standard iOS color picker
- Export transparent images in PNG format
- Export and import your artwork data
Canvas Sizes
16x16 / 24x24 / 32x32 / 48x48 / 64x64 / 96x96 / 128x128 / 160x160 / 192x192
Choose the right canvas size for your project, from small social media icons to detailed pixel art and craft patterns.
Image Import
Import your favorite photos and automatically convert them into pixel art.
It is also useful for creating social media icons, game skins, and pixel art assets.
Color Selection
Choose colors intuitively with the standard iOS color picker while adjusting hue and brightness. The selected color can be used as your drawing color.
Artwork Data Management
Export artwork data saved in your Gallery from the Settings screen, and import it again when needed. This is helpful for keeping your pixel art safe, preparing for a device change, or reinstalling the app.
Artwork Storage
- The initial artwork storage limit is 30 artworks
- Expand the limit up to 600 artworks by watching rewarded video ads or purchasing the Remove Ads add-on
Image Export
- Choose from 3 export sizes
- Supports transparent PNG images
- Useful for social media posts, game skins, and exporting assets
Remove Ads Add-On
- Hides all ads
- Expands the artwork storage limit to 600 artworks
- Can be restored after reinstalling the app
- One-time purchase
How to Expand Your Storage Limit
- Each rewarded video ad you watch increases your artwork storage limit by 5 artworks, up to 600
- Purchasing the Remove Ads add-on expands your artwork storage limit to 600 artworks
Recommended For
- Anyone who wants to start creating pixel art
- People who want to make their own social media icons
- Anyone who wants to create game skins easily
- People making designs for Perler beads or cross-stitch
- People designing knitting patterns or handmade projects
- Anyone who wants to turn photos into pixel art
- People looking for a simple pixel art editor
- Anyone who wants to manage their artwork data and keep using the app over time
Enjoy creating pixel art and 8-bit style artwork with 8bit Painter!
The reason I’m saying this app is so good, fun, and entertaining is because, you can paint with different pixels, TONS of options and you can import the image and kaboom! The image is in the pixel art create board. I want to say that can you make a function that can duplicate the image to another space, thank you.Also this is very cool, the designs are very basic but i don’t know why is there a ad-receiver. It’s very uh.. I can say strange because ppl don’t really like to watch ads. And because of this amazing and wonderful app i am very creative at art now! My drawing skills have improved a lot through the weeks, thanks to this app! my mom thinks I'm a good drawer too. I have been drawing some basic stuff, I believe I will draw better and better in the future.I will soon be a pixel art master, I’m so happy!!!!!!!! Also I’ll rate this app 5 stars!
Excellent App, Only a Few Critiques
Kayōbi
I’ve been wanting to get into pixel art for a long time, so I went looking for a decent app. After trying out many, this one definitely took the cake with its many features. The zoom/move option usually is fluid and easily accessible. Although it’d be nice to have a crop option, there being various sizes to choose from is pretty cool. Also, being able to duplicate your projects is awesome. I’d kinda want to be able to name my canvases, but that’s a minor complaint. I’m not really used to writing reviews, but this app outshined all the others so much that I felt inclined to.
Almost there!
Ella Kuver
I don’t mind the ads because they’re optional. It just exists for extra space for more projects, and it allows the creators to make a little more revenue.No, I just have a couple issues with the handling.It makes sense that you draw with one finger, adjust the screen with two. But it doesn’t work perfectly in practice. That could be solved by simply making a different button, one that switches between “draw mode” and “move mode”. I’m scared that I’ll end up making a big streak in the center of my work, and even though there’s an undo button, it’s not a nice feeling to have.Also, I don’t know how to delete all the example art. Or any of the tests that I did when I first got this.Again, other than that, it’s perfect!
Real Pros and Cons after 3 Years (Updated)
DARKz ARCHERz
(Update: As of 2023 I’m am very happy to say that the dev team of the app has brought consistent updated and added 2 key quality of life features, you are now able to section off and duplicate parts of your pixel art which was a much needed feature. Also they have made changes relating to purchasing the Add Remover so that now when you purchase it you immediately get access to the max 480 canvases and users who restore purchases no longer have to watch a ton of ads to get their canvases back. As a proud user of this app I am happy to say this app finally does what it supposed to very well. Not only for having a great pixel art app, but also for listening to reviews and making crucial changes I happily change my review to 5 stars!)I’ve been using this application since 2019 to make draft retro characters on the go that I later animate in Aseprite on pc. Pros: Simplicity Anyone can pick up this app and start making Pixel Art and not get caught up in the pitfalls of canvas size or color palettes. They have a few of the most common canvas sizes that give you access to the ability to make a variety of varying detailed work. Their are no complicated UI or Tools to learn and no tutorial needed and for this I commend you! Cons You will waste A LOT of time watching ads! Literally the only benefit to purchasing their upgrade is 120 free canvas. (12 minutes off of total ads to fill canvases) Even if you upgrade you still have to watch a 30 second ad to add 5 canvases to a max of 480 at the moment, and you still have to watch an ad to export canvases. This means if you fill all your canvas your gonna spend over half an hour solving poorly design puzzles. In my opinion this is how they earn the majority of their money so they are unlikely to bring future benefits to people who purchase the upgrade in the form of unlimited canvases, but pray to the gods of the dev team non the less. I personally regret purchasing the upgrade because it literally provides almost no benefit. Because of this I cannot in good conscious get this app a five star rating yet…
Thank you for using 8bit Painter.
This update makes the 1-pixel grid visible even on canvases sized 96x96 and larger.
Version 2.6.1
The developer, Takayuki Miyagawa, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Takayuki Miyagawa
Size
30.3 MB
Category
Entertainment
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Languages
English and 9 more
English, Arabic, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese