Pixaki is the best pixel art app for iPad. It packs a whole load of features into a clean, modern interface, and it works great with Apple Pencil. So now you can make game sprites on the couch, animated backgrounds on your commute, or music videos in the park.
DRAWING
• Pixel perfect painting mode automatically removes double pixels when doing line art.
• Round, square, and matrix dither brushes.
• Line tool, which can be locked to isometric angles.
• Rectangle and ellipse tools.
LAYERS OF ANIMATION
• Layers are shared across the whole project, which means every layer has its own timeline.
• Static image layers for background and foreground elements that are the same on every frame.
• 18 layer blend modes.
• Rename layers.
• Reorder layers and frames by using drag and drop.
• Scrubbable timeline.
• Advanced onion skin options.
• Select multiple layers or frames at once to quickly make bulk adjustments.
• Use high resolution reference layers to pixel over your sketches and photos.
COLOUR
• Four colour selection modes: a square picker with an infinitely scrolling hue slider, sliders for HSB and RGB, hex code input, and the project palette.
• Eyedropper to sample any colour from the canvas.
• Bucket fill, with contiguous or discontiguous options.
• Colour replace across the whole project.
SELECTION
• Freehand, rectangular, and colour selection.
• Use the active selection as a mask.
• Cut or copy the selected pixels and paste them to any app that supports pasting images.
TRANSFORM
• Move without needing to select. Position the image on or off the canvas without clipping.
• Scale uniformly up and down, or squash and stretch.
• Rotate by any angle.
• Flip horizontally and vertically.
IMPORT & EXPORT
• Import any static image, or a GIF.
• Import and export Aseprite documents (requires iPadOS 13 ore newer).
• Import and export Photoshop documents (PSDs).
• Use magnification when sharing to upscale without the results looking blurry.
• Export as a single image or image sequence as PNG, TIFF, or JPEG-2000.
• Export animated images as GIF or APNG.
• Export QuickTime movies with H264 or HEVC codecs.
• Export as a sprite sheet, with configurable columns.
Screenshot artwork by Genuine Human, waneella, Chelsea Faust, and rachels_ham.
Find out more at pixaki.com.
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Needs Tiled support (9x9 view so you can see how tiles loop for textures)
,imumyb7b8yny8
Other than that, fantastic app. Great for art. some of the undo features are weird (ie I’d expect undo to undo my selection not undo the last lines) and it can crash and be a bit glitchy on occasion. But the best app for iPad. just needs more aseprite features to make it my only pixel art app
Pixel Art - Retro in the Future!
aZtOcKdOg
This app is great… I have loved ‘Pixaki’ since learning of its existence after researching “best pixel art apps for iPad” (I have been using pixel art apps since Deluxe Paint on the Amiga!). We have even used this to make mobile ‘on the road’ pixel art submissions to demoparties for our group | the lost underground | and it is such a pleasure to use. The results are amazing whether you stick to oldskool low res and a small pallette count or go full ‘modern pixel art’ without restrictions! The one feature I hope to see added would be ‘import pallette from index’ when importing an image with an indexed pallette (PNG, GIF, IFF etc) or a feature like ‘count / import pallette colours from image’. The fact you can do animation with this too really makes it worth the asking price! Grab this app and support amazing indie devs! Thanks for making such a great app :) I especially love making ‘retro’ pixel art assets to use in modern ‘greetings from the future’ style programming projects!
Perfect for iPad
vash82
This is the single best pixel art tool for iPad. The prior version was great but this new update is excellent, the new interface is really nice. The price feels steep but when you consider what you’re getting it’s worth every penny. If you’re still unsure just try the Intro version. I appreciate that the developer opted for upgrading from the prior version to this one without asking for the full price.The only thing I’d really love would be an import/export to Aseprite, having these work together would be a great workflow.
Great tool
sim5
Love having a pixel editor I can get out when needed on my iPad. I haven’t needed to use Pixaki often, but when I do I am so glad it’s there, polished and easy to use
Pixaki 4.6 adds support for Apple Pencil squeeze gestures. There are also fixes for iCloud Drive issues.
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Thanks!
Luke
Version 4.6
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