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 a color wheel, sliders, and palettes
- 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 a base color with the color wheel, then fine-tune it with sliders or HEX input. You can also pick colors quickly from preset palettes, or save frequently used colors to your custom color palette for reuse.
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!
Very intuitive to use and has some really neat and helpful little features. Generally amazing and perfect for little pixel art designs etc. and the ability to a. choose a canvas size as well as b. export the images to your camera roll or share them directly is perfect. Also great for passing time when bored and without internet, and the management of advertisements is pulled off perfectly, being entirely optional for a little reward of five extra canvas slots; perfect!Only gripe is with the colour picking system, would love the addition of an RGB colour slider system with directly alterable values for more exact colour selection.Overall, love this neat little app and recommend it very highly. Thank you!
Great for tapestry crochet!
Anonymouse1736
I used this to create a pattern of an Easter scene that I had been wanting to crochet. Previously I had been colouring in with real life grid paper, but it took too long. I really like this app. It took a bit of getting used to using two fingers to move, but that isn’t the app’s fault. The lines being able to turn on and off is great too, as it makes it easier to read as a crochet pattern. It is also free, unlike other apps I tried, to use the features. This app is great and I would recommend it to crocheters.
THANKYOU SO MUCH!
Yazoo079😈😈😈
Had a terrible day using my MacBook and laptop trying to create pixel art for some custom emotes and badges. I was using programs such as: clip-studio, gimp and photoshop. I then Came across this app (after all hope was lost) and sat on my phone to then completed the job in 5 minutes. NEVER GET RID OF THIS APP! <3
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Weesarah1984
I love Kirby and thanks to this app I can make kirby pixel art and it’s almost pefect for making Kirbys if I could suggest one thing make it so you can grab a group of pixels and move them down like moving a kirbys eyes down a few pixels to fit on a hat but game good 9/10
Thank you for using 8bit Painter.
This update improves the stability of the canvas display after importing images and refines screen layouts on iPad.
- Fixed an issue where the canvas position or size could appear incorrectly after importing an image.
- Adjusted the color picker and share screen layouts on iPad to make them more reliable.
- Adjusted image sharing so cloud saves include only the image, while posts to X include hashtags.
- Made other small display-related improvements.
Version 2.7.2
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 .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Provider
Takayuki Miyagawa
Size
30.4 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
