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Pixen - pixel art editor 4+
Pixel art and animation editor
Furnace Creek Software LLC
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPad Screenshots
Description
Pixen is a professional pixel art editor for iOS, designed for working with low-resolution raster art such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an intuitive, native interface including support for high zoom levels, animation editing, color palettes, and a lot more.
PROJECTS GALLERY
The Pixen experience starts in the Projects Gallery, which allows you to manage all of your creations in one place. You can import and export files in various file formats including PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, BMP, TIFF, SVG, and PSD. Files can be imported from your Photos library, the Files app, or even the clipboard. Pixen for macOS users can also take advantage of seamless iCloud sync. When you're ready, you can share your creations with friends and even export sprite sheets.
TOOLS AND APPLE PENCIL
Leverage Pixen's wide array of tools when composing pixel art: Pencil, Eraser, Brightness, Text, Eyedropper, Zoom, Rectangular Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso, Move, Fill, Line, Rectangle, and Ellipse.
All of Pixen's tools are fully compatible with Apple Pencil on iPad. You can take advantage of the double-tap gesture on Apple Pencil 2 to quickly switch to your last tool, switch to the eraser, or bring up the color picker. Pixen even has hover support when using Apple Pencil Pro, so you can see a preview of what you're about to draw before your Apple Pencil touches the screen.
COLOR PALETTES
With Pixen, you can add and organize commonly-used colors into palettes. Pixen can also import and export color palettes in the Adobe Color Table, Microsoft Palette, JASC Palette, and GIMP Palette formats. You can even perform palette operations such as sorting colors, removing duplicate colors, and more, directly in the app.
ANIMATIONS
Create and arrange image frames in the filmstrip view to piece together animations. Pixen can import animated PNGs, animated GIFs, and sprite sheets. It can export animations as animated GIFs, animated PNGs, movies, image sequences, and sprite sheets!
GRID
Take advantage of Pixen's grid tools to guide you in placing pixels just where you want them.
PATTERNS
Define custom patterns to use while drawing with the Pencil, Line, or Eraser tool (instead of a single pixel). You can even import patterns from 1-bit images.
PREVIEW
While editing at high zoom levels, use the Preview feature to view the canvas scaled out. You can even play back animations and tile small images when working on patterns.
AND A LOT MORE...
- Sync your creations with Pixen for Mac over iCloud and resume your work right where you left off, regardless of device.
- Take advantage of the flexibility of layers and change opacities, blend modes, and more to compose creative effects.
- Invert colors, convert to grayscale, apply sepia tone, remove alpha components, palettize, pixellate, adjust hue, exposure, brightness, contrast, and more.
- Pixel Perfect mode removes extra pixels while drawing such that any drawn paths are at most 1 pixel in width. In other words, it removes the middle pixel of an L shape.
- Pick a flat, striped, or checkered background to be drawn beneath the canvas, or set a reference image.
- If you use your iPad with a keyboard, increase productivity with Pixen's wide array of keyboard shortcuts.
- Export your artwork in PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, BMP, TIFF, SVG, and PSD file formats.
- Share your creations quickly and easily via AirDrop, Messages, email, and more!
- Adjust the position of Pixen's layers panel, pick alternate app icons, customize the Apple Pencil 2 double-tap gesture, and more.
Pixen is also available for macOS and is the only pixel art maker of its class that syncs projects with iCloud!
What’s New
Version 2.0.5
- Added zoom options to the Preview screen
Ratings and Reviews
Unlimited potential
This app seems to work great. I’ll update the review if I come across any issues but I created a pixel animation with ease using this app. It was a joy to use and I’ll continue to use it. Simple but genius idea of an app, well done developer. I’ve seen negative past reviews from 1 year ago and 3 years ago but the app has been updated since and I hope support for this app from the developer continues.
Shockingly Underrated App
Love this so much, it’s absolutely perfect for what I want and works flawlessly.
Unusable. Crashes on startup
Like other reviewers here, I am very disappointed with this app. It crashes immediately upon launching. Completely unusable. I will be requesting a refund - don't waste your money.
Developer Response ,
Please try the latest update as this issue should be resolved.
App Privacy
The developer, Furnace Creek Software LLC, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Furnace Creek Software LLC
- Size
- 10.2 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Furnace Creek Software
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro: One Time Purchase £7.99