What's New in Chroma8 2.2 — all about colour - A palette bar under your canvas Every colour one tap away. Switch between 11 classic pixel-art palettes — PICO-8, Game Boy, NES, Commodore 64, CGA, DawnBringer 16 and 32, Sweetie 16, Endesga 32, AAP-64 and Resurrect 64 — or pick any colour at all. Colours you just used stay within reach, and the eyedropper picks any colour straight off your art. - Make your own palettes A new Palettes tab. Generate a palette from a colour harmony, your own colours, a gradient, a photo or your drawing, built from hue-shifted shading ramps the way pixel artists build them by hand. Or pick every colour yourself. Choose which palette your new Arts start with. - Import and export palettes Bring in .hex, .gpl, .pal and Paint.NET palettes, including any from Lospec. Share yours as HEX, GPL, PAL, TXT, ASE, ACT or PNG strips for Aseprite, GIMP, Photoshop and game engines. - Replace colours everywhere See every colour your art uses and how much. Swap one for another across a layer, a frame or the whole animation, with a before-and-after preview. Or fit a whole piece to any palette, with optional dithering. - Colour groups Find Groups sorts your colours into families — skin, hair, armour. Recolour a whole group in one step and shadows stay shadows, highlights stay highlights. - Colour versions Keep other shades for any group and save them as versions — a night look, a red team — then flip between them instantly without changing a single pixel. Export any version, or one sprite-sheet row per version for palette swaps in your game. - Photos into pixel art Turn a reference photo layer into real pixels on your palette, with dithering if you like. - Your palette on every export Add a palette card with hex codes to PNG, SVG and sprite-sheet exports, or zip the palette files right alongside them. Improvements and fixes - Quick strokes now stay solid, with no gaps however fast you draw - The canvas redraws faster - The toolbar fits on every iPhone. Brush size, tip and Recolour Only share one button, which turns blue while Recolour Only is on - Onion skin and frame rate open as small popovers on iPhone - Switching palettes now asks before discarding colours, groups or versions you added - VoiceOver reads every tool and button by name - The built-in guide covers palettes, colour groups and colour versions - Smaller improvements and fixes throughout Thanks for using Chroma8 — keep the pixel art coming!

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!