Pixen - pixel art editor 4+

Pixel art and animation editor

Furnace Creek Software LLC

    • 4.6 • 39 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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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.

DOCUMENT LIBRARY

The Pixen experience starts in the Document Library, 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 supports Apple Pencil hover, so on supported devices, 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 documents 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 documents with iCloud!

What’s New

Version 1.9.1

- The Pattern Editor found in Pixen for Mac is now available on iPad for the first time
- Define custom patterns to use while drawing with the Pencil, Line, or Eraser tool (instead of a single pixel)
- Import patterns from 1-bit images
- Improved the design of tool properties
- Improved the design of context menus throughout the app

From Pixen 1.8:

- Added new and improved features that help with graphics creation for the Playdate game console
- Added different algorithms as options to the Convert to 1-bit filter, with thresholding and dithering settings included
- Added different algorithms as options to the Convert to Grayscale filter
- Added a 1-bit color palette to the default set of color palettes

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
39 Ratings

39 Ratings

Chickel chackel ,

Great

Please add two finger touch for undo

Cory2006 ,

Exporting issues

Everything Is incredible, and WAY better than the pixel software I used to use, however, whenever I try to export any of my projects it will only export photos and gifs. I really hope this gets fixed, but aside from that, a very good pixel site is going under the radar here.

Developer Response ,

For image projects, we support exporting PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, BMP, TIFF, SVG, and PSD files. For animation projects, we support exporting sprite sheets, movies, animated PNGs, and animated GIFs. Exported files can be saved to the Files app, Photos library, the clipboard, and more. Can you email us with details on what exactly you would like to see changed?

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👍

Great (free 5 star) but how do I PLAY my animations?

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, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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