GraphicsGale
Supports many formats, including .ico, .gif, .avi, .cur, .ani., preview your animations in real time while editing sprites - No need to stop working to watch your animation, use multiple layers to make drawing and editing your art easier, onion skinning allows you to see both previous and next frames while your draw, Output your animation frames onto a single sprite sheet, output each frame to its own image file, or export the entire animation as a single .gif file. GraphicsGale's export options are flexible enough to be compatible with any workflow, GraphicsGale also has many pixel-art specific features to help you create your work quickly and easily, including palette control, selectively erasing colors, and tools for quickly replacing and trying new colors. Free download, and get creating!
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Inktica
Inktica is a pixel-art and texture editor for creating low-resolution artwork, animated sprites, and game assets on mobile devices. Its drawing tools include a brush with pixel-perfect line mode, eraser, fill, gradient, line, shape, and color-picking tools, plus selection controls for copying, moving, rotating, and flipping artwork. Layers help organize projects, while frame-by-frame animation and onion skinning support sprite workflows. Users can work with classic-console palettes, import palettes from Lospec, and open a reference image while drawing. Inktica can import Aseprite project files and export finished work to image, animation, video, and sprite-sheet formats for saving or sharing. It is intended for pixel artists and game creators producing retro-style graphics, sprites, and textures.
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Pixaki
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. Pixaki is packed with great tools dedicated to making pixel art. Drawing on the iPad with Apple Pencil feels smooth and natural. This is the most enjoyable way you can make pixel art. Turn on pixel perfect painting mode to automatically get rid off all those nasty double pixels when doing line art. This is going to save you a ton of time. As well as round and square brushes, Pixaki comes with the matrix dither brush with 13 different dither patterns. It works with the eraser too. The line tool makes it easy to create straight lines, which can optionally be locked to angles perfect for isometric art.
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Canvas X Draw
The Canvas X Draw graphic design and technical illustration software suite is trusted by some of the world’s largest and most successful brands to visually communicate complex data and ideas with absolute clarity.
With Canvas X Draw you get professional vector graphics and rich photo-editing tools in a single, easy to use application.
So whether you’re making complex technical illustrations, designing a floor-plan, making flyers and logos, or fine-tuning your photos, Canvas X Draw offers some of the best graphic design capabilities on the market.
- Vector graphics and Raster images in a single application
- Dynamic Menus and toolbars
- Picture perfect photo editing
- Flaweless image tracing
- Design layering
- High impact brand assets
- Light and dark modes
- Countless common and specialized symbols
One powerful app for all your vector and raster graphics. Simple enough for beginners. Rich enough for pros. Priced for everyone.
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