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.
DRAWING
• Pixel perfect painting mode automatically removes double pixels when doing line art.
• Round, square, and matrix dither brushes.
• Line tool, which can be locked to isometric angles.
• Rectangle and ellipse tools.
LAYERS OF ANIMATION
• Layers are shared across the whole project, which means every layer has its own timeline.
• Static image layers for background and foreground elements that are the same on every frame.
• 18 layer blend modes.
• Rename layers.
• Reorder layers and frames by using drag and drop.
• Scrubbable timeline.
• Advanced onion skin options.
• Select multiple layers or frames at once to quickly make bulk adjustments.
• Use high resolution reference layers to pixel over your sketches and photos.
COLOUR
• Four colour selection modes: a square picker with an infinitely scrolling hue slider, sliders for HSB and RGB, hex code input, and the project palette.
• Eyedropper to sample any colour from the canvas.
• Bucket fill, with contiguous or discontiguous options.
• Colour replace across the whole project.
SELECTION
• Freehand, rectangular, and colour selection.
• Use the active selection as a mask.
• Cut or copy the selected pixels and paste them to any app that supports pasting images.
TRANSFORM
• Move without needing to select. Position the image on or off the canvas without clipping.
• Scale uniformly up and down, or squash and stretch.
• Rotate by any angle.
• Flip horizontally and vertically.
IMPORT & EXPORT
• Import any static image, or a GIF.
• Import and export Aseprite documents (requires iPadOS 13 ore newer).
• Import and export Photoshop documents (PSDs).
• Use magnification when sharing to upscale without the results looking blurry.
• Export as a single image or image sequence as PNG, TIFF, or JPEG-2000.
• Export animated images as GIF or APNG.
• Export QuickTime movies with H264 or HEVC codecs.
• Export as a sprite sheet, with configurable columns.
Screenshot artwork by Genuine Human, waneella, Chelsea Faust, and rachels_ham.
Find out more at pixaki.com.
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Best iPad app, but not best UX
Let me start by saying, yes, this is the best pixel art app for iPad that’s out there. I love the graphical user interface and it does most things. But I do think this misses some quality of life stuff that would till it to professional level.
For example, animations cannot pingpong; they are one way only. I make sprites and this is functionality I need. Yes I can duplicate the layers but it over complicates the workflow.
Something else I am missing is being able to add multiple animations within one project. What I mean by this is, for one character, I would want an idle animation, run animation, battle animations, etc. Do be able to use the play button and have it make sense, I would need to make a new project for each of these animations. You don’t want this, because often times you can copy much of your work (layers) to create some of the new animations.
Speaking of copying something from a layer to the layer of a different frame; you cannot copy a whole layer to a new frame. You will need to use the select tool and then copy it and paste it into the new frame.
Yes, these are a bit nitpicking. This app is fine for short animations, art pieces, but for game dev, it’s not the best. If I could, I would take this graphical interface and use it with aseprite. Imo, this gui is way better and more practical than famed aseprite :)
This is a tool that many pixelartists will appreciate
This version really removes all the limitations of pixaki 3.
Larger canvas and great new tools. Everything is well thought out. Love the dithering tools.. Also a lot export capabilities. Great app and worth all the money
