Pixely: Pixel Art for Everyone - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Pixely is the easiest way to make amazing pixel art.

"This is the best, and easiest to use pixel art app on the iPad. The UI is clean, the canvas is clear. This is the app I've been looking for." ~ John the artist, US App Store

"Perfect for everything I use it for. Money very well spent." ~ Chase game, UK App Store

"I'm super happy with this application so far... this one has the most features geared towards making pixel art that I need! The onion skin is terrific for making sprites for my game while I sit away from my computer. Keep up the fantastic work!" ~ WSDragon, Canada App Store

A feature-rich and friendly pixel art and pixel-level image editor made for everyone from the dabbling game art fan to the experienced artist, and anyone in between!

-- A Flexible Workspace --
• Edit huge canvases up to 4096x4096 pixels
• Adjustable canvas sizes let you change the number of columns and rows, with or without scaling - it's your choice: unlike other apps, scaling up linearly (2x, 3x, etc.) will not distort your colors
• Bookmark up to 40 colors per canvas (50 on iPad Pro 10.5, 75 on iPad Pro 12.9) and create reusable palettes of up to 272 colors
• Helpful descriptions are available for every button and screen
• Undo/redo for each canvas, up to 120x zooming, customizable grid sizes, flip and rotate canvases, and more!
• Pixely's Art Viewer allows for quick and accurate enlarged or tiled previews, with care taken to scale art proportionally, preventing distortion and unwanted color changes
• Use your canvases as layers or animation frames, each with their own opacity. Making layered art and animated GIFs has never been easier!
• But wait... there's also Apple Pencil support, onion skinning, a mirrored UI mode, custom app tinting, and more...

-- Highly Portable Artwork --
• Load and save art files, which include bookmarked colors, with support for folders.
• Preview your art files as thumbnails before you open them
• Artwork is continuously saved as you make changes, so you can focus on creating instead of saving. In fact, your entire session is restored when you re-open the app
• Import images from your camera, Photos app, or the iOS clipboard
• Import and export animated GIFs
• Export one or many canvases all at once to your app files, Dropbox, photos, email, Facebook, and Twitter

-- Create & Curate Colors --
• Pixely supports every RGB/HSB color with opacity/alpha channels
• Start simple… select your colors from a rainbow of 234 evenly spread presets
• Go pro… edit any color using sliders and brightness toggles
• Be consistent… create palettes of up to 272 colors that you can load, save, and share
• Import colors to get the exact shades that inspire you from your canvases and images
• Quickly manage palette and bookmark colors
• Select from recently used colors
• Game Devs: Create a retro 8-bit or 16-bit effect by automatically color-reducing canvases to only use colors from your palettes!

-- A Dynamic Toolset --
• Flexible drawing tools allow you to create art using variable-size pencil, freeform line, rectangle, and fill tools, all with optional symmetry
• Shading (Burn/Dodge): Add or remove shading uniformly or randomly using any drawing tool
• Multiple paste modes with easy drag-drop previewing, or use copied pixels like a brush, precision paste using a game-like control pad, or easily create patterns for dithering effects
• Replace Color: Change all pixels of one color to another color
• Eyedropper: Set the current color by selecting one from any pixel
• Shift: Easily shift the pixels on an entire canvas to make room for new sections

We love using Pixely and want you to enjoy it as much as we do. Please recommend any features or report bugs to [email protected] or @PixelyApp on Twitter!

Privacy Policy: Pixely does not collect any data at all, unless Dropbox is used. This data is collected by Dropbox and is not used by the app developer. See 'App Privacy' for more info or https://pixely.app/privacy.

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4.57 out of 5

7 ratings in Canada

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I can’t import photos?

When I try to import a photo to edit on the app it exits me out? I tried everything. Deleting and getting again, turning off my device then back on, closing the slide. Not sure what happened but It used to work.

The best pixel art app ever!

This app really delivers a great pixel art experience. I got this app around the same time I got my iPad 4 (which is now comparable to that of a frisbee, after I dropped it... but now I have an iPad air 2). I've made lots of pixel art with this app, such as the maps from The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons, and some cave story sprites. Keep up the awesome work! (I love the new look of pixely! -Liam

Amazing pixel painter!

I'm super happy with this application so far. I've been playing around with some others but this one has the most features geared towards making pixel art which I need! The onion skin is terrific also for making sprites for my game while I sit away from my computer. Keep up the fantastic work! One feature request is that you can select a rectangular area and move it around the canvas, helps when making animations for sprites and you want to move just an arm or head but leave the rest of the image where it is. Wayne

Great

This is a great app and most important the creator listens to feedback and continues work on improving the app. More people need to support hard working developers like this. It would be a very sad world where great creation tools exist but its creators cant make enough money to support themselves so when something like this comes along and is being made out of love we have to appreciate it and make sure that it gets as good of a chance it can to succeed. Theres no reason only apple and abusive gaming companies should be the ones making money on Artists should be giving this guy feedback on how to improve it because im just a dude who plays guitar okay.

Amazing App

The app is amazing, allows you to create images and animate

Wonderful

This is by far the most in depth art app available. It's incredibly easy to use and is very intuitive. For the price, it is definitely worth it. Seriously.

Amazing app, but needs serious UI work.

There are loads of nice features and it is certainly a very very handy program for an ipad, but it desperately needs some UI changes. Most of the the tools icons are not intuitive at all and don't give any impression of what they do until you click on them and read the descriptive text at the top. Here are my suggested improvements. -Redo all the tools icons so that they are more intuitive representations of what job they preform. Choose a less garish style of rendering them as well. Pure white with very intense contrasting colours and the gridded pixel separation makes it difficult for the eyes to make sense of the icons at a glance. This is bad for learning to work quickly. I can't see myself getting comfortable recognizing which icon I wish to tap while working. More stylized icons would also be an improvement. The current icons don't feel unified. -Remove all the gradients from the apps styling, such as on the header or surrounding the drop down (drop right?) menus. Gradients look very out of place in a pixel art creation program. The solid colour with transparency used in the side bar is much better. -Give some visual indication that an icon opens a sub menu with multiple tools. Photoshop uses a small arrow to mark these I believe. -Change the way the colour selector is opened. Tapping the selected colour box in the top right corner to open and adjust the colour is neither convenient or intuitive. My first instinct was that the icon with the multiple coloured pixels wrapping in a square was the button for adjusting the colour. -Add some more documentation. I was unsure of how to use the "My Palette" area of the colour picker. I had to puzzle it out. I am writing this review not because I dislike the app, but because I like it quite a bit. I can see the potential it has and it's being held back by very poor UI. With a more professional UI I can see this app easily becoming a staple for pixel artists. I'd very much love it to get to a point where I can use it comfortably for my own work. I'll be keeping this app handy so I can change my review and start using it every day if it updates to fix the above.

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Chart	Category	Rank
Top Paid	Australia Graphics Design	220
Top Paid	United States Graphics Design	304

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