Pixaki 3 (Legacy)

This app is great, it has most of the needed tools for an easy and useful pixel art workflow, although it’s still missing a couple of stuff to make the it the professional tool it can really be. - a better Apple Pencil integration for starters, it already supports working with the pencil, but it is sometimes buggy, and some behaviors are a bit weird - missing a real rotation feature, you can rotate selections only in chunks of 90deg, which is okay, but not very useful for most cases, specially for character animations and such - missing an animation preview and timeline, the animation workflow can be so much better with a small preview option on the side, and a timeline view per layer, layers should somehow have a relation between the frames, so you can keep one layer per frame and only animate the needed layers - this may seem trivial, but the palette creation process is kind of confusing, it would be cool if the app had a better palette Managment procedure, its okay at the moment, but it’s not always clear what the app wants All that being said, it’s still a very good product, and I really enjoy using it! Thank you for the great work!

Overall the app has a good flow but is lacking on basic options like a lazo tool selection, been able to freely rotate objects and not only on 90 or 180 degrees, or to scroll in the timeline without having to play the whole animation. Compared with other apps like procreate or art studio pro, Pixaki is too limited and too expensive.

I like the app, but please fix some stuff. The first thing is the UI is not in the language of my system settings. The little icons are the only indicator what a button should do. The second thing: If I cut a selected piece and copy the piece in the canvas, the piece is duplicated. If I agree the copy, the piece is third times in the canvas. So this feature is unusable. I don‘t know if this are the only bugs but this is very sad. Please fix this! It can be such a great app.

I’m using pixaki on a iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil. I don’t actually use the animation capabilities, but do use pixaki extensively for all other kind of pixelart and completely moved away from using the mouse. I am very pleased with pixaki and don’t regret that I bought it. It’s a great app and the developer reacts quickly to messages (can be found on Twitter) and communication is no problem. I did encounter some bugs, reported em, got invited into beta...everything is smooth! I’d like to see some features added though *bulk-export (Export content of one or more selected folders or multiple files) *backup functionality ...can’t think of anything else right now, but I’m sure I’ll find more things that could be added =)

It’s a nice basic app for pixel art, but it still needs a lot of upgrades to make it actually worth this price. There are no layer options like multiply or overlay, there’s no alpha lock and there are no adjustment options to change hue and saturation for example. So if you used the wrong color, you gotta redraw everything, no other choice. I got the app because of good reviews, but I wish I had taken more time to research what this app is capable of. Procreate only cost me 6,99 and it has like 100 times more features, even if it isn’t made for pixel art.

I bought this app to get into pixel art and pixel art animations for game development and it works really good. With the export function you can export your drawings as png, psd, ... and continue working on a desktop machine with photoshop or import your drawings in Unity or the Unreal Engine. Import of drawings into Pixaki via cloud is also possible. Also the import of color palettes is really nice. I had sometimes a few problems with crashes and wrote a mail to the developer and he immediately replayed personally and he was thankful for the report and will fix the issues. So you really get a strong tool and support for your money. Hope to see an update that fixes the problems. I use the app with an iPad Pro 9,7" and the Apple Pencil and can recommend the app.

Worked great but the color picker has stopped working and i cant fix it

The update to pro 4 thats offered at a discounted price, doesn’t currently work. Apple charges $31 instead of the $6 please fix this.

The app seems to be the best option for iPad, however it is far from perfect and the price is pretty steep considering the tools available. In my eyes there are two main things that this app is missing. The first being some kind of free selection or lasso tool. Currently the only thing available is a box selection which feel strange to use coming from Photoshop and Asprite. The second issue is the brush and fill tools don’t have opacity setting which for me helps with blending colors. Don’t get me wrong the app is pretty solid but has just a few shortcomings. However after some research I noticed the developer has been promising these features for over 2 years. Makes me a bit nervous that they may never be implemented.

I am really enjoying the simplicity of this program. It is my favorite out of all of the iPad apps for pixel art. The only tool for me that is missing would be a lasso tool. Otherwise would be a 5/5!