Aseprite Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Aseprite for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is Pixelorama, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Aseprite and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Aseprite are LibreSprite, Piskel, Grafx2 and Tilf.

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  1. Pixelorama icon
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    Pixelorama is a free and open source sprite editor, ideal for pixel art. In this page you'll be learning about the latest added features, as well as its features in general. It's made with Godot Engine, using GDScript.

    50 Pixelorama alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Steam
    • itch.io
    • Android
     
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  2. LibreSprite icon
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    LibreSprite is a free and open source program for creating and animating your sprites.

    28 LibreSprite alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  3. Grafx2 icon
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    GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed...

    35 Grafx2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Tilf icon
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    Tilf (Tiny Elf) is a simple yet powerful pixel art editor built with PySide6. It’s designed for creating sprites, icons, and small 2D assets with essential drawing tools, live preview, undo/redo, and export options.

    42 Tilf alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. Pixen icon
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    Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. With innovative features like a color palette system, patterns, and high-zoom support, Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPad
     
  6. PikoPixel icon
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    PikoPixel is a free, open-source Mac application for drawing & editing pixel-art images. PikoPixel also runs on other Unix-like platforms (Linux, BSD), using the GNUstep framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Hexels is a creative suite for grid-based painting, animation, and design. The Hexels canvas is a paintable grid of geometric shapes that lets artists create complex designs with the stroke of a brush. It is a new kind of vector workflow, a friendly playground for the beginning...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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  8. Jpixel icon
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    JPixel is an editor for making pixel art animations and tilesets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  9. Pyxel Edit icon
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    Pyxel Edit is a pixel art drawing application especially designed for working with tiles. Place tiles to form a level, edit them directly to see how they all work together, then export your tileset and the level data, and load it into your game.

    37 Pyxel Edit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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  10. PixelOver icon
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    PixelOver is a layer-based, pixel art software providing a suite of highly specialized tools for pixel perfect transformations, color adjustments and palette indexing, keyed animations and much more.

    24 PixelOver alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  11. Sprite Pencil enables you to create beautiful pixel art sprites on the go. Sprite Pencil has a simple set of tools, and a powerful drawing engine. Sprite Pencil allows you to open and edit pixel art images you may already have in Files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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