Alternatives to GraphicsGale for all platforms with any license

Aseprite

Aseprite is a program by David Capello for creating animated sprites and pixel art.

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Support for Layers Live Preview Add a feature

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ezgif.com

Ezgif.com is simple online gif maker and toolset for basic animated gif editing. Here you can create, resize, crop, reverse, optimize, and apply some effects to gifs.

Free Web
Convert Videos to Animated GIFs Add a feature

16 Like
Piskel

Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks. FEATURES Live preview Piskel gives you a live...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted
Live Preview Animations Onion skining Pixel graphics ... Convert slideshow to video Sprite sheets Web-Based Add a feature

14 Like
Grafx2

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Support for Layers Add a feature

29 Like
Pyxel Edit

Pyxel Edit is a pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.

Commercial Mac Windows
Tile and Tile-Map Editing Add a feature

10 Like
Gifsicle

Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. Making a GIF animation with gifsicle is easy. Some...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Command line interface Add a feature

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Jpixel

Animations: Create animations and export them as spritesheets or animated GIFs. Tileset: Mockup your tilesets and export them as .png images. Palette/Tile...
- Discontinued Official product page unavailable.
Free Mac Windows
No features added Add a feature

6 Like
Pixen

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...

Commercial Mac iPad
No features added Add a feature

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Pixelesque

Pixelsque's goal is to be as simple as possible, while still retaining many powerful features. It works like any standard pixel art editor, with a pen, eraser, and...

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet
Pixel graphics Add a feature

2 Like
Tile Studio

Tile Studio is a complete development utility for graphics of tile-based games. The application contains a bitmap editor for creating tiles and sprites and a map editor...

Free Open Source Windows
Android Sync Portable Tile mapping Add a feature

6 Like
Dotpict

Dotpict is a simple, intuitive and effective pixel art editor designed for mobile use.

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad
No features added Add a feature

3 Like
Cosmigo Pro Motion

Pro Motion is a drawing and animation software for Windows designed similar to the famous Amiga Deluxe Paint (DPaint). It is ideal for artists working on detailed and...

Commercial Windows
Color management Support for Layers Tile mapping Add a feature

6 Like
QGifer

QGifer is a tool for extracting part of a video to an animated GIF file. Features GIF extraction from a video file Color palette editor Variable...
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.1, released in June 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
- is a gifing tool not a pixel art tool Guest • May 2018
Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
Built-in Image editor Qualitative Data Analysis Convert Videos to Animated GIFs Add a feature

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GIF Encode

Encode your movies into .gif files, and optionally upload to imgur.com. Options for start and end frames, FPS, and width in pixels.

Free Windows Windows S Windows Phone
Live Preview Upload directly to Imgur Convert Videos to Animated GIFs Add a feature

1 Like
Lospec Pixel Editor

Free online pixel art program. It's easy to use, intuitive and unobtrusive. Use any palette from our database.

Free Web
No features added Add a feature

1 Like