Aseprite

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

Freemium Open Source Mac Windows Linux

GraphicsGale

Animation graphic editor easy to use - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art. Features: supports AVI format (*no audio), supports any bits-per-pixel, real-time...

Free Windows

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

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

Spine

Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

Spriter

Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers. Spriter enables the “modular” method of animating where, instead of each frame being a single...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

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

Dotpict

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

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

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

Pixaki

Pixaki is a powerful pixel art creation app for iPad. It features many of the same features found in desktop apps — such as custom canvas sizes, layers, precise colour...

Commercial iPad

Kenney Studio

Kenney Studio is an easy to use tool to create game sprites using various pre-made objects.

• Discontinued KenneyNL Reported On Forums, Kenney Studio is discontinued. Source: https://itch.io/t/116590/purchase-kenny-studio

• Kenny studio is not a graphic editor. You just can make something from premade stuff, not draw namirmatu • May 2017 Disagree   Agree

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Sprite Something

Sprite Something is a drawing, animation and tilemap application for pixel artists and game developers. Draw multiple frames individually, then quickly drag and drop...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac

Poxi

Pixel art editor for the browser with infinite canvas.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

Marionette Studio

Marionette Studio is a great software, powerful, easy and very intuitive to create 2D animations, characters for video games and more.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS

Pixly

Pixly is a complete pixel art editor for Android devices. It excels where all other editors for phones and tablets fall short.

Free Android