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Piskel

Piskel, free online sprite editor.

Free Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Web
Self-Hosted

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 preview of your work.
You no longer have to guess how it will look like when it's done: you see it!

Your gallery
Keep track of all the sprites you created.
Everyone can see your public gallery, but you can keep any sprite you want private.

Offline versions
Offline builds are available for Windows and MacOS. More Info »

Export to GIF
Since we're animating images, might as well share them as animated GIFs.
So yeah.

Open Source
If you want to contribute or check the code, everything is on Github.

Links to official Piskel sites

Official Website Twitter GitHub

Features

Animations Live Preview Onion skining Sprite sheets Web-Based Add a feature

Tags

animated-gif-creator animations art editors live-preview onion-skining pixel pixel-art pixelart sprite-sheets web-application web-based

Piskel was added by Mister_X2000 in Jun 2016 and the latest update was made in Oct 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2018 There is a history of all activites on Piskel in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Piskel or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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