Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone



PixilArt is the most popular Android alternative to PixaPencil.
- PixilArt is Free and Proprietary
PixaPencil is described as 'An open source pixel art editor for Android' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to PixaPencil for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best PixaPencil alternative is PixiEditor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PixaPencil are Pixelorama, Aseprite, LibreSprite and Tilf.



PixilArt is the most popular Android alternative to PixaPencil.
Pro Motion is a drawing and animation software for Windows designed similar to the famous Amiga Deluxe Paint (DPaint).




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.

mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.



The Lospec Pixel editor is a free pixel art program that you can use right here in your web browser. Our goal was to create an easy to use, intuitive and unobtrusive pixel art application that you can use anywhere.

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...




Moai is a spiritual successor to one of the elder gods of pixel editing: Autodesk Animator. Designed to make detailed pixel work easy while preserving many of Animator's unique processes, Moai exists to bridge the old with the new.

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.


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

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.
