# Sprite Pencil

> Create Pixel Art

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1437835952](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1437835952)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1437835952`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** 256 Arts
- **Category:** Graphics & Design
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (61 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.11
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-23
- **First published:** 2018-10-14
- **Size:** 3.52 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sprite-pencil/id1437835952)
- **Website:** [http://www.256arts.com/spritepencil](http://www.256arts.com/spritepencil)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.256arts.com/legal/privacy](http://www.256arts.com/legal/privacy)

## Description

Sprite Pencil is a mobile pixel-art studio for iPhone and iPad. It offers a focused set of drawing tools and a dedicated Apple-platform engine, plus in-place editing of existing images from Files and iCloud Drive for easy project organization.

Highlights include Apple Pencil support, curated and importable color palettes, move/rotate/flip/posterize, symmetric drawing, shading brushes, scalable sharing, iMessage stickers, and a widget to display sprites.

## Rankings

- #162,994 — Overall

## Review summary

Sprite Pencil is easy and affordable, suitable for beginners and casual pixel art work. Users praise its simplicity and value, and it works well when features function. However, repeated concerns about crashes, unreliable import/export, missing undo, no animation tools, and limited zoom/navigation wear down the experience. Improving stability and adding core features (undo, animation, robust import/export, zoom) would bring it to a more mature, reliable editor.

### Pros

- Easy to use with a simple, approachable interface.
- Suitable for both beginners and experienced pixel artists; versatile tool for sprite art.
- Great for creating simple sprites for coding games.
- Well worth the money; good value for a basic pixel art editor.

### Cons

- No undo feature (no way to revert actions; request for keyboard/action mapping).
- Stability issues and crashes (crashes on launch, during export, or when searching).
- Import/export problems (import button sometimes fails; export can crash; issues exporting transparent sprites).
- Lack of animation tools (no animation workflow currently; repeated requests).
- Zoom/navigation limitations and related usability problems (poor Zoom support; scrolling can delete off-screen content).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1437835952)