Pixely: Pixel Art for Everyone Apple

Pixely: Pixel Art for Everyone

Easy, Powerful Pixel Artistry

Overview

Rating:
4.10
(17)
Version:
15.0
Last updated: 2022-05-22
Ranking
#297,739
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Easy, Powerful Pixel Art Studio for All Levels of Digital Artists

Pixely is the easiest way to make amazing pixel art.

"This is the best, and easiest to use pixel art app on the iPad. The UI is clean, the canvas is clear. This is the app I've been looking for." ~ John the artist, US App Store

"Perfect for everything I use it for. Money very well spent." ~ Chase game, UK App Store

"I'm super happy with this application so far... this one has the most features geared towards making pixel art that I need! The onion skin is terrific for making sprites for my game while I sit away from my computer. Keep up the fantastic work!" ~ WSDragon, Canada App Store

A feature-rich and friendly pixel art and pixel-level image editor made for everyone from the dabbling game art fan to the experienced artist, and anyone in between!

-- A Flexible Workspace -- • Edit huge canvases up to 4096x4096 pixels • Adjustable canvas sizes let you change the number of columns and rows, with or without scaling - it's your choice: unlike other apps, scaling up linearly (2x, 3x, etc.) will not distort your colors • Bookmark up to 40 colors per canvas (50 on iPad Pro 10.5, 75 on iPad Pro 12.9) and create reusable palettes of up to 272 colors • Helpful descriptions are available for every button and screen • Undo/redo for each canvas, up to 120x zooming, customizable grid sizes, flip and rotate canvases, and more! • Pixely's Art Viewer allows for quick and accurate enlarged or tiled previews, with care taken to scale art proportionally, preventing distortion and unwanted color changes • Use your canvases as layers or animation frames, each with their own opacity. Making layered art and animated GIFs has never been easier! • But wait... there's also Apple Pencil support, onion skinning, a mirrored UI mode, custom app tinting, and more...

-- Highly Portable Artwork -- • Load and save art files, which include bookmarked colors, with support for folders. • Preview your art files as thumbnails before you open them • Artwork is continuously saved as you make changes, so you can focus on creating instead of saving. In fact, your entire session is restored when you re-open the app • Import images from your camera, Photos app, or the iOS clipboard • Import and export animated GIFs • Export one or many canvases all at once to your app files, Dropbox, photos, email, Facebook, and Twitter

-- Create & Curate Colors -- • Pixely supports every RGB/HSB color with opacity/alpha channels • Start simple… select your colors from a rainbow of 234 evenly spread presets • Go pro… edit any color using sliders and brightness toggles • Be consistent… create palettes of up to 272 colors that you can load, save, and share • Import colors to get the exact shades that inspire you from your canvases and images • Quickly manage palette and bookmark colors • Select from recently used colors • Game Devs: Create a retro 8-bit or 16-bit effect by automatically color-reducing canvases to only use colors from your palettes!

-- A Dynamic Toolset -- • Flexible drawing tools allow you to create art using variable-size pencil, freeform line, rectangle, and fill tools, all with optional symmetry • Shading (Burn/Dodge): Add or remove shading uniformly or randomly using any drawing tool • Multiple paste modes with easy drag-drop previewing, or use copied pixels like a brush, precision paste using a game-like control pad, or easily create patterns for dithering effects • Replace Color: Change all pixels of one color to another color • Eyedropper: Set the current color by selecting one from any pixel • Shift: Easily shift the pixels on an entire canvas to make room for new sections

We love using Pixely and want you to enjoy it as much as we do. Please recommend any features or report bugs to hi@pixely.info or @PixelyApp on Twitter!

Privacy Policy: Pixely does not collect any data at all, unless Dropbox is used. This data is collected by Dropbox and is not used by the app developer. See 'App Privacy' for more info or https://pixely.app/privacy.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Mark Marchione
Rating:
4.10
(17)
Version:
15.0 Last updated: 2022-05-22
Version code:
849330240
Creation date:
2013-03-21
Compatible devices:
Size:
30.75MB
Price:
1.99
URLs:
Privacy policy
Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-26
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Developed by:
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixely-pixel-art-for-everyone/id620956869

User Reviews

really nice pixel art app that can export animated gifs.
by wr*****, 2025-12-01

I’ve used a number of small graphics applications on the iPad (or iPhone), and none of them ever seem to do it all. Most are just easy, obvious clones of each other with the standard functionality, using your photos (camera roll) to (inadequately) do the heavy lifting of managing files, and littering your photos with junk in the process. Real work (even hobby work) requires something more, and Pixely provides just enough interaction with files and iCloud, and copy/paste with other apps, to make it really useful in creating pixel-based art. It has almost all of the tools one needs to create small pixel drawings (I mostly use it for 32 or 64 pixel wide icon-like images for games), including animated sequences. It obviously can’t do everything… I need other tools to migrate my Pixely work into a finished product and refine it further (such as creating crowded sprite sheets, which I could do in Pixely, but it is just more easily done on my Mac). But it lets me comfortably and efficiently generate a pretty refined first step in the process. There’s very little I’d change about Pixely, except perhaps to provide some online documentation, and an ability to move a selection instead of only copy/paste (and maybe a cut in addition to copy)… and maybe an option to export a collection of images into a single sprite sheet. The UI is a little rough around the edges, and not always entirely intuitive, but it’s all there, you can figure it out with practice, it all works, and it gets the job done. Pixely is definitely one of the few apps I rate highly (or at all), and one of the very, very few that I have been using for years and keep going back to.
by Lo*****, 2022-01-26
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