Software for iPadOS

Pixquare is a pixel art editor for iPad and iPhone with a deliberately dense feature set: layers, animation, palettes, tiled preview and pressure-aware Apple Pencil drawing. It reads and writes the formats desktop editors use, so a drawing started on a tablet finishes anywhere.

Pixaki is a full pixel art studio for the iPad, built for drawing with the Apple Pencil rather than a mouse. It has layers, a proper animation timeline with onion skinning, palette tools and tiled preview, and exports sprite sheets, GIFs and layered files.

Resprite is a pixel art and animation editor for iOS, Android, Windows and macOS, built around a touch interface without losing the tools a desktop editor has: pixel-perfect lines, alpha lock, dithering patterns, custom brushes, gradients and symmetry. It imports and exports GIF, sprite sheets, PSD and APNG.

Core Editing & Selection Tools

Drawing Tools: Includes Brush, Eraser, Flood-fill, Gradient, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, and Pipette.

Pixel-Perfect Algorithm: Applies to drawing tools to ensure single-pixel-wide lines without unwanted extra pixels.

Selection: Supports copying, cutting, moving, pasting, rotating, and flipping selected image sections.

Layers: Supports layer management for organizing artwork elements.

Animation & Reference

Frame-by-Frame Animation: Includes dedicated tools for creating frame-based animations.

Onion Skinning: Displays overlay previews of preceding frames relative to the active frame.

Reference Images: Loads gallery images onto the canvas for comparison while drawing.

Color Palettes

Preset Palettes: Includes built-in palettes based on hardware profiles like Atari 2600, NES, and Game Boy.

Custom & Imported Palettes: Supports custom color palettes as well as importing palettes from Lospec.

Import, Export & Compatibility

File Import: Opens Aseprite project files (.ase, .aseprite) alongside standard raster formats (.png, .jpeg, .gif).

Export & Upscaling: Exports animations and images to formats including MP4 video, standard raster formats, or local storage/social sharing, with upscaling options to prevent interpolation blur on standard displays.

Divoom is a pixel art editor for Android and iOS devices, letting you create and import pixel art for display on Divoom devices such as the Ditoo speaker or the Pixoo picture frame.

It can be used without these devices just as a portable pixel art program and features the ability to import and resize images, as well as layers and animations.

There is also a text display function with many animated effects and palettes, as well as some audio features such as a keyboard and simple DJ mixer.

Divoom also features a pixel art gallery and community, allowing you to display images from community members on your devices and interact with pixel artists across the globe.

Pixen is a pixel art and animation editor built as a proper Mac application, with the same project openable on an iPhone or iPad. It is aimed at low-resolution bitmaps and 8-bit sprites: layers, palettes, an animation timeline and the system features a native app gets, like versions and autosave.

Voxel Max is a voxel editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Models are built in a workspace of up to 256×256×256 voxels using SDF-based brushes, with a full undo history. Earlier operations keep editable control points, so a shape can still be adjusted after it has been placed. Input is handled through touch, Apple Pencil, keyboard and mouse.

Colour uses a 255-colour palette combined with eight material layers, so the same palette index can carry different roughness, metalness, emission or transparency. The viewport renders those materials in real time with ray-traced lighting, and finished models can be viewed in augmented reality on device.

Larger scenes are assembled from multiple objects through a scene editor and asset manager. Projects import and export as MagicaVoxel .vox, Qubicle, USDZ, GLB/glTF, FBX, OBJ, STL, DAE and PNG, which covers most game and rendering pipelines. A feature called Foundry AI generates voxel assets from images and 3D scans.

It is aimed at voxel artists and game developers who want to model away from a desktop machine, though the touch controls and the official tutorial series also make it approachable for people new to voxel art. The interface is English only, and the Mac version requires Apple Silicon.