Aseprite

Aseprite is a program by David Capello for creating animated sprites and pixel art.

Open Source Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

GraphicsGale

Animation graphic editor easy to use - Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art.

Free Windows

Pixen

Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games.

Commercial Mac OS X iPad

Spine

Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Piskel

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

Pyxel Edit

Pyxel Edit is a pixel art editor designed to make it fun and easy to make tilesets, levels and animations.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Spriter

Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Kenney Studio

Kenney Studio is an easy to use tool to create game sprites using various pre-made objects.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Sprite Something

Sprite Something is a drawing, animation and tilemap application for pixel artists and game developers. Draw multiple frames individually, then quickly drag and drop...

Commercial

Dotpict

Dotpict is a simple, intuitive and effective pixel art editor designed for mobile use.

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Pixelesque

Pixelsque's goal is to be as simple as possible, while still retaining many powerful features. It works like any standard pixel art editor, with a pen, eraser, and...

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

Marionette Studio

Marionette Studio is a great software, powerful, easy and very intuitive to create 2D animations, characters for video games and more.

Commercial

Poxi

Pixel art editor for the browser with infinite canvas.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

Pixaki

Pixaki is a powerful pixel art creation app for iPad. It features many of the same features found in desktop apps — such as custom canvas sizes, layers, precise colour...

Commercial iPad