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

Spriter

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

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Jpixel

Animations: Create animations and export them as spritesheets or animated GIFs. Tileset: Mockup your tilesets and export them as .png images.

Free Mac OS X Windows

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

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

Creature

This software is used to create fluid and natural animation to 2D graphics, easily allowing the user to use secondary animation to make it look more natural.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Marionette Studio

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

Commercial

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