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About Piskel
Piskel is a sprite and pixel art editor that runs in the browser, with free offline desktop versions for Windows, macOS and Linux. You draw frame by frame and watch a live preview of the animation, with the frame delay adjustable as you work.
Finished work exports as animated GIFs for sharing or as spritesheet PNGs and ZIPs for game projects. A child-friendly edition, Piskel for Kids, offers a distraction-free version for younger users. It works best in a desktop browser in landscape orientation.
Strengths
- Live animation preview with adjustable frame delay
- Exports animated GIFs and spritesheets
- Runs in the browser or as an offline desktop app
- Child-friendly edition for kids and classrooms
Limitations
- Poorly suited to phones and portrait screens
- Focused on pixel art rather than general image editing
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source, including the desktop versions.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The Piskel contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Web
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Game developers and hobbyists making pixel art sprites and animations
- Categories
- Image editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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