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mtPaint vs Pixelorama: catalog facts
mtPaintPixelorama
Free

Free and open source under the GPL-3.0.

Free

Free and open source under the MIT licence. Steam and itch.io listings exist as a way to…

Windows, Linux Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Web
  • Edits indexed palette and 24-bit RGB images
  • Layers, channels and animation support
  • Animation timeline with onion skinning and sprite sheet export built in
  • Tilemap and tileset tools for game art, not just single sprites
  • Basic tools compared with full photo editors
  • No release binaries published on the GitHub repository
  • Aimed at pixel art; it is not a general image editor
  • Documentation is explicitly still a work in progress with pages missing
Downloadable app Downloadable app, Web application
Open source Open source
License: GPL-3.0 License: MIT
No account needed No account needed
Works offline Works offline

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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