Pixen - pixel art editor

🇺🇸 United States
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App Rating
4.6
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Votes
242
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App Age
9y 2m
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Last Update
Dec 02, 2025
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iAP
$7.99 - 7.99

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Current App
Category Top Average
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Rating
4.72
4.65
+2%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
240
8.2M
-100%
App Age
9y 2m
9y 8m
-5%
Price
$8
$0
In-app Purchases Price
$10
$37
-73 %
Update Frequency
113d
21d
+445%
Title Length
24
26
-8%
Subtitle Length
30
27
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Description Length
3 716
2 969
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Number of Screenshots
858
1501
-43 %
Size
7MB
321MB
-98 %

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Pixen - pixel art editor
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Pixel art and animation editor
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Pixen is a professional pixel art editor for iOS, designed for working with low-resolution raster art such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an intuitive, native interface including support for high zoom levels, animation editing, color palettes, and a lot more. PROJECTS GALLERY The Pixen experience starts in the Projects Gallery, which allows you to manage all of your creations in one place. You can import and export files in various file formats including PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, BMP, TIFF, SVG, and PSD. Files can be imported from your Photos library, the Files app, or even the clipboard. Pixen for macOS users can also take advantage of seamless iCloud sync. When you're ready, you can share your creations with friends and even export sprite sheets. TOOLS AND APPLE PENCIL Leverage Pixen's wide array of tools when composing pixel art: Pencil, Eraser, Brightness, Text, Eyedropper, Zoom, Rectangular Selection, Magic Wand, Lasso, Move, Fill, Line, Rectangle, and Ellipse. All of Pixen's tools are fully compatible with Apple Pencil on iPad. You can take advantage of the double-tap gesture on Apple Pencil 2 to quickly switch to your last tool, switch to the eraser, or bring up the color picker. Pixen even has hover support when using Apple Pencil Pro, so you can see a preview of what you're about to draw before your Apple Pencil touches the screen. COLOR PALETTES With Pixen, you can add and organize commonly-used colors into palettes. Pixen can also import and export color palettes in the Adobe Color Table, Microsoft Palette, JASC Palette, and GIMP Palette formats. You can even perform palette operations such as sorting colors, removing duplicate colors, and more, directly in the app. ANIMATIONS Create and arrange image frames in the filmstrip view to piece together animations. Pixen can import animated PNGs, animated GIFs, and sprite sheets. It can export animations as animated GIFs, animated PNGs, movies, image sequences, and sprite sheets! GRID Take advantage of Pixen's grid tools to guide you in placing pixels just where you want them. PATTERNS Define custom patterns to use while drawing with the Pencil, Line, or Eraser tool (instead of a single pixel). You can even import patterns from 1-bit images. PREVIEW While editing at high zoom levels, use the Preview feature to view the canvas scaled out. You can even play back animations and tile small images when working on patterns. AND A LOT MORE... - Sync your creations with Pixen for Mac over iCloud and resume your work right where you left off, regardless of device. - Take advantage of the flexibility of layers and change opacities, blend modes, and more to compose creative effects. - Invert colors, convert to grayscale, apply sepia tone, remove alpha components, palettize, pixellate, adjust hue, exposure, brightness, contrast, and more. - Pixel Perfect mode removes extra pixels while drawing such that any drawn paths are at most 1 pixel in width. In other words, it removes the middle pixel of an L shape. - Pick a flat, striped, or checkered background to be drawn beneath the canvas, or set a reference image. - If you use your iPad with a keyboard, increase productivity with Pixen's wide array of keyboard shortcuts. - Export your artwork in PNG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, BMP, TIFF, SVG, and PSD file formats. - Share your creations quickly and easily via AirDrop, Messages, email, and more! - Adjust the position of Pixen's layers panel, pick alternate app icons, customize the Apple Pencil 2 double-tap gesture, and more. Pixen is also available for macOS and is the only pixel art maker of its class that syncs projects with iCloud! }
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Rating
4.6
242 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Icebear406
01 Sep, 2025
5
This app is so good!!! I’m on YouTube and trying to make a game like stardew valley. It’s called “my pixel farm” and it’s on iPad and computer. It’s on App Store.
Ton0Clay
24 Jun, 2025
5
Exactly what I was looking for. No ads whatsoever and all of the features you need.
Nexgen777
15 May, 2025
5
This the best alternative because it pulls files from not photos but other locations.
Jason Mark
16 Feb, 2025
5
Wish color pallet. Would stay on screen. There was an issue with sprite sheets not being pngs but that’s been fixed. Yay! Responsive developer.
Jason Mark
01 Feb, 2025
4
Wish color pallet. Would stay on screen. Also doesn’t export png sprite sheets!!! The developer said that it exports png, but for me it exported as jpg without transparent background there were no options to change the format it saves as.
Jason Mark
25 Jan, 2025
4
Wish color pallet. Would stay on screen. Also doesn’t export png sprite sheets!!!
Demir Sturgis
17 Nov, 2024
4
Worked very well, I do sonic the hedgehog sprites and this is exactly what I needed.
adi_random
28 Sep, 2024
5
Love the app, has all the features that i need in the free version, perfect for learning. I would have loved to see symmetry line, at least in the pro version.
Mariobutts
18 Jun, 2024
5
Developers please comment and people please find this useful so it is at the top of the list

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.57
Voted: 242
App Store Link:
Price: 7.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Photo & Video, Productivity
Size: 6MB
iAP: 7.99 - 7.99 $
App Age: 9 years 2 months
Release Date: Oct 11, 2016
Last Update: Dec 02, 2025
Version: 3.0.2
Version history
3.0.2
Dec 02, 2025
- Fixed an issue where sometimes color palettes could not be imported - Fixed an issue where the color picker could scroll horizontally unnecessarily - Fixed an issue where layer previews could appear blank after using the app for a while - Fixed an issue where tools could sometimes stop responding - Lowered memory usage when using Pixen over long periods of time
3.0.1
Jul 31, 2025
- Bug fixes Previously in Pixen 3: - Dock color palettes in the sidebar so they're right at your fingertips - Easily access your recent colors, your document's color palette, or any of your saved color palettes - Customize this behavior and other workspace settings in the revamped Settings screen - Layers, animation frames, and toolbars have a cleaner look and feel - Improved the reliability of the rectangular selection tool - Improved the sorting of color palettes - Improved the quality of exported SVGs - Tweaked a few icons so they are more consistent with the rest of the OS as well as other apps - Duplicate colors can now be added to color palettes by default
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