Put the pixel exactly there
Zoom until one pixel is wider than your thumb, then place it. Smooth freehand motion, clean doubled corners with Pixel Perfect, or draw and hold to snap a rough line, circle or rectangle into shape.
Closed beta · Android 10+
Make pixel art
on Android.
Pixsama is a pixel art editor for Android phones and tablets. Draw sprites, mix a palette, animate frame by frame, and drag the panels to wherever your thumbs actually land.
- No account, no cloud
- Projects stay on your device
- Thumbs and styluses both welcome
WinstonSprite study
Big personality.
▸ Draw. Colour. Animate.Blank canvas to
Blank canvas to
finished loop.
Start at 32 × 32, mix the colours you need, add frames until it moves. No round trip through a desktop at the end.
Sixteen colours is usually plenty
Mix a palette and keep it. Work indexed and one swatch edit repaints everything using it, which is how you restyle a whole sprite in about four taps.
Then make it move
Add a frame, ghost the last one through with onion skinning, give it a duration and watch the loop play. All of it in the same project file.
▸ The workspaceTools up top. Brush and history
Tools up top. Brush and history
down the left. Canvas in the middle.
The palette, timeline, preview and reference windows float free. Move them, resize them, dock them, or fold them away.
▸ InventoryThe whole toolbox,
The whole toolbox,
thumb-sized.
The canvas keeps the middle of the screen. Everything else you can drag, dock or fold away until the workspace suits how you happen to be holding the thing.
Pencil, line, curve, shape, fill
Smooth a freehand stroke, draw and hold to snap it into a clean shape, or close a contour and fill it. Curves, gradients and shapes preview before they touch the canvas.
Frames, tags, onion skin
Name a range of frames and one project holds the walk, the idle and the attack. Link a cel and a held pose is one drawing shared between frames, not six copies of it.
Sixteen colours, reused everywhere
Save a palette and switch the project to indexed colour. After that, editing one swatch recolours every pixel that was using it.
Move the panels, not your hands
Drag the palette, timeline, preview and reference panels to wherever your thumbs actually are. Flip the whole layout left-handed. Stylus pressure and hover work where the hardware does.
Projects that survive
The native archive keeps layers, frames, timing and palettes intact, so you get a project back rather than a flattened PNG. Aseprite files open and save from the same gallery. And autosave recovery catches the session your phone decided to end.
All core drawing and animation tools are included in Free
Not a trial. Core drawing tools, the timeline, onion skinning, indexed colour, PNG export and native project export are included in the free version. Pro raises the ceilings and adds advanced workflows and export formats.
▸ Workspace
Rearrange it until it fits your hands.
- Movable panelsPlace the palette, timeline, preview and reference panels where they are easiest to reach.
- Two-step curvesSet the endpoints, bend the curve with a second drag and check the preview before committing it.
- Pixel-art rotationRotate a selection to any angle without adding colours that were not already in the artwork.
- Tagged frame rangesName the walk, the idle and the attack inside one project, and play back just the one you are working on.
- Editable file compatibilityOpen a .aseprite project and write one back, with layers, groups, frames, tags and linked cels intact.
▸ Select your file
Free is not a demo.
Three layers and six frames is a real limit, and it is also enough for most 32 × 32 sprites. Pro lifts the ceilings and adds the export formats. It does not hand you tools that were being withheld.
£0
Core drawing tools, the timeline, PNG export and native project export. Enough to finish a sprite and post it.
- Canvases up to 128 × 128
- 3 layers, 6 frames
- One 16-colour palette
- Timeline, onion skinning and playback
- PNG and native project export
£11.99 UK · once
The same editor with the limits taken off. One payment, not a subscription and not a rental.
- Unlimited canvas, layers and frames
- Animation tags and linked cels
- Scale & rotate a selection
- Unlimited palettes, import and export
- GIF, WebP, sprite sheets, .ase and .aseprite files
- Tiled mode, symmetry and dithering
See the full comparison£11.99 in the UK. Google Play shows your final local price.
Closed beta is underway.
Pixsama is being tested now on Android phones and tablets. We are fixing the rough edges before opening the beta to more people.
Open beta · Coming next