Aseprite

Very nice and easy to use software, would like a bit more implemented guides though especially for animation.

1000 hours in and I barely learned some important shortcuts, best pixel art software of all time.

I cannot recommend this software enough.

In an age of subscriptions for software that barely even functions, just being able to buy it ONCE with numerous free updates is refreshing. But what would be the point of buying something if it sucked?

Let me tell you Aseprite has so many things you can do with it I barely touched the surface of and have had plenty of use out of. The sheer amount of love poured into this program is astounding and worth every nickle and dime I spent on it.

Pretty easy, not too complicated, works for everything ive tried to use sprites for

You can make awesome pixel art for any medium for only twenty dollars. Comes with intuitive features, and great tools too. A must have for any pixel art lover.

Aseprite is my favorite tool for construction and animation of pixel art. It provides a variety of options for exporting your work to other programs. There's great developer support and semi-regular updates.

I love importing color palettes from Lospec and seeing what I can design with them.

This program has been my one-stop-shop for pixel art for so long (bought it on steam later so that I could update it easier). Is it required for pixel art? No. Is it a great program? YES!

Drawing and animating is a lovely time. Plus, I can do everything from a MacBook! Incredibly convenient for me. I love Aseprite :)

what can i say? the best program for pixel art there is. it's really easy to learn and use, but support for larger sprites is pretty limited if not non-existent

50% of my time is spent drawing, and the other 50% is just me having an existential crisis deciding what to draw

Pretty good tool for pixel art and animation, as advertised. It can be a struggle to get anything to work if you're used to other software, sometimes feeling like it has a mind of its own just to keep you from doing the most basic tasks. But when it works, it works pretty well.

Pixel Art Machine in Steam omg man thats great...

Perfectly designed user interface
Basic control schemes
Everything is great

finally bought it after constantly building the project from github, i love this project so much, the best pixel art tool

It's been a great and fairly easy to use program that I've used for sprite editing and some basic sprite creation and I'm not even delving into probably most of its features. Huge recommend.

Good pixel art software. Has many features and a team that tries to listen to their consumers to improve the product. It's also good that you just have to purchase it once and not have to pay a subscription fee.

Aseprite is a fantastic piece of software! I bought it for $11.99 in 2017 and have gladly used it ever since. I started using it to create my pixel art sprites for my games to save money, but since it took such a long time for me to improve my hideous sprites to become just mediocre/average sprites and it takes me so long to create such sprites, I find it isn't worth it. I would instead hire a pro for this work. This plan is way better. I can afford this work because I don't have to pay too much too quickly.

However, I still use Aseprite for many things, like resizing any image (and not just pixel art ones) and basic pixel art editing. It is 04/06/2025 today, and I have learned how to use the command prompt to create sprite sheets easily. This should help me out a lot.

I used to use GraphicsGale, which I got for free. However, there was one issue. GraphicsGale doesn't allow partially transparent pixels. But Aseprite does! And Aseprite is so intuitive. This price is very well worth it. It's wonderful pixel art editing software!

good program for doing pixel art! the only con is that you have to either buy it, compile it from source, while acknowledging the fact that you may have to go through this ritual once or twice a year if you want to have at least some sort of updates, or use one of its free forks that may provide limited functionality in comparison to the original. other than that, it's pretty powerful at doing its job: it looks cool, and i use it when i need to draw sprites or when i feel like doing an entire art piece.

Perfect for making sprites for my little Ludum Dare games.

Very good, solid tool for pixel art and special effects.

I love the desing and how easy it is to use it. Totally recommended for new or experienced artists!!!

bought this version on steam because 1. its nice to be able to download it on any of my computer simply 2. i like it and want to support the devs

I am an absolute beginner when it comes to both art and using computer programs to make sprites, and Aseprite is such an easy to use and simultaniously powerful piece of software that i have been able to start to create really cool little things. Highly reccomended for new folks like myself

Found it incredibly easy and pleasant to use. Very clean UI and it supports dark mode. Highly recommend if you want to get into sprite creation and/or animation.

I make things. This good for making things. Very nice. Writing this review at current timestamp to immortalize it.

Extremely Good pixel art software with useful features like exporting animations as sprite sheets. Look no further this is the pixel art software for the job.

My only gripe is I wish flip canvas didn't count as an action so when you use the undo function it wouldn't flip back.

Great pixel art editor with all the basic features you expect. UI is a little clunky but you get used to it fast

I absolutely love it! extremely intuitive and easy to use and I can greatly improve my pixel art more thanks to how easy the ui is to use.

The absolute best pixel art program I have ever came across, using it is so much fun!
Also, for your information, you can get Aseprite for free legally if you try to compile it yourself on GitHub, but it`s so cheap and I`d recommend buying it for the sake of comfortability.

It's a really good pixel software, probably the one that i like the most. The UI is pretty intuitive, and things are pretty straightforward!
If you decide and have the chance to support this, totally go for it

This is a really great and helpful tool for pixel art then the other art programs that I've used before, would highly recommend! That's really all that I could say...

Very user friendly and plenty of tutorials to get into it.

There are small bugs here and there, but I've always been able to find workarounds so not too big of a problem. A free version is available on Github if you compile it yourself :)

if you want to see pixels for the rest of your life, buy this, if you dont, buy this (its honestly really good i reccomend it for game making drawing too)

I've never devoted so much time to mastering software, but well, the experience is interesting. So, let's get started:

As you know:

Devel wrote:

Aseprite is a software designed for creating pixel graphics, animations and textures. It was originally created to simplify the work of artists doing pixel art for games and other projects. The app is available on various platforms such as Windows, macOS and Linux and offers a wide range of tools and features that make it a great choice for those who work with pixels.


Aseprite combines a clear interface and powerful features, making it accessible to both beginners and advanced users. The developers paid special attention to usability and optimization of the process of working with pixel graphics, including creating animations and working with colors.

Advantages:

✔intuitive interface;
✔ advanced tools for pixel graphics (pixel drawing mode, contours and shapes, magnetic mode, grid work);
✔ animation creation (layers and frames, frame-by-frame animation, frame interpolation, preview);
✔ Flexible work with colors (palettes, gradients, transparency); support for various file formats;
✔ support of scripts and user settings;
✔ active community.

Disadvantages:

None detected in 13 hours of use.

Summary:

Aseprite is a powerful, user-friendly and affordable tool for creating pixel graphics and animations. Its ease of use combined with its professional features makes it a great choice for artists of any level.


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Я никогда не уделял столько времени освоению программного обеспечения, но опыт интересный. Итак, давайте начнем:

Как вы знаете^

Devel wrote:

Aseprite - это программа, предназначенная для создания пиксельной графики, анимации и текстур. Изначально она была создана для того, чтобы упростить работу художников, создающих пиксель-арт для игр и других проектов. Приложение доступно на различных платформах, таких как Windows, macOS и Linux, и предлагает широкий набор инструментов и функций, которые делают его отличным выбором для тех, кто работает с пикселями.


Aseprite сочетает в себе понятный интерфейс и мощные функции, что делает его доступным как для новичков, так и для опытных пользователей. Разработчики уделили особое внимание удобству использования и оптимизации процесса работы с пиксельной графикой, включая создание анимации и работу с цветами.

Преимущества:

✔ интуитивно понятный интерфейс;
✔ продвинутые инструменты для работы с пиксельной графикой (режим рисования пикселей, контуры и фигуры, магнитный режим, работа с сеткой);
✔ создание анимации (слои и кадры, покадровая анимация, интерполяция кадров, предварительный просмотр);
✔ гибкая работа с цветом (палитры, градиенты, прозрачность); поддержка различных форматов файлов;
✔ поддержка скриптов и пользовательских настроек;
✔ активное сообщество.

Недостатки:

Не обнаружено за 13 часов использования.

Заключение:

Aseprite – это мощный, удобный и доступный инструмент для создания пиксельной графики и анимации. Простота использования в сочетании с профессиональными функциями делает его отличным выбором для художников любого уровня.

Honestly the standard for pixel art. Just spend the 20 dollars, y'all.

Simple to use and is very good for professional pixel art work, be it for games or really anything pixel art

seems like it could be good but not great to view on a 4k screen. i was hoping to use this as a replacement for sprite making over photoshop but photoshop is just way easier to use and easy guidelines and set ups for 32 x 32 tile sheets. i really with there was a neutral thumb but in my situation with 4k screens i cant recommend

The best pixel art tool out there! I never thought I'd really be able to enjoy making pixel until this software came along.

Out of all of the pixel art softwares I have used (and I have used over 10), this one is by far the best. The UI is very simple and easy to navigate and the tools within the software are very well created to aid others in creating stunning pixel art

takes up very little memory running in the background. also a very good tool, though some of how the UI works can take a moment to get used to.

Helpful tool! Definitely one of the best art tools that focus on pixel art. Good for both making still images or animations.

Honestly, paying for it is totally worth the ease of use compared to the free download, this software is so useful and its taken my art skills from the floor to like, a respectable height, the program itself is hard to start with but some practice drawings and you'll be making animations or sprites in no time, if you want an application that you don't need to fight to make cool stuff happen, I'd say go for aseprite, its really lightweight too, which when working on blender projects alongside aseprite is rather important, the only thing that took me a while to figure out was figuring out how to make a clipping mask (Its lock alpha).

probably my favorite pixel program ever. nobody does it like aseprite!!! i was exclusively using mspaint for a long long time because no other pixel software would perform the way i wanted it to. very charming ui with options to add themes, plugins, etc. incredibly easy to use once you get the hang of it! nothing but love for this program, i use it all the time :]

Great program, its been lots of fun just drawing using it. At least personally I think it's the best option on steam for pixel art on steam at a pretty good price for what it offers. That being said it might be smart to look for a video explaining all the features because every ten hours of using it or so I find out about some super helpful feature that totally changes how I use it. That being said I'm not gonna watch one because just finding this stuff as you go is fun in and of itself lol

I tried many other free software to draw simple sprites for a project I'm working on and none of them could achieve some of the simplest things. This does everything I need and has a great canvas I can customise to my exact sizes to work with for making tilemaps and single sprites.

one of the best spriting softwares i have ever used. lots of features, intuitive, very good.

Aseprite is the single most valuable art software I have ever owned. It's super light-weight, fun, and dang easy to learn! It has a ton of useful features and shortcuts to transform the look of sprites in seconds. Despite my limited skill set, I am able to make my characters come to life and animate in ways I haven't been able to manage anywhere else!
Well worth the cost of admission.

Perfect for any kind of pixel art. As someone brand to art as a whole, I was to get in and instantly start trying to make art. with the existing interface being easy to use. Then as I watch some tutorials and found tooling supporting more advance techniques. 10/10, does what it sets out to do very well.

it good



silly text aside, it's very much the best pixel art tool out there, can say that with confidence

Optimized for specifically pixel art. Functions are enough but not THAT complicated like modern Adobe's ones. I rather really love this old-school style of UIs. This software really fits me. I really appreciate the creators who made this. ^^

it's a great program. but every time i press alt and f4 it crashes

This is a really cool program to use whether you're interested in creating pixel art, creating and animating pixel art, or creating and/or animating pixel art to export and use in game design.

If you're thinking it looks like a fancier version of Paint, you're sort of correct. However, its so much better than Paint. It has a lot of features I used to use in Adobe Flash, Photoshop, etc. in it.

Don't get intimidated by this program if you're not familiar with things like Flash or Photoshop. There's a lot of great guides both on Steam and elsewhere that can help get you started.