Pixquare - Pixel art editor app for iPhone and iPad

Pixquare is a powerful pixel art app for anyone who loves drawing on iPad and iPhone. Artists, illustrators, and game developers love Pixquare for its simple UI, easy workflow, and advanced features for pixel art creation.

With Pixquare, you can create 8-bit art, GIFs, 2D sprites, isometric artwork, and animations for your art and games, anytime, anywhere! Weve improved Pixquare based on feedback from 500+ pixel artists, making sure its the perfect tool for both beginners and pros to start their pixel art journey:

• HIGHLIGHTS:
- Support both iPads and iPhones
- Intuitive UI with left-hand mode available
- Timelapse recording
- Enhanced Apple Pencil support: gestures, sensitivity, touch rejection
- Utilize MetalKit for a smooth sketching experience
- Provide manual and auto-save modes
- Shortcut options: keyboard or on-screen gesture pad
- Quick size and opacity sliders.
- Custom themes

• VERSATILE TOOLS:
- Brush: pixel perfect, watercolor mode, pressure sensitivity, dithering
- Eraser: pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, dithering
- Move: transformation supported
- Line: straight and curve mode, watercolor mode, perfect angle
- Shape: ellipse and rectangle mode, watercolor mode, perfect ratio
- Selection: 5 types & 5 modes
- Color: solid/gradient fill, contiguous/non-contiguous, and more
- Color picker: 4 modes (HSV, HSL, Wheel, RGB), history, drag-to-fill
- All tools offer shading, round and square tips.

• LAYER/TIMELINE PANEL:
- Optimized for animation and organized layers
- Unlimited number of layers
- Multi-selection, layer grouping, and operations
- Visibility and editing-lock toggle
- Supports reference layers
- Frame customization: duration and multi-selection
- Linked cells, onion skin, and clipping mask

• ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
- Symmetry tool with unlimited axes
- Reference images
- Color palette: save/load, download from Lospec, color gradient generator
- Blending modes, alpha lock
- Preview with separate animation loop
- Canvas rotation, Finder-like file system, Lospec integration, guideline

• FILE IMPORT/EXPORT:
- Aseprite file compatibility (importing & exporting)
- PNG and GIF export options (layers, frames, size, and animation)
- Import Photos and Files as reference layers and images

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WHY ARTISTS LOVE PIXQUARE?

"Genuinely the best pixel art app for the iPad that I would recommend anyone to get!" - Jon Davies, Pixel Artist on Super House of Dead Ninjas, Binding of Isaac.

"Pixquare has more than meets the eye. A seemingly simple interface that has the intuitive control you look for. The gesture pad is comparable to a desktop keypad." - Michael, Pixel Artist, Author of Pixel Logic book

"Ive been sharing it with basically everyone I know with an iPad because I think its one of the best software out there for creating pixels on the iPad." - CupOhJoe, Game Developer

"This is one fine app to pixel on the iPad! You can tell theres a lot of love for the craft poured in here" - Ota Jaider, Pixel Artist

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• Acknowledgement:
- Special thanks to Naocraf (@NaocrafPixel) and Hyuk Choi (@anti_rocker) for helping with the Japanese and Korean translation

• Screenshot artwork authors:
- Mossy (@ArtNature_it)
- chili (@ryviolie)
- Lesma (@pixe_lesma)
- Fariis (@fariis_art)
- ue_voxel (@UeVoxel)
- Becky C (@tinydiorama)
- Huy B (@bit5andpiece5)
- Sunny (@minisunnyworld)
- Manytle (@manytle)

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Download Pixquare now! You can start with Pixquare Lite (free version), and unlock more with a one-time purchase!

SUPPORT:
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixquare_app
Website: https://www.pixquare.art/