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category
price
Free (IAP)store
Reviews
4.6 (39)
United States
Description
Pixel art and animation editor
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. DOCUMENT LIBRARY The Pixen experience starts in the Document Library, 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 supports Apple Pencil hover, so on supported devices, 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 documents 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 documents with iCloud!
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Oh yeah!
I love this app!
EvanWantsUpdatesTue, Feb 20, 2024
United States
Great
Please add two finger touch for undo
Chickel chackelSat, Feb 17, 2024
United States
Exporting issues
Everything Is incredible, and WAY better than the pixel software I used to use, however, whenever I try to export any of my projects it will only export photos and gifs. I really hope this gets fixed, but aside from that, a very good pixel site is going under the radar here.
Cory2006Wed, Jan 31, 2024
United States
i cant export
make it so i can export
Ethan_Revelo1Sun, Dec 17, 2023
United States
👍
Great (free 5 star) but how do I PLAY my animations?
you are 👍Sat, Dec 16, 2023
United States
Crash
It’s the best application in iPad, but it crash
the sadsThu, Apr 21, 2022
United States
Useless if you can’t save!
Spent a considerable amount of time working on something and then when I went to export discovered that the app crashes EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Highly disappointing. Wasted $5 and several hours.
RhondagreeneMon, Mar 18, 2019
United States
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About
Bundle Id
com.Pixen.MobilePixenMin Os. Version
16.0Release Date
Tue, Oct 11, 2016Update Date
Tue, Apr 9, 2024Content Rating
4+Has IMessage
NoSupport Watch
NoSupport Siri
NoFile Size
9.28MBHas Game Center
NoFamily Sharing
YesSupport Passbook
NoSupported Languages
EnglishSupport
What's New
version
1.9.2updated
3 weeks ago- Added new and improved features that help with graphics creation for the Playdate game console - Added different algorithms as options to the Convert to 1-bit filter, with thresholding and dithering settings included - Added different algorithms as options to the Convert to Grayscale filter - Added a 1-bit color palette to the default set of color palettes
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