Pixquare is the #1 pixel art editor, recommended by top pixel artists, game developers, and creators worldwide! Whether you're a beginner or a pro, its simple interface and rich toolset make pixel art creation easy and fun!
Download now to create game assets, animate, or simply doodle pixel art! With feedback from thousands of artists, Pixquare is designed for your best pixel art experience ever!
• HIGHLIGHTS:
- Support both iPads & iPhones
- Highly customizable and intuitive UI with left-hand mode available
- RGB and Indexed mode
- Tileset/Tilemap system
- Timelapse recording
- Apple Pencil support: gestures, sensitivity, touch rejection
- Manual & auto-save modes
- Shortcut options: keyboard, gesture pad, joystick
- Custom themes
• VERSATILE TOOLS:
- Brush: spray, pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, contour, dithering, custom brush, jumble, blur
- Eraser: pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, dithering
- Move: transformation and snapping supported
- Line: straight & curve mode, perfect angle
- Shape: ellipse & rectangle mode, filled, 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
- Additional tools:
+ Color replace
+ Color adjustment
+ Outline
+ Text with font import capability
+ Custom object
• LAYER/TIMELINE PANEL:
- Optimized for animation & organized layers
- Multi-selection, layer grouping, frame tagging, and bulk operations
- Visibility and editing-lock toggle
- Supports reference layers
- Frame duration and cel opacity
- Linked cells, onion skin, and clipping mask
• ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
- Symmetry tool with unlimited axes
- Reference images
- Color palette: save/load from Lospec, import/export, color gradient generator
- Blending modes, alpha lock
- Preview with a separate animation loop
- Canvas rotation, Finder-like file system
- Guideline
• FILE IMPORT/EXPORT:
- Aseprite file compatibility (importing & exporting)
- GIF importing with all frames
- PNG, GIF, MOV, Sprite sheet 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
"I've been sharing it with basically everyone I know with an iPad because I think it's 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 there's a lot of love for the craft poured in here" - Ota Jaider, Pixel Artist
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• SCREENSHOT ARTWORK AUTHORS：
- FICO (@FicoPx)
- Tofu (@tofupixel.bsky.social)
- Mossy (@MossyPixe)
- chili (@ryviolie)
- Lesma (@pixe_lesma)
- ue_voxel (@UeVoxel)
- TransientCode (@TransientCode)
- 08games (@the08games)
- Rinspirit_art(@rinspiritart.bsky.social)
- natalie (@cafeaunat)
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SUPPORT:
User guide: https://docs.pixquare.art
Email: info@pixquare.art
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixquare_app
Website: https://www.pixquare.art/
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I was gonna wait a while before reviewing, but I just discovered that you can get to the palette using the pencil pro squeeze. So awesome! Anyway, this app is great, get it. The only thing missing (I think) that I’d like is - when hovering with the pencil pro, I’d like to see the unadded pixel in the preview, so I can look before I add it. Maybe I just haven’t found how to turn that on. Update for dev: Thanks so much for responding! Yeah, I can see the hover highlight on the canvas, but I don’t see the unadded pixel in the PREVIEW window. So the pattern is hover, add pixel, look at preview, undo — over and over — instead of hover, look at preview, then only add a pixel when I like how it looks in the preview. Still love the app - this is really the only feature I feel is missing. Big time saver! Update again: you fixed it! Thanks so much! I’d give 10 stars if I could. If you’re looking for more to do, I noticed that the fill/bucket tool doesn’t work with the “transparent” color. Also there is no hover color for transparent - might be neat to have the outline back for that. That’s all I’ve got - still love the app! I can’t believe how fast you fixed the other thing.
Developer Response
Hi Reviews4daapps,Thank you so much for using and enjoying Pixquare. As for your request, that feature is actually already available in the app. You can go to Settings > Canvas > Drawing preview size threshold and adjust its value to determine when the preview will show.I hope this helps.Update: You'll see that in the next version :DThanks
A joy to use
Josh Vanderbilt
Some months ago I decided to stop spending time playing video games at night, and start making them—which has been a life-long dream. After building a few tutorials, I decided I wanted to make my own pixel-art game. I heard that pixaki was the most popular pixel-art app for iPad so I got it and spent about a month creating a bunch of characters, backgrounds and items. I didn’t like how cramped the UI was, since I had a smaller iPad—and I also didn’t like the paint brush tool: it feels more like you’re placing pixels than drawing an image. So I kept looking and saw a review for Pixquare. Since trying Pixquare, I’ve only gone back to pixaki to export my original drawings. Pixquare has a lot of really nice drawing tools, working with layers and animation is much more intuitive, and the UI stays out of your way. They also have a fun daily challenges where they give you something to draw but you have to use a limited palette they provide. It’s a fun challenge, a good way to keep practicing, and it’s really helped me learn some of the basic concepts. If you’re comparing different pixel drawing apps, just get this one and move on with your life.
Developer Response
Hi Josh Vanderbilt,Thank you so much for giving us 5 stars :). If you ever have any feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via Discord or email (info@pixquare.art).Best
Don’t look at any other app, your perfect pixel art software is handed out right here!
Argoses
I don’t know why this is so perfect, I just wish I picked up this app WAY sooner. Ok first of all I wanna mention all the things I didn’t have room to mention in the title, so, anyway, here it is. Personally, I’ve been teaching myself video game development, and I’ve always been interested in making video games with clean pixel art graphics, so, I started to search for some pixel art and animation software, I found so many, Pixel Studio, Resprite, and a lot I didn’t try, as for me? Pixel Studio was okay, Resprite was neat but eh, and my head hurt ( 😂 ) so I’ve looked at Pixquare before, but I wasn’t that interested, but after trying out those other apps, I NEEDED a pixel art software and I needed it fast, so, I downloaded Pixquare, it greeted me with a professional looking and feeling interface that was clean and modular, and in literal minutes I learned the app and I was having a great time with it. The conclusion? It’s professional, beginner friendly, and powerful, I’d say, GET IT, to all the pixel artists out there you won’t waste time with this miracle of a pixel art app.
Developer Response
Hi Argoses,Thank you so much for your heart-warming review. We are so happy to see that our effort poured into the app was felt by you. That really makes our day.Your are the best :)
PIXELS :D
_Mousse_
I love this app so much. I can make things that are quirky and cute without having to draw in detail, since everything is pixels. It would be cool to see if it’s possible to design characters for video games and stuff. The only thing that is hard is that you need to pay to have any more than two art pieces. It’s actually a really really good price so I have considered paying for it anyways, so it’s really not a big downside. It would be nicer though if it allowed you to have more near five or something art pieces at a time, but then pay to have extra actions you can do while painting… or maybe pay for a tutorial like 1 or 2 hours long to teach you how to create characters for pixel games and stuff or just generally how to paint better. But I still love this app, I just take screenshots of my art and delete it and start anew in order to make any new ones. Anyways… definitely get this app! It is very worth it. You’ll have loads of fun, trust me! I do! :)
Developer Response
Hi _Mousse_,We are so happy that Pixquare has brought a little bit more fun to your daily life. We hope you'll have a lot more fun with the app :)Best
- Tag search
- Text alignment for the text tool
- Unapplied texts are saved
- Enhanced text preview when AA is off
- Fixed color reduction content changes cannot be undone
- Fixed some tileset cannot be imported
- Fixed a few crashes
Version 2.73.4
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Information
Seller
Son Nguyen
Size
65.8 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 13 more
English, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese
