Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Marmoset Hexels 2
Create beautiful art with this grid-based 2D painting tool
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Marmoset Hexels 2 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Paintings by AI models: programs run through a simulation of oil paint.
21d ago · stillwet.art · its alternatives →
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Make 8-Bit Art!▲107An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.
2014 · make8bitart.com · its alternatives →
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A purpose-built drawing tool for pixel artists
2017 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · guillaumechereau.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hexels▲3Paint with Hexagons pixels to make amazing flat design Art
2015 · marmoset.co · its alternatives →
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Mojave Paint▲85We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be matting images to squares, cutting out solid backgrounds, re-tinting graphical elements. For a website, a video game, for an app. There's a million photo editors, there's a million design tools, and Mojave Paint can do those things in varying degrees but "graphical asset production" is its first and primary mission. It's cheap! $9.99 (one-time, sad I even have to say that) for the "Pro" version. It's Mac-only, and…
Jul 2026 · mojavepaint.app · its alternatives →
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Hex Palette▲83The only palette selector you will ever need
2016 · hexpalette.com · its alternatives →
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PixelStick▲81create incredible light paintings using the pixelstick!
2015 · thepixelstick.com · its alternatives →
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Drawing grid generator tool | Scale & proportion guide
2025 · gridmakerapp.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · amydyer.art · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! The children in my family love to draw and are beginning to explore digital drawing tools, but they've been somewhat discouraged by the complexity of popular software like GIMP, Photoshop, etc. I was motivated to create a tool that encouraged their artistic creativity and also piqued their technical curiosity. With the release of SDXL-Turbo in late Nov 2023, it became feasible to perform text-guided image to image generation in real-time on a consumer grade GPU. Inspired by this progress and my little cousins' artwork, I put together a web app that integrates an interactive canvas &…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free Grid Maker Online for Art | Drawing & Photo Grid Tool
Nov 2025 · gridmaker.pro · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I'm excited to share a brand new side project I just finished building: phototopixel.art. It's a simple web tool that automatically converts any photo you upload into pixel art. I've always been a fan of the aesthetic of pixel art, but manually creating it is a tedious process. After trying out some existing tools and not being fully satisfied with the results, I decided to build my own. My goal was to create a fast and easy-to-use solution that consistently produces great-looking pixel art. Behind the Scenes The core of the tool uses a combination of color quantization and…
2025 · phototopixel.art · its alternatives →
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AI Pixel Art Avatar Generator & Free Online Pixel Art Studio
Jan 2026 · mixels.ai · its alternatives →
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