Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Mojave Paint
We 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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Mokkit▲305Hey HN, I built Mokkit as an alternative to shots.so. The goal is to provide a better animation UX, deeper template library, and more affordable features. The highlight of the app is the WebM backgroundless video feature; it works well to present a product demo inside an iPhone or browser mockup and fits naturally on any web page.
Mar 2026 · mokkit.co · its alternatives →
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It requires no registration, no installation, and no configuration. Just run it on any computer and start drawing freely.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…
2019 · mccormick.cx · its alternatives →
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Edit images by describing what you want
2025 · perium.io · its alternatives →
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Moko▲118All your visual brand assets easy to use, edit and share
2021 · moko-app.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve always seen talented designers and developers post their work, only for it to get lost in the noise. I realized a major reason is that they often just post a simple, unstyled screenshot. As a result, nobody pays attention. My solution is a tool where you can drop in a screenshot, pick from a collection of hand-picked gradients, style it, and export it—all in a few seconds. I’ve carefully designed every element of the app to be efficient, simple, and intuitive. On making it "Free, Forever": I don't plan on ever charging a subscription for Moocup. I dislike the subscription model as much…
2025 · moocup.jaydip.me · its alternatives →
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A image editor in browser using JavaScript canvas. Contribute to victorqribeiro/photoEditor development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · jackschaedler.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm excited to share a project I've built: PixelateImage.org. Instead of being a traditional image editor, this is an *AI-powered tool that generates pixel art directly from your text prompts.* If you've ever wanted to create unique pixel art characters, scenes, or assets for games, art projects, or just for fun, but perhaps lacked the specific artistic skills or time, this might be for you. My goal was to make generating retro-style or modern pixel art more accessible. You can type in a description (e.g., "a brave knight in a dark forest," "a futuristic cityscape at night," "a cute…
2025 · pixelateimage.org · its alternatives →
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Google Pics▲38Boundless AI image generation meets precision editing
May 2026 · workspace.google.com · its alternatives →
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Picx Studio▲20Fuel your creativity, frame your story. Create, edit, and remix images and videos. AI video and image generator for creators. Text to video, AI headshots, consistent characters. Seedance 2.5 now live — an official ByteDance partnership. Powered by Nano Banana 2, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0 & Se
Mar 2026 · picxstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built a native macOS app for AI image generation, originally for my own creative work. I enjoy working with models like Z-Image and FLUX, but many existing tools feel closer to research interfaces than creative tools. They expose a lot of power, but often interrupt creative flow. This project is built around a creator-first workflow: - Easy to get started, with no configuration beyond downloading or importing models - Progressive controls: advanced options are available, but not required - A built-in prompt library to save, reuse, and evolve prompts over time - Lightweight prompt…
Jan 2026 · themindstudio.cc · its alternatives →
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PixelDojo▲17Hello HN! I’m excited to share PixelDojo.ai, an all-in-one generative AI studio for creators. I built PixelDojo to be a one-stop platform where you can generate images, create short videos, and even train custom AI models (LoRA fine-tunes) from your own images. The idea came about because the AI creative process felt fragmented. 10 months ago I set off on a journey to create the ultimate AI playground. A place where cutting-edge image-generation tools are easily accessible. My goal was to bring all the latest AI creativity tools under one roof so that anyone, even a “noob” with no prior…
2024 · pixeldojo.ai · its alternatives →
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PixArmory▲12I built PixArmory, a browser-based AI image editor. It’s like a Swiss Army Knife: background removal, anime/cartoon filters, style transfer, and image upscaling in one place. Stack: Next.js + ShadCN UI, Cloudflare R2, Nano Banana, Creem.io for payments. Free tier: 3 edits, no account required. Paid plan: credit-based (e.g. $8.99 = ~50 images). Looking for feedback on which tools/features would be most useful to you.
2025 · pixarmory.org · its alternatives →
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I got a bit carried away writing an editor so I could draw some pixel art for starting my blog and ended up with some pwsh spaghetti that's quite fun to use.
2022 · shaunlawrie.com · its alternatives →
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Picture Kit▲10I’ve been working on a side project for a while and wanted to share it with the HN community to get feedback. The idea started simple: I wanted to do batch image processing entirely in the browser without uploading anything to a server. Most existing tools were either cloud-based (privacy concerns, slow for large batches) or desktop apps that were hard to automate and combine into workflows. A big source of inspiration was macOS Automator. I really liked how you could chain small actions into repeatable workflows, and I wanted something similar for image processing on the web. At first it…
Jan 2026 · picturekit.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built a minimal AI image editor on top of Nano Banana Pro. Highlights: - 2K → 4K generation - Better spatial reasoning than most models I’ve tried - Reference-image conditioning (up to 10 images) - Text rendering that doesn’t look like an eldritch summoning ritual Stack: React + Node/TS (antigravity did save me a lot of time!). Use cases: product shots, posters, concept art, “my cat as a medieval knight in 4K”, etc. Feedback on latency/security/pricing is really appreciated. Credits only charge on successful renders. And no, I still don’t know why it’s called Nano…
Dec 2025 · lovenanobananapro.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I built a free pixel art editor that runs entirely in the browser — no install, no signup, no watermark. The frontend is open source (MIT): https://github.com/comficker/simplepixelart What it does: - Sprite editor with layers, selections, mirror drawing, and an infinite-canvas workspace (multiple boards on one desk) - Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin, per-frame duration, GIF and spritesheet export - Tileset builder that auto-generates Wang-16 and blob-47 terrain sets from a single base tile — exports Godot 4 TileSet, Tiled .tsx, or PNG+JSON — plus a tilemap…
Aug 2026 · simplepixelart.com · its alternatives →
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I just heard from a very reputable source that Google built part of our product and that they're about to show it off at Google IO. We built a 3D film tool called ArtCraft: https://getartcraft.com https://github.com/storytold/artcraft (our monorepo with the desktop app, server, and website code) Our 3D virtual film set enables set decoration, location reuse, precision blocking (control over where things are), character posing, etc. Sets and objects can be generated as meshes or gaussian splats. Autoregressive multimodal models can treat input "previz" style…
May 2026 · its alternatives →
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