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24 alternatives to Open-source pixel art editor with animation and auto-tiling tilesets
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…
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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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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Pixellate▲102A simple and easy-to-use pixel art creator with offline mode
2021 · pixelated.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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A flat pixel art editor. Contribute to maierfelix/poxi development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · 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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Pixelify▲176A new way to download and share free design assets
2018 · pixelify.net · its alternatives →
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2016 · guillaumechereau.github.io · its alternatives →
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Goxel: Free and Open Source 3D Voxel Editor . Contribute to guillaumechereau/goxel development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create 2D tile maps in your browser with Sprite Fusion’s free tilemap editor. Import any tileset and export to Unity, Godot, JSON, TMX, PNG, and more.
2024 · spritefusion.com · 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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Hey Hacker News, thought I'd share an open-source tool I recently released for generating pixel art with AI. All models are trained on royalty free / CC0 datasets /w permission from the owners! Let me know if you have any feedback. Eager to see what you create! Feel free to tag me on twitter @dparksdev if you create something cool.
2023 · pixelfy.ai · its alternatives →
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This is a little script I wrote a while ago to help generate sprites for a game I was working on. You can use it to build a seemingly-infinite aperiodic noise texture that is actually composed of a relatively small number of tiles. For example, imagine a large grassy field or body of water in a 2D pixel art game, but without the obvious repeated patterns that arise from simple tiling. The use case is pretty niche (for example, in many cases you could just evaluate the perlin noise function directly in a shader) but I thought it was a cool idea regardless.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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It works by using open AIs new gpt-image API, image processing algorithms and some prompt engineering. Still has some limitations, but can already generate ready to use assets.
2025 · pixel-gen.ai · its alternatives →
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