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24 alternatives to Pixel kit

This beta includes several technical improvements aimed at performance, flexibility workflows: Unlimited canvas: Previous canvas limits were removed. Earlier restrictions caused unnecessary re-renders and blocked operations. Now designers can place elements anywhere without overhead. Optimized state management: Creating, updating, and deleting elements now triggers minimal state updates. Only affected parts of the state are recalculated, reducing processing and improving responsiveness. Dedicated icon element: Icons now have their own element type. This decouples them from general elements,…

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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    Premium open source illustrations updated daily

    2021 · illustrationkit.com · its alternatives →

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    PixelKit▲117

    Share, discuss and find your team's design work. It’s free!

    2016 · pixelkit.io · its alternatives →

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    DrawKit▲765

    MIT licensed SVG illustrations, in 2 styles

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    From design to code in just 1 click

    2024 · pixelfreestudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Pixelfika▲200

    Your daily design inspiration

    2022 · pixelfika.com · its alternatives →

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    One smart component to rule them all

    2021 · browserfigma.com · its alternatives →

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    Pixellate▲102

    A simple and easy-to-use pixel art creator with offline mode

    2021 · pixelated.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Clickons▲142

    Open source icons by Craftwork Design

    2022 · icons.craftwork.design · its alternatives →

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    Pixelixe▲120

    Create beautiful & unique graphics in minutes

    2019 · pixelixe.com · its alternatives →

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    Powerful image editor with design templates and mockups

    2022 · apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Free and blazing fast online SVG editor

    2023 · pixelied.com · its alternatives →

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    Create your own illustrations using mix-and-match components

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    An amazing pixel art editing tool for iOS!

    2017 · apps.apple.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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    Hey! My name is Dima, I am from Ukraine and I am the co-founder of Lost Pixel! We built this tool to solve our problems at work and decided to open-source it so more people can build their custom visual regression testing pipelines! If you want to chat about the tool or visual regression testing in general I am super excited to meet like-minded people! Thanks a lot for checking out the product and I hope it will serve you well if you decide to try it out :D

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open source pixelated icons by HackerNoon. Retro design FTW!

    2025 · pixeliconlibrary.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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    Deliberately pixelated icons

    Jun 2026 · pixelarticons.com · its alternatives →

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    I’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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    PIXEL▲45

    Make a Pixel

    2025 · red-drop-56077636.figma.site · its alternatives →

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    I built this over my Christmas break: pixels.style, a simple browser-based pixel art tool that gives your drawings a soft, watercolor vibe instead of sharp pixels. No signup, just open and draw. Installable as a PWA. Try it: https://pixels.style Would love feedback on whether it feels fun/useful and what you’d want next!

    Dec 2025 · pixels.style · its alternatives →

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    Bringing +900 Google's Material Design Icons to Figma

    2019 · figma.com · its alternatives →

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