Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Place Pixels

Forever free r/place alternative for pixel art and community

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1
   Area - Pixel Place▲2

   A Collaborative Pixel Place

   2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Pixelplace.io▲62

   One giant pixel canvas that anyone can draw on

   2021 · pixelplace.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   dots.io▲75

   Pixel art battle online

   2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Buy a Pixel▲317

   Get yourself a place in the history of Internet

   2023 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python▲214

   It requires no registration, no installation, and no configuration. Just run it on any computer and start drawing freely.

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Paint Pixels▲14

   Create viral pixel art on a shared world canvas

   2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Pixel Art Together by Liveblocks▲165

   Create pixel art live with friends

   2022 · pixelart.liveblocks.app · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Pixellate▲102

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

   2021 · pixelated.vercel.app · its alternatives →

9. 9
   TilePix▲139

   TileSet and TileMap Creation Suite

   Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Everyone Draw▲258

    Draw art with people around the world on an infinite canvas

    2024 · everyonedraw.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Placemat▲192

    Pretty nice placeholder images.

    2016 · placem.at · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Pixel Art Studio▲86

    A purpose-built drawing tool for pixel artists

    2017 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    WPlace Pixel▲9

    Free pixel art converter

    2025 · wplace-pixel.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    PixelMe▲137

    Make your 8bit pixel avatar in no time

    2022 · xsgames.co · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Pixel Pix▲113

    Turn your photos into pixel art

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    New Pixels▲89

    An amazing pixel art editing tool for iOS!

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Pixel Mob▲162

    Royalty-free images from numerous sources for you to use.

    2019 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Pixelify▲176

    A new way to download and share free design assets

    2018 · pixelify.net · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Responsive Pixel Art▲123

    It's exactly that... responsive pixel art 🙃

    2016 · pixel.essenmitsosse.de · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Pixel-Art.ai▲98

    Generate vibrant pixel art

    2024 · pixel-art.ai · its alternatives →

21. 21
    pppixelate▲78

    Draw pixel art and turn it into SVG patterns

    2022 · fffuel.co · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Pixelixe▲120

    Create beautiful & unique graphics in minutes

    2019 · pixelixe.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Pixel Art Academy▲68

    Learn to create Pixel Art through gaming

    2016 · its alternatives →

24. 24AC
    A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored▲69

    Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out…

    2022 · pixel.vkoskiv.com · its alternatives →

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