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24 alternatives to Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster

This is a fork for my personal account. The main Stipple Effect repository is linked below. - jbunke/stipple-effect

Stipple Effect is a pixel art editor designed for game developers and artists who need to create game art efficiently. The software is scriptable, allowing users to automate repetitive tasks and customize workflows. It… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Pixel art editor and animator

    2024 · flinkerflitzer.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Screely▲1,099

    Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

    2018 · screely.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3CP

    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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    Motionity▲469

    The web-based motion graphics editor for everyone

    2022 · motionity.app · 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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    Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…

    2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Create graphics like a pro without being one

    2023 · playgroundai.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn your sketches into art with AI magic

    2023 · sketchtoimage.com · its alternatives →

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    A collection of CSS effects with a click to copy.

    2019 · emilkowalski.github.io · 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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    A minimalist three-dimensional coding environment. Control 8x8x8 dots with a single JavaScript function.

    2021 · doersino.github.io · its alternatives →

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    scenify▲168

    Open source image and video editor

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Pixelify▲176

    A new way to download and share free design assets

    2018 · pixelify.net · its alternatives →

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    Scissor is a free vector and pixel graphics editor that runs entirely in your browser - no install, no account, no upload. A private, free Adobe Illustrator alternative.

    25d ago · scissor.studio · its alternatives →

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    Turn photos into game assets

    Jun 2026 · pixel-forge.net · its alternatives →

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    Aseprite▲116

    Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool

    2017 · aseprite.org · its alternatives →

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    I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

    2024 · lostpixels.io · 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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    Blender-style 3D editing in your browser

    May 2026 · 3d-editor.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21PD

    Hi HN, Today we’re launching phind.design (https://phind.design), an image editor and design tool that uses 4o and custom models to allow users to generate and edit designs for anything from logos and advertisements to creative website and app designs. 4o is great at producing a first version of an image, but is not capable of editing it without messing up other parts of it. We fix this by running Flux Kontext alongside 4o image gen in the chat, as well as by introducing a precision editor powered by custom models where a user indicates an area to modify and we guarantee that only…

    2025 · phind.design · its alternatives →

  22. 22PA
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    Pixelixe▲120

    Create beautiful & unique graphics in minutes

    2019 · pixelixe.com · its alternatives →

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    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…

    Jul 2026 · mojavepaint.app · its alternatives →

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