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Life & fun · August 25, 2026

1 Bit Pixel, pixel art editor with a CRT soul (iPad/Mac)

1 Bit Pixel — a pixel-art and animation studio for iPad and Mac. Layers, blend modes, frame-by-frame animation, tilesets, and export to GIF, MP4, sprite sheets, PSD and more.

1 Bit Pixel, pixel art editor with a CRT soul (iPad/Mac) launched on August 25, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,809 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A focused, fast pixel-art and animation studio. Draw with a full set of tools, animate frame by frame, and export to whatever your pipeline needs — with a clean retro interface and no ads, no accounts, no tracking . Export: PNG, GIF, APNG, MP4, sprite sheet (+JSON), frame sequence, SVG, CSS, ICO, HEIC, TGA, QOI, Aseprite, and layered PSD. Import: PNG, GIF, WebP, TGA, QOI, APNG, plus layered Aseprite and PSD files. New to it? The How To guides cover every tool with short, illustrated walkthroughs — in 10from 1bitstudio.app

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