Piskel
Pixel art and animated sprites
Piskel launched on February 1, 2017 with 107 votes, #373 of 3,156 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
What it does
Piskel, free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.
Design characters, animations, and tiles — right in your browser. Piskel is best used in a desktop browser and in landscape orientation. Open anyway Piskel for Kids is a child-friendly version of the Piskel editor, designed to be safe and distraction-free. Learn more Check a preview of your animation in real time as you draw. Adjust the frame delay on the fly. Several export modes supported. Animated GIFs for sharing, spritesheet PNG/ZIP for bigger projects etc… All the code is open-source and available on GitHub. http://github.com/piskelapp/piskel Free desktop & offline applications for Windows, OSX and Linux. Checkout the download pagefrom piskelapp.com
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