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12 Best Free and Open Source Pixel Art Editors

October 27, 2025 Luke Baker Graphics, Roundup

Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. We recommend the best free and open source pixel art editors.

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PixiEditor – universal 2D editor

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

PixiEditor is a universal 2D editor that was made to provide you with tools and features for all your 2D needs.

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Halftone gives images a pixel art-like style

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Halftone is a simple Libadwaita app for lossy image compression using quantization and dithering techniques.

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voidsprite – pixel art editor

October 27, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

voidsprite is a sprite editor that’s in an early stage of development.

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PyDPainter – pixel art paint program

October 23, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics

PyDPainter, pronounced “Pied Painter” (like Pied Piper), is an attempt to create a usable pixel art program.

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Slate – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Slate was built for pixel art. It aims to simplify the creation of sprites and tilesets by offering a user-friendly, customisable interface.

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rx – modern and minimalist pixel editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

rx is a modern and minimalist pixel editor. This is free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

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mtPaint – painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

mtPaint is a simple GTK+1/2/3 painting program designed for creating icons and pixel based artwork.

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PikoPixel – draw and edit pixel art images

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

PikoPixel is software for drawing and editing pixel art images. It runs under Linux using the GNUstep framework.

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Piskel – animated sprites and pixel art

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Piskel is an easy-to-use sprite editor. It can be used to create game sprites, animations, pixel-art, and more.

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LibreSprite – create 2D animations for videogames

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

LibreSprite is software to create and animate sprites. LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello.

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csprite – tiny pixel art tool

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

csprite is a tiny pixel art tool written in C++ and C. It’s a fork of Sixel.

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Pixelorama – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Pixelorama is a pixel art editor. It is created with the Godot Engine. This is free and open source software.

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