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Sprite Pencil

Create pixel art

A simple, precise pixel-art editor for sprites, icons, and game assets.

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iPhone · iPad · Mac

The seeded sprite open on the canvas, the palette inspector beside it showing the Recent colors pulled from the sprite's own pixels
Banner sprite by Nicolas Poumaredes

Palettes

Start from a handpicked palette, or drop in your own.

The palette chooser, picking which palette the editor draws from

Settings

Tuned to the way you draw.

The Settings sheet

Canvas

Grids, symmetry and reference images, one tap away.

The Canvas menu open: trim, the pixel and tile grids, tiled preview, the symmetry guides, and importing a reference image

Engine

A drawing engine built only for Apple platforms.

SpritePencilKit does the pixel pushing — Metal-backed, pressure aware, and open source on its own.

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iMessage

Draw pixel art stickers right in Messages.

Sprite Pencil iMessage app

Supports

iCloud Drive
Apple Pencil
Mouse & Trackpad
iMessage App
Widget

Get Sprite Pencil.

Pixel art that travels with you, on every Apple device you own.

Download on the App Store