Software Alternatives & Reviews

Pixen

Pixen is a professional pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Pixen

Aseprite Piskel Pixelorama Lospec Pixel Editor LibreSprite Mtpaint GifCurry miniPaint Darktable Synfig Studio

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Pixen are Aseprite, Piskel, and Pixelorama. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. Aseprite is an art program dedicated to the creation of pixel art.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Art Tools #Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software 1 social mentions

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    Piskel is a website where designers online create sprites or pixel art.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Art Tools #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting 13 social mentions

  3. Free and open source sprite editor and animator, ideal for pixel art.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Art Tools #Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software 22 social mentions

  4. Free online pixel art program. It's easy to use, intuitive and unobtrusive.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Photos & Graphics #Graphic Design Software #Art Tools 1 social mentions

  5. Free and open source program to create animated sprites.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Art Tools #Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software 3 social mentions

  6. Mtpaint is a simple painting program that will allow you either start new drawing project or carry own the existing drawing work that you have saved from the other paint and drawing programs.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software #Art Tools 1 social mentions

  7. Gifcurry is the open-source, Haskell-built video editor for GIF makers.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Image Tools #Animation #GIFs 1 social mentions

  8. Online graphics editing tool use HTML5 technologies like Canvas, Offline support, Drag and Drop.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Digital Drawing And Painting #Photos & Graphics #Graphic Design Software

  9. darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Image Editing 8 social mentions

  10. Just another WordPress site
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Animation #2D Animation #Art Tools

  11. Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6).
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Digital Drawing And Painting #Graphic Design Software #Image Editing 12 social mentions

  12. Paint +++ is a native image editor for Mac that enables you to complete everyday image editing tasks in a single place.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Photos & Graphics #Tool #Digital Drawing And Painting 5 social mentions

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