Pixel Lab: Photo to Pixel Art

Turn a photo into pixel art you can actually use. Pixel Lab converts your photo cell by cell with a deterministic algorithm — not AI redrawing. People and pets stay themselves. Still you, just pixels. ■ Conversion, not redrawing Every pixel is derived from your photo. The same photo with the same settings always gives the same result — no randomness, no rerolling and hoping. ■ The viewport is the preview What you frame is what you get: drag, zoom, change the grid, change the palette, and the image snaps to pixels the moment you let go. ■ Palettes come first Extract a palette from the photo automatically, or pick a built-in retro set: the four greens of Handheld 1989, the sixteen colors of Terminal 1981, Fantasy 16, Amber Print, Glacier, Graphite, Ink & Paper. Every artwork states exactly which colors it used. ■ Crisp export Nearest-neighbor integer scaling — one pixel stays one clean square, never smudged by a resampler. One-tap 512 and 1024 avatars, or save straight to your photo library. ■ Entirely on device No account, no network, no data collection. Your photos never leave your device. An honest limit: at small grids (16–48) a portrait is stylized charm, not a likeness. For closer resemblance choose grids of 96 and up — a limit we measured, stated here and inside the app. —— Free includes: the full converter, automatic palette extraction, three built-in palettes, and watermark-free export up to 1024px. Pixel Lab Pro (one-time purchase, not a subscription): · High-resolution export — nearest-neighbor PNGs beyond 1024px · The full palette library — every built-in palette unlocked · Yours forever, future palettes included