# Pixelart Studio: Sprite Maker — For game art & animation > For game art & animation (iPhone/iPad app by Leonardo Amora.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixelart-studio-sprite-maker/id6785317785 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Leonardo Amora](https://appshunter.io/developer/690988469) - Category: Graphics & Design, Productivity - Price: $12.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 7 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-07 - Data updated: 2026-08-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixelart-studio-sprite-maker/id6785317785/reviews.md ## What is Pixelart Studio? Pixel Art by Amora is a pixel art and animation studio built from scratch for iPad and Mac. The feel is inspired by Procreate, the output is pure pixels: no blur, no interpolation, every pixel exactly where you put it. DRAWING THAT SPEAKS PIXEL ART Draw freehand and hold the pencil at the end of a stroke: QuickShape turns it into a perfect line, rectangle, ellipse or polygon, snapping to the classic pixel art angles. Independent brush axes, spray, pressure shading, glow and a silhouette brush that closes your outline and fills it when you lift the pencil. Four axis symmetry, Lock Alpha, one coat of paint per pixel and Smart Nudge to snap shapes to their neighbours. Shape Controls with isometric shapes, center edge cube, cylinder, stairs, rounded corners and height extrusion. Parallax Assist gives each layer a depth slot and plays the scroll right inside the canvas. REAL ANIMATION Timeline with per layer frames, onion skinning, animation tags to split your character actions and a scrub bar with playhead to land on the exact frame. Layers with folders, blend modes, opacity, continuous layers and a reference layer. Play the whole project or loop a single tag. SMART SELECTION Tap an object and the whole object is selected. Tap a color and it is selected across the layer, connected or not. Freehand and polygon lasso, 9 slice scaling in the Unity Sliced style, rotation and mirroring. With the grid on, each tap picks a whole cell, perfect for slicing tilesets. Erase or transform the same selection across every frame at once. PROFESSIONAL EXPORT PNG, JPG, GIF, image sequence and sprite sheet with a configurable grid. MP4 in 4:5, 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 or the canvas ratio, with a safe area drawn over the canvas so you compose while seeing what makes the cut, plus loop repetition inside the file. Choose what goes out: everything, the current frame or a tag, in every format. Opens and saves .aseprite, so your work is never locked in. IPAD AND MAC On iPad, Apple Pencil with pressure, two and three finger gestures and a session time lapse to publish your process. On Mac, the same app with keyboard shortcuts, trackpad hover hints and mouse wheel zoom. Your projects and the .aseprite files travel between both. Maximum effort! ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5 — 2026-08-27 Now We Have The Power! TILESETS & TILEMAPS • New Tileset project: pick a cell size and the sheet is born with the classic 16-corner terrain guide, painted and numbered. Draw across the tile borders and the grid cuts your art into every transition piece. • Tilemap Assist: a floating palette of your tiles. Tap one and the pencil stamps it straight onto any canvas — the finger still navigates. Ground on one layer, props on another. • Living maps: edit the tileset and every untouched cell repaints itself. Retouch a cell by hand and it becomes yours — mass tools leave it alone. • Tilemap tools: bucket-fill regions, swap every tile of a kind in one tap, or stamp several tiles at random to break repetition. • Already have tile art? Just tell PixelArt it is a tileset and its cell size. Aseprite files with tilemap layers now open correctly too. • Export for game engines: Tiled JSON and XML (.tsj/.tsx/.tmj/.tmx), with one Tiled layer per app layer and corner terrains included. Works with Tiled, Unity, Godot, Phaser and Unreal. PROJECT TABS • Keep several projects open as thin pills at the top and switch instantly. Open a whole selection from the gallery at once, with optional auto-hide. AND MORE • Backup: mirror all your projects to a folder in Files or iCloud Drive, automatically. Deleted the app or got a new iPad? Just restore. • Drag art onto the gallery and it becomes a project at its own size. • Blur brush: every pixel under the tip melts into its neighbours, with strength set by ink opacity. Maximum effort! ### 1.4 — 2026-08-20 SILHOUETTE BRUSH Draw an outline and lift the pencil: the stroke closes itself and fills with your color. The tip sets the thickness, and symmetry fills the mirrored shapes too. PARALLAX ASSIST Give each layer a depth slot, from far background to foreground: the closer it is, the faster it slides, wrapping seamlessly. It has its own play. VIDEO EXPORT MP4 in 4:5, 9:16, 1:1, 16:9 or Canvas, framed exactly as the safe area shows it, in portrait or landscape, with a stepper for how many times the loop repeats. SCRUB THE TIMELINE Drag the marker above the frame numbers and the animation plays under your finger, snapping to whole frames, with a line down through the layers. ALSO NEW - Exports record the Parallax Assist: video, GIF and PNG sequences come out with the layers sliding. The clip lasts one full loop and your frame animation cycles inside it, so both plays land in the same file. - Every export is named after your project and numbered in order: "My art 01", "My art 02", for images, GIFs, movies, sequences and sprite sheets. - Marching ants: the selection outline hugs the real pixels of what you selected, inner edges included, and the dashes march like in the classics. - Select the exact color: finger down and tap with the pencil for the connected color, tap again to grab that exact color across the whole layer, even the parts that are not touching. - A New folder button sits next to New layer, wrapping the selected layers into a folder. - Group and Merge live in the layer menu now: Group selected, Merge selected, Merge down and Merge folder. Swipe left is still the shortcut. - The layer menu adapts to multi-selection: rename and clipboard step aside, and every action left applies to all selected layers at once. Maximum effort! ### 1.3 — 2026-07-29 What's New: PixelArt by Amora 1.3 New shapes and Shape Controls: New iso stairs tool: draw the base, raise the height and sculpt pixel perfect steps with the new handle Iso ellipse now extrudes into a lying cylinder Cube gets its center edge plus stackable divisions Rounded corners on rectangles and diamonds, height extrusion on every shape 9-slice scale on selections (Unity Sliced style): stretch a sprite without breaking its corners Brushes: Brush tip, FX and Shading are now independent axes that combine freely New Spray brush, Aseprite style, works with shading too Pressure now drives the shading size Glow became its own FX section: crossing strokes stack light Shading locks one tone per stroke for clean, deliberate shades Colors mode keeps your palette saved between sessions Workflow: Time-lapse recording: capture your whole session and export it as a 30s to 5min video Double tap on empty space selects every object on the layer Global bucket mode: replace a color everywhere with one tap Delete in the three finger menu, respecting the selection mask Tap to seek on the size slider Fully updated in-app help, now covering every tool Maximum effort! ### 1.2 — 2026-07-21 You've never seen anything like this. Believe it. Speed is our mission. Pixel Art by Amora 1.2 is our biggest, fastest update yet. Draw Assist — one toggle. Freehand strokes come out steady and clean, smoothing your hand's wobble into perfect pixel curves. Turn it on and just draw. Shading Brush — touch a color, paint its next tone. Shadow and Light build ramps automatically, with hue shift and zero mess. The Aseprite headache, finally fixed. Outline — one tap wraps any shape in a clean border, outside or inside, any color, across every frame. Smart Nudge — moved selections snap pixel-perfect against neighbors. No gaps, no overlap, no fiddling. Rotate Canvas — twist with two fingers and draw at any angle, Procreate style. Pan and zoom stay locked in. Lock Alpha per layer, erase across all frames, live curved lines, a rebuilt selection flow, and dozens of fixes that make every stroke land exactly where you mean it. This is the fastest way to make pixel art on iPad — and we're just getting started. More updates are already on the way. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-11 Here's the thing: I draw pixel art every single day, and I build this app while I'm drawing. So every update is basically me fixing whatever slowed me down that morning. Pixel Art was born to be fast, to keep up with the AIs, and my whole obsession is drawing quicker. That's it. And because I actually live inside this app, I keep adding stuff you won't find anywhere else. Take this one: Live Broadcast. Send your preview to any browser on your Wi-Fi. Scan the QR and boom, no install, no cables. Think about what that means: any device with a browser on your network becomes a live preview screen. Prop your phone right next to your iPad and watch your art update on your iPhone as you draw. Crazy, right? It is. No other app does this. There's also a drawing bar you can flip to either side (brush size, opacity, undo and redo under your thumb), curved lines Aseprite style, pixel-perfect selection rotation, and a glow brush. And I'm just getting started. I'm putting features in here you won't believe. Enjoy. ## More apps by Leonardo Amora - [Monsters vs Robots](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/monsters-vs-robots/id690988386) - [The Flight Test](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-flight-test/id820289681) - [Eternal Fighter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eternal-fighter/id1072176629) - [Unstable!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/unstable/id1282444122) - [Meteor Storm!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/meteor-storm/id1350427955) - [Elastic Jump!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elastic-jump/id1375709732) All apps by Leonardo Amora: https://appshunter.io/developer/690988469 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*