# Pixely: Pixel Art for Everyone — user reviews > 57 indexed App Store user reviews of Pixely by Mark Marchione, rated 4.00/5 from 16 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixely-pixel-art-for-everyone/id620956869/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixely-pixel-art-for-everyone/id620956869.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 9 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (14 of 57) ### 4/5 — Good- Crashes are mostly fixed! *2018-01-31, version 10.0* Update: So, the app still crashes occasionally, but with the auto-save it’s essentially a non-issue. I’m not fairly certain that this is the best app available for pixel art on the iPad- and I definitely appreciate the developer response! Original Review: Overall, this is a nice, simple app that, while it doesn’t have some of the conveniences of a more advanced tool (eg selecting parts of an image, copy/paste, saving, and setting a color are all a little cumbersome) can produce images and animations that are a joy to make. However, the biggest drawback (and it is a large one) is the lack of an auto save combined with frequent crashing. While editing large size canvases (over about 200x200 pixels) or using a large editing tool (the pencil tool on anything but the smallest setting) the app has a tendency to quit frequently and without warning. Since the app does not save work automatically, you will lose work even if you do remember to save frequently. At its worst, it makes work both extremely tense and maddeningly frustrating. Which is a shame, since most of the app is at least serviceable if not polished. I’ll probably continue to use it, as it’s still the best pixel editing app I’ve found for the iPad, but the crashing issue is best to be aware of before you begin. ### 4/5 — Great BUT... *2016-11-17, version 5.3* This an amazing app for pixel artwork. The only problem I have is that no one can figure out how to delete folders that are in app (accidentally made a couple). There is no way to delete or rename folders which would be wonderful if someone could tell me ### 4/5 — Great workflow *2016-08-09, version 5.2.1* This app filled a huge hole; game design pixel art workflow. Dropbox integration, symmetry modes, custom color swatches, tile preview, animation etc, it's quite good. Get used to its quirks in about 10 mins then get drawing. Would love to see canvases reordering, and circle/elipse tools, but as is totally worth the money. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Best! *2016-05-02, version 5.0* This is the best, and easiest to use pixel art app on the iPad. The UI is clean, the canvas is clear. This is the app I've been looking for. 5 star! ### 5/5 — The best pixel art app ever! *2016-05-01, version 5.0* This app really delivers a great pixel art experience. I got this app around the same time I got my iPad 4 (which is now comparable to that of a frisbee, after I dropped it... but now I have an iPad air 2). I've made lots of pixel art with this app, such as the maps from The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons, and some cave story sprites. Keep up the awesome work! (I love the new look of pixely! -Liam ### 5/5 — Amazing pixel painter! *2016-04-05, version 4.0* I'm super happy with this application so far. I've been playing around with some others but this one has the most features geared towards making pixel art which I need! The onion skin is terrific also for making sprites for my game while I sit away from my computer. Keep up the fantastic work! One feature request is that you can select a rectangular area and move it around the canvas, helps when making animations for sprites and you want to move just an arm or head but leave the rest of the image where it is. Wayne ### 5/5 — Great *2016-04-04, version 4.0* This is a great app and most important the creator listens to feedback and continues work on improving the app. More people need to support hard working developers like this. It would be a very sad world where great creation tools exist but its creators cant make enough money to support themselves so when something like this comes along and is being made out of love we have to appreciate it and make sure that it gets as good of a chance it can to succeed. Theres no reason only apple and abusive gaming companies should be the ones making money on Artists should be giving this guy feedback on how to improve it because im just a dude who plays guitar okay. ### 5/5 — Amazing App *2016-03-08, version 4.0* The app is amazing, allows you to create images and animate ### 5/5 — Pixel fun *2015-11-22, version 3.0.1* This is a fantastic app. It's easy to use, and fun to play around with it. Lots of great features, and consistent updates. A+ ### 5/5 — Perfect for my game-making needs. *2015-11-17, version 3.0.1* This is absolutely phenomenal, there is so much variety to sprite-editing on this app that it exceeded my expectations of it when I first bought it for 2 bucks! I especially love it that the imported photos are stretched to fit the right ratio, so I can I trace over template sheets. ### 5/5 — Best Time Waster 😄 *2015-10-21, version 3.0.1* A perfect app for art lovers. It is a wonderfully fun app! My only recommendation would be to allow the saved colors to be accessed on any slide, not just the singular one. Either way, amazing! ### 5/5 — Great for animation and 8 bit game artwork *2015-07-04, version 3.0* This has quickly become my favorite tool for making 8 bit art. I love photoshop, but this is the tool if you are making 8 or 16 bit art for games. ### 5/5 — Great Pixel Art App *2015-04-21, version 2.8.1* I am really pleased with this app. Thank you for your work developer! ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2015-04-17, version 2.8.1* Fits any needs in pixel art the perfect balance between easy and powerful ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Usabilty from hell *2025-05-30, version 15.0* Die App ist ziemlich konfus aufgebaut. Das fängt mit dem neu Erstellen an, geht über das suspekte Farbpalettenverhalt der Ebenen, bis hin zum nicht Einstellen können der Größe der Zeichenfläche. Man kann die Größe der Zeichenfläche nicht ändern. Möchte man eine Animation erstellen, muss man die Farben in jedem Frame erneut suchen und setzen. Das Setzen der Farbe in die Farbpalette ist einfach nur krampfig. Man kann nicht einfach eine neue Datei anlegen. Auch das Laden von bestehenden Bildern ist sehr umständlich. Da werden auch nur Teile geladen. Dabei fällt dann erst auf, dass man zuvor gespeicherte Daten plötzlich nicht mehr vorliegen hat. Ich kann die App zum Erstellen von Pixel Art Grafiken nicht empfehlen. Es gibt zu viele Beschränkungen und zu wenige Möglichkeiten. ### 1/5 — HORRIBLE *2018-10-31, version 12.3* I used to use this app years ago to edit images at the pixel level. Now, it DOES NOT allow loading photos from any photo album. This has to be the only graphics app for the iPad that does not access photos!!! That is ridiculous!!! Drag and drop does not work either. This app has taken a few steps backwards. 😔😔😔😔😔 ### 1/5 — Can't save *2014-01-19, version 2.4* Every time I close the app I lose anything I did I spend like 4 hours making sprites and the. Lost them all ### 1/5 — Lost work *2013-11-20, version 2.2.3* Lost 2 hours of animation wor for switvhing to another app for about 3 minutes. ### 1/5 — Зависает *2013-10-24, version 2.2.1* Не покупайте. Ерунда полнейшая. Не хватает инструментов. А те которые есть, непонятно предназначение. Постоянно зависает ### 2/5 — I can’t import photos? *2018-02-06, version 10.0* When I try to import a photo to edit on the app it exits me out? I tried everything. Deleting and getting again, turning off my device then back on, closing the slide. Not sure what happened but It used to work. ### 2/5 — Getting lost and frustrated *2013-04-07, version 1.1.0* I love pixel art, as a matter of fact I am busy with a pet project and wanted to do some concepts on the iPad. This app has such huge potential, yet the design of features overshadows the functionality. HCI principles comes first, getting lost due to unfamiliar tool menu was an immediate challenge, secondly I can't import png's I have already done on the iPad. Change the last one, or just make it more obvious in the interface and you have gold and a 5 star review from me. ### 3/5 — Confused *2019-07-13, version 12.5* This app looks really nice besides I can’t find out how to make a new drawing. I don’t know if I’m just missing something but I’ve been trying to figure it out for an hour. I also don’t know how to choose the amount of pixels I want in the canvas. ### 3/5 — Almost 5 stars *2018-11-15, version 12.3* This app NEEDS to support split view on the iPad. It would be great to have a reference photo from safari or the photos app next to the canvas. Also 11 inch iPad Pro aspect ratio support would be amazing. Otherwise great app with desktop class tools ### 3/5 — Tendency to crash *2017-07-29, version 8.0* When working on a bigger project I noticed it crashes and doesn't save anything and I need to restart my project ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — sweet! *2025-12-01, version 15.0* really nice pixel art app that can export animated gifs. ### 5/5 — Great At What It Does *2022-01-26, version 13.0* I’ve used a number of small graphics applications on the iPad (or iPhone), and none of them ever seem to do it all. Most are just easy, obvious clones of each other with the standard functionality, using your photos (camera roll) to (inadequately) do the heavy lifting of managing files, and littering your photos with junk in the process. Real work (even hobby work) requires something more, and Pixely provides just enough interaction with files and iCloud, and copy/paste with other apps, to make it really useful in creating pixel-based art. It has almost all of the tools one needs to create small pixel drawings (I mostly use it for 32 or 64 pixel wide icon-like images for games), including animated sequences. It obviously can’t do everything… I need other tools to migrate my Pixely work into a finished product and refine it further (such as creating crowded sprite sheets, which I could do in Pixely, but it is just more easily done on my Mac). But it lets me comfortably and efficiently generate a pretty refined first step in the process. There’s very little I’d change about Pixely, except perhaps to provide some online documentation, and an ability to move a selection instead of only copy/paste (and maybe a cut in addition to copy)… and maybe an option to export a collection of images into a single sprite sheet. The UI is a little rough around the edges, and not always entirely intuitive, but it’s all there, you can figure it out with practice, it all works, and it gets the job done. Pixely is definitely one of the few apps I rate highly (or at all), and one of the very, very few that I have been using for years and keep going back to. ### 5/5 — Best editor i’ve tried so far *2019-03-14, version 12.5* A great pixel editor having most of the tools you need compared to most of the free editors i’ve tried on ios (which were over 15 and 2 paid) and most importantly compared to a lot of editors i’ve seen, this has been updated more frequently which is reassuring as not being a dead project. There are some things i think are missing (or just didn’t find it in the while i spent on the app, first being a color wheel to choose and adjust colors from it (at least i think it makes picking a color faster and then adjust it with the sliders), an option to index an image would be great A selection movement tool would be useful, having a cut option would complement it. Also a better pen support with palm rejection and only draw with the pen since a few times when i tried to zoom or move the canvas i’d end up drawing lines accidentally An option to have unrestricted canvas mode would be great, like right now the canvas locks onto the ipad screen edge or the tool menu edge when you’re zoomed in, i try to keep the part I’m working on in the middle of the screen so when working on the canvas borders it limits you to work on the screen edge. the app could use some extra gesture like dragging two fingers on the screen to move the canvas, 3 fingers swipe forward/back to redo/undo 3/7/19 the app crashed when i was selecting pixels using the rectangle tool when i repeatedly tried to select an area beginning from outside the canvas (was trying it out for the first time) 3/14/19 the multiple paste tool has a glitch that happens if you’ve been on the app for a while where it enters the mode but won’t let you paste anything or exit the mode which forces you to close the app, also I’ve had multiple crashes while in the copy mode and using the toggle color tool, happened when activating a color by mistake and disabling it after ### 5/5 — Great app! *2019-03-07, version 12.5* I was looking for a functional, nice looking but not unnecessarily flashy app for spriting fun, and this fits the bill perfectly. Nice feature set and intuitive - top work! ### 5/5 — Amazing but.. *2018-12-19, version 12.4* Love this app been using it for a good couple years but recently if I draw something with symmetry then undo one side of the symmetry stays, any possible fix? ### 5/5 — My GoTo Pixelling App *2017-06-17, version 8.0* Regularly updated. Stable. Clean UI. Pixely makes the majority of my art. ### 5/5 — Неплохо *2017-02-17, version 5.3* Из тех, что за нормальную цену, эта программа пока лучшая. Есть небольшие недочеты, но автор работает, обновляет ### 5/5 — Absolutely fantastic! But still needs a few things. *2016-05-14, version 5.2* This app has been incredibly easy, fun, and helpful. The only problem is the colors. Firstly, there aren't enough of them. Second, a color palette that shows what colors you are using on a canvas would be extremely helpful. Lastly, the ability to copy colors between canvases so you can work on two or more sprites that you want to keep within the same palette. Other than that, it's been perfect. ### 5/5 — Pixel Art at its best 👌😚 *2016-05-09, version 5.1* I have purchased this app a some time ago I was pleased with a lot of features it had to offer now with there updates it give you more then what I expected. Now my art has expanded thanks to the creators they really know what a pixel artist needs. If you ever used SpriteSomething which is one of the best pixel app I purchased I believe both these app go hand to hand the best pixel apps in the AppStore. Great job 😃👍 ### 5/5 — Well done *2016-05-03, version 5.0* Absolute genius. Perfect for everything I use it for. Money very well spent. Well done Mark, you are a legend. This tool has helped me so much and all of my game art is used by this app.defo recommend. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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