Pixmint: Pixel Art Studio

Pixmint is a professional pixel art studio and frame-by-frame animation editor for iPhone and iPad. Built for indie game devs, digital artists, and retro fans—create pixel-perfect sprites, seamless tilesets, and animations anywhere. Desktop precision with touch-first speed: multi-layer editing, colored onion skinning, Lospec palettes, and native Aseprite file interchange. Download free and start your canvas in seconds! PRECISION PIXEL TOOLS • Pixel-Perfect smoothing: removes double edges and L-corners • Pencil, Eraser, Line, Rectangle & Ellipse shapes • Flood Fill & Color Replace across the active layer • ColorDrop: drag color swatches to instantly fill areas • Real-time Loupe: floating magnifier shifts to keep touch visible • Dithering brush: classic retro shading and textures • Alpha Lock: paint strictly within existing pixels • Symmetry: Horizontal, Vertical, and Dual-Axis • Adjustable brush sizes (1px–16px) and opacity ANIMATION & ONION SKIN • Frame-by-frame timeline: add, duplicate, reorder, and remove frames • Canvas playback with adjustable frame rate (1–60 FPS) • Advanced Onion Skin: colored previous and next frames • Build walk cycles, attack combos, and smooth loops LAYERS & IPAD WORKSPACE • Multi-layer editing per frame with opacity sliders and layer lock • Duplicate, Merge Down, Clear, and drag reorder • Multi-Project Tabs: keep multiple canvases open on iPad • Apple Pencil ready: palm rejection & Pencil-only mode • 2-finger zoom, pan, rotate, and Virtual Joystick panning LOSPEC PALETTES & TILESET WRAP • Direct Lospec integration: import iconic retro palettes • Color picker with Hex, RGB, and HSV inputs • 3x3 Tileset Wrap: design seamless repeating game tiles in real time SELECTION & TRANSFORM • Freehand Lasso, Rectangular Selection, and Select All • 1-pixel precision Nudge arrows for micro-adjustments • Flip Horizontal/Vertical, Fill, Outline Stroke, and Clear EXPORT & IMPORT • Export images: PNG (transparent), JPG, WebP, HEIC • Export animations: Animated GIF and MP4 video • Game Atlases: Sprite Sheets with JSON metadata • Pro formats: Native .ase / .aseprite and MP4 timelapse recording • Upscaling: crisp nearest-neighbor from 1x to 32x (2048px+) • Import: Aseprite (.ase), Piskel (.piskel), Pixilart, GIFs, and photos OPTIONAL SMART ASSIST • Text to Pixel: generate sprite ideas in 8-bit, 16-bit, or Isometric • Photo to Pixel: convert photos with before/after split slider • Sprite Sheet Generator: generate multi-frame motion sequences • Magic Cut: separate artwork into transparent PNG layers PRICING & ORGANIZATION • Custom folders with batch move, delete, and sample templates • Free tier: 2 artworks, 1 layer/frame, standard exports • Pixmint Pro: Unlimited artworks & layers, all pro exports (GIF, MP4, Sheet, Aseprite, Timelapse), and 32x upscale (Monthly, Yearly, or Lifetime) Pixmint is made for creators. Pick up your pencil and start crafting today!