Sprite Pencil vs Spritelife

Pixel art, made simple and made to feel great. Sprite Pencil is a focused pixel-art editor for sprites, icons, and game assets. A small set of carefully chosen tools and a drawing engine built exclusively for Apple devices make every pixel land exactly where you meant it, whether you draw with a finger or with Apple Pencil. Draw • Pencil, eraser, and fill tools • Highlight and shadow brushes that shade automatically • Symmetry mode to mirror strokes as you draw • Dithering for classic checkered patterns • Flip, rotate, and outline a whole sprite in a tap • Full undo and redo Color • Handpicked palettes, plus seasonal picks • Building Bricks colors • Import any palette from Lospec Your Files, Your Way • Sprites are plain PNG files, so any app can open them • Edit images in place wherever they live, including iCloud Drive • Share your art scaled up so it stays crisp Show It Off • Pin a favorite sprite to your Home Screen with a widget • Draw and send pixel-art stickers right in Messages

Animate 2D sprites with ease! Spritelife is an editor which allows you to create animations using existing images and sprites. Animate characters for projects, or create cool designs for social media. The possibilities are endless! Don't have any sprites or images to animate? Spritelife has built in Apple Intelligence support to create any sprite that you can think of in the blink of an eye. Use these sprites in your animations or to inspire your own designs. (For supported devices and languages only, iOS 18.4 and up) How to use: 1. Add sprites/images to editor 2. Add new frames 3. Adjust sprites/images to desired locations per frame 4. Watch as Spritelife animates your work 5. Add effects and fine tune for a final product Features: - Customizable projects for separate animations - Pixelation effects - Animation for moving, warping, rotating, and resizing multiple sprites at once - Undo/Redo buttons for ease of use - Adjustable settings for animations and exports - Multiple export formats (GIF, PNGs, Spritesheet) Upcoming additions: - animation timing options (linear, ease in, etc) - warp fine tuning - UX improvements - more!