ArtPort vs PixSprite

ArtPort: Your Creative Harbor for Pixel Art & Animation ArtPort is a professional-grade pixel art creation and animation studio, carefully crafted to provide a seamless and inspiring experience for digital artists. Whether you are sketching a quick 8-bit character or animating a complex scene, ArtPort delivers all the essential tools you need right to your mobile device. Powerful Animation Timeline: Intuitive frame and layer management. Group your frames into Clips/Tags for easy organization. Advanced Onion Skinning to guide your animations perfectly. Adjust playback speed and frame duration on the go. Professional Drawing Tools: Precision tools: Pen, Eraser, Line, Rectangle, and Ellipse. Smart Selections: Magic Wand, Lasso, and Box selection with live transform handles and dimension tracking. Symmetry drawing to create perfect mirrored designs. Clipping Masks and layer opacity controls for advanced shading. Optimized Workflow: Smart undo/redo history system. Cross-platform gesture support (Pinch to zoom and pan). Customizable color palettes with global color linking. Import external images directly into your canvas. Export & Share: Export your artwork as PNG, animated GIF, or ZIP archives. Generate professional Sprite-sheets with a single tap. Dock your ideas and let your imagination sail. Download ArtPort today and bring your pixel art to life!

PixSprite is a pixel art and sprite animation editor built for iPhone and iPad. Start with a blank canvas or turn a photo into editable pixel art, then bring your ideas to life, pixel by pixel. Create • Work on canvases up to 1024×1024 pixels • Draw with pencil, eraser, eyedropper, line, shape, selection, lasso, and magic wand tools • Refine artwork with layers, opacity, blend modes, symmetry, and live preview • Build and manage your own color palettes, including transparency • Add pixel text with built-in fonts and adjustable size, line spacing, alignment, and color • Replace, adjust, and remap colors; reduce palette colors and remove unused colors Animate • Draw frame by frame, adjust timing, and preview your animation • Duplicate and reorder frames on the timeline • Organize animation sequences with tags • Use linked cels to share the same layer content across frames Turn images into pixel art • Import a photo or image and continue editing the result • Adjust crop, palette, scaling, and dithering • Split sprite sheets into animation frames Import and export • Import and export Aseprite files with support for layers, animation frames, tags, and linked cels • Import animated GIFs, APNGs, and sprite sheets • Export GIF, APNG, MP4, PNG sequences, and sprite sheets • Save and share your work as PixSprite project files Some features and export formats require the one-time PixSprite Pro purchase.