Pixelos
A fast, focused pixel art editor for macOS.
Open the app once from wherever it lands and it offers to move itself into Applications. Say yes and the Pixelos already installed there goes to the Trash, along with the copy you just downloaded — one Pixelos, in the right place. Nothing is deleted outright, and nothing happens until you agree.
Pixelos Animation
Drawing, layers, palettes and PNG export are free, and stay free. Animation is the paid part: frames and the timeline, onion skin, sprite sheets and GIF export. One purchase, no subscription, and the licence works on your Macs — activate it in Pixelos ▸ License… with the key from your receipt.
Buy a licence · $7What it does
- Pencil, eraser, fill, eyedropper, line, rectangle, move and rectangular selection — no anti-aliasing anywhere
- Layers with opacity, visibility, reordering and merge down
- Animation: a timeline of frames, per-frame timing, looping playback and onion skin
- Export a frame, a sprite sheet with optional JSON metadata, or a looping GIF
- Native documents, autosave, multiple windows and a keyboard-first workflow
Questions
Bugs, requests, anything else — bensongsupport@gmail.com