Pixen Alternatives

Pixen is described as 'Pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. With innovative features like a color palette system, patterns, and high-zoom support, Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an' and is a Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Pixen for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Pixen alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pixen are Paint.NET, Pixelorama, PixiEditor and Aseprite.

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  1. CinePaint icon
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    CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. XGimp icon
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    XGimp is a version of gimp that works on a mobile. It can be used as a paint program, image editor or a photo retouching program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. Pixly icon
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    Pixly is a complete pixel art editor for Android devices. It excels where all other editors for phones and tablets fall short.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  4. Pixaki icon
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    Pixaki is a powerful pixel art creation app for iPad. It features many of the same features found in desktop apps — such as custom canvas sizes, layers, precise colour selection and customisable palettes — but with a gorgeous multi-touch interface that is just right for iPad.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
  5. Halftone icon
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    A simple Libadwaita app for lossy image compression using dithering technique. Give your images a pixel art-like style and reduce the file size in the process with Halftone.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. Dotpict icon
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    Dotpict is a simple, intuitive and effective pixel art editor designed for mobile use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  7. PixelMaker icon
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    PixelMaker is a drawing program designed specifically for making pixel art. Using easy to use tools on your device, you can design images as simple or as complex as you like. Experiment, and create characters and scenes based on your favorite classic video games, or draw...

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  8. MyBrushes icon
     22 likes

    MyBrushes Paint for Mac app allows you to paint on infinite canvas and PLAYBACK whole drawing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Pro Paint icon
     2 likes

    Pro Paint for Mac is the realistic full-featured digital art software that is used for painting, image editing, vector drawing, free-form transformation, cropping, alpha channel editing, and more specialized tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Photopainter icon
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    Photopainter is both a natural-media painting software and an image processing system at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Blazing fast Free online image editor tool to adjust brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, gamma etc. Drop your image in tool and start editing using image filter controls. No signup and no restriction to use this tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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