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Pixel Art Maker

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#13,427 of 719,902 by ratings on Apple · #598 of 50,710 in Lifestyle

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Description

"Pixel Art Maker" is a drawing tool for pixel art like retro games.

◇ Easy to use
You can start drawing pixel art immediately after launching the app.
The canvas can also be resized while drawing.

◇ Import a photo
Convert photos into pixel art.

◇ Create animated pixel art
Draw one pixel art image, duplicate it, and create animations.

Features:

- Draw pixel art on canvases from 1×1 up to 256×256 pixels.

- Change the color palette (up to 256 colors).
The basic palette includes 32 colors.
The free version supports up to 65 colors.
*Each palette color can be set to transparent or opaque.

- Save your color palettes and reuse them in other artworks or when importing photos.

- Watch an ad to temporarily unlock:
• 256-color palette
• Canvas size up to 1024×1024

- Premium
Removes ads and permanently unlocks the full 256-color palette and canvas sizes up to 1024×1024.

- Zoom in and out with two-finger pinch.

- Save, load, and delete your drawings.

- Import photos and animated GIFs.
APNG animation is not supported; only the first frame is imported.

- Import photos with built-in retro-style palettes and adjustable dithering.
Indexed PNG files keep their original palette.

- Import images from other apps via the Share sheet.

- Export with transparency.

- Scale your artwork on export from 1× to 64×, depending on canvas size, up to 4096×4096.

- Save to Photos.

- Share with other apps.

- Create and export animated GIFs.
*GIFs may not animate in Photos.

- Finger Mode
Draw directly with your finger.

- Cursor Mode
Move a cursor and place pixels with the "PIXEL" button.
(Menu → Settings → Change Drawing Mode)

* On Apple Silicon Macs (iPad version), animated image import may be limited, and photos may be imported at reduced resolution.

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