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CLUSTER ART-FRAME-PIXEL · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-05-24

Pixel art sprite editors

This cluster comprises desktop applications for creating and editing 2D pixel art, sprites, tilesets, and frame-by-frame animations, aimed at game developers and digital artists. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only four dated entries exist before the index start, so the cluster either predates the index or most members are undated. Traction leaders by activity signal are pixelorama, GrafX2, and pixelorama-bin, though all show zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2012: 1MAY 2020: 1SEP 2020: 1MAY 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1
DEC 2012AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01pixelorama0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing 2D pixel-art sprites, tilesets, and frame-by-frame animations, aimed at game developers and digital artists.
  2. 02GrafX20★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceBitmap paint program specialized in 256-color pixel art creation, providing drawing tools and effects for detailed mouse-drawn game and pixel graphics.
  3. 03pixelorama-bin0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing 2D pixel-art sprites, tilesets, and frame-by-frame animations, aimed at game developers and digital artists.
  4. 04pixi-editor0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for drawing and editing pixel-art sprites with per-pixel tools, intended for game art and digital illustration.
  5. 05OpenToonz - Morevna Edition0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop 2D animation application that lets animators draw, ink, paint, and composite frame-by-frame cartoons and animated films.

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