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CLUSTER CREATING-DESKTOP-EDITOR · 10 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-07-19

Retro pixel art editors

This cluster covers desktop applications for creating and editing pixel-art sprites and assets for retro consoles such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Sega Genesis. The dated entries are spread intermittently from January 2018 to August 2025, with long gaps, indicating no steady addition pattern. The traction leaders (picotron, cge7-bin, Retro Sprite) all show zero stars, so none currently has notable user activity.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2018: 1FEB 2018: 1JUL 2018: 1NOV 2021: 1JAN 2023: 1MAR 2024: 1APR 2024: 1AUG 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
JAN 2018SEP 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 · 6 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 8 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 10 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01snes-graph0★19 days—hobbyDesktop app that edits SNES game graphics and exports assets and ca65 assembly source for game development.
  2. 02picotron0★4 molivehand-codedopen sourceA fantasy workstation for creating pixel-art games, animations, and music with a simplified integrated development environment.
  3. 03cge7-bin0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop graphics editor for designing character-based sprite graphics for a specific vintage home computer platform.
  4. 04TIC-800★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFantasy video game console that lets users create, play, and share retro-style games with built-in editors.
  5. 05mega-happy-sprite0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing sprites for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games.
  6. 06spredit0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCross-platform sprite editor for creating Commodore 64 hires/overlay sprites and converting between PRG and BMP formats.
  7. 07retro-graphics-toolkit0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop editor for creating and editing retro-style graphics for video game consoles.
  8. 08LibreSprite0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop pixel-art editor for creating animated game sprites and retro-style graphics, with layers, frames, and onion-skin previews.
  9. 09ZXDrawer0★unknownlivehobbyGraphic editor for creating and editing retro-style pixel art and sprites compatible with ZX Spectrum game formats.
  10. 10Retro Sprite0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop pixel art editor for creating and exporting sprite and background tiles for retro console game development.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.