CLUSTER CREATING-EDITING-EDITOR · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-07-30
2D graphics and animation editors
This cluster consists of desktop editors for creating and modifying 2D graphics, including pixel art, digital painting, GIF animation, and specialized formats like paper doll sprites and Windows cursors. Dated entries appear sparsely from December 2020 through May 2026, with a small concentration in August and September 2023, and no consistent cadence otherwise. The highest activity signals are rustypaint, UploadanhloadtranLQ, and pixieditor, each at 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 11 open source · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01rustypaint0★1 moliveopen source2D painting editor that replicates the drawing tools from Paint 3D without 3D.
- 02paintdotjs-bin0★3 daysliveopen sourceGeneral-purpose raster graphics editor for creating and editing digital images.
- 03pixieditor0★2 moliveopen source2D image editor for creating and editing pixel art, illustrations, and digital images with painting tools.
- 04KolourPaint0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceSimple raster image editor for drawing shapes, text, selections, and basic effects like rotation and color adjustment.
- 05pixieditor-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceStandalone graphics editor for creating and editing 2D digital images with a comprehensive toolset.
- 06zrge0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceRaster graphics editor for creating and editing images in ZPIF, PNG, and JPEG formats.
- 07brushshe0★6 moliveopen sourceA desktop raster graphics editor with add-on support, aimed at users who want simple image editing.
- 08nocturne-graphics0★1 yrabandoned—ai-builtGraphics application focused on creating or editing nocturnal-themed visual content.
- 09PpdEditor0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop editor for creating and editing two-dimensional pixel-based paper doll character models for illustration or game asset use.
- 10ppd-editor0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceEditor for creating and editing 2D paperdoll sprite files.
- 11usdtweak0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceStandalone editor for working with Universal Scene Description (USD) files.
- 12kolourpaint0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceSimple paint program for creating and editing raster images with basic drawing and touch-up tools.
- 13PixiEditor0★unknownliveDesktop graphics editor for creating and editing 2D images and illustrations.
- 14iByzPaint Editor - Premium0★unknownliveDigital painting and drawing editor with premium tools for creating and editing artwork.
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