Simple Sprite Maker

Pixel art for Mac, made simple.

Trace from any photo. Animate frame by frame. Carry your palette across projects. Export ready-to-ship sprite sheets, GIFs, and tilesets. Built for the kind of pixel artist who'd rather draw than dig through menus.

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Trace and draw — import any image as a reference layer and pixel right on top.
Palettes — start from Game Boy, NES, PICO-8, or build your own. Import and export .hex, .gpl, and .pal.
Animate — add frames, onion-skin the previous, and scrub the live preview at any FPS.
Export — PNG frames, spritesheets with JSON, tilesets, and animated GIFs.
Pixelize — drop in any image and watch it convert to pixels in your palette.

Everything documented, the boring stuff included.

Every tool, every shortcut, every menu — explained the same way they're explained inside the app.

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