Pixquare - Pixel Art Studio2.73.4 - App Store

Pixquare is the #1 pixel art editor, recommended by top pixel artists, game developers, and creators worldwide! Whether you're a beginner or a pro, its simple interface and rich toolset make pixel art creation easy and fun!

Download now to create game assets, animate, or simply doodle pixel art! With feedback from thousands of artists, Pixquare is designed for your best pixel art experience ever!

. HIGHLIGHTS:
- Support both iPads & iPhones
- Highly customizable and intuitive UI with left-hand mode available
- RGB and Indexed mode
- Tileset/Tilemap system
- Timelapse recording
- Apple Pencil support: gestures, sensitivity, touch rejection
- Manual & auto-save modes
- Shortcut options: keyboard, gesture pad, joystick
- Custom themes

. VERSATILE TOOLS:
- Brush: spray, pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, contour, dithering, custom brush, jumble, blur
- Eraser: pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, dithering
- Move: transformation and snapping supported
- Line: straight & curve mode, perfect angle
- Shape: ellipse & rectangle mode, filled, perfect ratio
- Selection: 5 types & 5 modes
- Color: solid/gradient fill, contiguous/non-contiguous, and more
- Color picker: 4 modes (HSV, HSL, Wheel, RGB), history, drag-to-fill
- All tools offer shading
- Additional tools:
+ Color replace
+ Color adjustment
+ Outline
+ Text with font import capability
+ Custom object

. LAYER/TIMELINE PANEL:
- Optimized for animation & organized layers
- Multi-selection, layer grouping, frame tagging, and bulk operations
- Visibility and editing-lock toggle
- Supports reference layers
- Frame duration and cel opacity
- Linked cells, onion skin, and clipping mask

. ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
- Symmetry tool with unlimited axes
- Reference images
- Color palette: save/load from Lospec, import/export, color gradient generator
- Blending modes, alpha lock
- Preview with a separate animation loop
- Canvas rotation, Finder-like file system
- Guideline

. FILE IMPORT/EXPORT:
- Aseprite file compatibility (importing & exporting)
- GIF importing with all frames
- PNG, GIF, MOV, Sprite sheet export options (layers, frames, size, and animation)
- Import Photos and files as reference layers and images

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WHY ARTISTS LOVE PIXQUARE?

"Genuinely the best pixel art app for the iPad that I would recommend anyone to get!" - Jon Davies, Pixel Artist on Super House of Dead Ninjas, Binding of Isaac.

"Pixquare has more than meets the eye. A seemingly simple interface that has the intuitive control you look for. The gesture pad is comparable to a desktop keypad." - Michael, Pixel Artist, Author of Pixel Logic book

"I've been sharing it with basically everyone I know with an iPad because I think it's one of the best software out there for creating pixels on the iPad." - CupOhJoe, Game Developer

"This is one fine app to pixel on the iPad! You can tell there's a lot of love for the craft poured in here" - Ota Jaider, Pixel Artist

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. SCREENSHOT ARTWORK AUTHORS：
- FICO (@FicoPx)
- Tofu (@tofupixel.bsky.social)
- Mossy (@MossyPixe)
- chili (@ryviolie)
- Lesma (@pixe_lesma)
- ue_voxel (@UeVoxel)
- TransientCode (@TransientCode)
- 08games (@the08games)
- Rinspirit_art(@rinspiritart.bsky.social)
- natalie (@cafeaunat)

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SUPPORT:
User guide: https://docs.pixquare.art
Email: info@pixquare.art
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixquare_app
Website: https://www.pixquare.art/

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Version History - Tag search
- Text alignment for the text tool
- Unapplied texts are saved
- Enhanced text preview when AA is off
- Fixed color reduction content changes cannot be undone
- Fixed some tileset cannot be imported
- Fixed a few crashes 2.73.4 1d ago - Tag search
- Text alignment for the text tool
- Unapplied texts are saved
- Enhanced text preview when AA is off
- Fixed color reduction content changes cannot be undone
- Fixed some tileset cannot be imported
- Fixed a few crashes 2.73.3 2d ago - Visual tether for the stabilizer.
- New option for the eyedropper to ignore opacity
- Dynamic layer options expand direction based on the dragged position
- Other enhancements and fixes 2.73.2 Oct 3 Enhancements:
- Rasterization option for magic layers
- Showcase artworks now display the author info
- Author info section for .px files

Fixes:
- Masking options not available for magic layers
- Groups with only magic layers cannot expand
- Split-screen sometimes makes one of the canvases disappear
- A few crashes here and there 2.73.1 Sep 28 Feature:
- EXCITING: Magic layers with 4 magics for dynamic animation:
+ Parallax
+ Skew
+ Tween (color values, displacement, size, rotation)
+ Wave
- Animated PNG export

Enhancements:
- PSD export to use the selected frame index instead of always using the first index.
- More performant pixel grid for bigger canvases
- Some minor UI enhancements.
- Some minor fixes 2.73.0 Sep 21 Features:
- Custom pixel ratio
- New cel operations: shifting and rippling deletion.

Enhancements:
- When in frame multi-select mode, drag-and-drop will select the frame range.
- Added stabilizer and alpha-lock toggle to gesture pad, joystick, and keyboard shortcuts.

Fixes:
- Incorrect onion skin index with tags.
- Polygon with corner radius being cut off when the corners are outside the canvas. 2.72.0 Aug 30 Feature:
- Brand-new polygon tool with custom side count and corner radius, replacing the rectangle/ellipse tool.

Enhancements:
- Tilemap indices can be exported as JSON
- Added color replace, color adjustment, outline, AA, and liquify tools to gestures and keyboard shortcuts.
- A few minor fixes 2.71.0 Aug 19 Enhancements:
- Stripe gradient tool
- Shading can add/remove arbitrary colors
- Added liquify tool boundary indicator
- Liquify tool now works with symmetry lines
- Enabled slider tool size adjustment on iPhones
- Squeeze actions trigger from gestures and shortcuts

Fixes:
- Significant memory leak
- Tileset cannot be exported due to special characters in the name
- Other minor fixes 2.70.1 Aug 13 Enhancements:
- Stripe gradient tool
- Shading can add/remove arbitrary colors
- Added liquify tool boundary indicator
- Liquify tool now works with symmetry lines
- Enabled slider tool size adjustment on iPhones
- Squeeze actions trigger from gestures and shortcuts

Fixes:
- Significant memory leak
- Tileset cannot be exported due to special characters in the name
- Other minor fixes 2.70.0 Aug 11 Features:
- Liquify tools: push, expand, and shrink
- Added Recently deleted folder
- New artwork from clipboard content

Enhancements:
- Added an option to remove duplicate tiles
- Tiled mode toggle-all action to gesture pad/joystick
- Added the little Dino to the theme system
- New frames are added together after the last selected frame instead of after each individual selected frame.
- Added an option to pin the layer property panel
- AA threshold for the text tool
- Some minor UI enhancements

Fixes:
- Fixed color adjustment/level adjustment not working on multiple layers with the same tileset
- Minor UI bugs 2.69.0 Jul 5 - Fixed Dailies prompt doesn't load
- Some other minor UI enhancements/fixes 2.68.1 Jun 20 Features:
- Free arrangement for tiles within tilesets.
- JSON option for spritesheet export.
- Quick onion skin range adjustment.

Enhancements:
- The magic wand can work with multiple selected layers.
- Preview can be turned off.
- Tags can be disabled.
- Added selection modes to keyboard shortcuts.
- Eyedropper can pick colors from tiled canvases.
- Some minor performance enhancements.

Fixes:
- The gesture pad cannot switch to the selection tool from the shape tool.
- Presets sometimes save the incorrect tools.
- Minor visual color correction for the saturation value of the color picker. 2.68.0 May 28 Enhancements:
- Improved the smoothness of the stabilizer for the brush and eraser.
- Snap to grid now snaps the edge of the brush instead of the center.
- Corrected some Spanish texts. 2.67.4 May 11 Enhancements:
- Can copy combined content from multiple selected layers
- PNG and JPEG export to have 300 DPI
- Some UI enhancements

Fixes:
- Undesirable Esc key press to go back to the Gallery
- Color sampling issues with uncommon color spaces
- Crash when importing Aseprite files with flipped tiles 2.67.3 May 3 Enhancements:
- Indexed PNGs will be imported as indexed files
- Updated some new specs for .aseprite files
- Added a cancel option for palette import
- Some UI enhancements

Fixes:
- Folder drag-n-drop has '-Copy' suffix after being moved
- Image import for files with 16-bit component format.
- Color bucket not working for tiled canvas 2.67.2 Apr 22 Some UI changes 2.67.1 Apr 15 Features:
- Modifier system, starting with 'Animation speed multiplier' modifier
- Added 'Learn' panel

Enhancements:
- Customizable contiguous corners
- Adjustable marching ants opacity
- Palette match for the eyedropper and the main color picker
- Indexed PNG export for indexed file
- Can eyedrop colors on reference layers outside of the canvas
- New custom objects can be added from multiple selected layers
- Distantly linked cels now have a clear indicator
- Customizable eyedropper preview position
- Bottom info bar flips its arrangement when left-hand mode is enabled
- Other UI and functional enhancements

Fixes:
- Cannot reorder tiles to the last index in 'move' mode
- Minor issue with 'Selected layer' option when exporting 2.67.0 Apr 10 Option to customize holdable action delay 2.66.3 Mar 16 Fixed a bug with tileset reordering 2.66.2 Mar 10 - Added 5 new keyboard shortcuts
- Added an option to remove empty tiles 2.66.1 Mar 6 Features:
- New fun mode: Dino companion
- JPEG export

Enhancements:
- Custom brush panel can be dragged out
- Snap to guide lines can work with isometric guide lines
- Shading can be activated from the gesture pad, joystick, and keyboard shortcuts
- Option to skip big timelapse frames to avoid failure due to big canvases
- Top-left buttons no longer overlap with the windowed mode buttons

Fixes:
- Direct indexed .aseprite saving error
- Some UI inconsistencies 2.66.0 Mar 2 Features:
- Tileset/tilemap auto new tiles
- Duplicate file button
- Swap mode for tileset reordering

Enhancements:
- Resizable dithering presets
- Tools presets added to the toolbox squeeze action
- Added line/shape mode switching to the gesture pad and the joystick
- Holding the tileset button to temporarily hide the grid
- Other minor UI enhancements

Fixes:
- Move tool's rare undo/redo glitch
- Tilemap grid color not being saved
- Other minor issues 2.65.0 Feb 22 Some text changes during the onboarding flow to avoid confusion 2.64.4 Jan 30 Enhancements:
- Black-and-white canvas action also has the effect on the preview
- Allow the eyedropper to work when a reference layer is selected

Fixes:
- Eyedropper doesn't work on some reference layers 2.64.3 Jan 25 Fixed a crash when using the Move tool or pasting on tilemaps 2.64.2 Jan 7