Simple Sprite Maker

Simple Sprite Maker is a pixel-art editor for people who want to make sprites, not learn software. Draw, animate, and export without the bloat of a production suite or a subscription.

Draw with focused pixel tools, select exactly the painted pixels you need, and move, flip, rotate, recolor, or erase without disturbing the rest of the frame. Import existing sprite sheets or build animations across as many frames as you want, with onion skinning and individual frame holds for precise timing.

Drop in a reference image, flip or rotate it in place, eyedrop colors directly from it, or stamp it onto the canvas as a starting set of pixels for tracing and roughs.

Use Apple Intelligence to generate sprite reference images from a short description, or create editable pixel-art palettes from prompts like “moonlit forest,” “warm cave tiles,” or “space battle.”

Build your own palettes or start from classics like NES, PICO-8, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum. Import and export Lospec, GIMP, and JASC palette files so your work travels with you.

Export transparent PNGs, animated GIFs with per-frame timing, sprite sheets with companion JSON, or configurable tilesets ready for Unity, Godot, Tiled, and other game engines.