Aseprite: Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Features

• Sprites are composed of layers & frames as separated concepts.
• Support for color profiles and different color modes: RGBA, Indexed (palettes up to 256 colors), Grayscale.
• Animation facilities, with real-time preview and onion skinning.
• Export/import animations to/from sprite sheets, GIF files, or sequence of PNG files (and FLC, FLI, JPG, BMP, PCX, TGA).
• Multiple editors support.
• Layer groups for organizing your work, and reference layers for rotoscoping.
• Pixel-art specific tools like Pixel Perfect freehand mode, Shading ink, Custom Brushes, Outlines, Wide Pixels, etc.
• Other special drawing tools like Pressure sensitivity, Symmetry Tool, Stroke and Fill selection, Gradients.
• Tiled mode useful to draw patterns and textures.
• Transform multiple frames/layers at the same time.
• Lua scripting capabilities.
• CLI - Command Line Interface to automatize tasks.
• Quick Reference / Cheat Sheet keyboard shortcuts (customizable keys and mouse wheel).
• Reopen closed files and recover data in case of crash.
• Undo/Redo for every operation and support for non-linear undo.
• More features & tips

License

This program is distributed under three different licenses:

Source code and official releases/binaries are distributed under our End-User License Agreement for Aseprite (EULA). Please check that there are modules/libraries in the source code that are distributed under the MIT license (e.g. laf, clip, undo, observable, ui, etc.).

You can request a special educational license in case you are a teacher in an educational institution and want to use Aseprite in your classroom (in-situ). Steam releases are distributed under the terms of the Steam Subscriber Agreement.