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Pixquare is a powerful pixel art app for iPad. If you are looking for an app with a simple UI, easy workflow, and advanced features for pixel art creation, then Pixquare is a good choice for you.
Being developed with a focus on feedback from experienced pixel artists, Pixquare is tailored directly to the needs of its users, offering many handy tools and an advanced layer/timeline system. With Pixquare, you can now create quality pixel artwork wherever you go with the ability to export/import many file formats (Aseprite file included).
Pixquare is designed for pixel artists of all levels of expertise. Here are its highlight features:
• Highlights:
- A simple and intuitive UI design that feels natural for users. Left-hand mode is available for lefties
- Apple Pencil optimization with gestures, sensitivity, and finger touch rejection
- Advanced mode for experienced artists that can be turned off for beginners to avoid being overwhelmed
- Utilizing MetalKit (Apple's native GPU computing framework) for a smooth sketching experience
- Supporting both manual and auto-save mode
- Keyboard shortcuts, or on-screen gesture pad for shortcuts if a keyboard is not available
- Quick size and opacity sliders. Opacity can be adjusted independently from the current color in the palette
- Lospec color palette integration
• Tools:
- Brush: pixel perfect, watercolor mode, pressure sensitivity
- Eraser: pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity
- Move: transformation supported
- Line: straight and curve mode, watercolor mode, and perfect angle
- Shape: ellipse and rectangle mode, watercolor mode, and perfect ratio
- Selection: 5 types (box, ellipse, polygon, lasso, and magic wand) and 5 modes (add, subtract, replace, intersect, and exclusive or)
- Color bucket: tolerance level, contiguous/non-contiguous mode, color replacement on the entire canvas
- Eye-dropper, can also be activated by long-press on the canvas
- Color picker: 4 modes (HSV, HSL, Wheel, and RGB), colors history, and drag-to-fill
- All drawing tools are equipped with 2 types of tips: round and square
• Layer/timeline panel:
- Optimized for creating beautiful animation and organized layer structure
- Unlimited number of layers (allowed by the physical memory of the devices)
- Multi-selection and operations
- Layer grouping
- Visibility and editing-lock toggle
- Reference layer supported
- Individual frame duration adjustment
- Onion skin
• Additional features:
- Symmetry tool with unlimited axes
- Reference images
- Color palette: save/load, download from Lospec, color gradient generator
- Blending modes
- Alpha lock
- Preview with its own animation loop
- Canvas rotation
- A file system that works just like Finder/File Explorer on a computer
• File import/export:
- Aseprite file compatibility: both importing and exporting
- PNG and GIF exporting with many options: layers, frames, size multiplier, and animation directions
- Images from Photos and Files can be imported as reference layers (can be converted to drawable layers) and reference images
• Screenshot artwork authors (by artwork number):
- 1, 3, 4, 7 by Huy B (@bit5andpiece5)
- 2 by Mossy (@ArtNature_it)
- 5 by ue_voxel (@UeVoxel)
- 6, 8 by Becky C (@tinydiorama)
Find more details, testimonials, and user guides at pixquare.art
