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PixaPencil is the number one open source pixel art editor for Android.
Why you should try out PixaPencil:
- Contains over 33+ useful features (see 'Features' section below)
- 100% free of Google Play (tracking?) services
- 100% free of advertisements
- 100% commitment to open source
PixaPencil only runs on Android 8.0 or higher.
The app uses the following two permissions:
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
(Android 10 and below) - this is for saving your creation as an image file in your systemandroid.permission.INTERNET
- this is for the 'Import Lospec Palette' functionality
If you want to showcase an image of your own please send me an email at therealbluepandabear@protonmail.com.
- Pencil tool
- Move tool
- Fill tool
- Line tool
- Rectangle tool/Outlined rectangle tool
- Square tool/Outlined square tool
- Ellipse Tool/Outlined Ellipse Tool
- Circle Tool/Outlined Circle Tool
- Spray tool
- Polygon tool
- Dither tool/dither brushes
- Shading tool
- Picker tool
- Find and replace by color tool
- Erase tool
- Pixel grid
- Pixel perfect mode
- 4 symmetry options (horizontal, vertical, quad, octal)
- Undo/Redo
- Zoom in/Zoom out
- Canvas filters (color filter, lighten, darken, invert, grayscale)
- Color palette support
- Brushes
- Ability to import images from your file system into the app
- Ability to import Lospec palettes
- Ability to duplicate projects
- Ability to select custom colors using a color picker, RGB sliders, or HEX code
- Ability to unfavorite/favorite projects
- Ability to export projects to PNG/JPG
- Ability to rotate the canvas 90 degrees clockwise and anti-clockwise, as well as 180 degrees
- Ability to flip your projects horizontally or vertically
- Ability to save projects in background
New features are always being added.
If you want to become a contributor, you can help translate the app at Weblate by clicking the image below.
Thanks to these people who helped create the libraries used in the app:
- duanhong169 (https://github.com/duanhong169) - ColorPicker (https://github.com/duanhong169/ColorPicker)
- yshrsmz (https://github.com/yshrsmz) - KeyboardVisibilityEvent (https://github.com/yshrsmz/KeyboardVisibilityEvent)
- bumptech (https://github.com/bumptech) - Glide (https://github.com/bumptech/glide)