Rizer
Pixaki for iPad
Take your pixel art to the next level
For the future of pixel art.
Pixel art is so much more than just retro. We believe that the best pixel art ever is still being made. By you.
That’s why there’s nothing retro about Pixaki. The app is built to take full advantage of the latest features of iOS, and designed for a fantastic experience on iPad and iPad Pro.
Pixel over your sketches and photos.
Starting with a sketch or using a reference photo is great, but until now it’s posed a bit of a problem; if you resize the image to place pixels over the top, the detail gets lost making it hard to work with.
Pixaki’s reference layers allow you to import any image from your photo library at full resolution, resize and reposition it on the canvas, then draw pixels over the top. You can even have multiple reference layers at once, and adjust the opacity so that you can draw underneath the image if you prefer.
Animate.
Pixel art was made to move, and with Pixaki it’s a joy to bring your creations to life. With advanced features such as per-frame duration and colour-shifted onion skinning, nothing can stop you.
- For our money, Pixaki is the only app worth considering for iPad-related pixel art.
- It’s a great way to kick back on the couch and create the 8-bit scene of your dreams.
- Create your own minimal masterpiece with Pixaki.
Create, wherever you are.
Get away from your desk and get truly creative. Surrounded by nature, relaxing on the sofa, or commuting on the train — take your iPad and your inspiration with you.
Layers.
Create, duplicate, copy, and merge layers, with support for up to 50 layers per frame. Adjust the opacity of each to easily create lighting and translucency effects.
Reordering layers is as simple as drag and drop.
Fully customisable palettes.
Pixaki comes with some great palettes pre-installed, but also allows you to create and save your own. Once you’ve saved a palette, you can import it into any document that you’re working on.
You can also import palettes you’ve created in other software or downloaded in .aco, .pal, and .gpl formats.
Shapes and lines.
The line tool makes it easy to create perfectly straight lines, which can optionally be locked to angles perfect for isometric art.
The rectangle and ellipse tools help in creating basic shapes, which can be automatically filled with colour, and the aspect ratio can be locked to create squares and circles.
Powerful colour replacement.
It might look like an old bucket, but this is actually a supercharged colour replacement tool.
You can use it like a standard bucket tool, or replace all instances of a particular colour with another. This can be configured to affect just the layer you’re working on, all layers of the current frame, or all layers on all frames. Turning on erase mode to removes all pixels of a given colour.
It’s a great way to work with limited colour palettes.
Import and export.
Pixaki makes it easy to work with other desktop and mobile apps, as well as output for game engines and social media sharing.
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Photoshop files
Import and export layered PSDs. Export an animation, and the layers for each frame are put into groups.
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Animated GIFs
Import and export animated GIFs. Export supports magnification, perfect for crisp images online.
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Sprite sheets
Perfect for use in your game, with a configurable number of columns. Also supports magnification.
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ZIP archives
Save a PNG of each frame packaged into a ZIP file. Great for game engines and video production.
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PNGs
Export supports nearest-neighbour upscaling for crisp social media sharing.
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Other images
Any image format supported by iOS can be imported into Pixaki — things like TIFFs and even JPEGs (yuck).
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Palettes
Supports Adobe Photoshop’s .aco files, GIMP’s .gpl files, and the JASC .pal format.
Anything else?
What else in Pixaki will enable you to make amazing pixel art?
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A pixel brush and eraser tools, easily adjustable from 1 x 1 px to 20 x 20 px.
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Split View multitasking support, great for viewing tutorials and references.
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Group your documents into folders. You can even put folders in folders.
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Import from and export to iCloud Drive, or any Document Picker app.
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Customise the app’s UI by moving the sidebar and tools to suit your needs.
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64-bit architecture brings desktop‑class performance.
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The app’s engine runs on Metal, so drawing is smooth and responsive.
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Share your images anywhere using iOS sharing.
Free 14 day trial
Try out all of the features of Pixaki for free by downloading the Pixaki Trial app.
Need help or have a great idea for Pixaki?
Get in touch with Luke — luke@rizer.co,
or tweet @pixakiapp.