Piskel - Free online sprite editor

Piskel is a free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art

Design characters, animations, and tiles — right in your browser.
Try an example or start from scratch.

Graphics created by Penzilla Design

Sprite examples
- By anonymous
- By CaptainBrosset
- By CaptainBrosset
- By Fly
- By anonymous
- By Grosbouddha
Character animations
Graphics created by Penzilla Design
Gameboy retro
Graphics by Pebonius
Layered backgrounds
- By Ansimuz
- By FabinhoSC
- By Shackhal
Tilesets
- By Buch
- By Buch
- By Surt
- By ArMM1998
- By Surt
- By Shade

Live preview

Check a preview of your animation in real time as you draw. Adjust the frame delay on the fly.

Export to GIF, PNG...

Several export modes supported. Animated GIFs for sharing, spritesheet PNG/ZIP for bigger projects etc…

Open Source

All the code is open-source and available on GitHub.
http://github.com/piskelapp/piskel

Offline versions

Free desktop & offline applications for Windows, OSX and Linux. Checkout the download page.