Tools for pixels
Pen, mirror pen, paint bucket, line, rectangle, circle, lighten and darken and dithering, with no anti-aliasing muddying the edges.
AIM Pixel
Pixel art and animation, pixel by pixel.
Draw sprites, icons and characters with tools made for pixels, animate them frame by frame with onion skinning, and export them as a GIF or a sprite sheet ready for your game.
Free, no sign-up, no card.
For game developers, retro illustrators, teachers and icon and emoji makers.
What usually gets in the way
Heavy software to install
AIM Pixel opens in a browser tab: nothing to download, install or update.
Signing up and giving a card just to try
No account and no card: open AIM Pixel and get started.
Watermarks on the free version
What you export with AIM Pixel comes out clean, with no watermarks.
What you can do with AIM Pixel
Frame-by-frame animation
Add, duplicate and reorder frames, and watch the animation live at the speed you choose.
Onion skinning
See the previous and next frames faintly so the motion comes out smooth.
Layers
Keep character, background and effects on layers with their own opacity, in the animation too.
Palettes
Work with a limited palette, build your own and swap a colour across the whole sprite at once.
Select and transform
Select by rectangle, freehand or colour, then move, flip or rotate the selection.
Export for your game
Animated GIF, PNG sprite sheet in rows and columns or every frame on its own, at the scale you need.
With the rest of the suite
Why you can trust it
Everything in your browser
AIM Pixel runs inside your browser: it opens and saves on your computer. Your files are never uploaded to a server and nobody else sees them.
Spanish company, servers in the EU
AIM CREATE belongs to Biomag, a Spanish technology company since 1987. The website and accounts run on servers in the European Union.
No watermarks
Not even on the free plan: what you export is yours, as it is, and video goes up to 4K.
Clear pricing
Free forever. CREATE Plus is optional: €1.99 a month on the yearly plan (€23.88 a year) or €2.49 a month paid every 6 months, VAT included.
Questions about AIM Pixel
Can I import an image or a GIF?
Yes: an image is turned into pixels and a GIF comes in with its frames.
What size do I export at?
At real size or scaled up without losing sharpness, so every pixel stays crisp.
Are my sprites uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser and is saved on your computer.