Pixquare - Pixel Art

Pixquare - Pixel Art


Pixel art, sprite, animation


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2.18.1for iPhone, iPad
9.3
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Son Nguyen
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36.3 MB
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Apr 26, 2024
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About Pixquare - Pixel Art

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Pixquare is a powerful pixel art app for anyone who loves drawing on iPads and iPhones, from beginners to professionals. Pixquare is praised for its simple UI, easy workflow, and advanced features for pixel art.

With Pixquare, you can create static or animated pixel art sprites anytime, anywhere. Pixquare also has assistive tools for isometric and tileset. I've improved Pixquare based on feedback from 1000+ pixel artists, making sure it's the perfect tool for both beginners and pros to start their pixel art journey:

• HIGHLIGHTS:
- Support both iPads & iPhones
- Highly customizable and intuitive UI with left-hand mode available
- RGB and Indexed mode
- Tileset/Tilemap system
- Timelapse recording
- Apple Pencil support: gestures, sensitivity, touch rejection
- Manual & auto-save modes
- Shortcut options: keyboard, gesture pad, joystick
- Custom themes

• VERSATILE TOOLS:
- Brush: spray, pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, contour, dithering, custom brush, jumble, blur
- Eraser: pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity, dithering
- Move: transformation and snapping supported
- Line: straight & curve mode, perfect angle
- Shape: ellipse & rectangle mode, filled, perfect ratio
- Selection: 5 types & 5 modes
- Color: solid/gradient fill, contiguous/non-contiguous, and more
- Color picker: 4 modes (HSV, HSL, Wheel, RGB), history, drag-to-fill
- All tools offer shading
- Additional tools:
+ Color replace
+ Color adjustment
+ Outline
+ Text with font import capability
+ Custom object

• LAYER/TIMELINE PANEL:
- Optimized for animation & organized layers
- Multi-selection, layer grouping, frame tagging, and bulk operations
- Visibility and editing-lock toggle
- Supports reference layers
- Frame duration and cel opacity
- Linked cells, onion skin, and clipping mask

• ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
- Symmetry tool with unlimited axes
- Reference images
- Color palette: save/load from Lospec, import/export, color gradient generator
- Blending modes, alpha lock
- Preview with a separate animation loop
- Canvas rotation, Finder-like file system
- Guideline

• FILE IMPORT/EXPORT:
- Aseprite file compatibility (importing & exporting)
- GIF importing with all frames
- PNG, GIF, MOV, Sprite sheet export options (layers, frames, size, and animation)
- Import Photos and files as reference layers and images

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WHY ARTISTS LOVE PIXQUARE?

"Genuinely the best pixel art app for the iPad that I would recommend anyone to get!" - Jon Davies, Pixel Artist on Super House of Dead Ninjas, Binding of Isaac.

"Pixquare has more than meets the eye. A seemingly simple interface that has the intuitive control you look for. The gesture pad is comparable to a desktop keypad." - Michael, Pixel Artist, Author of Pixel Logic book

"I've been sharing it with basically everyone I know with an iPad because I think it's one of the best software out there for creating pixels on the iPad." - CupOhJoe, Game Developer

"This is one fine app to pixel on the iPad! You can tell there's a lot of love for the craft poured in here" - Ota Jaider, Pixel Artist

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• SCREENSHOT ARTWORK AUTHORS:
- Mossy (@ArtNature_it)
- chili (@ryviolie)
- Lesma (@pixe_lesma)
- Fariis (@fariis_art)
- ue_voxel (@UeVoxel)
- Huy B (@bit5andpiece5)
- Sunny (@minisunnyworld)
- Manytle (@manytle)
- TransientCode (@TransientCode)
- And special thanks to Naocraf (@NaocrafPixel), Hyuk Choi (@anti_rocker), Eka (@EkaSetyaNugraha), Cetaceaqua (@cetaceaqua) and TML (@fluffy_tml), Tonio (@TonioPxl) for helping with the Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Chinese, French translation.

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SUPPORT:
User guide: https://sonnguyen.gitbook.io/pixquare/
Email: info@pixquare.art
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pixquare_app
Website: https://www.pixquare.art/
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.18.1

Last updated on Apr 26, 2024
Old Versions
Enhancements:
- Canvas grid and guide line's minimum size is 1 instead of 8
- Added undo/redo to handy joystick and gesture pad
- Added multitab selection to gesture pad
- Enhanced gesture pad delay time
- Selection preview color
- Undo/redo gestures can be turned off
- Frame duration can be set in terms of FPS
- Adjustable drawing tip preview show/hide size threshold

Fix:
- Layer selection in export not matching the correct order if there are reference layer(s)
- Frame content not showing after undoing frame removal
- Swipe to navigate frames and quick layer selection not working well together
- Some rare cases where new artwork size text fields cannot be cleared completely
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Version History
2.18.1
Apr 26, 2024
Enhancements:
- Canvas grid and guide line's minimum size is 1 instead of 8
- Added undo/redo to handy joystick and gesture pad
- Added multitab selection to gesture pad
- Enhanced gesture pad delay time
- Selection preview color
- Undo/redo gestures can be turned off
- Frame duration can be set in terms of FPS
- Adjustable drawing tip preview show/hide size threshold

Fix:
- Layer selection in export not matching the correct order if there are reference layer(s)
- Frame content not showing after undoing frame removal
- Swipe to navigate frames and quick layer selection not working well together
- Some rare cases where new artwork size text fields cannot be cleared completely
2.18.0
Apr 15, 2024
Features:
- Gesture pad customization
- New transformation modes for the Move tool: Skewing and Perspective

Enhancements:
- Enabled handy joystick for phones
- Some UI enhancement to brush button options
2.17.0
Apr 8, 2024
Features:
- Sprite sheet import
- Added padding to sprite sheet export

Enhancements:
- Panels now cannot be dragged off the top edge of the screen
- Stepper can be tapped and enter input directly
- Added some default showcase artwork

Fixes:
- Artifact when resizing content
- Attempt to fix a crash when removing frames
2.16.2
Apr 4, 2024
Moved color helper from Features to Additional tool (... button of the toolbox)
2.16.1
Apr 3, 2024
Enhancements:
- Adjustable quick color picker allowable travel
- Contextual menu label duration
- Color helper auto-update toggle
2.16.0
Apr 1, 2024
Color-shade helper
2.15.3
Mar 25, 2024
Fixed canvas resize doesn't work
2.15.2
Mar 24, 2024
Always show the selection area export option
2.15.1
Mar 21, 2024
Fixed crashed when selecting the edge of the layer row
2.15.0
Mar 20, 2024
Features:
- More exporting options:
+ Only selected area
+ Layers to individual PNGs
+ Frames to individual PNGs
+ Trimming
- New version availability alert
- Undo/redo buttons and opacity slider can be hidden

Enhancements:
- Significantly improved performance when having many frames and layers
- Bottom bar bounds info will remain active as long as there is a selection
- Make it a bit easier to activate the quick eye dropper with pencil

Fix:
- Color hex code input strange behavior
2.14.0
Mar 16, 2024
Feature:
- Split view

Enhancements:
- Reference images of small sizes are sharpened
- UI adapts better to available space

Fixes:
- Keyboard shortcuts affect all tabs, including hidden ones
2.13.0
Mar 7, 2024
Features:
- Individual cel opacity
- File template
- Selection movement without moving content
- Stats recording

Enhancements:
- Quick zoom level on the bottom bar
- The bottom bar also shows the layer name and frame index

Fixes:
- Spray tool ignoring alpha lock
- Frame duration cannot be adjusted
2.12.2
Mar 4, 2024
Feature:
- Bottom info bar

Enhancements:
- Quick grid selection can be turned off

Fixes:
- Quick action button doesn't end when released
- Reference image and preview jump when switching between tabs
2.12.1
Mar 3, 2024
Fixed canvas resize infinite loading
2.12.0
Mar 1, 2024
FEATURES:
- Multi-tab

ENHANCEMENTS:
- Added step direction for gradient generator
- Custom objects can be long-press + drag to add to canvas
- Reduce lag when showing pixel grid on big canvases
- Reference layer from GIF can change frame with the canvas
- Grayscale image compatibility
- Preview's tap-to-navigate can be turned off
- Theme will automatically update to its latest version
2.11.3
Feb 25, 2024
- Added tool selection to Handy joystick
- Added perfect angle to the linear gradient tool
- Fixed content sometimes not being displayed after exiting frame multi-selection mode
2.11.2
Feb 23, 2024
Fixed frozen UI when using brush/eraser on older devices
2.11.1
Feb 23, 2024
Fixed some crashes and some minor issues
2.11.0
Feb 22, 2024
FEATURES:
- Handy joystick with these available actions:
- Activate secondary color
- Canvas flip
- Activate tool's alternative mode
- Please suggest more useful actions
- Noise dithering

ENHANCEMENTS:
- Quick eye dropper can turn on/off for both finger and pencil long-press
- Gesture pad can be enabled in portrait mode
- When the selection tool is selected, pencil double-tap will select a grid square
- Gradient dithering is more fluent
- Frame navigation looping
- Added gradient generator to the gradient tool
2.10.0
Feb 19, 2024
FEATURES:
- Custom objects
- Tools' options are now draggable and sticky when dragged
- Import GIF as px will all frames
- Slider quick tool customization

ENHANCEMENTS:
- Corrected the behavior of the alpha-lock
- The bottom panels' docking position is more obvious
2.9.4
Feb 11, 2024
Fixed keyboard shortcuts for tools not working
2.9.3
Feb 10, 2024
Some internal clean-up and optimizations
2.9.2
Feb 6, 2024
Enhancements:
- Tile brush/eraser. No more dragging each tile to assign
- Added secondary color. Drawing with the secondary color coming soon
- Improved accuracy of aligned custom brush

Fix:
- Pasting content between different color modes
2.9.1
Feb 4, 2024
Enhancements:
- Added a toggle for the streak counter
- Make aligned brush easier to paint
- Allow finger touch to dismiss windows when "Only draw with pencil" is enabled

Fix:
- Prevent new brush collections from having an empty name
2.9.0
Feb 3, 2024
FEATURE:
- Custom brushes. Importable and exportable as ".pxbr" files.


ENHANCEMENTS:
- Reworked the spray brush, it sprays the current brush instead of just 1 pixel
- Optimization for tilemap tools
- Mouse's input can draw in only-pencil mode
- Tilemap layers can be converted to regular layers

FIX:
- Memory leak when using symmetry tool or tilemap layers

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