For Piskel users wanting a maintained, browser-based pixel editor with animation and modern export.
Piskel was a beloved free online pixel editor, but it's been effectively abandoned for years — no tilemap, weak layering, and no updates. This studio is a modern, maintained alternative that runs entirely in your browser: a precise pixel editor with adjustable brush and custom palettes, a frame timeline with onion skin for animation, mirror mode, and export to PNG, animated GIF, and sprite sheets with Unity/Godot metadata. It even converts images to pixel art as a starting point. Everything stays local — your work isn't uploaded — and there's no account or watermark. If you're looking for where Piskel users went, this covers the same draw-and-animate workflow and adds the things Piskel never got: animated GIF export, sprite-sheet atlases for game engines, and image-to-pixel conversion. Open it in any modern browser and start drawing; nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.