Pixquare is a powerful pixel art app for iPad. If you are looking for an app with a simple UI, easy workflow, and advanced features for pixel art creation, then Pixquare is a good choice for you. Being developed with a focus on feedback from experienced pixel artists, Pixquare is tailored directly to the needs of its users, offering many handy tools and an advanced layer/timeline system. With Pixquare, you can now create quality pixel artwork wherever you go with the ability to export/import many file formats (Aseprite file included).

Pixquare is designed for pixel artists of all levels of expertise. Here are its highlight features:

• Highlights:
– A simple and intuitive UI design that feels natural for users. Left-hand mode is available for lefties
– Apple Pencil optimization with gestures, sensitivity, and finger touch rejection
– Advanced mode for experienced artists that can be turned off for beginners to avoid being overwhelmed
– Utilizing MetalKit (Apple's native GPU computing framework) for a smooth sketching experience
– Supporting both manual and auto-save mode
– Keyboard shortcuts, or on-screen gesture pad for shortcuts if a keyboard is not available
– Quick size and opacity sliders. Opacity can be adjusted independently from the current color in the palette
– Lospec color palette integration

• Tools:
– Brush: pixel perfect, watercolor mode, pressure sensitivity
– Eraser: pixel perfect, pressure sensitivity
– Move: transformation supported
– Line: straight and curve mode, watercolor mode, and perfect angle
– Shape: ellipse and rectangle mode, watercolor mode, and perfect ratio
– Selection: 5 types (box, ellipse, polygon, lasso, and magic wand) and 5 modes (add, subtract, replace, intersect, and exclusive or)
– Color bucket: tolerance level, contiguous/non-contiguous mode, color replacement on the entire canvas
– Eye-dropper, can also be activated by long-press on the canvas
– Color picker: 4 modes (HSV, HSL, Wheel, and RGB), colors history, and drag-to-fill
– All drawing tools are equipped with 2 types of tips: round and square

• Layer/timeline panel:
– Optimized for creating beautiful animation and organized layer structure
– Unlimited number of layers (allowed by the physical memory of the devices)
– Multi-selection and operations
– Layer grouping
– Visibility and editing-lock toggle
– Reference layer supported
– Individual frame duration adjustment
– Onion skin

• Additional features:
– Symmetry tool with unlimited axes
– Reference images
– Color palette: save/load, download from Lospec, color gradient generator
– Blending modes
– Alpha lock
– Preview with its own animation loop
– Canvas rotation
– A file system that works just like Finder/File Explorer on a computer

• File import/export:
– Aseprite file compatibility: both importing and exporting
– PNG and GIF exporting with many options: layers, frames, size multiplier, and animation directions
– Images from Photos and Files can be imported as reference layers (can be converted to drawable layers) and reference images

• Screenshot artwork authors (by artwork number):
– 1, 3, 4, 7: Huy B (@bit5andpiece5)
– 2: Mossyやΐאָe (@ArtNature_it)
– 5: ue_voxel (@UeVoxel)
– 6, 8: Becky C (@tinydiorama)

Find more info, testimonials, and user guides at pixquare.art