Pixel Art Editor - Dotsmith

Dotsmith is a pixel art editor for sprites, icons and small animations, made so your work stays put: undo survives closing the app, and two fingers never leave stray lines on the canvas. ▶ UNDO THAT SURVIVES CLOSING THE APP • Every stroke, fill, shape, move, layer or frame change is one undo step. • The newest 100 steps are saved inside the project file, so Undo still works after you leave the canvas or close the app. • Autosave runs about 2 seconds after you stop drawing. • Deleted projects go to Trash and stay there until you delete them forever, with Undo right after you delete. • Each project keeps up to 10 earlier versions; restoring one makes a copy. ▶ TWO FINGERS NEVER DRAW • If a second finger lands within a quarter second, the stroke you started is removed and the touch becomes zoom and pan. • Two separate strokes are never merged into one undo step. • Tap with two fingers to undo, with three fingers to redo. • When you stop pinching, the zoom settles on a whole number of screen pixels per cell, so every pixel is the same square. ▶ DRAWING TOOLS • Pencil and eraser with brush sizes 1–4 px. Fast drags leave no gaps. • Fill, line, rectangle and ellipse (outline or filled) and an eyedropper. • Mirror drawing left–right, top–bottom or both ways. • Select an area to move, flip, copy, cut, delete or paste it, also onto another frame or layer. • Up to 8 layers with show/hide, lock, opacity, rename, duplicate, merge down and reorder. ▶ ANIMATION • Up to 256 frames in a frame strip: add blank or duplicated frames and hold any frame ×1 to ×8. • Frame rate 1–30 fps, loop and a full-screen preview. • Onion skin shows up to 3 earlier frames in red and the next frame in green. It is never exported. ▶ EXPORT • PNG at ×1 to ×32 (up to 4096 px), with optional grid lines from ×4. • Sprite sheets as a grid, row or column, with padding and optional frame data (.json). • Animated GIF at ×1 to ×8 (up to 1024 px). • Nearest-neighbour scaling keeps every pixel sharp, with no blur. • Save to Photos (Pictures folder) or share. The file is checked on disk before the app says it is saved. ▶ COLORS AND IMPORT • Preset palettes (Default 32, Gray 8, Pastel 12, 1-bit), .hex and .gpl palette import, .gpl export, or a palette of 4 to 64 colors taken from an image. • Turn a photo into pixel art: pick 16 to 128 px on the long side, fit or crop, then keep the colors, reduce them to 4–64 or match your palette. • Enlarged pixel art (PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP up to 2048 px) is detected and can be opened at its true size. • Canvas from 1 to 256 cells on each side, any width and height: 32 × 19 works too. • Share a project file (.pxs), or back up the whole library to one .zip file and restore it later. ▶ GOOD TO KNOW • Limits: canvas up to 256 × 256, up to 8 layers and 256 frames within a 32 MB pixel budget. The app tells you when another frame or layer would not fit. • GIF holds up to 256 colors. Extra colors are merged, and partly transparent pixels become solid or clear. • Up to 100 undo steps (8 MB) are saved with a project. Redo is not saved. • Your projects are kept in the app and are not uploaded. Files leave the app when you save them to Photos or share them. • Imported photos are processed on the device and are not stored; the project keeps the resulting pixels. • On some older phones, the first save to Photos asks for storage access. • Ads appear on the projects screen, and sometimes when you return to it after an export. Never on the canvas.

Dotsmith has been rebuilt on a newer, shared foundation. Ads now start only after the privacy consent step, the opening-screen ad is prepared sooner (even on the very first launch, without waiting for online settings), the ad bar under your project list keeps retrying, and the spacing between full-screen ads also holds when you close and reopen the app. Your projects, palettes and settings are untouched.