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LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

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Comments (78)

  • zackchen
    This looks like Aseprite. Aseprite is already open source and you can get it for free, all completely legal. The only caveat is that you need to compile it yourself (which takes 2-5 shell commands). I think this is more than fair, but ripping off Aseprite is not so much. Their license also strictly prohibits that behavior.
  • makerofthings
    Aseprite is absolutely worth paying for. I do game jams and it works really well.
  • krickelkrackel
    And for emergencies, there is always DPaint JS!https://www.stef.be/dpaint/
  • mghackerlady
    I've used libresprite and generally think it's very nice, but I'd really recommend using GIMP or Krita over it for most pixel art, learning those is useful outside of pixel art
  • egypturnash
    The newest news post on this barebones site is from 2023, announcing the MacOS downloads. On the news page there's two other posts; the oldest one is from 2022, and talks about a complete rewrite of the code. I think this fork looks pretty dead.
  • whywhywhywhy
    Begging open source projects to stop with the libre<name> convention, it's awkward to say, it's cringe and seems to spiritually doom a project to fail.
  • krige
    Haven't used LibreSprite but Aseprite, from which it forked, has been an enormous boon to me, for pixel arting it definitely fits my habits and abilities much better than anything else I tried (GIMP, Krita, GrafX2, actual DPaint, Digipaint...).
  • KaiserPister
    I'll shill this project again: I built myself a small sprite generator because I'm a terrible artist.If you're looking for pixel-art sprites, check out 8bitsmith.com. Or you can just ask Nano-Banana for sprite sheets and it does a pretty good job!
  • txrx0000
  • spidermonkey23
    There's an experimental android version too which is more than aseprite offers. For the basics libresprite is a great entry into pixel art
  • pjmlp
    I love the MS-DOS feel to it. Many graphical tools used to have such UI flavour.
  • butz
    Weird mouse acceleration when it is over canvas and is replaced by crosshair icon.
  • _0xdd
    Tried to run it on macOS but it crashed on boot. Looks cool!
  • anon
    undefined
  • spruko
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