Piskel Alternative
A Piskel alternative that still gets updates.
Piskel taught a generation to make pixel art in the browser, but it has been inactive for years. Novaboard picks up where it left off: free, browser-based, no account, and it opens your .piskel files directly so nothing you made gets left behind.
Your .piskel files open directly
Drop a .piskel file into Novaboard and keep working: frames and layers import from every Piskel format version. No conversion step, no re-drawing old sprites.
Animation beyond frame-by-frame
Frame-by-frame like Piskel, plus tweening, animation tags, and a timeline built for longer animations. Preview in real time while you draw.
Autosave plus a full version history
Piskel users have reported online saves and local sketches vanishing, and with one release since 2018 fixes are unlikely. Novaboard saves automatically to your device and keeps a visual history with branches, so any version of a drawing can be restored.
Modern exports for modern pipelines
Export GIF, APNG, sprite sheets with JSON metadata, PSD, ORA, and .aseprite. If you moved on to a game engine since your Piskel days, your files can move with you.
One workspace for the whole project
Sprites, tiles, and animations side by side in one project instead of one sprite per tab. Your work stays on your device, and a desktop app is there if you want to go fully offline.