What is ASEPRITE?

ASEPRITE (aka ASE, Allegro Sprite Editor) is an open source program to create animated sprites & pixel art. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or in a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, isometric levels, etc.

Quick Reference

News:

06 Sep 2011 - ASEPRITE 0.9 Released
28 Nov 2010 - ASEPRITE 0.8.2 Released
28 Nov 2010 - Migrating to Google Code
13 Aug 2010 - ASE 0.8.1 Beta Released

What you can do?

Sprites are composed by layers & frames.
Supported color modes: RGBA, Indexed (palettes up to 256 colors), and Grayscale.
Supported image formats (load/save): PNG, GIF, JPG, FLC, FLI, BMP, PCX, TGA, and ASE (special format).
Load and save animations in a sequence of bitmaps (e.g. frame1.png, frame2.png, etc.).
Tiled drawing mode, useful to draw patterns and textures.
Undo/Redo for every operation.
Multiple editors support. You can split an editor horizontally or vertically multiple times to edit and view the same sprite with different zooms, or different sprites.
Import/Export Sprite Sheets.
Pixel art specific tools like filled Contour & Polygon.
Onion skinning.

Do you need more?

Request a feature or enhancement.

Download it

Is it free? Yes!

But you can make donations!

Last version:

ASEPRITE 0.9 for WinXP/Vista/7 (Quick Reference)

ASEPRITE 0.9 for Mac OS X (Thanks to Jamaal Sawyer)
Do you want to compile ASE? Download the source code:
ASEPRITE 0.9 Source Code (you can compile it on Linux).
Clone Git repository (browse):
git clone git://github.com/dacap/aseprite.git

Do you need help?

See the ASEPRITE Quick Reference (this is included in the main ASEPRITE package).
Take a look at ASEPRITE Blog.
Subscribe to ASEPRITE support group, or send an email to aseprite-discuss+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
Or fill a bug report if you found a problem.