PixiEditor news & patch notes

Hey everyone!

This is your heads-up that the Founder's Pack is being retired on July 30th. After that date, it won't be available for purchase anymore, so if you've been meaning to grab it, now's the time. When we launched PixiEditor 2.0 last year, we opened the Founder's Pack to invite early supporters, and over the past year, more than 500 of you joined us. Thank you! If you're already a Founder, nothing changes, you keep access to all perks of the Pack.

What's included in Founder's Pack

• 21 handcrafted color palettes, ready to use straight from the Palette Browser

• 4 workspaces, pre-configured for specific workflows:

  • Reusable Animation – a setup for reusable pixel-art animations, instructions included

  • Block Texture – build cube textures with a live 3D preview, great for voxel games

  • Seamless Texturing – design seamless, tileable textures with ease

  • Card Builder – make fully customizable playing cards

• A special in-app badge that shows you're one of the early supporters

Why become a Founder?

Every bit of revenue from Founder's Pack goes directly into building the app. New features, bug fixes, and everything else that keeps this project moving forward.

Thanks for being a part of this project. It means a lot!

The PixiEditor Team

2.1.1.5

New things

• Added “Game Of Life” example file

• Added Slovenian language

• Added Blending Paint Brush

Improvements

• Moved Autosaves location to local appdata

• Added Minor optimization for brushes with cached stamps

Fixes

• Fixed an exception happening when using Modify Image zone - by Ghoti

• Fixed parsing invalid svg filter link

• Fixed a crash when connecting number to math mode socket

• Fixed a crash related to invalid file extension

• Fixed a bug which caused animation timer to divide by 0

• Fixed long filename bug with discord rich presence

• Fixed a case where app was unable to save as .pixi

• Fixed a crash when pasting an image to a frame without a cel

• Fixed node picker navigation bug (clicking on categories will bring the view to correct position)

• Fixed a case that required uninstalling extension twice to remove it

• Fixed various crash scenarios

PixiEditor 2.1.1 is out!

What's New?

Version 2.1.1 brings a new Adjustments toolset with Blur, Sharpen, Smudge and Brightness tools, a color picker overlay, several Brush Engine improvements and a handful of fixes. The full changelog is available in the app under Help → Open Release Notes.

Blog Post

We published a detailed blog post covering everything that's new starting with version 2.1, including all the smaller versions up to this day:

https://pixieditor.net/blog/2026/04/30/21-release/

YouTube Video

If you'd like to see the features in action, check out our latest YouTube video:

New things

• Added Opacity option to Brush Output node, it controls the opacity that will be used when applying all stamps to the final image

• Added dialog to resize canvas on oversized insertion of more than one layer, by @Verotak

Improvements

• Improved Basic Brush

• Extension cache will now be stored in local appdata, instead of tmp

Fixes

• Fixed wrong titles for extension popups

• Fixed self snapping when pasting to current layer

• Fixed bunch of crashes

After almost a year since 2.0 release, we can finally share with you an exciting update with brand new Brush Engine, Smart Layers, Improved animation timeline and much more!

Brush Engine

Likely, the most requested feature, you can now create your own Brushes with PixiEditor's Node Graph! Use the new Brush Picker within Pen Tool to select, duplicate and edit brushes. Along the Brush Engine, full drawing tablet support has been added. For Windows, both Ink and WinTab APIs are supported. Check out the documentation to learn how to create your own brushes.

Precise paint engine

PixiEditor now uses precise paint engine. Previously all brush stamps were rounded to pixels, starting from version 2.1, you can paint with sub-pixel precision. Snapped pixels are still an option per-brush.

Stabilizers

We've added 2 stabilizers: Distance based and Time based. They are available within pen tool settings in the viewport.

Time based: Stabilization is calculated based on time passed between previous position and new position.

Distance based: You need to move X pixels before brush follows your pointer. It's like dragging something with a rope, you need to move far enough for the rope to become tight, before it draggs the thing on the other side.

Smart Layers

PixiEditor now supports smart layers. You can use other .pixi files within your document, embed .svg files directly as layers and more.

PixiEditor's advanced Node Graph allows to expose values to parent document, if they are embedded as a nested document (smart layer). Additionally, with new Blackboard feature, you can define inputs to your smart layers.

So for example you can create a nice text animation template and create "Text" blackboard input.

Then after embedding this animation within other file, you can type your text and it will be passed to the nested document.

This way you can reuse one file multiple times and compose your graphics/animations much more easily.

Blackboard

Blackboard is our solution for multiple, important things:

• It serves as a way to define and reuse constants within one Node Graph

• It defines Brush settings, that are exposed in Pen tool settings when brush is picked

• It allows for defining inputs for graphs. Inputs are a gateway to pass data between parent document and embedded one. If you prefer programming comparision, you can think of a nested graph as a function and inputs as function parameters.

Improved animation timeline

This is something many of you requested. We’ve overhauled the timeline and workflow of the animation system. This is the very first community proposal coming to life.

New Renderer

As a response to a few important issues, We rewrote a lot of core rendering components. There are plenty of new optimizations and characteristics. A few issues, that the new renderer is trying to solve:

• Bad performance when running some animations

• Better responsiveness of the app

New Nodes

• Gradient Node: Create gradients procedurally

• Pattern Node: Draw vector stroke out of input image.

• Viewport Info: Information about active viewport

• Blackboard Variable Value: Access blackboard variables

• Stroke Info: Info about current Brush stroke, only works within Brushes

• Brush Output: A node for defining brushes, see Brush Engine section

• Pixel Perfect Ellipse: New shape, that creates pixel-perfect ellipses

• Switch: Choose a value based on a condition

• Equals: Are two items equal

• Expose Value: Exposes arbitrary value from the graph as a output, when nested into other document.

• Editor Info: Info about current editor state, currently only Primary and Secondary color

• Nested Document: Smart Layer node. Allows for picking any document file.

• Pointer Info: Info about current pointer, such as pressure, position on canvas and more.

• Keyboard Info: Information about keyboard state, currently bools about modifier keys.

• Array: Create an array out of items

• Array Element: Get an element from array by index

• Array Length: Get length of an array

New Sockets

You may notice new colorful inputs in the graph, they mean that any type can be plugged into them.

Customizable Toolsets and Brush Tools

You can now create your own toolsets and tools based on Brushes.

Check out the documentation to learn how.

Full changelog is available here

Enjoy!

PixiEditor 2.1 Release Candidate 1 is available

This means we are getting close to stable version of 2.1. Check out the latest blog post about it

https://pixieditor.net/blog/2026/04/09/21-rc1/

Also check out https://pixieditor.net/blog/2025/12/10/21-beta/ for a more complete list of features in 2.1.

Files

If you used version 2.0 and have some files, that you could share with us (preferably with custom graphs), please take a moment and fill out this form

https://forms.gle/neot1c47Ew7faz1a9 - we're doing our best to ensure new renderer compatibility and we need your help to catch any bugs!

Have a lovely day/evening/night

-flab

Hello!

PixiEditor 2026 Q1 status is here! Improved animations, Mushy advisor, optimizations, and much more.

https://pixieditor.net/blog/2026/03/11/feb-2026-status/

Enjoy ;D

New year, new plan

Good day (or night!). New year brought some important reflections. We took these reflections and forged them into actual plans for 2026 and above. From organizational things to community engagement and features.

Check it out here https://pixieditor.net/blog/2026/01/19/goal-and-purpose/

Hello!

We've finally found a solution for a GUI offset glitch, that affected some of our users on Windows. If you're on Windows 10, PixiEditor should automatically apply system title bar, which fixes the bug.

If you are on Windows 11 (or somehow title bars were not applied automatically) and have this glitch, you need to manually switch this option in the settings. You can do it in two ways:

Hello artists!

PixiEditor 2.1 Beta is available now, check out related blog post

https://pixieditor.net/blog/2025/12/10/21-beta/

Enjoy!

PixiEditor Team

Fixes

• Fixed memory leak when using bucket tool with CTRL and copying layers

• Fixed transforming layers issues

• Fixed various scenarios of copy pasting

• Fixed vector layers not deleting when cutting

• Fixed folders collapsing when manipulating layers

• Fixed layer being offest by 1 pixel when pasing

• Fixed copying folders not preserving animations of child layers

• Fixed crash related to selecting layers

• Fixed placing text on top of other vector layer

• Fixed double clicking layer name not working

PixiEditor October Devlog is here! Learn about incoming Brush Engine, Nested Documents and more!

New things

Improvements

Fixes

Changes

New things

• Added a possibility to toggle off selection tinting in the settings or toggle it as a keybind
• Added Voronoi Noise to Noise Node {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43538089/54bb2e30bd58211f42214918d4fc21f554bb9ceb.png
• Added Rectangle Node
• Added Line Node
• Added Performance settings with Disable Previews and Max Bilinear Canvas Size options
• Added Turkish language
• Added Invert option to Mask Node
• Added Mask options to Apply Filter Node

Improvements

• Implemented selecting all text in the node picker search when the picker is open
• Added Keyboard Navigation (Up/Down Arrow) to the node picker
• Improved canvas rendering quality when zooming out (bilinear filtering)
• Various optimizations, such as smoother animation playback, more efficient preview rendering and more
• Modify Image zone now wraps around all nodes within the zone

Fixes

• Fixed previews for animation cels when animation group was disabled
• Fixed text caret scaling along with the text
• FIxed various crashes

Check out PixiEditor Autumn 2025 Status!

Read about roadmap changes and incoming Brush Engine!

https://pixieditor.net/blog/2025/08/23/august-status/

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Up until today, PixiEditor was known as a pixel-art editor. Version 2.0 is much more than that. It's a Universal 2D Editor - a brand new category.

It's not yet another Photoshop alternative. We take the word "Universal" much more seriously. We built an extremely configurable raster/vector render pipeline, which you can adjust for any workflow you can think of.

Our goal is to build a free and open source editor that can handle all of 2D graphics

- Raster

- Vector,

- Animations,

- Procedural (VFX, effects, non-desctuctive editing)

Need to create a thumbnail for your YouTube video? Done. Edit SVG files? Easy. Create a pixel-art animation spritesheet? You bet.

Or maybe you have a special workflow that requires complex setup? PixiEditor can help you with most demanding needs. In the most of the other image editors, you can only do as much as developers prepared. To extend its functionality you usually need to find appropriate plugin and hope it does what you want to or try finding a clever way to solve your problem.

PixiEditor's Node Graph on the other hand, gives you full control over the rendering of your image. For example, with Node Graph only, we managed to build a 3D cube texturing workspace with live preview. And it's just a .pixi file that you can send to anyone.

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Everything works offline, you own all the files. PixiEditor is available as a desktop app for Windows, Linux and MacOS! (currently only as Standalone, MacOS for Steam will be availalbe later this year)

PixiEditor is a native desktop app, not a web app port. Most of its tech is written from scratch

Check All Features

Founder's Pack is now available

We have updated the Supporter Pack to be Founder's Pack. It is a big update, that contains 4 new interactive workspaces. One of which is the 3D cube texturing above.

Card builder - easily create your own card deck

Now no matter if you are Balatro fan, or you are building a card based game, Card Builder workspace makes it easy. It automatically creates a pattern on the back, mirrors all the suits and ranks.

Ask Mushy, he seems to like being a part of a card.

3D Cube Texturing

Texturing - Create seamless textures

The concept is simple, you have a drawing area and PixiEditor tiles it on all sides to give you a quick glance if your texture is seamless.

Reusable pixel-art animation

A workspace that is set up to quickly create reusable animations based on UV indexing. Works great if you need to create a lot of variations of the same animation.

Join us on the Release Live stream

If you want to see what PixiEditor 2.0 is capable of or you want to ask us a question, join our livestream today (30 July). If you are reading this later, the recording is available, check how it went!

I hope it inspires you to make something cool. Or silly. Or tiny. Or huge. Whatever it is, just have fun.

Watch the Live Stream

Make sure to stay till the end as we will be giving away Founder's Pack and a discount code.

Some additional info

PixiEditor 2.0 has a bit higher hardware requirements than 1.0, mainly you need a Vulkan compatible GPU (or CPU with integrated graphics that support it) and 64 bit system. If for any reason, 2.0 does not work for you, click on Properties in the Steam library, then Betas and select pixieditor-1.0 beta to downgrade.

We are working hard to support more hardware configurations, but 32-bit systems will no longer be supported.

Thank you

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support along the way. But It's not the end. If you use PixiEditor and find it useful, consider buying Founder's Pack as it is the only way to ensure we can keep working on this.

flabbet

The wait is over, long anticipated PixiEditor 2.0 releases 30th of July.

I am supper happy to announce PixiEditor 2.0 Release Date

30.07.2025

After a long year, we are finally happy to share PixiEditor 2.0 with all of you.

If you don't know what PixiEditor 2.0 is capable of, check out Feature Showcase

Release Livestream | Q&A + Feature Tour

Join us on the release day, we'll be showcasing PixiEditor 2.0 and answering all of your questions!

You will be able to watch it here

Announcing Founder's Pack

Along with PixiEditor 2.0, we'll be also releasing Founder's Pack

It's a successor of Supporter Pack, everyone who bought Supporter Pack will receive all new perks as an update.

What's in there?

Updated 21 palettes, badge and 4 dedicated workspaces

Workspaces

Texturing - Easily create seamless textures

Procedural Animation - From automatic UV gradient generation, to swappable skins - ideal for pixel-art

Voxel Texturing - Create cube textures with live 3D preview

Card builder - Compose your own deck of cards with this workspace. Configure pattern, rank, suits and portrait. Flipping animation included

## Meet Mushy

Mushy is our new PixiEditor buddy

Say hello to the little fella!

He changes styles, you might find him a little more pixelated

or sketched

Announcing PixiEditor Forum

Why?

Supporter Pack is on -40% sale!

OpenCollective is back!