Dottie

Spec sheet

Purpose

Dottie is a native Mac pixel art editor for creating sprites, tilesets, icons, portraits, and other artwork.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Support

The maker accepts support inquiries, bug reports, and feature requests through social accounts or email, and says email responses may be slower.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Animation

Frame animation includes a timeline, per-frame durations, frame tags, live preview, and sprite sheet, GIF, or APNG export.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Brushes

Brush settings include multiple shapes and sizes, 17 dither levels, pixel perfect mode, pressure sizing, and horizontal or vertical symmetry.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Drawing tools

It includes pencil, pen, airbrush, smudge, clone, fill, eraser, line, rectangle, oval, and eyedropper tools.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

File formats

The app imports and exports PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, ICO, PICO-8, and XPM; it also imports PSD, TGA, PICT, MacPaint, ICNS, CUR, and Piskel, and exports APNG and SVG.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Layers

Layers support visibility, opacity, onion skin, solo, tileset, and animation modes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Mac features

The app supports autosave and restore, multiple windows, Dark Mode, Quick Look previews, and iPad Sidecar.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Notable limit

The maker says a standalone iPad version is in development; the current app can be used on an iPad connected as a Mac Sidecar display.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Palettes

Users can create palettes, choose from 16 built-in presets, generate gradients, and import palettes from Lospec.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Plugin security

The maker says plugins run sandboxed, with file access limited to files users explicitly choose.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Plugins and scripting

Dottie supports JavaScript plugins and AppleScript and JavaScript for Automation scripting.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Refunds and installs

The maker says App Store purchases can be installed on up to 10 devices, including a maximum of five computers, under the same Apple ID; Apple handles refunds.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

System requirement

Dottie requires macOS Monterey 12.4 or later.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Vector and SVG

Vector layers support editable objects and groups, and can copy and paste SVG shapes to and from other vector apps.Read 11 Oct 2026 · gingerbeardman.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Pixel Art Software#28 of 707.8