| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Pixel Art Software | 7.8 (#28) | 8.5 (#9) |
| Animation | Frame animation includes a timeline, per-frame durations, frame tags, live preview, and sprite sheet, GIF, or APNG export. | The editor includes an animation timeline with frame grouping and optional onion skinning per layer. |
| Brushes | Brush settings include multiple shapes and sizes, 17 dither levels, pixel perfect mode, pressure sizing, and horizontal or vertical symmetry. | Included brushes are 16, 24, 32 and 64 pixels in size. |
| Drawing tools | It includes pencil, pen, airbrush, smudge, clone, fill, eraser, line, rectangle, oval, and eyedropper tools. | Tools include pen, paint bucket, line, selection marquee, magic wand, shapes, color replacement, and gradient fill. |
| 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. | The product listing says Lightcube supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, and Photoshop PSD files. |
| Layers | Layers support visibility, opacity, onion skin, solo, tileset, and animation modes. | Layers can be locked, moved, merged, given opacity and assigned blending modes; reference layers are supported. |
| Purpose | Dottie is a native Mac pixel art editor for creating sprites, tilesets, icons, portraits, and other artwork. | Lightcube is a pixel art editor for game developers and artists to create game assets, animations and pixel art. |
| Support | The maker accepts support inquiries, bug reports, and feature requests through social accounts or email, and says email responses may be slower. | Product support is available by email at [email protected]; the maker asks users to include the app and Windows versions and a description of the issue. |