| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Pixel Art Software | 8.5 (#8) | 7.3 (#55) |
| Downloads | The official download page lists Linux x86_64 AppImage builds and Windows installers and portable archives. | The README lists Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux downloads, and release automation builds assets for all three. |
| Drawing tools | Its help lists tools including freehand drawing, lines, spray, flood fill, Bézier curves, polygons, rectangles, circles, and gradients. | Its tools include pencil, eraser, bucket fill, eyedropper, stroked rectangles, and stroked ellipses. |
| File formats | The documentation lists support for PNG, GIF, BMP, PCX, TIFF, ICO, and numerous retro-computer image formats. | It opens PNG, JPEG/JPG, and BMP files and exports those formats, with transparency available for PNG. |
| License | GrafX2 is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2. | Tilf is released under GPL v3.0. |