| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 7 |
| Spec score · Pixel Art Software | 7.4 (#47) | 8.8 (#4) |
| Animation | Its animation system includes multi-frame projects, a timeline, named animations, frame tags, onion skin, and frame interpolation. | Its timeline supports linked cels, onion skinning, animation tags, tag sequences and variable frame timing. |
| Layers | The editor supports nested groups with their own opacity and blend modes, plus linking a layer across frames. | It supports unlimited layers, groups, clipping masks and 19 blend modes. |
| What it does | Motestack is a browser-based pixel-art and 2D-animation editor for indie game developers and pixel-art enthusiasts. | PixelAOI is a Rust-built Windows pixel-art editor and animator aimed at game developers. |