| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 7 | 0 |
| Spec score · Pixel Art Software | 8.8 (#4) | 6.2 (#69) |
| Animation | Its timeline supports linked cels, onion skinning, animation tags, tag sequences and variable frame timing. | Users can create multiple frames and make them into animations. |
| Drawing tools | The editor provides 21 drawing and selection tools, with the independent listing describing 20 drawing and selection tools. | The editor includes draw, fill, and erase tools. |
| Installation | The Windows build is portable: users extract an archive and run pixelaoi.exe without an installer. | The README’s build instructions list Node.js and npm, Git, and Rust and Cargo as prerequisites. |
| Product | PixelAOI is a pixel art editor and animator for Windows, written in Rust and made for game developers. | ZIDE is an open-source pixel art editor with a minimal, easy-to-use interface. |