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LibreSprite

Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

LibreSprite is a pixel art editor, available on Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

LibreSprite is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

LibreSprite lets you create 2D animations for videogames. From sprites, to pixel-art, retro style graphics, and whatever you like about the 8-bit (and 16-bit) era. It offers the following features: Real-time animation previews Onion skinning Multiple sprites can be edited at once Ready to use palettes, or make your own Sprites are composed of both layers & frames Tiled drawing mode, useful to draw patterns and textures Pixel precise tools like filled contour, polygon, shading mode, etc. Several file types supported for your sprites and animations

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Wikidata (licence, platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 5 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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