Top tools $5 or less for Linux & Windows

Textreme 2

a text editor that looks and feels like a game

Ash K

Tape

Offline-first project management designed for artists and designers

ΛERIF°RM

Wave Warp for Aseprite

Animate wave distortions and shading effects in Aseprite.

Tweencel for Aseprite

Advanced tweening and animation control for Aseprite.

The Tween Machine

Quickly create in-between interpolated frames using position, scale and rotation!

BG Auto-Scroll Toolbar

Quickly Animate A Scrolling / Parallax Background With Ease Using This Toolbar For Aseprite.

Kenney Shape

$3.99

Draw using shapes, extrude to 3D!

Kenney

Loop Draw

Draw on the canvas while the timeline is playing.

picoSYNTH

$4.95

A playful tool to make short beats and loops

Johan Peitz

Parallixel for Aseprite

Auto-generate Seamless Parallax Scrolling for Aseprite.

GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

Video playback and seeking in Godot thanks to GDE GoZen and FFmpeg!

Voylin

Live Draw for Aseprite

Draw while animation playback is playing.

Tilengine

2D retro grapics engine with true raster effects for creating 8/16 bit style games

megamarc

Interactive CYOA Creator

$2.50

Desktop Version of https://intcyoacreator.onrender.com/

MeanDelay

Slope Generator

A fancy little toolbar that makes creating slopes for tile sets easier.

Pixel Proof

Innovative pixel editing!

DinoMage Games

Cow Girl Vending Machine

A customizable Cow Girl based stream toy!

Ember 🐮 Ushi

Live Brush for Aseprite

A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite

SpritePalettizer

Free html5 tool for color palette swaps in games.

NeZvers

Run in browser

ScaleNX

Simple pixel-art upscaling tool (Free in browser!)

Spriteshift

Run in browser

Carbs Toolbar

Custom Toolbar Full Of Useful Features For Aseprite

Ben's Brush

Create a custom brush set with hotkeys to switch your current brush. Also supports random brushes!

Sprite Render Kit - for blender 3d - 60% off + example animated.blend

LIPSU DRAW

R$3

Alternative experimental painter

Hensley

$3.99

A sprite rendering system for Blender ...

blurymind

Prism-384

JavaScript powered Virtual Computer

grapefruitopia industries

Letterboxd Automation Suite & Unfollower Finder

£4.99

The ultimate Unfollower Finder, Mass Follower, and Smart Engagement tools for Letterboxd.

Kushington

LSS Game Contruction Kit

$2.29

Game Construction Kit for Little Sara Sister C64 game

Ice Team

WaterFX

Creates quick and tweakable water/ glitch effect using your current selection.

Normal Map Inspector (+ Aseprite & Krita plugins)

This pixelart tool makes drawing normal maps easy.

ppelikan

Godot Pixel Renderer

$4.99

3D to Pixel Art made easy!

Bukkbeek

Master Mapper + DiceDiceBaby

DAE's Lighting System

Lighting with Real-Time Shadows System for RPG MAKER

SebyDevDev

Spriteable

$4.99

Create 2D art using premade shapes!

Nat

Software for creating dungeon maps and dice rollers.

Studio-krkr

VCam

A Virtual Camera System For Aseprite

Pixel Projects

A Tab Management System To Quickly Swap Between Groups Of Files.