Top tools $5 or less for macOS

Textreme 2

a text editor that looks and feels like a game

A playful tool to make short beats and loops

Johan Peitz

Desktop Cat Cursor

$2.99

Replace your mouse cursor with its eternal foe: your cat paw.

samperson

Tweencel for Aseprite

Advanced tweening and animation control for Aseprite.

Tape

Offline-first project management designed for artists and designers

ΛERIF°RM

Parallixel for Aseprite

Auto-generate Seamless Parallax Scrolling for Aseprite.

BG Auto-Scroll Toolbar

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

Live Draw for Aseprite

Draw while animation playback is playing.

Wave Warp for Aseprite

Animate wave distortions and shading effects in Aseprite.

a simple game making tool

Sokpop Collective

Carbs Toolbar

Custom Toolbar Full Of Useful Features For Aseprite

Live Brush for Aseprite

A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite

Pixel Proof

Innovative pixel editing!

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

Draw on the canvas while the timeline is playing.

Slope Generator

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

A Virtual Camera System For Aseprite

Normal Map Inspector (+ Aseprite & Krita plugins)

This pixelart tool makes drawing normal maps easy.

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

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

SpritePalettizer

Free html5 tool for color palette swaps in games.

NeZvers

Run in browser

$3.99

A sprite rendering system for Blender ...

Space Combat Engine for GMS 2

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

grapefruitopia industries

Prism-384

JavaScript powered Virtual Computer

Pixel Projects

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

GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

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

Voylin

Zelda inspired Hearts System - Plugin for RPG Maker MZ

Pie Menu

Aseprite Extensione - Pie Menu

cammellaro

Nu:Cat

A Meowizer (Meowing Synthesizer)

Kitsunebi Games

Spriteable

$4.99

Create 2D art using premade shapes!

Nat

$3.99

Create a HP system using Hearts.

Sang Hendrix

Master Mapper + DiceDiceBaby

Software for creating dungeon maps and dice rollers.

Studio-krkr

DAE's Lighting System

Lighting with Real-Time Shadows System for RPG MAKER

SebyDevDev

Sprite To 3D

Create 3D models using sprites

MySelfXD