Top tools $5 or less for macOS

Textreme 2

a text editor that looks and feels like a game

Ash K

Parallixel for Aseprite

Auto-generate Seamless Parallax Scrolling for Aseprite.

Tape

Offline-first project management designed for artists and designers

ΛERIF°RM

BG Auto-Scroll Toolbar

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

Wave Warp for Aseprite

Animate wave distortions and shading effects in Aseprite.

GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

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

a simple game making tool

Sokpop Collective

Tweencel for Aseprite

Advanced tweening and animation control for Aseprite.

Live Brush for Aseprite

A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite

The Tween Machine

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

Ben's Brush

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

Pixel Proof

Innovative pixel editing!

DinoMage Games

Loop Draw

Draw on the canvas while the timeline is playing.

Slope Generator

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

Zelda inspired Hearts System - Plugin for RPG Maker MZ

$2.99

Create a HP system using Hearts.

Sang Hendrix

SpritePalettizer

Free html5 tool for color palette swaps in games.

NeZvers

Run in browser

Carbs Toolbar

Custom Toolbar Full Of Useful Features For Aseprite

Live Draw for Aseprite

Draw while animation playback is playing.

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

$3.99

A sprite rendering system for Blender ...

Space Combat Engine for GMS 2

Vincent

Prism-384

JavaScript powered Virtual Computer

grapefruitopia industries

WaterFX

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

Normal Map Inspector (+ Aseprite & Krita plugins)

Pie Menu

Aseprite Extensione - Pie Menu

cammellaro

This pixelart tool makes drawing normal maps easy.

Radically simple painting app. Designed for toddlers — fun for any age.

glyphdrawingclub

Desktop Icons

liliuhms

OpenToonz (Morevna Edition)

Free and open-source 2D animation software for Windows, Linux and OSX.

Morevna Project

Palantir

A DragonRuby Game Toolkit state inspector

kfischer_okarin

Run in browser

Master Mapper + DiceDiceBaby

Software for creating dungeon maps and dice rollers.

Studio-krkr

VCam

A Virtual Camera System For Aseprite

GML Audio System (Saudio)

The fastest and easiest audio solution for Game Maker: Studio 2 and 2.3+

Fern Nigro