Top tools $5 or less for macOS

Textreme 2

a text editor that looks and feels like a game

Ash K

Desktop Cat Cursor

$2.99

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

samperson

Tape

Offline-first project management designed for artists and designers

ΛERIF°RM

Wave Warp for Aseprite

Animate wave distortions and shading effects in Aseprite.

BG Auto-Scroll Toolbar

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

picoSYNTH

$4.95

A playful tool to make short beats and loops

Johan Peitz

Tweencel for Aseprite

GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

Advanced tweening and animation control for Aseprite.

a simple game making tool

Sokpop Collective

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

Voylin

Parallixel for Aseprite

Auto-generate Seamless Parallax Scrolling for Aseprite.

Live Brush for Aseprite

A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite

Carbs Toolbar

Custom Toolbar Full Of Useful Features For Aseprite

Loop Draw

Draw on the canvas while the timeline is playing.

Pixel Proof

Innovative pixel editing!

DinoMage Games

SpritePalettizer

Free html5 tool for color palette swaps in games.

NeZvers

Run in browser

Ben's Brush

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

The Tween Machine

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

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

$3.99

A sprite rendering system for Blender ...

blurymind

Slope Generator

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

Live Draw for Aseprite

Draw while animation playback is playing.

Pie Menu

Aseprite Extensione - Pie Menu

Space Combat Engine for GMS 2

Vincent

WaterFX

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

grapefruitopia industries

Prism-384

JavaScript powered Virtual Computer

Master Mapper + DiceDiceBaby

Software for creating dungeon maps and dice rollers.

Studio-krkr

VCam

A Virtual Camera System For Aseprite

Zelda inspired Hearts System - Plugin for RPG Maker MZ

$3.99

Create a HP system using Hearts.

Sang Hendrix

Letterboxd Automation Suite & Unfollower Finder

£4.49

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

Kushington

Spriteable

$4.99

Create 2D art using premade shapes!

Nat

Normal Map Inspector (+ Aseprite & Krita plugins)

This pixelart tool makes drawing normal maps easy.

ppelikan

DAE's Lighting System

Lighting with Real-Time Shadows System for RPG MAKER

SebyDevDev

GML Audio System (Saudio)

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

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