Top tools $5 or less for macOS & Windows

Desktop Cat Cursor

$2.99

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

samperson

Textreme 2

a text editor that looks and feels like a game

Ash K

GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

BG Auto-Scroll Toolbar

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

a simple game making tool

Sokpop Collective

Tape

Offline-first project management designed for artists and designers

ΛERIF°RM

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

Voylin

picoSYNTH

$4.95

A playful tool to make short beats and loops

Johan Peitz

The Tween Machine

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

Wave Warp for Aseprite

Animate wave distortions and shading effects in Aseprite.

Tweencel for Aseprite

Advanced tweening and animation control for Aseprite.

Live Brush for Aseprite

A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite

Parallixel for Aseprite

Auto-generate Seamless Parallax Scrolling for Aseprite.

Loop Draw

Draw on the canvas while the timeline is playing.

Live Draw for Aseprite

Draw while animation playback is playing.

SpritePalettizer

Free html5 tool for color palette swaps in games.

NeZvers

Run in browser

Slope Generator

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

VCam

A Virtual Camera System For Aseprite

Normal Map Inspector (+ Aseprite & Krita plugins)

Pixel Proof

Innovative pixel editing!

DinoMage Games

This pixelart tool makes drawing normal maps easy.

Space Combat Engine for GMS 2

Vincent

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

$3.99

A sprite rendering system for Blender ...

blurymind

WaterFX

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

Carbs Toolbar

Custom Toolbar Full Of Useful Features For Aseprite

grapefruitopia industries

Prism-384

JavaScript powered Virtual Computer

Palantir

A DragonRuby Game Toolkit state inspector

kfischer_okarin

Run in browser

GML Audio System (Saudio)

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

Fern Nigro

Letterboxd Unfollower Finder & Automation Suite

Sprite To 3D

Create 3D models using sprites

MySelfXD

£4.99

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

Kushington

Digital Character Sheet

$4.99

Digitally store your character sheets from any Tabletop gaming ruleset.

Mr. Nate

Spriteable

$4.99

Create 2D art using premade shapes!

Nat

Master Mapper + DiceDiceBaby

Pie Menu

Aseprite Extensione - Pie Menu

cammellaro

Software for creating dungeon maps and dice rollers.

Studio-krkr

Nu:Cat

A Meowizer (Meowing Synthesizer)

Kitsunebi Games

Pixel Projects

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