Top released 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

Wave Warp for Aseprite

Animate wave distortions and shading effects in Aseprite.

Devkidd

Live Draw for Aseprite

Draw while animation playback is playing.

Devkidd

BG Auto-Scroll Toolbar

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

Tweencel for Aseprite

Advanced tweening and animation control for Aseprite.

Devkidd

Parallixel for Aseprite

Auto-generate Seamless Parallax Scrolling for Aseprite.

a simple game making tool

Sokpop Collective

Carbs Toolbar

Custom Toolbar Full Of Useful Features For Aseprite

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

GDE GoZen - Video Playback addon for Godot

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

Voylin

Normal Map Inspector (+ Aseprite & Krita plugins)

This pixelart tool makes drawing normal maps easy.

ppelikan

Slope Generator

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

A Virtual Camera System For Aseprite

Live Brush for Aseprite

A Custom Brush Manager for Aseprite

Draw on the canvas while the timeline is playing.

SpritePalettizer

Free html5 tool for color palette swaps in games.

NeZvers

Run in browser

Pie Menu

Aseprite Extensione - Pie Menu

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

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

$3.99

A sprite rendering system for Blender ...

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

Zelda inspired Hearts System - Plugin for RPG Maker MZ

Nu:Cat

A Meowizer (Meowing Synthesizer)

Kitsunebi Games

$3.99

Create a HP system using Hearts.

Sang Hendrix

Pixel Projects

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

Master Mapper + DiceDiceBaby

DAE's Lighting System

Lighting with Real-Time Shadows System for RPG MAKER

SebyDevDev

Software for creating dungeon maps and dice rollers.

Studio-krkr

Sprite To 3D

Create 3D models using sprites

MySelfXD

GML Audio System (Saudio)

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

Fern Nigro

OpenToonz (Morevna Edition)

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

An undockable floating color palette extension for Aseprite!