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Draw what you want,
without limits.

Pixel artists should be enabled by technology, not constrained or outpaced by it. Dotti aims to provide cutting-edge tools that accelerate pixel artist workflows. Work to your same standards, but in half the time.

Dotti editor

Everything you need

A full pixel art studio in one native Mac app.

Drawing & Selection

Pencil, brush, eraser, fill, line, shapes, and every selection mode. Each tuned for absolute precision.

Non-Destructive Effects

Outline, drop shadow, gradient, mirror, and dither as layer effects. Persistent and changeable across frames and groups.

Palette & Color Ramps

Index painting, ramp management, and palette linking. Tools that understand and respect palette discipline.

Animation & Export

Timeline with onion skinning, frame cycles, and named steps. Export GIF or sprite sheets with metadata.

Tilemap Editor

Stamp, erase, and fill tiles with a dedicated palette. Build game-ready tilemaps without leaving your editor.

Metal & Workspace

60fps GPU canvas, split-screen views, symmetry guides, dockable panels, and full shortcut remapping.

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What sets Dotti apart

Features you won't find anywhere else.

Beyond Manual Tools

  • Non-destructive layer effects
  • Index painting with auto palette-mapping
  • Global palette linking
  • RotSprite transform built in

Pixel-Perfect by Design

  • No interpolation, ever
  • Palette-aware tool behavior
  • Optimized for 16×16 to 2048×2048
  • Purpose-built pixel art workflows

Native & Modern

  • Built for macOS from the ground up
  • Metal GPU rendering pipeline
  • Clean, dense workspace layout
  • One-time price, no subscription

Breaking it down

Feature by feature, against the usual suspects.

Feature
Dotti
Aseprite
Photoshop
Procreate
Non-destructive layer effects Outline, drop shadow, curves, blur and more stay live and editable — reorder them, retarget them across layers, or bake them down whenever. Photoshop has smart filters, but they were never built around pixel art.
Best-in-class
No
Yes
No
True indexed palette painting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Live tile-mode preview
Yes
Yes
No
No
Tilemap layers with tile palette
Yes
Yes
No
No
Native Mac app (Metal GPU canvas) Real macOS menus, shortcuts and dialogs, with a Metal-accelerated canvas. Aseprite and Photoshop are cross-platform ports; Procreate is iPad-only.
Best-in-class
No
No
No
Sprite-sheet export with slices
Yes
Yes
No
No
One-time price, no subscription
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Cloud sync between Macs On the roadmap — license already covers two Macs, sync is planned for a future 1.x update.
Planned
No
Yes
No
Yes Supported Best-in-class Best-in-class in Dotti Planned On the roadmap No Not available

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