Desktop Pixel Editor for Windows

Pixel Art. Animation. Sound. One Workspace.

Draw pixel-perfect sprites, animate them frame by frame with onion skinning, time the motion against real audio, and export game-ready assets — without leaving the editor or paying anyone monthly.

Get Talixel — $10 Watch It Work

One payment · No subscription · Works offline · Windows 10 & 11 (64-bit)

The Talixel editor with a pixel-art night scene on five layers: sky, hills, ground, a slime called Pip, and sparkles

Watch a Scene Come Together

Five layers, one night sky, painted stroke by stroke in Talixel. Real footage of the app, sped up about nine times.

Layers

Change One Thing Without Breaking the Rest

Character, background, props and effects each live on their own layer, so reworking the sky at frame 40 never costs you the sprite standing in front of it.

Tap a layer to hide it. These are the scene's real layers, pixel for pixel.

Readable at 2am and at Noon

A dark studio interface for long sessions and a light one for bright rooms. Colours read honestly in both, so what you draw at night still looks right in the morning.

Talixel in light mode
Talixel in dark mode
Dark Light
Audio on the timeline

Land Your Animation on the Beat

Drop a track straight into the timeline and place keyframes against the sound itself — instead of counting frames, exporting, watching it miss, and starting over.

The Import Audio dialog showing a track's waveform with trim handles
Use only the seconds you need. Trim a song down to the exact passage you are animating to before it ever reaches your timeline.
The Talixel timeline with five layers and a Music track underneath
The track lives under your layers. Scrub, play and time frames with the music right there, then export video with the audio included.
Colour

Colour Tools Made for Pixel Art

Eight classic palettes are built in — PICO-8, Sweetie 16, Endesga 32, DawnBringer 16 and 32 and more — and your own palettes can be duplicated, sorted by hue, extended with generated shades, or pulled straight out of an image.

For everything else there's a colour wheel drawn in pixels, with hue, saturation, lightness and alpha sliders that show what they'll do before you drag.

The Colors panel with the PICO-8 palette The pixel colour wheel with hue, saturation, lightness and alpha sliders

See Where Your Motion Is Going

Onion skin draws the frames around the one you're editing, so spacing and arcs stay readable while you draw instead of only after you hit play.

  • Red is where the sprite has been — the frames before this one.
  • Blue is where it's heading — the frames after.

Choose how many frames to show on each side and how strongly they tint. Ghosts fade the further out they sit, so the nearest frame always reads clearest.

Learn It in 30 Seconds

Short tutorials, each one filmed in the real app. Tap one to play it.

Safe, Private, and Actually Yours

Fair questions to ask before running an installer from a developer you have never met.

Your artwork stays local

No cloud storage, no upload feature. Files save to your disk and stay there.

No tracking

No analytics library in the app. Nothing reports how or when you use it.

Updates install themselves

New versions download quietly and apply when you close the app. No reinstalling.

A real refund window

30 days. Email us and we refund you — no argument, no form to fight with.

About that Windows warning

We have no publisher certificate yet, so Windows asks you to confirm. Here is what it looks like and what to click.

Simple One-Time Pricing

Buy once. Own it forever. No subscriptions and no recurring billing.

$10 / one-time purchase
  • Perpetual license for 1 user
  • Activate on up to 2 devices
  • All updates in current major version
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FAQ

Is Talixel a subscription?

No. Talixel is sold as a one-time purchase with a perpetual license.

Can I use Talixel offline?

Yes. Talixel is a desktop app with full local file workflows and offline editing.

What can I export?

PNG, animated GIF, sprite sheets with metadata, and video — including any audio you've imported for timing.

Which platforms are supported?

Talixel currently runs on Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). macOS and Linux versions aren't available yet.

How many computers can I use it on?

Two at a time. If you get a new machine, remove the old one from your account page and the slot frees up immediately — no need to contact support.

Do I need an account?

Yes — your license key lives in your account, so you can always find it again and manage your devices. The app itself only needs the key, and works offline once activated.

Is there a free trial?

Not yet — Talixel is a one-time purchase with no trial build today. What we offer instead is a 30-day refund window: buy it, use it properly, and if it is not the tool you wanted, email support@talixel.com and we refund you.

Windows says it doesn’t recognise the publisher. Is that safe?

That warning appears because Talixel does not carry a paid Windows publisher certificate yet, not because anything was found in the file. Every new independent app sees it. We wrote a short page showing the exact screens and what to click, including how to verify the installer’s checksum if you would like to check it yourself.

How do I get updates?

Automatically. Talixel checks for new versions in the background, downloads them quietly, and installs the next time you close the app. You never reinstall from the website or re-enter your key.

How quickly can I get support?

Support requests are typically answered within 24 to 48 business hours.