Release notes · Baipix

Coming next

Since 0.8.1: 2 improved, 1 fixed. Already on baipix.app, and in the next version. What comes after is on the roadmap.

Better

On a phone, one toolbar instead of three bars: the two colors, the pencil, the eraser, the paint bucket and the selection, the last other tool taken, and … for all the tools, in a sheet with their names. The colors open the palette in a sheet, and Undo and Redo float above the tool's options. #852
On a phone or tablet, the tools, icon buttons, rows of layers and rows of menus are bigger, 44 px, the size a finger needs. With a mouse nothing changes. #850

Fixed

In the tool's options, the pressed button of a group (the brush's square or round shape) keeps to the group's rounded corners. #852

0.8

0.8.1MinorNovember 14, 2026Baipix works offline and installs as an app, takes touch gestures on phones and tablets, opens Aseprite files, imports animated GIFs and sprite sheets as animations, and speaks Korean and Brazilian Portuguese.

New

Four more templates: Favicon (32 × 32), Small tile (16 × 16, tiled), Emote (112 × 112) and Playing card (64 × 96). #757
Help › Baipix on Bluesky, under the source code on GitHub. #765
Download all, at the top of the home screen: every drawing as its own .baipix file, in one .zip. #775
With the Move tool, a right-click on the canvas opens the menu of the layer or group under the pointer. Arrange brings a layer to the front, forward, backward or to the back, also with Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[, and Shift for front and back. #779
On the files screen, an animated drawing plays in its card while the pointer is on it. #787
Baipix opens Aseprite files (.ase and .aseprite): layers and groups, frames and their durations, blend modes, opacity and the palette. What Baipix doesn't have yet, like tags, slices or tilesets, is left out, and a toast says what. #772
The editor in Korean (View › Language › 한국어). #791
The editor in Brazilian Portuguese (View › Language › Português (Brasil)). #789
The palette's … menu exports the palette as a picture: a PNG with one 32 × 32 square per color, 8 a row, in the palette's order. #795
Six more palettes from Lospec: Endesga 64, Apollo, Lospec500, Vinik24, Bubblegum 16 and Steam Lords. #805
A language menu at the bottom of the files screen's sidebar, to switch languages before opening a drawing. #804, #819
On the files screen, a drawing's card dragged onto Trash in the sidebar goes to the Trash, with Undo. #824
On the files screen, a double click on a drawing's name, or Rename in its … menu, renames it in place. #826
The editor works offline: once it has opened, baipix.app/app loads without a connection, and it can be installed as an app from the browser. A toast says when an update is ready; it never reloads on its own. #806
On a phone or tablet: a long press on the canvas picks the color under the finger, a two-finger tap undoes and a three-finger tap redoes. #807
An animated GIF imports as an animation: each of its frames becomes a frame, with its duration. File › Import a sprite sheet… cuts a picture into frames, by cell size or by columns and rows. #817

Better

The tour's Export step names the animated GIF, the sprite sheet and the .aseprite file, not only PNG and SVG. #764
Help › Keyboard shortcuts lists every key that works, Q, Y and D for the lasso, magic wand and gradient included, and Ctrl+A, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+Shift+I, Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+0, Ctrl+S and ?. #761
The version in the editor's corner and at the bottom of the Help menu opens the release notes on baipix.app at that version, instead of the changelog on GitHub. #745
After your first drawing, Baipix asks the browser to keep its storage, so it isn't cleared on its own when the disk runs low or, in Safari, after a week without a visit; Firefox asks you once. #739
The first files screen shows each preset as a small picture of what it's for, grey, and in the preset's palette on hover, with the palette's name under it. Templates are now called presets. #782
A shorter welcome line, bigger Create and Import buttons, and WebP in the list of files Baipix opens. #783
The links at the bottom of the files screen's sidebar show an arrow: they open in a new tab. #784
The opacity and size fields are sliders: they fill up to their value, a drag anywhere on them changes it, and a click lets you type a number. #790
Remap offers the same palettes as the Colors section: the file's own, your palettes, and the presets you keep shown in Manage palettes. #815
On the files screen, a dragged drawing follows the pointer as a small thumbnail instead of its whole card, so the Trash stays in view. #843

Fixed

The tour gave A as Spray's key; it's P (A is the Board tool). #758
Going back to the files screen during the tour left its bubble on top, pointing at nothing; the tour now waits for the editor and picks up at the same step. #785
In a file exported for Aseprite, a layer that stays the same from one frame to the next no longer jumps to the top left corner on the frames after the first. #778
The Effects and Light sections had a caret to fold them even when empty; clicking it and then adding an effect left the section folded, as if nothing had been added. An empty section has no caret now, and adding an effect or the light opens it. #794
After a language change from View › Language, new layers, boards and files get their default names in the new language, not the old one. #804
On the files screen, "Drop to open" no longer stays on screen after a drag leaves the window over a card or the sidebar. #823
A second click on Adjust the layer, in the Layer section, closes the Adjustments panel; it only opened it. #835
On the files screen, Undo after deleting the only drawing brings it back without opening it in the editor. #845

Thanks

@jay23606 for four new templates (Favicon, Small tile, Emote and Playing card) and the palette as a picture. #757, #795
@mykola-lp for opening Aseprite files, finding and fixing the linked cels exported at the wrong position, the editor working offline, and the touch gestures. #772, #778, #806, #807
@nococn for the Korean translation, the editor's seventh language. #791
@OSilvaDevTI for the Brazilian Portuguese translation, the eighth language. #789
@exi66 for Remap offering the palettes you set up, a first contribution. #815
@abhirajadhikary06 for clearing the npm audit alerts in the development tools (Vite 6, Vitest 4), tests for the import from the old prototype, six Lospec palettes, the language menu on the files screen, a lint that fails on warnings, and the import of animated GIFs and sprite sheets as frames. #798, #802, #804, #805, #817, #818

0.8.0MajorNovember 6, 2026Baipix animates: a timeline with frames and onion skin, exports as GIF, PNG sequence and sprite sheet, a light to shade by, and the editor in Italian and Japanese.

New

Loop, next to the onion skin's fields: on the first frame the last ones show before it, and on the last frame the first ones after it, for animations that play in a loop. #702
Animation: Animate, beside Export, opens a timeline under the canvas, with a row per layer and a column per frame. Add a frame (a copy of the one shown), delete or drag frames to reorder them, give each its own duration, and play them in a loop with Enter or a tap on Space; comma and period step through them. Animated files show a film badge on the files screen, and .baipix files keep their frames. #629, #664
Onion skin, from the timeline: the frames before in red and after in blue, faded under the one you draw, up to five on each side. A sky or a ground painted on its own layer stays under it. #638, #650
Export an animation as a GIF: every frame with its duration, looping, with its exact colors, transparent or on the background, at the pixel size picked; with All boards, one GIF per board in a .zip. #644
Export an animation as a PNG sequence: one PNG per frame, named in order, in a .zip; with All boards, a folder per board. #683
Export an animation as a sprite sheet: every frame on a grid, as many to a row as the columns, with its JSON for game engines, each frame's duration included. #674
The Aseprite export writes every frame, with its duration; a layer that doesn't change from one frame to the next becomes a linked cel there. #682
More ways to handle frames: New empty frame (Alt+B) keeps the scenery and empties what moves; Shift or Cmd/Ctrl-click picks several frames to set their duration, copy, paste, reverse or delete them at once. #661, #662, #665, #668
The editor in Italian (View › Language › Italiano). #630
The editor in Japanese (View › Language › 日本語). #645
A light for each board, to shade by: in the new Light section, drag a lamp around a pixel sphere, or type its angle and height; faint lines and a sun on the canvas show where it comes from, and the sun can be dragged around the board to turn it; a drop shadow can follow it, falling away from the light and longer the lower it is. #609
Shift with the up and down arrows changes a number field by 10, as in Figma: sizes, opacities, tile sizes, in the panels and the dialogs. #606
The Layers + sprite sheet export adds the sheet's JSON, in the TexturePacker format game engines read: each layer's frame on the sheet. #603
The Layers + sprite sheet export lays the sheet out in a grid: Columns sets how many layers go on a row. #596

Better

Drawing is lighter on big files: merging the layers, which the canvas does on every move of the pointer and every frame of an animation, is about ten times faster, and picking a layer, a tool or a color no longer works the drawing's colors out again. #719, #720
Paint.NET palettes (.txt), as Lospec also gives them, open with their colors. #726
The Light section shows a Beta badge: the light may still change, and feedback on it is welcome. #713
Colors, Remap and Outline change every frame of an animation, in one undo step, with All frames ticked (the default); Remap also maps the colors that only show on other frames. #708
Replace with the primary color everywhere replaces it on every frame, and a palette built from the drawing takes every frame's colors. #706, #709
The Drawing colors palette comes from every frame, so it stays the same while stepping through them. #707
Remap takes the file's background along to the new palette, in the same undo step; untick Also remap the background to keep it. #681
With Active layer only ticked on an empty layer, the Export dialog says the layer is empty instead of showing a blank preview that looks broken. #667
File › Export, Ctrl+E and Ctrl+S open the Export dialog, as the Export button does, instead of exporting straight away in the last format picked. #651
Ctrl+C on a selection or on layers also puts them on the clipboard as SVG: pasted into Figma, they come out as shapes you can edit, while other apps still get the picture. #604

Fixed

Pixels pasted in a group stay in it, instead of splitting it in two and losing the group on the next reload. #721
A layer brought back by the toast's Undo joins a group made around its place since, instead of splitting it. #722
A moved symmetry axis is saved, and undoing a step no longer puts it back where it was. #723, #724
Export with All boards leaves out the layers outside the boards, instead of adding them as one more picture. #725
Copied or cut layers keep their animation when pasted, in the same file or another one, instead of showing one frame on every frame. #714
Changing frame, playing, undoing or redoing while dragging several layers with the Move tool no longer writes one frame's pixels onto another: they wait for the drag to end. #715
An animated layer dragged out of its board, or onto a board with fewer frames, stays on its board with a message, instead of losing frames. #716
The undo history counts every frame in its memory budget, so a long session on a big animation no longer uses far more memory than it should. #717
Adding, deleting, pasting, moving or reversing frames with the Adjustments panel open no longer writes one frame's pixels onto another: frames wait for the adjustment to end. #703
A component's instance shows its master on every frame, not only the one shown, so exports come out right; a master with fewer frames on another board loops. #704
The toast's Undo after deleting a layer puts each drawing back on its own frame, even when frames were deleted, moved or added since. #705
The background's swatch follows a Remap's preview, not only the canvas. #701
The files screen (drawings and trash) fills wide windows: the toolbar and the grid no longer stop at 1600px with an empty band on the right, and the grid fits more columns past that size. #699
The Layers + sprite sheet export remembers its columns after a reload. #602
The Tileset export remembers its tile size and Leave out empty and repeated tiles after a reload. #600
The Export dialog remembers the Layers + sprite sheet format after a reload, instead of going back to PNG. #598

Thanks

@jalal-sadat for clearing the React Hooks warnings in the code. #685
@bfs2021 for letting the files screen fill wide windows. #699
@mykola-lp
- for the frames sprite sheet export, with its JSON for game engines. #674
- for the GIF export, which takes animations out of Baipix. #644
- for end-to-end tests that run the editor in a real browser: files, saving, history, layers, boards and two tabs at once. #621, #635, #639, #640, #641
- for a screenshots script that exits cleanly on Linux. #673
- for a clearer autosave hook and its first tests. #611
- for clearer Aseprite and code exports, and the tests that pin them down. #616, #617
@mrCabez for the Italian translation, the editor's sixth language. #630
@rogervokma-stack for the Japanese translation, the editor's fifth language, and its review as a native speaker. #645, #669

0.7

0.7.7MinorOctober 27, 2026Baipix speaks Ukrainian and Spanish and opens in your browser's language, the layers export as separate PNGs and a sprite sheet, and PNG exports match the canvas with blend modes.

New

Export the layers as separate PNGs and a sprite sheet, in a .zip (Export › Format › Layers + sprite sheet). #581
The editor in Spanish (View › Language › Español). #570
The editor opens in the browser's language the first time, when Baipix speaks it, with a button to switch back to English. #565
The editor in Ukrainian (View › Language › Українська). #551
The eyedropper picks colors from the reference image where nothing is drawn over it, in full whatever its opacity, and the loupe shows them. #538

Better

In French, the Board tool is called Plan, like boards everywhere else; the magic wand's option reads Zone contiguë uniquement, like the bucket's. #543

Fixed

PNG exports, Copy as PNG and the export preview match the canvas with blend modes: a Multiply or Overlay layer mixes with the background instead of showing over it as is. #580
Ctrl+Z brings back a removed reference image, and Redo removes it again, not only the toast's Undo. #557
Two fingers moving sideways on a trackpad pan the canvas both ways, instead of taking the browser back to the previous page. #532

Thanks

@robertoponcepaniagua for the Spanish translation, the editor's fourth language. #570
@mykola-lp
- for exporting the layers as separate PNGs and a sprite sheet. #581
- for opening the editor in the browser's language. #565
- for the Ukrainian translation, the editor's third language. #551
- for a test that checks every translation keeps the English placeholders, the first step toward more languages. #544

0.7.6MinorOctober 24, 2026The stabilizer shows its string, the reference image can be removed from the interface, and the files screen stays on a reload.

New

The reference image can be removed from the interface: a trash next to its name in the right panel, a right-click menu on its row in the Layers panel (hide, lock, remove), Delete still works, with Undo in the toast. #520

Fixed

The stabilizer shows what it does: while drawing, a string goes from the pointer to the pixel being painted, where the brush shows; on release, the line goes on to the pointer instead of stopping a string's length short. #522
Reloading the page on the files screen stays on it, instead of opening the editor. #518

0.7.5MinorOctober 24, 2026A files screen like a files app, with a trash, and the drawings safe with Baipix open in several tabs.

New

A trash: a deleted file waits in the Trash, in the files screen's sidebar, with a Restore button that brings it back as it was, and a way to delete it for good. #504

Better

One secondary button everywhere, the export's: a line around it and a fill under the pointer. Import on the files screen takes it. #514
The welcome, before the first drawing, is the drawings screen's: the same header and sidebar, and in the middle the templates as cards, each a board of its shape striped with its palette, one click to start. #510
A click outside a dialog closes it, like Esc; a drag that starts inside and ends outside keeps it open. #508
The files screen is laid out like a files app once there are drawings: a sidebar (Drawings, the Trash, and help at the bottom), a sort menu (alphabetical or last modified, oldest or newest first), grid or list views, and Import and Create on the logo's line. #506

Fixed

The violet main button (Create, Export, a dialog's OK) gets deeper under the pointer, and deeper still when pressed, in both themes. #512
A drawing made in one tab is no longer lost when another tab of Baipix saves: each board is saved as its own record, a tab only writes what it changed and only removes what it removed, and a drawing made in another tab shows up when you come back. #502

0.7.4MinorOctober 23, 2026Effects with an opacity, an eyedropper for the background, a Help button with the version, and a round of fixes from testers and a code review: the pencil's holes, copied selections that paste back, and faster selecting on big files.

New

The background color's picker has an eyedropper too: click the canvas (or drag, shown live) to take the background's color from the drawing, in one undo step, then the tool used before comes back. Esc cancels. #490
An effect's color can be any color, with its opacity: its swatch opens the colors' fields (the square, hue and opacity bars, hex and opacity) above the palette. A drop shadow in black at 30% darkens what's under it; a palette color picked keeps the opacity, and an effect that isn't opaque shows it beside its swatch. #484

Better

A new file starts with the Sweetie 16 palette; it used to start empty, with the drawing's colors. #494
The Move tool shows Deselect when there's a selection, and Select all and Deselect show their shortcuts (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+D). #494
Faster on big files: picking a layer, selecting, or panning and zooming no longer works the drawing out again; the canvas and the preview only do when its pixels change. #486
Faster with many layers: the Layers and Components thumbnails are only drawn again when the drawing changes, and only the ones whose pixels did. #482
A Help button in the window's bottom right corner opens the Help menu (docs, shortcuts, tour, report a bug…), with the app's version beside it, which opens what's new. It replaces the ? button under the info badge, which only opened the shortcuts. #478

Fixed

A notification shows above an open dialog instead of blurred behind it ("SVG copied" in the export). #494
Flatten image keeps every layer when the bottom one is a component instance. #496
A click with the Move tool, or on a field's label, without a drag no longer records an empty undo step. #496
Typing 0 in a shadow's X or Y gives 0, not the minimum. #496
Exporting every board as Aseprite keeps the drawing's colors as the palette. #496
The arrow keys and Delete wait while a scale handle is held, instead of mixing into the scale. #496
Merging a hidden layer down keeps what it holds. #496
Cutting a whole layer leaves no selection behind. #496
Drawing fast with the pencil no longer leaves transparent holes: Pixel perfect only takes away a corner the stroke drew once, not one it had already drawn earlier (a scribble crossing itself). #492
Copying a selection (magic wand, rectangle, lasso) puts it on the system clipboard too, so pasting brings it back instead of what the clipboard held before (a screenshot, layers copied earlier), and other apps get its picture. #488
A one-board file opened twice no longer merges with its copy. #480
A cancelled move (a second finger, a pointer cancel) puts instances and component frames back. #480
Undoing a stroke that grew a component's frame puts its instances on other boards back too. #480
A component frame past the canvas edge keeps its place when saved and opened. #480
Fit or a board switch right after a wheel notch is no longer overridden by the zoom's glide. #480

0.7.3MinorOctober 21, 2026Smooth zoom, a gradient stop in any color, and fixes: trackpad panning in any direction, layer thumbnails you can tell apart, a board's new size when it shrinks.

New

A gradient stop takes any color: its popover has the colors' picker (the square, hue and opacity bars, hex and opacity), above the palette and the drawing's colors. #470
Two cards under the drawings on the files screen: Learn Baipix opens the docs, Something not working? a bug report on GitHub with the version and browser already filled in. #460

Better

Zooming is smooth: a pinch on a trackpad follows your fingers and lands on a whole zoom when they stop, and the wheel and keyboard steps glide to the next level. #474

Fixed

Resizing a board shows its new size when it shrinks too: the dashed outline goes over the board, the part that would be cut is dimmed, and the new size shows in a badge under it instead of over the board's name. #472
Layer thumbnails in the Layers panel show what's drawn on the layer, fitted, instead of the whole board: a small character on a big board can be told apart. #468
Two fingers on a trackpad pan the canvas in any direction, like in Figma; a pinch, or Cmd/Ctrl with the wheel, zooms. A mouse wheel still zooms, Shift with it pans sideways. Before, only a sideways swipe panned, and an up, down or diagonal one zoomed. #466
Dragging a number field's label (a board's W or H, an opacity…) no longer leaves the ↔ cursor stuck: the end of the drag is caught anywhere, also when the panel is redrawn under it or the window loses the focus. #464
A file's only board is selected by a click on its name, like the others, to resize it by its sides; before, only files of several boards (or the Board tool) let it be. #462

0.7.2MinorOctober 19, 2026Components that belong to the file: their instances on any board, or outside the boards, all following them. The reference image framed like a layer, a drawing opened from a link, and the docs, with three guides on the site.

New

The docs from the editor: Help › Documentation opens them, and the keyboard shortcuts dialog (the ? button) links to every shortcut and tool there. #458
Components belong to the file, not to a board: an instance can be on any board of the file, or outside the boards, and follows its component wherever it is. Drag a component from the Components section onto any board, move a component or an instance to another board with the Move tool, and they stay linked; Go to component opens the component's board. The Components section lists the components of the whole file. #456
Open a drawing from a link: the editor opens a .baipix file of baipix.app given as ?open=…, straight in the editor. The guides' Open the editor buttons open their example, and each gallery piece has an Open link. Only files from the site itself are opened. #433
Not counted in the page views: open any page of baipix.app once with ?notrack, and this browser stops sending them, on the site and in the editor, until a page is opened with ?track. #427

Fixed

Align, with nothing selected, counts what's past the board's edges, so it brings back a drawing moved off the board, a component included. #452
The selected reference image gets the same frame as a layer: handles on its sides too, its size under it, and the resize cursors over the handles. A side stretches it one way; a corner still keeps its proportions. #451

0.7.1MinorOctober 17, 2026The drawing as code: a </> button next to Export gives it as a React component, SVG, CSS, JSON or ASCII, to copy or download. Dialogs stand out from the editor, and the background's hex field shows all six characters.

New

The drawing as code: a </> button next to Export (or File › Code…) opens a dialog with a React component, the SVG, CSS (a background image and the colors as custom properties), JSON (named colors and the pixels) or ASCII, to read, copy or download. It follows the drawing's pixel size and gap, and can take the active layer alone. #419
A 30-second video of Baipix on YouTube, linked from the top of the README with its thumbnail. #415

Better

Dialogs stand out from the editor: a darker, slightly blurred backdrop, a hairline edge and a deeper shadow. On opening, the focus goes to the first field to type in, or to the dialog itself, instead of the first button, whose focus ring looked like a selection (Export's 1×). #421

Fixed

The background's hex field, in the Board section, shows its six characters instead of cutting the last one: color rows keep room for six wide letters, their gaps a little tighter. #423

0.7.0MajorOctober 16, 2026Isometric volumes and boards: boxes, cylinders standing or lying, pyramids, stairs and ramps on an isometric grid, several boards in a file like frames in Figma, layers outside them, an undo history that survives a reload, and a lighter interface with line icons, violet selections and Figma-like rulers.

New

The undo history survives a reload: each board's last 50 steps (undo and redo) are kept in the browser next to the drawing, every unchanged layer stored once rather than once per step. #397
Floor tiles, edge by edge: with the isometric grid on, the rectangle's options choose which of a floor tile's edges get the outline (NW, NE, SW, SE), so tiles side by side share one line instead of a doubled one. #396
Lying cylinders, for barrels, logs and wheels: the cylinder's options can lay it along the left or the right axis. Its round end is dragged on a wall like the shapes on an isometric plane, and its body runs back by its length, lit on top and shaded underneath. #395
Isometric stairs and ramps, in the shapes menu next to the box: dragged like the box, Height tall, rising toward the corner you pick (up-left, up-right, down-right, down-left); with Steps above 0, a staircase of equal steps. Outline, face colors and the options' redraw work like the other volumes. #394
Bevels on the isometric box, for crates, stone blocks and rounded tiles: a Bevel menu in its options (top, corner or both) lights the top's back edges and turns its front edges and its front corner halfway between the faces they join, in palette colors when the color is from the palette. #393
Inner edges on isometric volumes: an Edges option next to Outline and Light edge draws a line in the outline's color between the faces: under the box's top and down its front corner, under the cylinder's rim, along the pyramid's ridges that show. #392
A color per face on isometric volumes: three swatches in the box, cylinder and pyramid's options (top, left, right) take the current color on a click, instead of shading the sides from the palette; the outline and light edge follow. A button goes back to shading. The options bar also takes its full width instead of scrolling. #391
The logo sits above the files screen's title, its pixel hopping on a calm beat like a loader, waiting for you to start a file. #388
The logo's escaped pixel hops on hover, in the editor's top bar, on the files screen and on the site; nothing with reduced motion. #386
The files screen gets a discreet ambient background: a grid of small squares lit by slow waves, a few twinkling in violet, quieter behind the content and still when reduced motion is on. #380
Fold the Layers panel, like Figma's Minimize UI: the panel now has a header with the file's name and a button (or Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+\\) that folds it into a small pill and unfolds it again. Remembered across reloads. #376
Undo (Cmd/Ctrl+Z) right after deleting boards brings them back, and Redo deletes them again, like in Figma; the same for layers outside the boards deleted all at once. Once something else is done, Undo goes back to the board's own history (the toast's Undo still works). #360
Layers outside the boards, like in Figma: a layer dragged with the Move tool and let go beside every board stays there, visible, and shows in the Layers panel at the same level as the boards. Grab it again to move it, or drop it onto a board; it can be renamed, hidden or deleted, and a file with no board can still hold such layers. They're only moved for now (the tools draw on a board), and only boards export. Undo takes a layer moved across boards back to the board it left, both sides at once. #358
A file can have no board: delete them all and the canvas says so, with a Create a board button (the board tool draws one too). Undo brings them back. #356
Select layers with a marquee: with the Move tool, drag from an empty spot to select every layer the rectangle touches (a layer in a group takes its group), Shift to add to the selection. They move together, and Delete removes them together, even all of them: an empty layer is left to draw on. #355
A layer dragged with the Move tool follows the pointer outside its board, instead of vanishing past the edge. #354
With the Move tool, a click on an empty spot lets go of the selected layers, like a click on the empty canvas in Figma; the active layer stays, unframed. #353
Drag a layer onto another board: with the Move tool, a layer let go over another board goes onto it, right where it was dropped, with its name, opacity, blend mode and effects. Components and their copies stay on their board for now. #348
Boards in the Layers panel: in a file of several boards, each board has its row, the active one open with its layers and groups under it, like Figma. A click on a row selects the board (Shift adds it) and opens it; a double-click renames it. #347
Align boards: with several boards selected (Shift-click), the Align commands (Layer menu, their Alt shortcuts, or the buttons in the board tool's bar) line them up against the box they fill together. Delete board removes them all. #346
Alt-drag (Option-drag) a board, by its name or with the board tool by its body, to drop a copy of it where you let go, layers and all. With the board tool, a board can also be moved by dragging it anywhere. #345
Delete (or Backspace) removes the selected boards, with an Undo toast that brings them all back. #344
Select a board like a layer: click its name, or click it with the board tool (Shift adds to the selection, Escape lets go). It gets a blue frame and handles; dragging a side or a corner grows or crops the board on that side, the drawing staying where it is, in one undo step. #343
The board tool is on A, like Figma, and the spray moves to P. #341
Help › Report a bug… and Help › Suggest an idea… open a new GitHub issue already filled in like the repository's templates; a bug report comes with the Baipix version and the browser written in. #340
A file's boards share its palette: a change on one board, undo included, is a change for all of them. With Drawing colors, each board shows the colors it uses. #323
Export every board at once: in a file of several boards, Export gets an All boards option, which gives a .zip with one file per board, named after it, in PNG, SVG or Aseprite, each at its own pixel size. #322
Boards, like frames in Figma: a file can hold several boards side by side, each with its own size, layers and undo history. With the Board tool (N), draw a rectangle beside them to add one; drag a board by its name to move it; click a board to work on it, and the Layers panel and the export follow. New, Duplicate and Delete board are in the File menu and the tool's options bar. A file of several boards is saved as one .baipix file; files of one board don't change. #321
With the isometric grid on, Shift lays any shape on the ground, regular: a square tile (exactly a box's top), a circle, a regular triangle, star, heart or rounded square, dragged from the top corner of its diamond to the bottom one (the ellipse, across). The Plane option comes to every shape but the line: on a wall, Shift makes it as tall as wide. Without the grid, Shift keeps its usual meaning. #317
Vertical lines in the isometric grid (Display, under Cell): upright lines through the diamonds' corners, to build heights; a box's upright edges fall on them. Saved with the file, like the grid. #315
Layer › Sort by depth: for an isometric scene with an object per layer, the layers whose drawing reaches lowest on screen go in front. It sorts the selected layers when several are, all of them otherwise, each group's layers within their group; empty layers stay where they are. One undo step. #314
Draw on an isometric plane: with the file's isometric grid on, the rectangle and the ellipse get a Plane option (Flat, Left wall, Right wall, Ground). On a wall, the shape fits in the dragged box, its top and bottom going along the wall in 2:1 steps, for windows, doors and signs. On the ground, the rectangle is a floor tile like the box's top, and the ellipse lies flat. Outlined or filled. #312
An isometric cylinder and pyramid, in the shapes menu next to the box. The cylinder: drag across its top, an ellipse lying flat, and it goes down by the height, shaded like the box. The pyramid: drag its diamond base like the box's top, its apex the height above the middle; its faces are lit from the top left, and a low one shows all four, like a roof. Height, Outline and Light edge redraw the last one drawn, like the box. #313
Extrude (Image › Extrude…): the selection, or what's drawn on the layer, is the top of a volume. It goes up by the height and its sides fill under it, darker on the left and darker still on the right, like the isometric box, with the same Outline and Light edge options. Set up live in the options bar; Enter applies, Escape cancels. Any floor shape becomes a building. #311
Put an image on an isometric face (Image › Put on an isometric face): the selection, or what's drawn on the layer, laid onto the left side, the right side or the top of a box, kept crisp. The sides slide its columns down (or up) one pixel every two, losing nothing; the top turns it by 45° and flattens it, at twice its size so that no pixel is lost. The selection takes the face's shape, ready to move into place. #302
Isometric box: a Light edge option draws the top's two front edges one step lighter, the classic highlight of isometric pixel art, next to the outline. #301
An isometric ellipse: with the file's isometric grid on, Shift on the ellipse tool lays it on the ground, twice as wide as tall. It's drawn the pixel art way, its runs only getting shorter from the top toward the sides, with the two-pixel steps of the 2:1 slope. Outlined or filled. #300
Export as a tileset (Format: Tileset, in Export): the drawing cut into tiles of any size (16 × 16 by default), as a .zip with the tiles on one PNG sheet at 1×, a Tiled tileset (.tsj) and a Tiled map (.tmj) that draws the drawing again. Empty and repeated tiles can be left out of the sheet; the map still rebuilds the drawing. Godot takes the PNG as it is. #299
Isometric tiles: with the isometric grid on, the tile preview repeats the drawing staggered, half a tile across and down, as isometric tiles fit together, and the canvas's corners show the neighbors. Strokes that go past the diamond's edges come back in on the other side, so its corners stay empty. An Isometric tile template (32 × 16) starts that way. The isometric grid now starts from the top middle of the canvas, so its diamonds line up with the tile's. #298
The isometric grid belongs to the file: it's saved in the .baipix file with its cell width, so an isometric drawing keeps it and a flat one doesn't show it. While it's on, the box sits on it (its top corner on a corner of the diamonds, its sides whole diamond edges) and the pencil's Shift-click lines keep to the isometric angles. An Isometric scene template (128 × 128) starts with it on. #297
Straight lines with the pencil and the eraser: Shift-click draws (or erases) a straight line from where the last stroke on that layer ended, like in Photoshop or Aseprite. With Cmd/Ctrl too, it snaps to the line tool's angles, 2:1 included, for isometric edges. #296
An isometric box, in the shapes menu: drag from the top corner of the box to the bottom one (Shift: as deep as wide). The top is the current color and the two sides are darker, taken down the palette's ramp, and an optional outline goes around it in an even darker one. Its edges are clean 2:1 steps. Right after, Width, Depth and Height in the options bar redraw it in place, in the same undo step. #289
Isometric lines: with Shift, the line tool also snaps to 2:1 (two pixels across for one up) and 1:2, besides 0°, 45° and 90°. They're drawn in clean steps of exactly two pixels, with no doubled or lone pixel. #288
An isometric grid (Display, or the View menu): 2:1 diamonds, the pixel art isometric angle, with lines through the pixel corners at every zoom. Pick the width of the diamonds in pixels (16 by default); they're half as tall. #287

Better

Rulers like Figma's: what's selected (the layer framed by the Move tool, or the pixel selection) shows as a violet band on both rulers, its edges written in violet, the numbers too close to them left out; thinner ticks; the Preview window no longer covers the left ruler. #378
A lighter right panel, floating like the Layers panel and as tall as what it shows: only the board, colors, layer and effects. The view settings (pixel grid, tile preview, rulers) open from a button in the top bar; symmetry gets two toggles in the drawing tools' options bar, at hand while drawing; the isometric grid, saved with the file, moves to the Board section. Export is a button at the top right that opens the export in a dialog. #377
A soft violet replaces the blue for what's selected or acted on: the selection's frame and handles, the active layer and tool, the main button, menus, focus and checkboxes. Hovers are now neutral. Components move from purple to green, so they never look selected. #375
Line icons: the interface's icons come from Lucide, finer and lighter than the pixel ones, 16 px in the panels and 18 px in the toolbar. #374
The interface drops its pixel look: soft rounded corners and soft shadows on panels, menus, buttons and the home screen's cards, native checkboxes. The pixel style stays for the logo, the site and what you draw. #373
Precise cursors: drawing tools show a thin crosshair with a light halo instead of a pixel one, the Move tool the system arrow, the eyedropper and the rotate handles line icons. #372
The right panel's Canvas section is now called Board, like the board tool, and so are Board size… and the width and height fields: a file of one board is a board too. #342

Fixed

A star of an even width keeps its tip, two pixels wide, instead of losing it; the star and the triangle on the site's Draw page are drawn symmetric, like in the editor. #405
Several selected layers resize and turn together by the frame's handles, each in proportion within the box they fill, in one undo step; before, the handles did nothing and the frame went away. #390
The side panels' resize handles follow their panel's edge, between its rounded corners, instead of running down the whole window. #382
Undo (and Redo) now covers boards moved by a drag or aligned, each drag or alignment one step, in order with boards deleted. #364
Holding Space shows the hand whatever the tool (the Move tool and the eyedropper kept their own cursor), and the brush outline hides while it's held. #362
A board moved or renamed no longer goes back to its old place or name when a drawing step is undone. The size in the title bar follows a canvas resize right away. #343
An ellipse on a wall had a top and a bottom that alternated pixel by pixel where its curve slopes against the wall's 2:1. They're now even. #318
Put on an isometric face: what landed past the canvas's edges was lost. It's now kept outside the canvas, as after a move, and without a selection the drawing already outside the canvas is laid on the face too. #305
Isometric box: a color that isn't in the palette got its sides from the closest palette ramp, whatever its hue (a blue box with green sides, once the palette held only greens). The sides now come down the palette's ramp only for a palette color, and are otherwise the color itself made darker. #304
In Export, the tileset's tile width and height fields were too narrow for their numbers (16 showed as 1). They now take the panel's whole width, like the canvas size. #303

0.6

0.6.0MajorOctober 11, 2026Palettes and interface: each file keeps its own palette, your own palettes in every file, the two colors as chips like Photoshop, a shorter toolbar, Export at the bottom of the right panel, Cmd+Z for the palette, and an SVG export that keeps the layers.

New

My palettes: keep your own palettes in the browser and use them in every file. In Manage palettes, + New palette makes one from the file's palette or from a .hex or .gpl file; each can be renamed, replaced with the file's palette or deleted. They're listed in the palette menu, after the file's own; picking one copies it into the file, its name in the header. #279
Resize a layer or a selection by its sides too, not only its corners: a handle in the middle of each side, and the whole side can be grabbed. A side changes the width or the height alone, the opposite side staying put; Alt resizes from the center, Shift keeps the proportions. #266

Better

The SVG export keeps the layers: a group per layer and per group, named as in Baipix, so they stay apart once opened in Figma or Illustrator. Opacity and blend modes come along, effects are drawn into their layer, hidden layers are left out; it looks the same as before. #284
Every dialog has a × at the top right, like the floating panels: it closes it without doing anything, like Escape. Dialogs that only had a Close button (palettes, shortcuts) lose it. #283
Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z) undoes the changes made to the palette: a sort, an added or removed color, a color moved, a ramp, another palette picked. Undoing a sort gives a preset back in its own order. Undoing a drawing step still leaves the palette as it is. Sort by lightness is greyed out for Drawing colors, which are sorted already: it used to turn them into a custom palette that no longer followed the drawing. #281
A + after the last swatch of the palette adds the color in use to it; it's greyed out when that color is already there. The Create a ramp and Export buttons under the palette go away: both are in its ... menu. #280
A shorter toolbar, 12 tools instead of 20: like the shapes and the selections, the paint bucket and the gradient share a button, so do shade and lighten, and blur, jumble and liquify (Rework). Each button shows the last tool used of its family; single-key shortcuts don't change. A hidden layer's eye shows in the Layers panel without its lock. #278
Export is a section at the bottom of the right panel, like Figma, instead of a tab: the preview of the file, its scale from 1× to 32×, its name and format, Export, Copy as SVG and Copy as PNG. The right panel has no tabs anymore. The Aseprite format is now remembered too. #277
The primary and secondary colors are two overlapping chips, like Photoshop, next to the palette in one Colors section. The front one is what the tools draw with: click it for its picker (hex, opacity). A click on the one behind brings it to the front, so drawing with the secondary color no longer needs a right click; the arrows in the corner swap them (X). #276
The palette belongs to the file: it's saved in the .baipix file, and switching files switches palettes. Pick a preset, or Drawing colors, the colors the drawing uses, kept up to date as you draw; a new file starts that way, and so do older files. The palette menu shows the palette in use first, then Drawing colors with its colors, then the other presets. The row of recent colors goes away, and the color choices of gradients and effects show the colors in the drawing instead. #274
Gradient stops and layer effects take any color, not only the palette's: under the palette come the primary, secondary and recent colors, and a hex field. A color that isn't in the palette gets a + to add it there. #265

Fixed

In Manage palettes, the + New palette menu opened behind the dialog. It now opens above it, and Escape closes the menu without closing the dialog. #282
The Layers panel no longer leaves an empty space under the rows when there are only one or two layers. #267
Cmd+Z (Ctrl+Z) right after typing a size, an opacity or any number: it now undoes the change in the editor instead of the text in the field. Undoing a canvas resize puts the guides and the reference image back too. #264

0.5

0.5.0MajorOctober 10, 2026Components and new tools: components and instances like in Figma, layer effects, a gradient tool, the lasso and the magic wand, a repeat grid, layers you can drag into groups and copy between files, export to Aseprite, and a smaller New file dialog.

New

Components, like in Figma: Ctrl+Alt+K (or the diamond button next to + in the Layers panel, a layer's right-click menu, or Layer › Create component) turns the active layer into a component, its sprite being the selection or what's drawn. Components are listed at the top of the left panel; drag one onto the canvas to place an instance. Instances follow their component as you draw on it, can't be painted on themselves, move with the Move tool, and Alt+drag copies one; Alt+drag on a component places an instance of it. A diamond marks components and instances in the Layers list. #235, #236
Edit a component, detach an instance: from an instance's right-click menu or the Layer menu, Go to component makes its component the active layer, and Detach instance (Ctrl+Alt+B) turns it back into plain pixels, in one undo step. Trying to paint on an instance offers Go to component right in the message. Drawing next to a component grows its frame, and its instances show the new pixels. #238
Double-click on a group with the Move tool to go into it, like in Figma: its subgroup first, then the layer under the cursor. Escape goes back out one level at a time. #244
Select several layers on the canvas: with the Move tool, Shift+click adds a layer (or its group) to the selection, or takes it out; a drag moves them all. Shift+D duplicates every selected layer at once (also in their right-click menu), and Alt+drag copies what it takes, any layer or group, the copies being what moves. One undo step each. #245
Copy, cut and paste whole layers: Cmd+C or Cmd+X in the Layers panel, or on the canvas with no pixels selected, takes the selected layers (or group) with their name, settings, group and component links; Cmd+V pastes them above the active layer. It goes through the system clipboard, so they paste in another file or another tab, and other apps get a PNG. Pasted in a canvas of another size, layers keep their place. An instance pasted without its component becomes plain pixels, unless the component is in that file. With pixels selected, Cmd+C still copies those pixels. #247
A Gradient tool (D), the pixel art way: drag from where it starts to where it ends (Shift: by 45°), and the area of the same color under the first click (or the selection, or the whole layer) fills with palette colors only, dithered from one to the next (smooth Bayer, checker, or plain bands). Linear, radial, angular or diamond. Its stops are edited on a bar like in Figma: click to add one, drag to move it, click it to pick its color in the palette, or transparent to fade out. Reverse the colors, turn it by 90°: the last gradient follows every change, in the same undo step. Starts from the primary and secondary colors. #248
Repeat in a grid (Layer menu, or a layer's right-click menu): copies of the selection, or of what's drawn on the layer, in columns and rows, with a gap between them (negative to overlap). The numbers update the copies live; Enter applies, Escape cancels, one undo step. An instance or a component repeats as instances, selected together. #249
Export to Aseprite: pick Aseprite as the format in the Export tab to keep working on the drawing there. The .aseprite file has the layers with their names, visibility, lock, opacity and blend modes, the groups, and the palette, on one frame; the background color becomes Aseprite's background layer if it's included. #250
Layer effects, like in Figma: an Effects section under Layer in the right panel. "+" adds an outline (outside or inside, 1 to 16 pixels, round or square corners), a drop shadow (offset in pixels) or a glow (solid next to the drawing, thinning out in dithering). Each one is drawn from the layer's pixels without changing them: tune it, hide it or remove it at any time; it shows on the canvas and in exports. Colors come from the palette. "Apply the effects to the pixels" writes them in; merging a layer does too. Saved in .baipix files. #251
A heart in the shapes, next to the star: outlined or filled, drawn so it reads as a heart even at 7×6. #255
Lasso and magic wand: the selection tools share a button with a menu, like the shapes (Rectangle M, Lasso Q, Magic wand Y, also in the Select menu). Draw around what to select with the lasso; click a color with the wand to select its area, or that color everywhere. Shift adds to the selection, Alt takes from it, with the rectangle too; Select › Invert selection (Ctrl+Shift+I) swaps what is and isn't selected. A selection of any shape is outlined as it is, and filling, clearing, drawing, moving, copying, flipping, turning, resizing and adjusting colors all keep to its pixels. The bucket clicked in a selection fills all of it, and a gradient covers all of it, so a magic wand selection can be repainted in one go. #256

Better

A smaller New file dialog: the size on top, filled with the last one used and ready for Enter, with a button to swap width and height; then the last sizes used and six templates as plain rows (a name, its size, what it sets up). A click picks one, a double-click starts with it. From an image… moves to the footer. The first launch shows the same list. Avatar, Sprite sheet, Wallpaper and Commodore 64 are no longer templates. #253
Layers panel drag and drop: drop a layer, an instance or a group on a group's row to put it inside, even folded. Between rows, the drop line follows the pointer: right, at the bottom of the group that ends there; left, out of it. Groups now nest four levels deep instead of two. #246
The Layers panel loses its bottom bar of buttons: layers move by dragging, and duplicate, group, merge and delete are in the right-click menu (which now groups the selection too), the Layer menu and their shortcuts.

Fixed

After dragging a layer onto another row, the next click on a layer was ignored. #246
Delete (or Backspace) removes the selected layers when no pixels are selected, wherever the focus is; before, it only worked with the focus in the Layers list. #243

0.4

0.4.0MajorOctober 8, 2026Layers you can group and turn: layer groups, rotation by dragging a corner, rotate counterclockwise and align, a canvas size screen, and a Draw page on the website that shows every tool.

New

Rotate by dragging, like in Figma: with the Move tool, just outside a corner of the frame the cursor turns into a rotate arrow; drag to turn the layer or the selection to any angle (Shift snaps to 15°), with the angle under the frame. Pixels turn the RotSprite way, so lines stay clean and no new colors appear; right angles stay exact. One undo step. #226
Layer groups, two levels deep: Ctrl+G groups the selected layers (or the button in the Layers panel), Ctrl+Shift+G ungroups. Fold and unfold them, rename them, drag layers and groups in and out. A group hides, locks, has its own opacity and blend mode (Pass through by default, each layer blending on its own), and can be duplicated, deleted with Undo, or merged into one layer. Selecting a group selects its layers: the Move tool, the arrow keys and Delete act on the whole group, and a click on the canvas with the Move tool takes the group of the layer clicked. Saved in .baipix files; older files open as they were. #224
Rotate 90° counterclockwise (Alt+Shift+R) next to clockwise, and align what's drawn to the canvas: left, center or right, top, middle or bottom. In the Move and Select tools' bar, Layer › Align, and with Figma's shortcuts (Alt+A, H, D, W, V, S). With a selection, only its drawn pixels move. #223
A Canvas size dialog (Image › Canvas size…, or the crop button next to W and H): drag the frame's handles to make the canvas bigger or smaller, drag the drawing to place it, or type the size and pick where the drawing goes in a 3×3 grid (centered by default). What gets cut off is kept, as with the W and H fields. One undo step. #222

Better

Escape now lets go of the selected layer: with no pixel selection, it drops the Move tool's frame and leaves a multiple or group selection for the active layer alone, like a click beside every layer. #232
The tile preview repeats the drawing as far as the view goes, instead of only the eight copies around it. #232

0.3

0.3.1MinorOctober 5, 2026Small fixes and polish on 0.3: Delete removes the layer clicked in the list, blend modes preview as you hover them, and the website is easier to find.

Better

The blend mode menu previews each mode on the canvas as you hover it (or reach it with the arrow keys), like in Figma; only a click keeps it. Leaving the menu or Escape puts the layer back. #215
Click a layer in the list, then Delete or Backspace removes it (or the selected layers, or the reference image), with Undo in the toast. On the canvas, Delete still clears the selection's pixels. #214

0.3.0MajorOctober 3, 2026New tools and a cleaner workspace: a menu bar and a command palette, new ways to draw and rework pixels, blend modes, rulers and guides, templates, and a floating preview that doubles as a minimap.

New

A short tour the first time the editor opens: seven bubbles, one at a time, on the drawing tools, the shapes, the color tools, Jumble and Liquify, the palette, the pixel gap and the export. Skip it at any step (or Escape); it doesn't come back, unless you pick Help › Take the tour. #208
Importing pixel art that was scaled up (a screenshot, an export at 800%…) finds its pixel grid, even cropped or with JPEG noise, and offers to bring it back to its real pixels: a preview shows the grid over the image, and the scale and offset can be adjusted before recovering. "Keep as it is" imports it as before. #207
Templates for new files: Icon (16×16, Sweetie 16), Character sprite (32×32, PICO-8, with left-right symmetry), Game tile (32×32, Endesga 32, with tile preview), Avatar (24×24, Pollen8), Portrait (64×64, DawnBringer 32), Sprite sheet (128×128, AAP-64, with the rulers and a guide every 16 px), Game Boy screen (160×144, its 4 greens), Banner (128×32, Resurrect 64) Wallpaper (160×90, SLSO8) and Commodore 64 screen (320×200, its 16 colors). In the New file dialog above the free sizes, and on the home screen at first launch: one click and the canvas is ready, palette included. #206
Rulers and guides (View › Rulers and guides, or in the Display section): rulers in pixels along the whole top and left edges of the workspace, with the drawing's extent shaded; the panels move aside to leave them in view. Drag from a ruler to add a guide on a pixel edge; with the Move tool, drag a guide to move it, or back onto its ruler to remove it. The position shows on the ruler while dragging. Guides are saved with the file and follow the drawing when the canvas is resized; like the reference image, they're not part of the undo history. #205
The preview window doubles as a minimap: when the canvas shows only part of the drawing, a blue frame shows which part, and a click or a drag in the preview (at its fit) moves the canvas there. #204
A right-click menu on the palette's swatches: use it as the secondary color (what right-click did before), replace it with the primary color everywhere in the drawing and in the palette (one undo step, locked layers left alone), copy its hex code, or remove it from the palette. The recent colors keep right-click for the secondary color. #202
Blend modes for layers, in the Layer section next to the opacity: Darken, Multiply, Color burn, Lighten, Screen, Color dodge, Overlay, Soft light, Hard light, Difference and Exclusion, like in design tools. They show on the canvas, in the preview and in exports (blended into the PNG and SVG colors), are kept by Merge down, and saved in .baipix files. The layer's Hide button becomes an eye in the section header. #201
An Outline tab in the Adjustments panel (Layer › Outline…, Shift+O): a 1px line around the drawing, outside it or along its edge inside, with round or square corners, in the primary color (pick another one in the palette while it's open). Live preview, the active layer or all of them, limited to the selection if any, one undo step. #199
A command palette: Ctrl+K (or the magnifier at the top right) and type to find any command of the menus, or a tool, then Enter. Accents and case don't matter, and each command shows its menu and shortcut. #196
A menu bar across the top, like in desktop apps: File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, View and Help, with each command's shortcut. The file name sits in the middle (rename it in place, ▾ for the files) and the zoom on the right. Once a menu is open, hovering another title opens it, and ←/→ move between them; on narrow windows the menus fold into ☰. New shortcuts: Shift+N new layer, Shift+D duplicate, Shift+M merge down, Alt+↑/↓ move the layer, Shift+H/V flip, Shift+R rotate, Shift+P preview window, F2 rename the file, Tab hide the interface, Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- zoom. #195
Custom brushes: select something and "Make a brush from the selection" in the Pencil's … menu, then paint with it (leaves, bricks, stars…), previewed under the pointer. It paints with its own colors, or as a stencil in the current color. Brushes are saved with the preferences and can be picked or deleted in the same menu; the Lasso fill can use them too. #192
In tile preview, painting wraps around: a stroke that goes past an edge continues on the opposite side, so seamless textures are easy to draw. Works with the Pencil, Eraser, shapes, Spray, Lighten, Shade and Blur. #191
More dithering patterns: besides the checkerboard, dots (1 in 4), dense (3 in 4), horizontal or vertical lines and diagonals, for the Pencil, the Lasso fill (in their … menu) and the Bucket (a list in its options). #190
A Liquify tool (W) that warps the drawing without adding colors: Push drags pixels along with the brush, Expand and Shrink make a part bigger or smaller (and keep going while you hold still). Size and strength options; it redraws from the pixels of the stroke's start, so the drawing stays sharp and passes don't degrade it. Works with symmetry and the selection. #189
A Lasso fill tool (K), next to the Pencil: draw a shape freehand and it closes and fills when you let go. The Pencil's "Fill the shape" option stays for those who prefer it. #188
Resize a layer or a selection by its corner handles with the Move tool, with sharp, nearest-neighbor pixels. Sizes snap to whole multiples (×2, ×3, ×1/2…), shown next to the size; Shift keeps the proportions, Alt resizes from the center, Cmd/Ctrl turns snapping off. One undo step; pixels pushed off the canvas are kept. #187
Lasso fill: with "Fill the shape when the stroke ends" in the Pencil's "…" menu, a stroke closes back to its start when it ends and the shape it draws is filled, with the current color, dithering and symmetry. One undo step. #186
The Pencil's options bar is shorter: dithering, lasso fill and Blend move to a "…" menu (Blend too for the Spray), with a blue dot on it when one of them is on. #186
A Remap tab in the Adjustments panel, to move a drawing to another palette or clean it up: pick a preset or the file's palette, match colors to the nearest one or by lightness (darkest to darkest, which recolors and keeps shadows and highlights), reduce how many colors are used, and optionally replace the file's palette. Live preview, one undo step. #184
A Stabilizer for the Pencil and the Eraser (0 to 10): the stroke follows the pointer on a string that many pixels long, so shaky hands, a mouse or a stylus give smooth lines. It also smooths Lighten, Shade, Blur, Spray and Jumble. Off by default. #182
A Blend option for the Pencil and the Spray: a semi-transparent color mixes with the pixels underneath, like watercolor, instead of replacing them. Going over the same spot again in one stroke doesn't build it up. #179
A round brush tip, next to the size in the tool options: from 3px it paints a round shape instead of a square, for the Pencil, the Eraser, shapes, Lighten, Shade and Blur. #178
A Spray tool (A): it drops random pixels in a circle, like a spray can, and keeps spraying while you hold still. Options for size, density and a random opacity per pixel. Works with symmetry and the selection. #177
A Jumble tool (J): it shuffles the pixels under the brush without adding any color, for texture on foliage, rock or noise, and keeps going while you hold still. Options for size and strength. #177
The opacity of the copies in tile preview can be set, under the Tile preview box: at 100% they look exactly like the drawing, to see the pattern as it will repeat. #176
With the Move tool, the active layer is framed like a selected object: a blue frame around its pixels with white corner handles and its size in pixels under it, following the layer while it moves. #156
With the Move tool, a click beside every layer drops the active layer's frame, like clicking an empty spot in a design tool, instead of moving the active layer. A hole inside the frame still moves it, and so does Cmd/Ctrl. #159
A reference image to trace over. It shows at the bottom of the Layers panel and works like a layer: select it, hide it, lock it, set its opacity, drag it with the Move tool (which takes it where no layer has a pixel) and resize it by the corners. It always stays under the layers and is never exported. Add one with the image button of the Layers panel, from the new file dialog, or with "Use as reference" after pasting or dropping an image. It's saved with the drawing in the browser, not in .baipix files. #151
On phones, the colors stay in view in a strip above the toolbar: tap a swatch for the primary color, long press for the secondary one, tap a chip to open the color picker. #146
A home screen: a welcome on first launch, Create and Import buttons, and your drawings as thumbnails with their last modified date, newest first. Open it from the main menu. The last file can now be deleted too, which brings back the empty home screen. #143

Better

A new file left untouched (nothing drawn, renamed or changed) goes away when you move to another file or create one, isn't listed on the home screen, and isn't saved. #206
The palette picker shows each palette's colors and how many there are, instead of a list of names. #203
The editor starts in English, even when the browser is in French. French is one click away in View › Language, and the choice is remembered. #198
The left panel is lighter: the Files list is gone (the home screen lists the drawings), and a button next to the file name opens the recent files, this file's actions, a new file and all files. The panel is as tall as its layers, up to the window, and the main menu (the logo) no longer repeats the file commands, which are all in the files menu. On phones, the file name in the top bar opens it. #193
The preview is now a small floating window over the canvas: drag it by its title, resize it by its corner, fold or close it (the main menu brings it back). It has its own zoom, from fit to 1000%: pick it in its menu or use the mouse wheel (or pinch) over it, toward the pointer; drag to pan when zoomed, double-click to fit again. Its place, size and zoom are remembered. #193
Layer and file thumbnails follow the drawing's proportions (up to 2:1 either way), so a wide drawing shows as a wide thumbnail instead of a thin strip in a square. #185
"Adjust colors" becomes the Adjustments panel, ready for more kinds of adjustments. Besides the main menu and Ctrl+U, it opens from a button in the Layer section and from the layer right-click menu, starting on the active layer. #183
With "Adjust the palette too" checked, the palette now previews the adjustment live, and undoing the adjustment puts back the palette along with the pixels, so they stay in step. #183
The opacity of the colors can be scrubbed like the canvas fields: drag its ◐ label left or right. For the background, one drag is one undo step. #181
The Primary and Secondary labels next to the colors are gone, to give the fields more room: hovering the swatch says which is which, and which click paints with it. #181
The brush outline under the pointer is dark with a white edge, so it shows on black pixels too. #177
Moving a layer off the canvas keeps its pixels: move it back, or make the canvas bigger, and they come back. Making the canvas smaller keeps what it cuts off too. The part outside is saved with the drawing in the browser, not in .baipix files, and is never exported. #154
The Move tool takes the layer under the pointer: drag any pixel to move its layer, with its outline shown on hover. Cmd/Ctrl keeps the active layer. The tool has a pixel arrow as icon and cursor. #148
The pixel grid stays visible on any drawing: its lines are dark on light pixels and light on dark ones, instead of following the app theme. #145
The eyedropper cursor is the pixel pipette of the toolbar, with a white edge so it shows on any color. #144
A new pixel look for the editor: pixel art icons, side panels floating over the canvas, notched corners and hard shadows, key-style buttons like on the website, pixel checkboxes, and a sky blue for hovers and the main button. The dark theme is now neutral gray. #131

Fixed

The Eraser erased nothing when the Blend option was on (it's shared with the Pencil and the Spray). #200
A key with no name could switch to the rounded rectangle, because tools without a shortcut matched it. #176
In the light theme, muted text, menu shortcuts and the blue focus lines now meet the contrast minimum (4.5:1 for text, 3:1 for lines). #175
Long file and layer names no longer make the left panel scroll sideways: they're cut with an ellipsis, with the full name on hover. Names and sizes now use the whole row, and the action icons show over the end of it on hover. #153
On iPhone, editing a file name or any field no longer zooms the whole interface. #149

0.2

0.2.0MajorSeptember 28, 2026Everyday comfort: small things that make daily use smoother.

New

The drawing's size, number of layers and number of colors next to the cursor coordinates. #125
A hand tool (H) in the toolbar to move around the canvas, also with one finger on touch screens. #118
Select several layers at once with Shift+click and Cmd/Ctrl+click, then drag, delete or merge them together. Flatten image in the layer menu. #115
Drag the symmetry axes anywhere on the canvas, snapped to half pixels. Double-click a grip to recenter. #116
Open and export palette files in .hex (Lospec) and .gpl (GIMP, Aseprite, Krita), or drop one on the canvas. 14 more preset palettes, and Manage palettes to choose which ones show in the menu. #112
A live preview of the exported image in the Export tab, with its final size, 1× to 32× buttons, the file name, and an option to leave the background out. #109
Design and Export tabs in the right panel. #108
Reorder the palette by dragging its swatches. #107
A loupe for the eyedropper, with the hex code of the picked color. #106
Lighten and shade can stay in the color's ramp (the new default), use the whole palette, or change the lightness freely, with an optional hue shift. #104
Tool options in a bar right above the toolbar. #56
Recent colors under the primary and secondary colors. #51
A right-click menu on layers, and Merge visible layers. #52
Lock a layer, and Alt+click its eye to show only that one. #50
Collapsible sections in the panels. #49
Undo in the toast after deleting a layer or a file, instead of a confirmation. #42
Animated marching ants around the selection. #41
Double-click the zoom level to fit the drawing to the screen. #40
A visible button for the keyboard shortcuts. #37
The version number in the main menu, with a link to this changelog.

Better

The pixel gap is set in the Canvas section and always shown on the canvas. #114
The dark theme has a slight ink tint, and the symmetry axes are pink. #58
The palette menu shows either Add or Remove the primary color, and its items are grouped more clearly. #112
Toasts are light in the dark theme, so they stand out from the canvas. #123

Thanks

@QvarcY for the first community contributions: the shortcuts button, fitting the drawing from the zoom level, and the marching ants. #37, #40, #41

0.1

0.1.0MajorThe first versionThe first public version.

New

A pixel art editor in the browser: pencil with pixel-perfect mode, eraser, paint bucket, selection and move, eyedropper, lines and shapes, palette-aware shade, lighten and blur.
Layers, several files, symmetry, tile preview, checkerboard dithering, rotation and flips.
Preset palettes, Lospec palettes by pasting, palettes built from the drawing, hue-shifted ramps.
Exports to PNG, clean SVG (one path per color), copy as SVG or PNG, .baipix project files, with a pixel size and a gap between pixels.
Everything saved in the browser, English and French, light and dark themes.
The website, with a gallery of drawings rendered by the editor itself.

Every change, the website's included, is inCHANGELOG.md and thereleases on GitHub.

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