🎨 About PixelPaletteSwap
A free tool built by pixel art enthusiasts, for pixel art enthusiasts
What Is PixelPaletteSwap?
PixelPaletteSwap is a free, browser-based tool that lets you instantly swap colors in pixel art images and GIF animations. Whether you're creating character variants, experimenting with different color schemes, or batch-processing game assets, our tool makes palette manipulation quick and intuitive.
Unlike traditional image editors that require complex workflows to change colors, PixelPaletteSwap is purpose-built for pixel art. Simply upload your image, click on a color, choose a replacement, and watch every pixel of that color change across all frames instantly.
Best of all, everything happens right in your browser. Your images never leave your computer—all processing is done locally using JavaScript, ensuring complete privacy and zero upload wait times.
Who Is This Tool For?
Game Developers
Create multiple character variants, team colors, power-up states, and enemy recolors without redrawing sprites from scratch. Save hours of production time.
Pixel Artists
Experiment with different color palettes before committing. Test how your art looks with various color schemes or match a specific aesthetic quickly.
Designers & Hobbyists
Whether you're making assets for a jam, creating Discord emotes, or just having fun with pixel art, this tool makes color editing accessible to everyone.
The Problem We Solve
Creating color variants of pixel art has traditionally been tedious. In most image editors, you need to manually select colors using magic wand tools, deal with anti-aliasing edge cases, and repeat the process for every single frame of an animation. For a 60-frame walk cycle with 4 color variants, that's potentially hundreds of manual operations.
PixelPaletteSwap solves this by treating your pixel art as data. We extract the color palette, let you remap colors, and apply changes to all frames simultaneously. What used to take hours now takes seconds.
Need to create 5 different team colors for your game's characters? Upload once, swap colors 5 times, export 5 GIFs. Done.
Key Features
Multi-Format Support
Upload GIFs, PNGs, JPGs, and WebP images. Load animated GIFs or multiple static images as frame sequences.
Selection Tools
Use rectangle or polygon selection to swap colors in specific areas only—perfect for complex sprites.
Eyedropper Picking
Click directly on your image to select colors. No need to guess hex codes or search through swatches.
Live Preview
See your changes in real-time with animation playback. Adjust speed and zoom for precise inspection.
Preset System
Save your color mappings as reusable presets. Apply the same palette swap to any matching sprite.
Flexible Export
Export as GIF, individual PNG frames, or a ZIP archive of all frames for game engine import.
About The Creator
PixelPaletteSwap was built by an independent developer who loves pixel art and game development. After spending too many hours manually recoloring sprites in various projects, the need for a simple, fast palette swap tool became clear.
Rather than keeping the tool private, we decided to share it with the community. The pixel art and indie game dev communities have given so much—free tutorials, open-source tools, inspiring artwork—and this is our way of giving back.
The tool is completely free to use, with no account required, no watermarks, and no hidden limitations. We hope it helps you create something amazing.