As of October 2022, its repository has had 68 contributors and around 19 thousand stars. The project's code repository was hosted on Google Code until August 2014, when it was migrated to GitHub, where it remains hosted to date. Both before, and after the license change, Aseprite was sold online, on Steam, itch.io, and the project's website. The EULA permits others to download the Aseprite source code, compile it, and use it for personal purposes, but forbids its redistribution to third parties. On the 1st of September 2016, the main developer, David Capello, wrote a post on the Aseprite Devblog explaining this change. This license was kept until August 2016 with version v1.1.8, when the developers switched to a EULA, thus making the software proprietary. Aseprite source code and binaries are distributed under EULA, educational, and Steam proprietary licenses.Īseprite, formerly known as Allegro Sprite Editor, had its first release in 2001 as a free software project under the GPLv2 license. Aseprite can be downloaded as freeware, or purchased on Steam or Itch.io. and led by the developers David, Gaspar, and Martín Capello. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and features different tools for image and animation editing such as layers, frames, tilemap support, command-line interface, Lua scripting, among others.

Aseprite is a proprietary, source-available image editor designed primarily for pixel art drawing and animation.

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