New Pixels is a free pixel art creation app. Using a library of simple shapes and colours, users can create their own block paintings or images and then share them with friends or within the app's community library.

Pixels return

New Pixels is a bare-bones introduction to the increasingly popular world of pixel art. Thanks to the rise of indie games featuring the retro bit design style, potential artists and game designers have begun to seek out ways to learn the style. This app serves as a very basic starting point for pixel art, offering up a fairly limited library of shapes and colours. Users drag and drop blocks onto a small grid to create their own pictures and icons which can be downloaded for later use or shared within the app. While limited in functions, New Pixels does have a charming simplicity which is perfect for a quick play, learning the very basics of pixel arts or for making a block portrait for social media.

Light-hearted fun

New Pixels is a fun time-waster which may find occasional use in a user's library for silly creations. The free download and lack of micro-transactions makes it a risk-free app to mess around with, but nothing advanced should be expected.