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Fizzy

Pixel art editor made with Zig

From fizzyedit·Updated June 13, 2026·View on GitHub·

**Fizzy** is a cross-platform open-source pixel art editor and animation editor written in [Zig](https://github.com/ziglang/zig). The project is written primarily in Zig, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2021. It has gained significant community traction with 1,396 stars and 39 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: 2d, animation, cross-platform, editor, gamedev.

Latest release: v0.0.19
June 12, 2026View Changelog →
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Fizzy is a cross-platform open-source pixel art editor and animation editor written in Zig.

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Currently supported features

  • Typical pixel art operations. (draw, erase, dropper, bucket, selection, transformation, etc)
  • Tabs and splits, drag and drop to reorder and reconfigure
  • File explorer with search and drag and drop.
  • Create animations and preview easily, edit directly on the preview.
  • View previous and next frames of the animation.
  • Set sprite origins for drawing sprites easily in game frameworks.
  • Import and slice existing .png spritesheets.
  • Intuitive and customizeable user interface.
  • Sprite packing
  • Theming
  • Automatic packing and export on file save
  • Also a zig library offering modules for handling assets
  • Export animations as .gifs

User Interface

  • The user interface is driven by DVUI.
  • The general layout takes many ideas from VSCode or IDE's, as well as general project setup using folders.

Compilation

  • [Linux] Ensure gtk+3-devel or similar is installed (for native file dialogs).
  • Install zig 0.16.0.
  • Clone fizzy.
  • Build.
    • git clone https://github.com/fizzyedit/fizzy.git
    • cd fizzy
    • zig build run

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