Phluxel

Your pixel art, alive.

Phluxel is a pixel art animation tool for Windows where drawings come alive — paint pixels, add simulation rules, and watch fire, rain, snow and entirely new worlds emerge from your art. No coding required.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

🎨 Paint like in any pixel editor — pen, shapes, fill, symmetry, magic wand

⚡ 40+ built-in rules — fire, snow, Game of Life, reaction-diffusion and more

✏️ Write your own rules with Phlux, a tiny one-line rule language

🖥️ GPU-accelerated simulation, timeline & keyframes

📤 Export GIF · MP4 · PNG sequences — share anywhere\

WHO IS PHLUXEL FOR?

🎮 Game developers & pixel artists — create animated VFX (fire, smoke, water, magic), living backgrounds and tile effects, then export PNG sequences straight into your engine as sprite frames.

📺 Streamers & content creators — eye-catching animated overlays, scene transitions, stream backgrounds and looping GIFs for posts and thumbnails.

🌐 Web & UI designers — subtle living backgrounds, hero-section loops and loading animations that no stock library has.

🎧 VJs, motion designers & musicians — seamless MP4 loops for live sets, visualizers, lyric videos and album promos.

🖼️ Generative & procedural artists — grow reaction-diffusion patterns, cyclic automata and emergent structures from your own rules, and turn them into prints or gallery loops.

🎲 TTRPG & interactive fiction creators — ambient scene loops (campfires, rain, snowfall) to bring your campaign pages and itch projects to life.

🏫 Educators & the simply curious — a hands-on playground for cellular automata, emergence and complexity: paint a seed, write a one-line rule, watch a world unfold.

If you make anything that moves in pixels, Phluxel probably saves you time — or shows you something you didn't expect.

FREE vs PRO

The free download below is the full app — no purchase needed:

• All creative features: drawing, rules, GPU, timeline, import, GIF/PNG export

• Canvas up to 128×128 · export up to 1024 px / 300 frames

• Small "MADE WITH PHLUXEL" watermark on exports · personal use

Buying Phluxel Pro here ($19.99 launch price, reg. $29.99 — one-time, no subscription) unlocks:

• Watermark-free exports

• Unlimited canvas size, export resolution & frames

• MP4 & APNG export

• Commercial use

• All future updates within 1.x

🔑 HOW PRO DELIVERY WORKS

After purchase, your personal license key (with your name on it) is emailed to you within 24 hours. Activate in-app via Help ▸ License. One key covers up to 2 of your own devices. Keys activated on 3 or more devices may be deactivated without notice.

⚠ WINDOWS SECURITY NOTE

Phluxel is a new app from a small indie studio and is not code-signed yet, so Windows may warn you on first run:

• SmartScreen — "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

• Smart App Control (some Windows 11 PCs) may block the file entirely: Settings → Privacy & security → Windows Security → App & browser control → turn Smart App Control off, then run the installer.

Requires Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Updates install automatically.

Phluxel is in Early Access (public beta) — stable and fully usable today, with frequent updates. Your feedback shapes the roadmap: Help ▸ Send Feedback in-app.

LOCALIZATION

English, Korean and Japanese are fully reviewed; other languages are AI-assisted translations and may contain awkward phrasing — corrections welcome via Help ▸ Send Feedback.

Website & full manual: https://phluxel.com

Support: help@phluxel.com