Pixel knight run cycle
Six frames on transparency, found by background and set to one size, so the animation plays without jumping.
Sprite Sheet Cutter: Every Sprite as a PNG
Drop a sheet and this free sprite sheet cutter finds every sprite on a transparent or one-colour background, or slices it by grid. Download the frames as PNGs, a looping GIF or a JSON atlas, all in your browser.
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Drop a sprite sheet here
PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF. Everything stays in your browser.
- Free, runs in your browser
- Finds sprites by background
- Grid by count or cell size
- PNG, GIF and JSON atlas
Sprite Sheet Cutter Examples
Eight sheets made for these examples, each cut by this page's own sprite sheet cutter. Open one to try every setting.
RPG items on magenta
Twelve inventory icons on a solid magenta background, each cut out as a transparent PNG.
App icon set on white
Twelve flat icons; parts a few pixels apart, like a cart's wheels, stay with their icon.
Explosion effect, 4 × 2 grid
Eight effect frames sliced by columns and rows, then played as a looping GIF.
Slime idle bounce
Four frames with their ground shadows, aligned bottom centre for the animation.
Spinning coin, 8 × 1 grid
Eight frames with a soft glow; the faint glow setting keeps each coin apart.
Platformer tileset
Sixteen tiles touching each other, sliced by a 128 px cell size.
Emoji sticker sheet
Twelve faces on a light grey background, ready for chat stickers.
How to Cut a Sprite Sheet
Three steps, and nothing is uploaded.
Drop, paste or choose a PNG, JPG, WebP or GIF. The sheet stays on your device.
By background finds every sprite on transparency or one colour, magenta and white included. By grid slices equal cells by columns and rows or by cell size, with offset and spacing.
Save every sprite as a PNG in one ZIP, play the frames and save an animated GIF, or take a JSON atlas for your engine.
What This Sprite Sheet Cutter Does Best
Six things it does well, from a single icon set to a whole animation.
SheetTransparent or one-colour backgrounds
It reads the background from the sheet's edges: transparency, magenta, white or any flat colour, within a tolerance you set. Every sprite comes out as a transparent PNG.
SheetParts stay with their sprite
Pieces a few pixels apart, like a sword's glint, a shadow or a cart's wheels, join their sprite, and tiny specks are left out. Sprites are numbered in reading order.
Animation frames that line up
Same size frames puts every sprite on one canvas size, bottom centre, so feet stay on the ground. Play the frames at any speed and save a looping GIF.
A JSON atlas for your engine
Download frame names and positions in the JSON hash format that Phaser and PixiJS read, next to the PNGs.
Grids, pixel art and padding
Slice by columns and rows or by cell size with offset and spacing, skip empty cells, add padding, and enlarge pixel art 2× or 4× with sharp pixels.
Busy backgrounds go to AI
A picture without a clean background, like a painted scene or a photo, goes to the AI image cutout in one click, which cuts out every object for 1 credit.
Guide: Cut a Sprite Sheet Cleanly
Six short tips for clean sprites with this sprite sheet cutter.
Pick the right mode
Use By background when sprites stand apart on transparency or one colour, even with uneven spacing. Use By grid when every frame sits in an equal cell, or when tiles touch each other.
Set the colour tolerance
Raise the tolerance if a little of the background stays around the sprites; lower it if parts of a sprite disappear. Pick the background colour by hand when the sheet's edges are busy.
Join parts, drop specks
Join parts within keeps detached pieces with their sprite; raise it for icons made of separate parts. Ignore specks removes stray dots. On a transparent sheet, the faint glow setting keeps glowing sprites apart.
Frames for animation
Turn on Same size frames for walk cycles and effects, check the animation, then save the GIF or the ZIP. Grid frames keep the cell size unless you trim them.
Pixel art
Enlarge 2× or 4× for crisp, bigger frames for a preview or a store page; every pixel stays square.
What you download
Each PNG is named from your file and numbered in reading order. The JSON atlas keeps each frame's place on the original sheet.
Who Uses a Sprite Sheet Cutter
Common reasons to split a sprite sheet.
Game developers
Split a downloaded or old sheet into frames to rebuild animations in your engine.
Pixel artists
Cut your own sheets into single frames, enlarge them crisply and share animated previews.
App and web designers
Pull single icons out of an icon sheet as transparent PNGs.
Sticker and emoji makers
Split a sticker or emoji sheet into one file per sticker for chat apps.
Sprite Sheet Cutter FAQ
Answers about cutting sprite sheets, files and privacy.
Open the sheet, leave By background on or switch to By grid, check the boxes over the sheet, then download the ZIP of PNGs, the animated GIF or the JSON atlas.
Yes. It runs entirely in your browser, needs no account and adds no watermark.
No. The sheet is read and cut on your device; nothing is sent to a server, and the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
Yes. It reads the background colour from the sheet's edges and makes it transparent in every PNG. Adjust the colour tolerance or pick the colour by hand.
Use By grid with columns and rows or a cell size, plus offset and spacing. Empty cells are skipped, and each frame keeps the cell size for animations.
Yes. Play the frames at any speed and save a looping GIF with a transparent background.
The JSON hash format is read by Phaser, PixiJS and many other engines and tools; it lists each frame's name and position on the sheet.
Cut it by grid, or send it to the AI image cutout, which finds and cuts out every object for 1 credit.
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