Grimoire Standalone Overview

Grimoire Standalone is a pixel art editor with drawing, selection, healing, AI image generation, animation, tileset, and finishing tools in one application.

These docs cover the standalone application. For the Aseprite extension, see Grimoire Legacy .

Start here

1. Open or create a sprite and select an editable pixel layer.
2. Use the left tool rail for drawing, selection, and healing. AI workflows open from the left AI rail or the AI tab on the right.
3. Follow AI setup and model management to set up local generation.
4. Choose a workflow below, review its output, and use Review, history, and import to bring results into your project.

Setup

• AI setup and model management

AI workflows

• Text to Image
• Image to Image
• In / Outpaint
• ControlNet and image guidance
• AI Edit with Qwen
• Animate Anything
• Hosted image APIs
• Smart selection and background removal

Healing & specialized brushes

• Content-Aware Fill brush
• Contextual Heal
• Exact Clone
• Mixel Heal
• Mix Brush
• Shading brush
• Paint Select
• Brush tips and shared controls
• Tiles Property Painter

Finishing & recovery

• Pixel art utilities
• Tileset Editor
• Review, history, and import
• Troubleshooting

Glossaries

• Tool glossary
• Plain-language glossary