Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PIXIL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert PIXIL to another file type
To convert PIXIL projects to another format, you need Pixilart or other Raster Image software.
Convert a file to PIXIL
To convert other file formats to the "Pixel Art Project" file type, you need software like Pixilart or a similar tool.
About PIXIL files
A .pixil file is a proprietary project file created by the free online pixel art drawing tool, Pixilart. While users create visual art, this file actually contains structured JSON text data defining layer properties, color palettes, and frame-by-frame animation sequences, rather than standard pixel data found in a PNG or JPG. This format causes significant friction for users who download their work to "save" it, only to find that standard image viewers and software like Adobe Photoshop cannot render the file. To use your pixel art in game engines like Unity or upload it to social media, the data must be rendered into a standard raster format. For static sprites, converting to PNG is ideal to preserve the sharp edges of pixel art. For animations, GIF is the standard target. For archiving or manual editing of the raw data, the file can be treated as a text file.
Convert.Guru analyzes your PIXIL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert PIXIL file to , you can use Pixilart or similar software from the "Pixel Art Project" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to PIXIL, try Pixilart or another comparable tool in the "Pixel Art Project" category.
The PIXIL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PIXIL converter.