A Ambersprite
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The gallery, saving & iCloud

The full-screen home screen. It lists your documents as a grid or list, with search, rename, duplicate, a trash, and a recovery list.

The gallery
The gallery
  • **New*— create a sprite.
  • **Import*— bring a file (PNG, ASE, PSD, Tiled, .pxstudio) into the gallery.
  • **Open*— open a file from Files without importing it.
  • Tap a document to open it; long-press for rename / duplicate / delete.
  • **Back to canvas*— return to the sprite that was open.
  • **Recover unsaved (N)*— appears when there's a recoverable session; see Autosave, recovery & snapshots.

The .pxstudio format#

Ambersprite's native document. It stores everything: layers, groups, frames, cels, links, tags, slices, tilesets, palette, references, version snapshots and workspace state. It is forward-compatible — a document is stamped with the version that wrote it and older builds refuse only genuinely newer files.

Save, Save As, Share#

  • **File ▸ Save*— write to the document's current location (or prompt for one the first time).
  • **File ▸ Save As…*— write a copy somewhere new.
  • **File ▸ Share*— hand the .pxstudio to the iOS share sheet.

All file dialogs are the standard iOS document picker, so you choose the exact location — On My iPad or iCloud Drive.

iCloud Drive#

You can save to and open from iCloud Drive. Note that some cloud providers block direct in-place writes — if a save fails with a "cloud provider" message, save to On My iPad first, then move the file in the Files app.

Multiple documents#

Ambersprite supports several open sprites as tabs — see Panels & workspaces.