Block'Ed

Pixel painting on iPad & Mac

Pixel art for
your Spectrum.

Draw artwork for the ZX Spectrum, Timex and Spectrum Next on your iPad or Mac. Choose your machine, pick your colours and start painting.

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Block'Ed’s retro television icon, showing a pixel-art paintbrush
The Block'Ed editor on iPad, with a ZX Spectrum canvas and the toolstrip beside it
Drawing in Block'EdiPad & Mac · Artwork for your chosen machine

Made for the machines

Choose your machine.

Each machine has its own colours and drawing rules. Block'Ed works with those rules as you paint.

See the supported modes

01 / Classic

ZX Spectrum

Work with INK, PAPER and shared BRIGHT in the Spectrum’s 8 × 8 attribute cells, with ULA+ available too.

256 × 192 8 × 8 attributes

02 / Extended

Timex

Draw in ULA, Hi-Colour with finer 8 × 1 attribute cells, or Hi-Res with half-width pixels.

Hi-Colour Hi-Res

03 / Modern retro

Spectrum Next

Explore Layer 2, LoRes, hardware sprites and tiles, with indexed palettes drawn from the Next’s 512 colours.

16 / 256 colours Sprites & tiles