Tilesetter Alternative: 47-Tile Autotiles for Godot & Tiled

If you are looking for a Tilesetter alternative, Gridwright's Autotile Builder takes one small template and builds every autotile your map needs: a 47-tile blob set, or 16-tile sides and corners sets, with a seam check that names the broken edge and ready files for Godot 4, Tiled and RPG Maker. Tilesetter Full is $12.99 for one desktop app, while Gridwright runs in your browser and puts the Autotile Builder, 30 more tools and 129 asset packs, 36 of them tilesets and worlds, into one $17 monthly subscription.

Here is what you get with each, why Gridwright is the better pick for an indie 2D game, and what each route costs over a year. Tilesetter's price and platforms come from tilesetter.org and its itch.io page, read on 14 November 2026.

Tilesetter alternative: the two side by side

	Tilesetter	Gridwright
Price	$12.99 once (Full)	$1 for 3 days, then $17 a month
Runs on	Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux	Your browser, nothing to install
Tools in the price	1	31, plus 129 asset packs, 36 of them tilesets and worlds
What it makes	Blob and wang tilesets from a base tile	Blob 47, sides 16 and corners 16 sets from a 2x3 or 3x3 template

What Tilesetter is

Tilesetter, made by Led, is a tileset generator. It is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, sold on itch.io and Steam, and its Full version costs $12.99 once. You start from a base tile, which it turns into what it calls a smart tileset.

What Gridwright's Autotile Builder does

Drawing every autotile by hand is the slow part of making a tileset. The Autotile Builder takes a small template and builds the rest. There are three template layouts, always three tiles tall: Compact 2x3 (the RPG Maker layout), Island 3x3, where the tool makes the inner corners for you, and Island 3x3 plus an inner corner. Tile sizes go from 8 to 128 pixels and are read from the image. Your own tiles come out exactly as you drew them, and the others are built from quarters of them, so every edge meets the way it meets in your template.

It builds three kinds of set:

• Blob 47, the full set for terrain where every edge and corner matters;
• Sides 16, for edges only;
• Corners 16, shown on a true dual grid.

A seam check that names the problem

Paint on a test map, or press R for a random one, and the tool checks every place two cells meet against how your own pixels carry on. A break is drawn in red and named in words, for example that the right side of the top edge should flow into the left side. Maps go up to 64 x 64.

Files for your engine

• Godot 4: a TileSet (.tres) with one terrain set, peering bits on every tile and the frames as tile animations, plus a demo project. Tested in Godot 4.7.2, where Godot's own terrain painter picks exactly our tile for every cell of the demo map.
• Tiled: a tileset (.tsx) with a wang set per terrain (mixed, edge or corner) and tile animations, and a demo map (.tmx). These were checked as files, reading back every wang id, animation and map neighbour.
• RPG Maker: A2 sheets for MV and MZ (48 px) and VX Ace (32 px), and an animated A1 sheet. Every tile was rebuilt the way RPG Maker draws an autotile and compared with ours, as a file check.
• Any other engine: the atlas PNG, with gaps and edge extrusion if you want them, and a JSON with every tile's position and neighbours and a lookup for all 256 neighbour masks.

You can animate a terrain over 2 or 3 frames, as for water, and put several terrains (grass, water, paths) in one atlas and one TileSet. With "watch a file" on, you save the template in Aseprite or any paint program and the tiles rebuild by themselves, in Chrome and Edge. Your last project comes back when you return, and you can save it to a file.

How to make a Godot 4 terrain set from a 3x3 island

1. Draw a 3x3 island of your terrain, or load a 2x3 template or one of the samples.
2. Open it in the Autotile Builder and check the full 47-tile set it builds.
3. Paint the test map or press R for a random one, and fix any edge the seam check marks in red.
4. Add 2 or 3 frames for animated water, or more terrains for one shared atlas.
5. Save the Godot 4 TileSet, open it in your project, and paint with Godot's terrain tool. Each cell gets the right tile by itself.

Why Gridwright is the better pick

• Three sets from one template. Blob 47, sides 16 and corners 16 on a true dual grid, at any tile size from 8 to 128 pixels.
• A seam check that tells you what to fix. Breaks are drawn in red and named in plain words, so you know exactly which edge to fix.
• Godot 4 terrain sets that work. Peering bits on every tile, tested in Godot 4.7.2 with Godot's own terrain painter.
• Tiled and RPG Maker in the same download. A Tiled wang set and demo map, and RPG Maker A2 sheets for MV, MZ and VX Ace plus an animated A1 sheet.
• Animated water and several terrains in one atlas, saved as Godot and Tiled tile animations.
• Nothing to install. It runs in your browser on any computer.
• 36 tileset and world packs included. From 16x16 top-down, dungeon and village tilesets to isometric cities, harbours and castles, several with their own Godot or Tiled files, so finished terrain is there when you'd rather not draw a template.
• Every world-building tool in the same price. The Isometric Builder paints isometric maps with every Gridwright isometric pack loaded, the Dungeon & Map Generator makes dungeons, caves and overworlds as Tiled maps or Godot scenes, the Tileset Extractor turns a map picture back into a tileset, and the Tile Modeler builds 3D from tiles.
• Every new release included. 136 packs and tools since 2 October 2026, about three a day.

For the full list of paid apps Gridwright replaces, see our guide to game dev tools on one subscription.

What a year costs

Tilesetter Full is $12.99 for one job. The paid apps for the jobs Gridwright's tools do, plus a year of art, at each maker's list price:

What you buy	Price
Tilesetter Full, autotiles	$12.99 once
TexturePacker, sprite sheets	$49.99 once
SpriteIlluminator, normal maps	$49.99 once
Crocotile 3D, 3D from tiles	$29.99 once
Pixel FX Designer, particle effects (itch.io)	$14.96 once
Aseprite, pixel art editor	$19.99 once
PixaTool, image to pixel art (list price)	$49.84 once
CraftPix monthly membership, art, 12 months	$180.00
Bought separately, year one	$407.75
Gridwright, year one	$1 for 3 days, then $204 for 12 months: $205

After two years the separate route comes to $587.75, even with no new update periods bought, against $409 for Gridwright. Bought one by one on our own store, every Gridwright pack and tool would cost $1,403.61.

FAQ

Is there a free Tilesetter alternative?

Gridwright starts at $1 for the first 3 days, then $17 a month for all 31 tools and 129 packs. The first 3 days for $1 open every tool, the Autotile Builder included, and up to 10 packs.

What is a 47-tile blob autotile set?

It is the full set of tiles a terrain needs when every edge and every corner can touch another terrain. The Autotile Builder makes all 47 from a 2x3 or 3x3 template, and also makes 16-tile sets for edges only or corners only.

Does it make Godot 4 terrain sets?

Yes. It writes a Godot 4 TileSet with a terrain set and peering bits on every tile. In our test in Godot 4.7.2, Godot's own terrain painter picked exactly our tile for every cell of the demo map.

Does it work with RPG Maker?

Yes. It writes A2 sheets for MV and MZ (48 px) and VX Ace (32 px), and an animated A1 sheet. We checked them as files by rebuilding every tile the way RPG Maker draws autotiles.

Can I animate water tiles?

Yes. Lay 2 or 3 frames side by side in the template and the tool saves them as Godot and Tiled tile animations and an RPG Maker A1 sheet.