ʻO Pencil2D kahi polokalamu manuahi 2D manuahi a wehe ʻia no ka Windows, macOS a me nā ʻōnaehana like Unix. Hoʻokuʻu ʻia ia ma lalo o ka GNU General Public License a hoʻohana i ka Qt framework. Hoʻohana ʻia ia no ka hana ʻana i nā kiʻi kiʻi me ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā ʻenehana kuʻuna (ke kiʻi kiʻi ʻana, ka ʻili ʻili a me nā mea ʻē aʻe), ka mālama ʻana i nā kiʻi vector a me ka bitmap. Hāʻawi ia i ka mālama ʻana i nā animations ma kāna ʻano faila ponoʻī, a me ka lawe ʻana aku iā ia e like me ke ʻano o nā kiʻi ma PNG, JPEG, BMP a i ʻole TIFF format, a ma kahi faila wikiō ma AVI, MP4, WebM, GIF a i ʻole APNG format.