Pixelmator Pro is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform*, all in one simple plan.
New Features
Pixelmator Pro for iPad
• Enjoy a completely reimagined editing experience, with Pixelmator Pro tools for design, photography, painting, and illustration now fully optimized for touch
• Design and paint with pixel-perfect precision using Apple Pencil, with full support for hover, squeeze, double-tap, and palm rejection
• Insert photos to your compositions directly from your iPad camera as new layers
• Easily roundtrip between Pixelmator Pro for iPad and Mac, syncing edits through iCloud, and pick up projects wherever you left off
Warp Tool and Mockups
• Use the all-new Warp tool to twist and bend images, shapes, text, and even video layers by pushing and pulling individual points on a warp grid
• Automatically warp layers into common shapes like cylinder, arc, flag, and more with 12 smart warp presets, or quickly split layers into 3×3, 4×4, or 5×5 warp grids
• Explore 2 new collections of premium product and apparel mockups that make the most of the new warp functionality to quickly showcase your designs on t-shirts, mugs, and more
Overview
Pixelmator Pro has everything you need to create designs, edit photos, draw illustrations, paint digital art, and be creative in just about any way you can imagine.
Edit and Enhance
• Adjust the colors in your photos and even videos in any way you want using a powerful collection of pro-grade color adjustments
• Use machine learning-powered tools to automatically remove image background, enhance colors, increase resolution, and more
• Quickly make good-looking shots spectacular with over 40 color adjustment presets and combine any of over 70 versatile effects to develop any artistic or special looks you can imagine
• Enjoy full support for RAW photos from over 750 of the most popular digital cameras
Create Stunning Designs
• Harness the full power of layer-based editing with support for vector shapes, typography features, and even video to design posters, webpages, or apps from scratch
• Customize the look of layers using layer styles, such as Fill, Stroke, Drop Shadow, and Inner Shadow
• Create beautiful designs in moments with a vast collection of beautiful templates and premium, fully customizable mockups
Draw and Illustrate
• Design vector graphics using a full set of vector tools, including Pen and Freeform Pen tools
• Speed up creating illustrations with stunning shapes including categories like arches, plants, and organic shapes
• Add customizable Smart Shapes to quickly create your custom shapes
Sketch and Paint
• Paint naturally with a collection of beautiful, handcrafted dual-texture brushes
• Take advantage of full support for Apple Pencil on iPad and graphics tablets on Mac to paint with pressure and tilt sensitivity
• Enjoy incredibly fast and responsive painting thanks to a cutting-edge painting engine powered by Metal graphics technology
Compatibility
• Open files in popular image and video formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, HEIF, SVG, AI, Illustrator EPS, PDF, GIF, BMP, TGA, WebP, JPEG-2000, AVIF, MP4, MOV, HDR images, videos, and more
• Share your images or videos to Photos, Mail, AirDrop, and other locations
* Premium content and features in Freeform are not currently available and are expected to be included in the Apple Creator Studio subscription later this year.
App is great I’m excited learning how to use this, much cheaper than adobe suite, However I want to be able to customize the order of list, for example I wish I plade levels/histogram at the top of the color adjustments so I can see what I’m doing as I’m changing the white balance, or hue, contrast etc. I need to be able to customize this list, or any list in this app to make it easier to see my adjustments without going up and down. I also wish this had a content hub so I can make place ai images or stickers like canva. All that said…. Great app. This subscription makes all other subscriptions I’ve tried not worth it ; affinity, adobe, even the free one. Having this on my iPad Pro with My Apple Pencil and being able to switch from Mac and iPad between projects… chef kiss from the gods.
Pulling me away from Adobe
camsea28
Photoshop was one of the last Adobe products that kept me with a subscription to their services, as all of my design assets were more or less stuck in the ecosystem.I have never used Pixelmator Pro before the release of Apple Creator Studio, so I thought I’d give the free trial a shot. I was pleased to see that all of my assets opened, nearly natively, in Pixelmator Pro, while still being fully understandable. The only things I had to change here and there were text bounding boxes, as well as line spacing, but this was minimal.Well done Pixelmator team, you’ve made one hell of an editor. You’ve gotten me away from Adobe.
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Jeshua.gtz
This is probably the best photo editing app on the App Store. You get 2-3 apps in one basically.I had been using Photomator since it came out and tho it's been a great app, it very often crashes and bugs out on my iPad Pro m2, it will also heat up my iPad and quickly drain my battery. 2-4 layers with a raw image is enough to start crashing, but with this, Pixelmator Pro on iPad I've already edited a few RAWs with over 4 layers! My iPad never heated up, battery didn't drain as fast and my workflow was incredibly smooth.Along with a great photo editor, you get an amazing Photoshop and procreate alternative.
A descent app hidden behind Liquid Glass UI
Duncandraw
This is a lightweight image editor that has none of the legacy baggage that older apps (like Photoshop) have accumulated over the years. It has limited functionality, but the things it does are modern and useful. I’m hoping for a steady cadence of updates & refinements sense they are charging a subscription.The main problem is Liquid Glass. Why is there a giant awkward drop shadow displaying over the top edge of your document? Why is the iPad menu bar required to be swiped back on screen every time you need to use it? Why are menu options separated across menu bar, hidden swipes, or right clicks? The UI is trying too hard to be “cool” at the expense of usability.
Pixelmator Pro is now part of Apple Creator Studio
Version 4.0
The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Apple Inc.
Size
725.1 MB
Category
Graphics & Design
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later and a device with an M-series or A16 or later chip.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later and a device with an M-series or A16 or later chip. • iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) • iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air (5th generation) • iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M2) • iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M2) • iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad mini (A17 Pro) • iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad (A16) • iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M3) • iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M3) • iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M4) • iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M4) • iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
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