Pixelmator for iPad is a powerful image editor that gives you everything you need to create, edit, and enhance your images. It lets you work seamlessly between Mac and iPad. And even work effortlessly with people who use Adobe Photoshop.
Creative Tools
Jump-start your ideas any way you want.
Begin with photos from your collection. Use one of the beautifully designed templates. Or start with a blank canvas. Then drop in your photo. Add text or shapes. Move everything around, or simply start sketching. Pixelmator for iPad has everything you need to go from blank canvas to jaw-dropping wonder.
Dozens of templates to get you started.
Enrich your photos with an effect or a frame, or create gorgeous collages with any of the beautifully designed templates in an instant — without any effort from you.
Powerful tools to create beautiful content.
A full set of powerful yet easy-to-use image editing tools. So you can instantly start perfecting and editing your images, paint gorgeous artwork, or design advanced image compositions.
A layout with pixel-perfect precision.
Smart alignment guides, rulers, and smooth and fluid dragging make it easy to create a pixel-accurate layout. Just drag an object, let it snap, and then let go.
Shapes have never been easier to handle.
Drop in shapes with a touch. Rotate, resize, and style any way you want. Or even combine several shapes into one. Suddenly, you’re more than a skilled graphics designer.
Typography to match your picture. Beautifully.
Add a word, phrase, or caption. And make it look beautiful. Choose text font, size, and colors, apply a style, and more. You have a complete type control right at your fingertips.
Powerful Painting Tools
Outstanding brushes. And equally impressive painting engine.
Full-featured painting tools to subtly enhance your photos, or create masterpieces from scratch. Choose from realistic to stylized brushes of all sizes and shapes. Sketch, draw, paint, spray, color, and so much more — do whatever your imagination strikes. Pixelmator has you covered. And every stroke you paint responds naturally thanks to state-of-the-art painting engine. Watch the Painting video
Paint an unforgettable picture.
The painting experience is almost like that in real life: a canvas in your hands, a remarkable brush collection, and an entire rainbow of colors to play with.
Dozens of fantastic brushes.
Over 70 real-life brushes, like Pencils, Crayons, Markers, Ink, Paintbrushes, Sprays, and many more to play with. It’s like having an entire art studio in your hands.
World’s sexiest eraser.
Sure, all an eraser does is remove areas you don’t need. But we made a collection of handcrafted erasers that are slick, sexy, and enjoyable to use.
Full stylus support. For even more natural experience.
Painting beautiful artwork feels even more natural with a stylus. Pixelmator fully supports Wacom styluses from Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus and Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus 2.
You’ve taken a nice picture. Now it’s time to make it shine. Begin with a single-tap color set to give it a quick enhancement or a more creative look. Then tweak the colors even further with powerful yet intuitive color adjustment tools like Levels, Brightness and Contrast, Color Balance, Curves, White Balance, and so much more. And best of all, they’re all easy and fun to play with.
Instant color enhancements.
Apply beautiful color sets like Vibrant, Rich, Warm, Rosy, Sepia, Bright, Matte, or B&W — with a tap. And the next thing you know, your pictures look better than they ever have.
Make the colors pop off the screen.
Make precise color refinements with manual controls. Subtly drag to fine-tune levels, curves, brightness, or contrast, and tap to adjust white balance. Or even mix colors to change the image look and feel completely.
Retouching Tools
Touch up to perfection. With a touch.
Polish pictures to perfection. And have fun doing it. Tap to instantly fix red eyes. Brush away blemishes. Smooth out hard lines. Boost colors. Brush in some light. Get rid of unwanted elements, and so much more. No matter how your images look at first, with an intuitive set of retouching tools, you can easily make them absolutely stunning.
Easily bring out details.
When your photos come out with areas that are too dark or too bright, you can easily lighten or darken them with a touch of your fingertip. So every detail is clear and visible.
Touch up your images to perfection.
Lighten or darken areas, brush away blemishes, smooth out hard lines, or get rid of just about any image element you want. So your pictures look their absolute best.
Brush away unwanted elements.
Easily get rid of any unwanted elements in your pictures with today’s most advanced technology Repair Tool.
Spread and mix colors anyway you want.
Create special effects, distort parts of images or smear paint as realistically as if using your finger. Just drag you finger and watch how colors beautifully blend, mix, and smear.
Dazzling Effects
For unique and effortless artistic creations.
Loaded with dozens of breathtaking effects, Pixelmator for iPad gives even more ways to enhance your pictures. Add gorgeous effects like Blur, Vignette, Vintage, Black & White, Light Leak, Bokeh, Miniaturize, and many more — in an instant. Or even combine different effects for unique, near-effortless artistic creations, and see the stunning results in real time.
Let the lights and glare in.
Give your pictures a stunning, retro-artistic, illuminated look. Just tap to choose any of the Light Leak effects and play around with the rope.
Total control over the image colors.
Add a color tint to an image to greatly improve its impact. Just choose Hue and Saturation, drag the wheel, and see how the image colors change.
Change your picture style instantly.
Create charming and authentic-looking pictures of days gone by. Tap to choose any of the seven Vintage effects from Bauhaus to Urban, depending on your style.
Create magical toy-model worlds.
Scale the world down into a tiny version of itself using the new Miniaturize effect. The effect gives images the look of a toy-model world you can almost reach out and touch.
Classic and elegance in black and white.
Convert images into perfectly toned black and white to create a classic and elegant feel to your pictures. And the subtle grain creates a true-to-life resemblance.
More gorgeous effects. For more amazing pictures.
Get creative with dozens of more beautifully designed effects. From perfectly toned Black and White to artistic Kaleidoscope. All easy and fun to play with.
Vintage
Stunning and authentic-looking photos of days gone by.
Bokeh
Beautiful bokeh effect has never been easier to create.
Black & White
Perfectly toned black & white images with a tint of grain.
Advanced Image Editing
Features for pros. And everyone else, too.
Combine several pictures into one. Remove an image background. Apply a beautiful frame. Get rid of distracting objects. Rotate and scale. Straighten slightly crooked pictures. Copy elements from one picture to another. Create wondrous photo manipulations, and so much more. Doing it all is remarkably simple. Even though the features are anything but basic.
A complete layer-based editor.
Building gorgeous image compositions non-destructively begins with layers. And Pixelmator for iPad is a full-featured, layer-based, image editing app.
Adobe Photoshop Friendly
Pixelmator makes it a great creative relationship.
Pixelmator makes it a great creative relationship even with your friends who use Adobe Photoshop. You can save Pixelmator images as Photoshop files. Or import and edit Photoshop images right into Pixelmator. The most popular Photoshop features are supported, too. Now it’s no problem to create and work on the same image. Even if you use different apps.
Designed for iPad
Harnessing the technologies that lie within.
Pixelmator is meticulously thought through and created from the ground up for iOS 8 and iPad. Designed to take advantage of iOS 8 features and technologies. And engineered to leverage the full power of 64-bit architecture, ARC, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenGL ES, Core Image, and Core Animation, delivering state-of-the-art performance and responsiveness. See full Pixelmator for iPad Technical Specifications
iOS Integration
Designed specifically for iOS 8, Pixelmator takes advantage of powerful iOS 8 features and technologies.
Extensions
Embraces Photo Editing extension by integrating Pixelmator effects so that you can play with them right in the Photos app.
iCloud Drive
Full iCloud Drive support so you can easily export and access your images on the device you have at the time.
Handoff
Start creating image compositions on your iPad and continue on your Mac, and vice versa. All thanks to Handoff.
Document Picker
With Document Picker support, you can easily edit and share the same image using more than one app.
64-bit
Full 64-bit architecture support brings desktop-class image editing performance right to your iPad.
iCloud Support
All your latest work on your Mac and iPad.
Built right into the app, iCloud lets you create and edit images on any device you want. Automatically, without any effort from you, it keeps your Pixelmator work up to date on your Mac and on your iPad. So you can start a composition on one device and pick up right where you left off on the other. Or you can store images in the iCloud Drive so that you can access them anywhere — even on a PC. Learn more about Pixelmator for Mac
Consistently beautiful. On your iPad and Mac.
Start sketching your composition ideas on the go using your iPad. Finish it on your Mac. And vice versa. Pixelmator uses the same file format for both Mac and iPad. So your images look the same no matter where you open them.