Pixelmator Pro takes all the power and ease-of-use from the original Pixelmator and builds on it in amazing new ways. With a wide range of improvements to existing tools and some incredible new ones, every aspect of the Pixelmator image editing experience has been refined and improved. And with the latest Mac technologies powering everything under the hood, that experience is faster and more responsive than ever before.
An elegant single-window interface is designed to make all the incredibly powerful image editing tools in Pixelmator Pro accessible to everyone — from image editing pros to complete beginners. Thanks to an exceptionally refined, intuitive, and logical interface, you'll spend less time on keeping track of your palettes and more on simply being creative.
Every single tool from the original Pixelmator has been improved or enhanced in some way in Pixelmator Pro, adding powerful new features and refining the user experience. From a brand new painting engine that supports realistic, dual-texture brushes to an extensive collection of color adjustments with full support for editing RAW images, SVG support, a nondestructive editing workflow, a new light appearance, and more.
Pixelmator Pro includes hundreds of major additions and smaller thoughtful improvements at every turn to the image editing tools, the interface, and the image editing engine.
Thanks to the new nondestructive editing workflow, whenever you make a change — say you resize any layer, apply a color adjustment, or a series of effects — you can go back to fine-tune or reset those changes at any time.
The Pixelmator Pro editing engine is written from the ground up on Metal, Apple’s unique hardware-accelerated graphics API. Built to take full advantage of the latest Mac graphics technologies, Pixelmator Pro squeezes maximum performance out of every Mac and brings staggeringly fast GPU-powered, 64-bit image editing.
In just two years, Pixelmator Pro has built a reputation as one of the absolute best Mac apps with rave reviews from delighted users and prestigious awards from Apple and the App Store.
Awarded Mac App of the Year by Apple.
Highlighted as an Editors’ Choice on the Mac App Store.
Rated 4.8 worldwide with over 41,000 ratings.
Received over 36,000 five‑star ratings worldwide.
Available on the Mac App Store for $49.99.
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Pixelmator Pro
Pixelmator Classic
Modern single‑window interface
Palette-based interface
Dark and light appearances
Dark appearance
Runs natively on M1 Macs
Translated using Rosetta 2 on M1 Macs
Modern painting engine with dual‑texture brushes and realistic paint blending
Classic painting engine with single‑texture brushes
Extensive collection of nondestructive color adjustments and native RAW editing
Destructive color adjustments, RAWs imported as regular images
Improved vector editing with SVG import and export
Raster-based vector editing, no vector format import or export
Photos extension with every Pixelmator Pro tool (over 40 tools) and ability to save edits nondestructively
Two extensions with a selection of retouching and reshaping tools (12 tools)
Metal 2-powered image editing engine
OpenGL-powered image editing engine
Pixelmator Pro is an incredibly powerful, beautiful, and easy-to-use image editor for Mac. Just like the original Pixelmator, it’s designed to make the most advanced professional image editing tools accessible to everyone.
For the same reason we created the original Pixelmator — we love image editing, we love the Mac, and we love making apps. We wanted to take all the knowledge we’ve gained over the many years of developing Pixelmator and create something totally new.
Become a Pixelmator Pro with video and text tutorials, an extensive help manual, and handy tips and tricks.
Visit the Pixelmator Pro Tutorials page.
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Read the Pixelmator Pro Help manual.
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Check out our growing collection of quick tips and tricks.
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Email usPixelmator Pro is an incredibly powerful, beautiful, and easy-to-use image editor for Mac. Just like the original Pixelmator, it’s designed to make the most advanced professional image editing tools accessible to everyone.
For the same reason we created the original Pixelmator — we love image editing, we love the Mac, and we love making apps. We wanted to take all the knowledge we’ve gained over the many years of developing Pixelmator and create something totally new.
Not really. There were a few reasons for this. One: when Pixelmator Pro came out, a significant number of people would not have been able to run it as the app is built using new technologies that require a relatively new Mac. Two: Some of the changes might have been too drastic for a lot of people. This is a complete redesign and we didn’t want to just replace a beloved app with a drastically redesigned new one, even if it will feel very familiar to almost every Pixelmator user. For those two reasons (and a few others), it made the most sense to release Pixelmator Pro as a brand new app.
We have now removed Pixelmator Classic from App Store and will eventually stop updating it. Anyone who has already bought it will be able to redownload it, of course – just like any other Mac app. And we can still ship updates to it, even if the app isn’t available for sale. What’s more, before we retire it, we’ve also made sure that, even without updates, it will work reliably for a while longer for anyone who isn’t quite ready to make the switch. And as Pixelmator Pro fully supports original Pixelmator files, shapes, gradients, brushes, and layer styles, whenever you feel like upgrading, you’ll be able to switch without any trouble at all.
Absolutely. We have a completely free, 7-day trial that we’ve extended to 15 days for owners of the original Pixelmator. You can download it here.
We want to make it more powerful, more full-featured, and even easier to use. Since it was released over four years ago, Pixelmator Pro has already received 13 incredible major updates and we have no plans to slow down. Our roadmap below includes some of the most exciting features planned for future updates and things we’ve already added.
SVG file support (1.1)
Modern Export for Web tool (1.1)
Light appearance (1.2)
Batch editing (1.2)
ML-powered auto enhance (1.2)
Clipping masks (1.3)
Layer tagging, filtering, and search (1.3)
Advanced free transform tool (1.3)
Full-featured Photos extension (1.4)
Noise removal (1.5)
Text on a path (1.7)
Full-featured AppleScript support (1.8)
App customization and new design (2.0)
Support for LUTs (2.0.8)
ML Crop and much more (2.1)
Support for Shortcuts for Mac (2.2)
Automatic background removal (2.3)
Adjustments and effects layers (2.4)
Clarity adjustment
Lens distortion correction
Vector tool improvements
And lots more