Apple is acquiring the popular image editing app Pixelmator

Nov 01, 2024 11:02 PM - 4 months ago 175567

Apple has agreed to get Pixelmator, a celebrated image editing app disposable connected Mac and iOS. Pixelmator announced the news successful a station connected its blog, saying it will now “have the expertise to scope an moreover wider assemblage and make an moreover bigger effect connected the lives of imaginative group astir the world.”

Pixelmator issued the pursuing connection astir the acquisition (emphasis ours):

Pixelmator has signed an statement to beryllium acquired by Apple, taxable to regulatory approval. There will beryllium nary worldly changes to the Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator for iOS, and Photomator apps at this time. Stay tuned for breathtaking updates to come.

No specifications astir the woody were revealed isolated from that it is still pending, taxable to regulatory support of Apple buying the Lithuanian company. That tin beryllium tricky, though — while Microsoft successfully swallowed up Activision Blizzard, deals that melted nether regulatory unit see Nvidia and Arm, Amazon and iRobot, and much recently, Adobe and Figma.

After Apple acquired the celebrated upwind app Dark Sky successful 2020, it unopen down the app successful 2022 and integrated its tech pinch the first-party upwind app. Still, different package packages acquired by Apple, for illustration Final Cut and Logic Pro, stay disposable galore years aft they were bought.

Over the years, Pixelmator Pro has become a viable and acold cheaper alternative to Adobe Photoshop, arsenic it’s disposable for a one-time costs of $49.99. It offers a robust suite of devices for editing and retouching photos, creating designs, drawing, and more. The app astir caller update reworked its masking process and added the expertise to hide an image’s inheritance pinch AI.

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