Pixelmator App Reviews

iOS interface. I absolutely hate unintuitive Pixelmator’s iOS interface. Nothing is obvious like in desktop apps. Everything is a detective work. How do you reverse a selection? Where is it buried? Wher is the cut and paste menu? Why just not make same interface as on Mac, so whatever was learned there can be easily use on iOS and vice versa. Frustrated beyond belief.

Brush selector crashes the app. Normally Pixelmator is a great app. But I recently jumped back in and it keeps crashing when I try to go to the brush selector after choosing paint and erase. I can use the last brush selected for paint or erase, but obviously that’s very limiting Using latest iOS 18 and app updates

Great potential. Terrible delivery.. Being unable to create a new project based on a photo is incredible. They somehow took that away several updates ago. Now you can’t even add a photo into a project. The app continually moves backwards. It’s not worth the money until the devs. start fixing all their bugs and mistakes.

I’ve loved this app for awhile but please fix this with new update!. I’ve been using this app since 2015 and it has been a great app with everything I need and more. Unfortunately with the new update that came out recently I can’t darken photos like I was able to before. I loved using this feature and it’s sad to see it change. Please make it darker so I can darken my backgrounds in my photos!! Otherwise this app is great!

So Disappointed. I really wanted to like this application - especially for the amount I paid for it on both my Mac and my iPad. However, I have been working on a project for 4 hours and the app crashes literally (and I do mean literally) every 30 to 45 seconds and doesn’t save the changes I managed to make anywhere despite me trying to save to both photos and files. Current version of the app (updated today) is absolutely horrible. Extremely disappointed. And frustrated.

PLEASE FIX! Dark mode isn’t fully dark. Why does dark mode still have white/gray menus? 💀I like the app for the most part otherwise. But please fix this eye-nuke so I can edit without light-blindness every time I need to edit layer styles, tap any of the icons in the top right and whatnot. The templates on the start page have thick white borders too that can be eye-burning. TLDR; MAKE FULL DARK MODE PLEASE. NO MORE BRIGHT MENUS/ELEMENTS.

Like cameras, the best image editor is the one you have with you !. I’ve been using Pixelmator on iOS since before Photoshop on iOS even existed. While waiting to buy the new iPhone 6S on launch day, my client called me in a frantic about a mistake on her mock-up she would be showing her customer in minutes. A passionate Apple Store employee recommended I try Pixelmator instead of losing my place in line, and after emailing my client from line outside the Apple Store just minutes later, Pixelmator quickly replaced my Mac as my primary brainstorming/mock-up tool. Like cameras, the best image editor is the one you have with you! I can’t say enough good things about the Pixelmator team and their dedication to making the best mobile raster image editor over the years, and wish them boundless success as they are brought into the Apple family of exemplary mobile tools.

Powerful!. I love the powerful features, simple user interface and spectacular results! Pixelmator combines all the features that you need to publish content with ease while achieving professional results. Get this!

Everybody should own this app.. This is a great app with with a design that captures Apple's own aesthetic paradigm. There are still a few features lacking—like some basic sheer and distort transform abilities—but I'm looking forward to future updates, and hopefully an iOS version of Pixelmator Pro.

Feels Abandoned. This used to be an amazing app, and Pixelmator puts out some amazing products in Photomator and Pixelmator Pro on the Mac. However, this app feels forgotten about. It doesn’t have any of the new ML tools in Pro and Photomator, it doesn’t have a UI that feels cohesive with those apps, and it just feels dated. I mean, the tool navigation alone is enough to put anyone off this app. Also it has weird quirks like how there is only a color dropper on the paint and erase tool, but not on any other tool with a color picker. It just doesn’t make sense when Pro and Photomator have such wonderful, thoughtful UIs, and this app is still stuck in 2010.

Doesn’t compare to Pixelmator Pro or Procreate. I love Pixelmator Pro on my Mac and I was thinking how nice it would be if I could use my Apple Pencil with it. Then I saw it was available on the iPad, took a (too quick) look at specs and bought it. I was shocked by the user interface—there are virtually no visible tool or layer menus, and the ones that are there take multiple steps to get to what you need and then are severely lacking in capabilities compared to Pixelmator Pro and Procreate. Unfortunately it just doesn’t seem to be able to do any of the things I needed it to do, or if it is doable, I can do it more easily on Pixelmator Pro or Procreate so I have no use for this app. I’ve requested a refund.

Please at a color picker to the text color panel. I love PixelMator. I’ve been using it since the beginning. Therefore, as an old user, I am asking the developers please consider adding a color pick to the text color panel where we usually choose what color you want for our texts. And one more thing please when we are trying to choose a color, the page will be behind the color panel where we cannot see what color are we actually choosing. So please make sure when we are trying to choose the color the page goes up to the top of the PixelMator window.

No dark mode in 2023?!. Longtime supporter of Pixelmator on the Mac, but I open on my iPad Pro and the system dark mode is completely ignored with unexpected bright blinding colors. Maybe I’m overlooking something simple. Please help me use this at night.

No ability to work with GIFs. The app itself is terrific, which is why I’m rating it four stars. But the inability to work with gifs is very frustrating, and shouldn’t be a limitation of such an expensive app.

Outstanding Photo Editor.. Keeps up with most of today’s AI programs if you learn to use it to its full potential. It’s in expensive, and best of all - no subscription!

My favorite editing app since 2016. Friend asked what I used for editing and I suggested this. They were shocked to see how expensive it was. I didn’t remember paying that much so I looked it up and I’ve been using this app for almost 10 years and paid half what it costs now (thanks inflation!). But I would still pay that today since I use it all the time.

Exactly what I needed. This app is awesome! It brings the sort of editing tools I'd normally reach for gimp/photoshop for to my iPhone in a surprisingly intuitive UI layout. Now I can make spur-of-the-moment memes on my phone >:3

Will these issues ever be fixed? Apple apps get such bad ratings.. I have Pixelmator on multi iOS devices and my Mac computers. I do like the app in general however the latest version in iOS 17.6.1 has a number of issues. The text alignment option will switch to left after beginning in center. The files are sent to the bottom of the page while they used to be at the top. Sometimes the text style selection window will go blank and one must close and reopen to continue text style selection. Sometimes when opening an new image the app will say “can’t open now” or something like that. Again, open and close may fix that. I hope this will help your techs in fixing these issues.

App is worthless with almost no tools. This app hardly does anything and the developers should be ashamed to be charging money for this. You can’t even adjust the font size of added text, something you can do with Apples basic photo editor! That’s just the beginning of all the things that are wrong with this app. It’s as if the developers have no concept of how to create a useful mobile app. I’m constantly encountering the most basic of limitations with this. Save your money and time. This is nothing like OSX laptop application of the same name.

Latest version very buggy. Most recent update is very buggy. I don’t remember what they say they “fixed” but I can tell you what they broke. You have a 50% chance of the app saving your changes. It may just spin and spin and never resolve back to the file screen. Then after restarting it, your changes are gone! I’ve have to force quit it multiple times a day. I have a very capable M1 iPad Pro fully updated. This should not be happening. Often just opening the app results in a blank grey screen (even if it was already running in background) it’s back to being unusable and a constant risk of losing hours of your work. Export things out before saving or you may lose an entire day. I did.

Need Pixelmator Pro for iPad. Pixelmator for iPad is a good all around product and so is Photomator. But both are lacking compared to Pixelmator Pro on Mac. The iPad Pro has the same powerful processor and graphics of a M1 or M2 Mac now, so there are no hardware limitations. And there are far more iPad users than Mac users nowadays. The iPad touchscreen gives so many more options for photo editing with the Apple Pencil over the Mac. So I really hope they bring the full Pixelmator Pro app to iPad soon.

Missing essential features. Bought this with the promise of perspective editing and it is no where to be found. It is available on the old version and on the desktop version but missing from this one. Requesting a refund.

iPadOS 26 ruined this application. I’ve been using this app since it came out and I used this every day. I am so upset on how much iPadOS 26 destroyed this app. The keyboard shortcuts work when they want to. And I can’t press and hold down the arrow keys it crashes the app. I don’t understand how it got so bad and they’re not updating the app. I keep checking and nothing. Did Apple ruin this application?

New bugs are making usage a lot harder. This is the best photo editing app I've been able to find, and I've used it for years. But recently, there's some problems, mostly involving layers. The most annoying to me is that, when I copy and paste something, it often ends up far away from where it was copied from, to the point where it's usually out of the editing area entirely. This can be a real pain if the pasted item is very small. There's also cases where layers don't respond when selected, previews on the sidebar don't update... these are all fairly recent, they only started happening in the past few months.

Full stack mobile app. Pixelmator for the iPhone is amazing and all, but it lacks a couple basic features; Canva rotation: canva rotation feature is a necessity for me personally and others my agree. Clip masks & layer mask: been using the app for a while (not up to a month) and I’ve noticed it last masking ability or maybe I’ve not been able to figure it out 🤷‍♂️.

Can we get a Isometric Drawing Guide (Please). This feature is available in others but I think it would be useful for drawing 3D scenes, and such. Thank you so much, this app is ultimately amazing, some say the new UI is terrible but I disagree because it’s looks more modern and similar to Apple. I hope you implement my suggestion, because I have this and I was sad I had to use other apps such as: Inkscape to make isometric, which not only hard and difficult I feel that you could find a way to do it. Snap to the grid where when you draw the lines would snap to the isometric grid until you disable it, this would be important too. Please do this, overall 10/10.

Long Live Pixelmator! (An Elegy). This has been one of my favorite (and most-used) apps since I began tinkering with images and piecing things together - usually to share for a laugh or two among friends and family. I just read the news that, per 9to5 Mac, Apple stated the app is no longer receiving updates. This comes on the heels of also hearing that they are moving many of their in-house creativity and productivity sweet over to a freemium and/or subscription model. I find the loss of future support for this app to be a sad development and one which will negatively impact my iOS experience when the day finally comes that I can no longer install this on new devices. I find the transition of other apps by Apple (especially those previously designed by other developers) to subscription-based models to be hostile to the consumers that buy into its very ecosystem and experience. We are all systematically being priced out of the very technologies that decades of consumer-patronage enabled to be developed. Pixelmator will die. Apple will have killed it. Long live Pixelmator!

Not saving progress. been enjoying the app for years so not giving it 5 stars feels ingenuine, but recently my files havent been saving, its happened multiple times. i have an iphone 16 running IOS 18.1.1., ive tried deleting unused files and everything but it still won’t save. thank you in advance.

Wish it had a pixel effect. I love this app and only have one request. If you could add the pixelate effect like you have in the MacOS version, that would be great. It’s useful to be able to select and pixelate out sensitive data from pictures. The name of the app would imply you had this effect haha.

Great app with one glaring omission. I’m still feeling my way around this app and it seems to have everything I could need except the ability to mask. This is an essential part of my workflow so it’s quite the handicap to be without it. There is an erase tool but that is destructive to the image so not a great workaround. Masking in this app has been discussed for a long time on the forums but there hasn’t been a definitive answer from the developers as to whether this is a realistic expection or it just can’t be done. Both Lightroom and Art Studio Pro have pretty robust masking on the iPad and iPhone. Masking would make this a 5-star app without a doubt.

Great app but needs more stability. It doesn’t do it every time but sometimes mid project I’ll leave the app via multitask and I see the Pixelmator canvas go black and I lose the project. Also one quick edit: can there be a version of the a-b line that doesn’t start in 45 degree angle? Either vertical or horizontal? I’ve utilized the “rotate” option but it still seems un-level

I’ve been using this app since the beginning!. Love the app! Except… please allow for input when selecting text font size! Having to hold the + or - button is absolutely ridiculous.

Memory and layer limitations and bugs.. I am a long time user of Pixelmator on both Mac and iPad. I am currently running the latest update of Pixelmator on an iPad Pro 6th generation 12 inch with iPad OS17. My work is very detailed and on many of my projects I often run out of layers. Combining layers as I work becomes tedious and makes future edits difficult. There are memory issues and a host of bugs. For example cropping no longer works. Saving modified images to photos has changed. File management and renaming files are awkward. Pixelmator is just not suitable for professional work even with a powerful iPad containing the M2 chip.

Not worth it. Super disappointed as I’ve been using the desktop version for years on my Mac. Purchased this in confidence for my iPad only to find that I paid for an absolute nerfed version. Can’t do half of what the desktop version offers. Simple things too. Wish I could get my $10 back

Perfect. I've had this for quite a few years and I love it. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that a lot of other drawing apps have, but that has honestly made it easier to learn to use and, more importantly, less of a strain on iPhones past and present. At this point, Pixelmator is like a dear old friend. Highly recommend.

Hadn’t opened in a year, then WOW!. I spend so much time with Procreate, I just never bothered to open Pixelmator. It’s come a long way with excellent Retouch tools, layers, tons of features to fix, improve and create stuff in the art, design and creative universe. You can easily fix the screwed up areas of your AI outputs from Leonardo and MidJourney. Glad to see the team didn’t let this app get stale.👏🌟👍

Best photo Editor!. Just what i was looking for, tried sooo many photo editing apps that saving a skin damages PNG Quality at lower pixels 128x128 untill i found this one. I make texture packs and minecraft skins. This is just the right photo editing app. Took me a few minutes to learn how to use but definitely happy with my purchase. Thank Youu Devs. =)

It needs the skew a picture or photo option. Love this app. I use it to make stickers but it’s missing skew. Need it to skew logos on some pictures because the way the picture I’m using the person is at. Other than that it’s an amazing app to use.

What a great option for those of us on older IPads…. I recently purchased Pixelmator. And let me tell you, this app has been a dream come true! I currently run 4 IPad Air 2’s in my music, film and graphic studio. And there just is not many options out there for those of us running older IPads to edit decently, without having to pay monthly fees, which I have always refused to do on any software! The more I learn how to do on this software, the better and better it appears to be for all of your basic and even some more advanced features! For the price, to features ratio, you simply cannot go wrong. There are ways to do almost everything basic you need to do. Some of the things are a different way than you may be used to. But it all works in the end. After spending about 8 hours so far on the software, I can say, I am very happy with my purchase. The only issue, was how hard this software was to find initially when I was searching options for my situation. Not enough people talk about this software in reviews or articles. I am very happy I discovered Pixelmator!

Cloning issue. It has worked fine until recently. Cloning in retouch isn’t working properly on my iPhone. It has been very frustrating trying to get support.

Reminds me of photo editing in the 90s. I don’t understand all the great reviews here. There’s plenty of reasons, but the final straw for me was text tools. When you choose to add text with the plus button, it gives you a large number of fonts to choose from but all they say is “TEXT”, not the font name! Then to resize the text, there are no resize handles, you have to go into another menu and drag a slider. There’s more reasons but that’s an idea of why I say that’s the way things were handled 20+ years ago in software. Not for me.

No vector editing. Honestly, a bit upsetting. I use Pixelmator Pro for Mac as my main vector drawing app as an alternative to Adobe illustrator… and was upset to find that after purchasing this app - there’s no option to edit Bézier curves or creating new ones?! I was really really hoping this would be the app to counteract expensive Adobe subscriptions. Or that it’d be like Procreate of vector editing… I really really hope this would be added. X

One of my all time favorites.. I recently wrote a negative review but this team is still responding and making updates. Keep up the good work, and please keep adding features!

Don’t bother if using on an iPad. Quite possibly the worst $10 I’ve ever spent. I was googling apps that allowed you to darken shadows on a face in a photo. Basically just changing the lighting a little. I landed on the Pixelmator website and it showed the tools to do just that. I went to the App Store and found Pixelmator. Since it was $9.99 I figured it was the pro version. Ugh. The iOS version is very basic and does not do what I saw advertised on their website. I went back to relook the feature. It said Pixelmator pro which is what I thought I purchased. I went back to the App Store and found Pixelmator pro with a different logo and was unable to purchase it for iPad. The version I previously purchased was only for the iPad. They are both from the same company. **Be careful to purchase the version that is compatible with your device. I spent $10 for features that are subpar for editing photos on an ipad**

Had it Forever. My last review has changed after some discussion with the team. But a few things remain to be seen before this rating becomes 5 stars for me. I found out that I can simply revert my file manager from recent projects to files and photos. This made me feel much better navigating thru my projects. So that bumped up my rating. I would still like to see a “less IOS User Interface”. When you tap a layer and get that pop-up window that you have to painstakingly tap thru to get to the tool you are looking for that happens to be at the very end in the list, that could be reworked. It really slows down the speed of a project. I would like to see a full list of the tools appear upon taping a layer. Kinda like a right click on a desktop. Another great thing to see would be some form of perspective tool like the one native to Apple’s photos app. Again, as the title states, I have had this photo editing app forever. Its been awesome, and it’s an extremely powerful photo editing app. And there will always be room for improvement and opinions on what will make it better. But hopefully we can see some changes I’ve offered to them, and then I can return here singing their praises.

Don’t like latest update. Messes with flow + glitches. I think te new browser view makes it a lot harder to find your projects. Should be a way tor revert the view back to the old way if you want to. Also the app crashed on me and deleted a project i was working on that was saved. Finally the new update has the clone tool glitching. Now when you go to brush it on the whole image disappears, so you can’t see what you are doing live anymore it just glitches out

Poor iPad experience, but solid iPhone app. I’ve been a big fan of the Pixelmator family of apps for years, but I’m really disappointed by the iPad UI and painfully limited feature set of this app. They’ve had years to improve it and I just don’t see any progress on the iPad front. I totally understand the compromises that were made for iPhone, and this app shines on that small screen. But compared to Pixelmator Pro (or Pixelmator Classic, RIP), this app is a toy. The fact that there isn’t even a proper toolbar for the iPad experience is baffling. Hiding so many basic functions behind layers of menus doesn’t make sense on an 11 inch screen. I would pay good money for a proper Pixelmator Pro port for iPadOS.

Best All Around App For Creators. This app can replace so many of the single tool apps that nickel and dime you for subscriptions. This app replaced Canva, Photoshop and their sister app (Photomator) can replace Lightroom. It works so well on Macs, integrating with your photos in a similar layout to the photos app so finding photos is a breeze. If you’re a professional photographer and need heavy lifting, I would probably still be stuck with Adobe. But if you’re someone who likes to creator some photo art on their spare time and put content out there for creating, then this app is the one for you. Break free of being stuck with the subscription nightmare that we live in and get this. It’s far easier to learn than Adobe apps and the workflow is smoother. My apps are now Final Cut X for video, Pixelmator for editing and Photomator as Lightroom. Now I need to find a good sound editing app and I’m all set to make videos out constantly paying $100/month in subscriptions. I hope this app doesn’t go towards a subscription model and just has you pay for major updates that you can opt out of if you don’t need. I have definitely recommended this app to other creator friends.

Buyer beware. There is no free trial or ability to preview this app before purchasing, so beware. It’s a seriously pared down version of Pixelmator Pro so it doesn’t have many features that the Pro version has, such as halftone effect capabilities. There was misleading info online that indicated the app did have that capacity, but it does not. Now Apple won’t give me a refund. Shame on me for forking out the $9.99 without previewing the app.

So Good. Absolutely love this app. without a doubt i think of using this application for most of my quick editing before a share.

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Amazing. So simply, yet effective. Like people who have no prior experience with editing could just experience and be surprised with what they can do.

My best App Store buy of the year!. What a great app - saved me twice already today. I shouldn't be so surprised, after all the Mac app is great, too! Fantastic and highly recommended!

Didn't finish loading :(. Almost completed loading but didn't make it and is now stuck. Can't restart the install or delete it! How do I rid of it please? I take that back. Left iPad alone for a couple of hours and went back to Apple Store and new message allowed me to download again. Phew this time success..thank you! Hopefully it will all work well now ;)

Amazing tools for your phone. Really happy with how quick and easy it was to apply different effects on photos. Magic select is magical!

Terrible!! Missing the one feature I paid for!. I downloaded this with the intention of colouring in professional graphics via my iPad using the one tool that for some reason is non inclusive of the iPad app despite being on the Mac version: PAINT BUCKET!!! How on earth could you guys leave such an important tool out????? Usually when you pay for something you can hold the expectation that you are paying for a premium product. As soon as you avenge your letdown I will be happy to modify my review!

Warning - Does not work with Pixelmator Pro!. This IOS app does not work with Pixelmator Pro on Mac; it only works with regular Pixelmator. Why they don't mention this in the blurb is beyond me - it took a very frustrating hour to figure out that Pro uses a new file format not supported by the IOS app. Why wouldn't Pixelmator share this information in the description of all three apps? It's baffling. Once you get over that hurdle it is a great bit of software.

Perfect app. This app is brilliant, I spend a lot of time on it. It was quick to learn and very intuitive. Thank you for a great app! The only thing that it lacks in my opinion is a perspective editing feature. It’s listed on the forums and I hope it is a release soon. None the less I’ve recommended this app multiple times and take this as me recommending it again. Thank you.

Starting to feel outdated. Add a little more ai integration and support for iOS 26 Liquid Glass and a dark mode icon

Lots of issues with fonts since the latest update. A lot of my installed fonts on my iPad Pro are no longer showing up properly in the app, instead just showing them in a standard Arial style font. Please fix!

GREAT APP. Very Useful, flexible and interesting. I Learn a new tool everyday and find new effects to mess around it, maybe make a feature to save a custom size so you don't have to change it every time. All around great app and keep up with new and innovative tools and effects.

good but lacking. Please add an edit menu function. I don't like having to use the eraser to delete a selected area. Photoshop touch has it!!! Plus please improve the extension performance. Applying some effects inside the iOS photos app takes forever..

Simply brilliant. Very easy to use, fast and intuitive. By far the best editing application yet. Totally recommend this app, so much so, Apple should snap it up and include up and coming in their iPhoto application. Check the video tutorials with guides and tricks on their website to maximise knowledge of using the application because it shows just what you can do. This is truly excellent value.

Incredible. This is a professional class app, one of the most amazing pieces of mobile software I've ever used. So powerful. To the idiot who says there isn't a repair tool, yes, there is - paintbrush icon, retouch, repair. It honestly couldn't be much more obvious. Take down your one star review it's obnoxious.

Da bomb!. The absolute best! The repair tool is brilliant and all of the other tools work seamlessly together and I love how it can detect your finger pressure and angle. Definitely one of the best image editing apps for iOS out there.

THR BEST APP. I don't ever write reviews, but seriously Pixelmator has to be the best app on my phone, iPad and Mac. It is beautiful, simple but powerful, super easy to use and you are almost unlimited in what u can do. I used to pay fully download and crack Photoshop every year, (I normally don't pay for software either) but happily would spend my dollars on Pixelmator again.

Needs the Pro treatment. This app is phenomenal on iPad but I work in Pixelmator Pro on the Mac and cannot continue working on the iPad with the standard version. Would love a Pro app or in-app purchase Pro upgrade

Decent app, but no Crop tool? Come on... I’ve used this for years, and it’s generally a solid app, but I’ve noticed in recent versions there’s no tool to directly crop an image like there used to be (either that, or there’s a bug preventing it from showing anywhere in the app. This is a really, really basic function of an app and as a result, I can’t really use this, because cropping a section of an image square is important because it’s how I have been creating avatars for years.

Amazing, love it!. This app is really good! First, I tried the app 'Photoshop', because on the computer that works really well, but on the iPad, it was terrible! Then I bought this app, and it was way better! 😀

My favourite app is ruined now. My heart is broken. I used to be able to do such fine work in Pixelmator, but sometime in the last 2 years they’ve ruined the clone tool, you position the anchor but then as soon as you go to the target area the anchor moves to the target area & literally bobs around with the cursor. It’s unusable. Copy & paste is also bizarre now, it pastes to a random point outside the image & you have to go & find it & try to move it back in without distorting it. I’m going to have to find another app, or just learn Photoshop. I literally only use Pixelmator now to ‘repair’ out the occasional light socket etc from a background because the iOS native photo editor still doesn’t have a repair tool.

Install fonts. Love that I can create templates to quickly create images for my business - such as testimonials, new listings, just sold. However, can we please add an option to install custom fonts (like Phonto)

The best photo editing app. As an occasional user of photo editing apps, I must praise Pixelmator as being one of the most user-friendly, sophisticated yet not too complicated photo editing app ever built so far. Absolutely astounding.

Impressive this is on a smartphone. Great app I love the advanced selection tools for selective editing.

Awesome!. An amazing app from the pixelmator team. Opens my docs from the Mac version without issue. Very intuitive and powerful. And to the guy who thinks the video is for the Mac version....you are wrong. I have the repair tool in this app and it works just as well as the Mac version.

Good Start, needs an update with extra features.. If you have used Apps like Moldiv and Fuzel, you will love this app until you start to do basic photo changes. Trying to replace a photo in a Collage is hard. Trying to move it inside the shape moves the entire shape. Zooming in a photo is impossible in a shape. More templates would be good as well. The selection tool looks great, however slow on an older iPad. Photoshop Touch works better. It does have a magic wand tool, however very limited in terms of editing. More for painting. The interface is great and the app has enormous potential. The app has heaps of features.

Dissapointing. The video for this looks so good. But don't be mislead. The interface is confusing. The "Tutorial" or what seems to be like a little hint on what the tool is and does is too vague. No Apple Pencil Support. No RAW photo editing. Its missing a lot of standard features these days and is not even worth the 99 cents right now. Buy it if your quick learner, can put up with 2014 features and can understand very vague things.

Please add dark mode icon.. Please add a dark mode app icon for iOS 18!!!

Highly recommended!. I recommend this app because it's really good. It has a variety of materials to use which makes it a great app to use if you like using a different types of materials.

iOS 26 has made this app unusable. The document selection page is stuck on loading*

Fantastic app!. I just bought this app and, already, I'm SO impressed! It has a resize option - YES! It has some great effects and photo manipulation options without losing image quality. IT!

Removes my work. When I click into files that I am doing randomly it will just delete all the work I have done. I have stopped using the app for important things as there is such a risk that once I have finished everything my work won’t be there next time I try to access it.

NO LONGER SAVES ANY FILES!. This app used to be fantastic. But with each software update, it’s degraded to the point it no longer saves new files to my iPad. When I reported it to the developers, they did not believe me and kept telling me to check my iPad as it “must be saved somewhere.” It’s not. I checked every single folder for the files I created using this app and they’re nowhere to be found. I’m certain I’m not the only person having this issue. It’s one thing to have a major issue like this, it’s another to be told I’m wrong.

Getting worse. Creating a new image and now I can't find it again...updates just makes things worse

Won’t regret! Highly recommend!. I really love this app. So many tools to edit my photos. It’s very professional app. Very easy to use. I paid once and don’t have to pay monthly subscription or app in purchase. Unlike other apps asking $ for every features and updates. Highly recommended! Thank you so much:)

Great app, but missing essential 16‑bit support. Pixelmator on iPad has been a solid and enjoyable tool for quick edits, but it really needs 16‑bit per‑channel color depth support. Many modern workflows rely on higher bit depth for professional-quality gradients, color accuracy, and non-destructive editing. I hope the developers consider updating the app to support 16‑bit images, as it would make Pixelmator far more capable for serious photo work.

snck app. two week

Wow!!!!!!. What an incredible app, well done. Just wish it was available on the iPhone 6 plus. Love the retouch feature, things just disappear like magic Well worth the cost

Delivers on its Promise. This app fully lives up to its description with a comprehensive set of tools and effects and is now my photo editing app of choice. It is well designed and very easy to use on both my iPhone and iPad. My 6 year old grandchildren use it to produce their own original drawings too. Full compatibility with the OS X version is a useful bonus.

Not quite a replacement for photogene. This app was one listed as a replacement tool to Photogene⁴. While this is an easy to use app, it’s is not a photogene replacement. The workflow is awkward, processing and adjusting functions are not as effective and harder to use. Such as curves, level adjustment and something as simple a sharpening. I will have to keep looking....

It’s easy. It works. It’s Pixelmator.. I was excited to learn that Pixelmator was coming to iOS for my iPad when I watched the keynote. Being a user of the desktop app for years (however preferring other products due to my own habits) I was really interested in Pixelmator for iOS. I currently use a 12.9” iPad Pro 2nd Gen. I downloaded this app several months ago and have not looked back. I’ve used this app for literally everything that I had use for in regards to image editing and creation and I’m quite impressed at how powerful yet incredibly easy this app is to use. I’ve created application interfaces, cropped and rendered images, merged and edited photos and just made my own photography work shine with Pixelmator. I’m really, really impressed with this app. Everything is easy to find and use and everything just works (and works well, I might add). I was really sceptical about using a proper image edited on the iPad using touch (and not a mouse) but Pixelmator crushed my doubts. I would thoroughly recommend this application to anybody who wants to do any kind of photo editing. This is a true desktop replacement image editor.

Good, but.... Pixelmator for the iPad is kind of a jack of many trades, but not really a master of anything. The new brushes are awesome, but doing any kind of layout with its many limitations (a tiny font size maximum and lack of gradient controls, for example) are a pain. So, there's a lot of good here, but it certainly isn't going to replace the apps that really are the masters of what they do.

Annoyingly asks me for permission to paste from Photomator every time I open this app.. I have denied it access 10 times but it annoyingly asks me for permission to paste from Photomator every time I open this app.

Great but where are the masks 🧐. This is a great app and really has a lot to offer. It has a potential of 5 stars, if it would include a few more advanced options, such as masking. It has blending modes, great stuff, but masking is really important. Also would be nice to have a couple more filters. Otherwise, no regrets just looking forward to future updates. Cheers!

Creating layers severely pixelates photos. Created a whole document and spent ages trying to work out the issue. No idea what the problem is. Import image as its own layer and its crystal clear. Add more layers and they pixelate making it useless. Great magic select which is the sad part about it.

THE BEST!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️. This is definitely the best app I've bought and I never regret buying at all! A must-have if you just want to play around with your photos on your phone or if you want your photos professionally done right in your palm! I can delete all the other photo editing apps now!

Used to be good but now.... Ok this app used to be the best, but now since that newest stupid update a lot has changed. The selection tools are terrible, you got rid of the one where you hold and drag out and it selects that area! BRING THAT BACK NOW! The magnetic one doesn't even work, even it o trace over something small it never gets it. I'm going to have to find a new app to make edits now. And do you know what I think, I think that terrible app stouldnt be worth like $6.99! Don't get this app, it the worst editor app ever!

Truly Impressive. It was a great pairing with my new iPad Air 2. I mostly use it for the repair tool, which does such a good job. I created a movie poster with it and was impressed with the level of control over the image. I was able to specify exact pixel dimensions, which I never would have suspected I could do. It looks great, runs like a dream and I can see it becoming part of a serious workflow for both iPhone- and SD-card-based purposes.

so simple to use and a perfect addition to the native photos app. love this app!! idk why so many negative reviews - tho a reasonably high star rating - but for a one-time purchase and useful additional features that are not native to apple photos, this app is absolutely wonderful!! plz keep it updated and always keep this one-time purchase model :))

So basic. Wow, I didn’t realise that it app would be so basic. Minimal, minimal features, and very limiting…uninspiring.

Easy to use (and no not lying a caveman could use this). I love this app while i do have storage issues its still very good for editing photos drawing tho well its good for drawing over photos but not actual digital drawing tho

Surprisingly versatile. I’ve used this app to make memes for years. I got it for a dollar and I own it. I still often try to make something in it thinking it won’t be capable enough, and 99% of the time find a creative way to do what I wanted. Simple, versatile, cheap, clean. What more can you ask for. I had to finally come leave a review. Thank you team

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July update is great. One request though.. Please add back numerical values to sliders. Useful for consistency when editing multiple photos. Thanks.

Interface needs to be updated.. Love this app but I 100% believe it could be better with an improved interface.

10/10, Incredible. I’ve been using Pixelmator almost every day for 5 years now to edit my product photography. It’s incredible. The ease of use, flat rate price and dynamic tools are simply unmatched. With this app I’ve managed to build a business entirely from my phone and now quit my day job! Thank you so much to the Pixelmator team, keep doing what you’re doing 🤞🏼

Brilliant and easy to use. This app has sold me Pixelmator for Mac but the iOS version is so much easier to use so I don’t even bother with the Mac version. Still great to support the dev for such a great piece of work.

Extensive editor. Learning curve, but fantastic capabilities

Love it until it freezes. Just bought the app and love it. Edited one photo and then the minute I opened the second photo, it freezes. App crashes every single time now. Please see what's wrong?

Good but.... The app itself is really good, excellent editing and tools selection! However, once you save your file (or by mistake) there is no redo... you cannot redo what you did... please fix it!

Incredibly awesome. Wish I found this earlier.

The new update is awful. Used to love Pixelmator, but the new update has taken away the most creative templates and replaced them with boring old squares. Whose idea was this?

Not much to say …. Waste of money …. Sucks, I was looking for an app to sharpen images for my ancestry family tree. TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY

Recent Update. Makes it impossible to import photos directly from your photos app on iPhone rendering the App almost completely useless. Why do I have to choose the size of the Template before importing a photo? So many terrible changes.

New version required please. This is a wonderful app and I’ve used it for years. But the ipad version does not have as many functions as the mac version. This is not practical and files between the two os are not compatible. This should be fixed. In the meantime, I’m left having to use something else.

A must Have for those who work with Photographers and Painting. While I will use procreate for creating professional painting. I will use this app for all editing of my photos and quick touch up of some artwork. It has simple yet powerful tools that any beginner and professional will use daily.

Excellent!. A very good photo editor at a very affordable cost. It has a bit of a learning curve but that is to be expected that offers a rich set of photo editing tools. Also, I love and appreciate the idea behind the pay once for the full version approach. Please keep it at the same. I do have a few suggestions though which might make the user experience a little better: 1. Redos are hidden behind a tap and hold and you have to repeat the action multiple times to redo your last action. Both redo and undo as well as most of the other actions could be replaced with icons (also to preserve real estate). A long press could possibly host a sub menu or a text/header/hint. 2. State management for undo and redo is good. Maybe in the future a History tab could be provided for a quick undo/redo. 3. Gradients seem to be missing. 4. I am not sure as I haven’t compared but I have a feeling that blending modes could be more powerful. 5. Blending modes are indispensable to photo editing but again, are hidden behind a Format menu. That is not at all obvious to the user. I believe blending modes should also be accessible from the main page. 6. Blending mode cannot be currently applied to a group. You have to ungroup the images, apply the mode and then group the images again. Though you do have the option to merge. There might be a few more things but I am pretty sure the team behind Pixelmator already has priorities set for improvements and add-ons for their next version. Overall, very good and I would suggest people to support the engineers behind this.

Doesn’t work for anything but pictures that are good in the first place👎. Horrible this works nothing like it is advertised and I regret paying for it

2 stars dinged for losing all my documents when I exchanged iPad. iCloud sharing only is just garbage for those of us who refuse to buy into more cloud storage. I need to offload my documents to desktop, NOT TO A STUPID CLOUD. I lost every document in frustration when I tried to offload some work before restoring and exchanging a device. Why not just keep a doc in iTunes file share? I am so sick of the lack of transparency and redundancy of iCloud sharing running amok and trying to take control of everything I do on my Apple gear.

Great app.. Surprisingly powerful. I love using it. I am constantly learning about the features. There is a little bit of a glitch with the odd crash, this is annoying because I lose my work. I hope they iron that out. Aside from that? I believe you should buy it. It’s worth it.

Great but a few suggestions!!!. There should be a clipping mask option along with maybe a pen tool. (Like photoshop)

dude this thing is sick. this is like the only App Store review I’ve ever left but this is the best app I’ve ever bought. Been using it for years, quicker faster easier and better than photoshop for 95% of things I edit, and I be editing. It’s not Lightroom (at least on iPhone) so don’t expect it to be better at editing colours and exposure and stuff, but it’s infinitely better than the photoshop app for iPhone for graphics, edits, etc. Thanks guys. You make my life easier

Poor design. The app is poorly designed, the layer menu always appears when you swipe from the left edge, even while youre trying to draw something using a brush... Annoying.

Amazing. Great app for photo editing and graphic design that i’ve used for years!!

Pretty alright. Decently powerful for an iPad editor. The menu based selection is cumbersome. The worst part is the hidden layer, it shrinks to hide, so I have to click on it to see what’s in it. Really inconvenient when I’m working with multiple layers. There are better editors out there but this is pretty alright regardless!

whatever you updated, change it back. Photo picker just freezes now when I try to import images from my library. never used to do this, iPhone 7 Plus.

Looooove it. I love this app so much. I hope it continues to get support since Pixelmator Photo, while also awesome, is a different kind of app all together. This is my go-to tool for creating images for work that need to be specific resolutions and many of my posts on Instagram start here since Instagram crops portrait oriented photos

Confusion. First, the Pixelmator app for iPad generates files that on the Mac, cause incompatibilities. The iPad version has ,essentially features and crashes when opening a macOS file with some code incompatible. Messaging support gets no response. None. This can orphan files. Documentation is poor. If this app is meant as a portable version of a desktop app, the integration is poor.  needs to put some resources into this as the current experience is poor.

Arrêt. L’application ne fonction plus du tout dommage .

Pretty much worthless. Apple’s Photos app can do better job than this.

Great investment. Bought this app in my first year of Middle School, gathered up some money (that was a lot for me at the time) and paid for it. 5 years later, now at my end of High School, I am still using it regularly for school or personal projects. Had a bit to learn at the beginning, but it’s a great tool for what it’s worth and gets the job done if you know how to. Couple of my school friends ended up buying this too. Would recommend

Pixelmator. Piece of crap.

You can’t really adjust colours in a colour selection. Doesn’t give you the option of deselecting colours in the colour replace and adjust mode which makes that kinda useless. If you are trying to select any colour even remotely close to a colour in another area of the photo you can’t remove selections like you can in photo shop. Hard to find solid information if the desktop app would be any better. For people who need to select colour around hair etc it won’t work.

Slows updates. But still lacking. I LOVE Pixelmator for the desktop, but the iPad app is very disappointing. One of the things that needs to change, which would greatly improve my review, is regarding the lack of ability to import drawing tools. The limited selection they have are not good, and they are all “chisel tips” that draw with a sort of ribbon effect. For inking, this is no good. But if we had the ability to import brushes from the desk top version, I would enjoy the iPad version so much more. But until they do, this is still sits in my off loaded folder. :(

iGypsy37. I have been using Pixelmator since it first came out on desktop and after that iOS. It is my number 1 go to app for editing and building images. There is so much that can be done with this app. I highly recommend it! What I would like to see, though, is the ability to position the centre point of the vignette effect anywhere on the image.

Waste of money. Wow. This app sucks. Total waste of money. Dedicated photo editors like dark room are way better, and as later editing tool this thing is garbage!! Trying to select, mask and crop is a nightmare. Wish I could have tried before buying. Total junk wish it was possible to get a refund.

Ne permet pas d'ouvrir les .pxd. L'app est franchement géniale, et j'ai une excellente expérience avec. Cependant, avec le récent abandon de l'app Mac Pixelmator de base, au profit de la Pro, j'ai bien peur que cette app devienne obsolète car elle ne peut pas ouvrir les .pxd de la version Pro. Est-ce possible d'en ajouter le support?

Bad color banding issue. The gradient maker is useless as there is a massive color banding issue. I reached out to the developer months ago and the issue has yet to be addressed. I will update my review when the issue is fixed!

Update. Terrible update, all the good brushes are gone now, and finding any brushes is harder. And you still have some small undo arrow hiding way up in the corner. Just bad. Can we please have the watercolour brushes back, at the very least? 🙄

My favorite iOS photo editor. Powerful features. Love to be able to do layers on the phone. Spot adjustments like dodge and burn. Warp. Fantastic!

Avoid at all costs. This is designed for photoshop or difficult app experts. It isn’t compatible with usual apps on Meta. If you are familiar with messing around in those apps, you will be totally lost in this app. The instructions may as well be speaking Chinese. They are totally useless. The symbols on the instructions aren’t on the app. Nothing on this App is like any of the usual apps so it’s starting all over from scratch and the instructions are confusing. I’d give it a zero star but I had to give them a credit they don’t deserve.

Layers and selecting are amazing. I can't believe this app is only 5 bucks. It feels so powerful!

Best Image Manipulation App. This is the best image manipulation application on the AppStore that I could find, at first I was hesitant to buy it but after using it for some time and learning the layout/how to properly use it, it’s easily the best app. Great if you’re looking for something like Photoshop/GIMP on IOS.

FORGET PHOTOSHOP!. I’m only a hobbyist but everything I used to do in photoshop can be done in Pixelmator. Forget Adobe’s monthly fees and buy this once!!! I use it on the 12.9” iPad Pro.

Exactly what i needed. This app is so well conceive. It's an almost complete photo editor and for my use, it is on par with its mac counterpart. I can finally edit my pictures on the go without traveling with my mac. This app is worth its price. :D

Seems like an old version compared to the desktop version. Far less intuitive to work with

Great graphic editing apps. I use this for all my office marketing. It’s pretty easy to use. I wish you could crop individual layers.

Terrible output resolution. Fairly easy to work, but the output has been very frustrating. It appears to convert images to BTM for image manipulation and then output a very degraded image no matter what export setting I use. Resolution would bring a much higher rating.

No EDR support. Please add EDR support.

Images stopped saving. My images aren't saving anymore.

Great graphics app!. I’ve used this app for many years. I’m surprised I didn’t write a review sooner. I love the simplicity of the design. It’s sooo much easier to use then that behemoth Photoshop.

Upgrades are disappointing. I use Pixelmator since 2018 and never had a problem. The tools i use the most are select and add photo. I are collages uploading a picture and select an area to transpose into another picture. Recently for the past months, i noticed significant image quality loss when doing so and it’s been so annoying..

Not at all what I needed. I expected this app to work approximately like my MacOS version that I’ve used for years. Nope. It’s just a clunky, poorly featured ‘photo editor’ kind of app with very limited useful functionality. Apparently, I was supposed to download the PHOTOMATOR app to get what I needed/expected. After only an hour, I approached Apple for a cancellation and refund, and they’re saying ‘no’. So, $14.00 plus tax of hard-to-come-by after-tax pension income goes down the toilet. Geeez, I hate being disappointed and then ripped off…

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It's promising.... Ever since the death of PhotoForge² (my it RIP next to Sparrow, Poster, KitCam, and now Photoshop Touch) I have been searching for a worthy replacement. While this app doesn't allow me to finally delete PhotoForge off my phone as PhotoForge is still the only app that supports layer masks, it does mostly fill in for the other features. A few other things: Pixelmator for iPhone is lightning fast. I put it through the works and was only able to make it stall on while making a large selection on a huge panoramic image. However, if you do something like adjust a layer's curves (which unfortunately cannot be adjusted in the individual channels yet) it happens in real time and the histogram is updated as you drag your finger around. No other app I have found has both this solid drawing engine and can do general photo editing. Hopefully in the future every feature of the desktop app will be present on the iPhone and the only slow down in editing will come from what is inherent with the form factor.

LOW RES POS APP!!. I can't believe the positive reviews, this app saves in low res! Hello, Pixelmator, it's 2015! I can't think of any serious photo editing app that doesn't save at native resolution or high res. When you bring in a high res photo from the camera roll and work on it in Pixelmator, the edges are pixelated and remain so when you save. This app is useless. You can't print out work from it as the images are low res and fuzzy. Yeah, if you want a $10 app to edit for Instagram or FB fine, but there plenty, plenty of one dollar or free apps that will do the same and print out high resolution. The excellent Snapseed prints out high res. What the hell is so hard having a developer design a high res app????? I've deleted this piece of crap app off my iDevices until they decide to stop being greedy and actually upgrade this app to high res. how anyone can rate this app higher than one star is beyond me unless they never print out photos. This is really a scam app on Pixelmator's part. Awful.

ehhh. my immediate take on this app is that it doesn't do anything new and it's just the same kind of editing and painting available in other apps I already have. and these other apps do it a little better imo. give yourself awhile to get used to the UI, cause it's not very intuitive - at least it's not unless you're thinking in terms Apple Pages as a painting app, then I guess it's solid. maybe if I spend more time with it I might find more unique characteristics that set it apart from the rest, or at least bring it side by side. but I'm not holding my breath. *this app made me think that the App Store, for all of its similarly developed apps that deserve some stark comparisons ought to offer trial periods or the ability to "return" an app for App Store credit. it's impossible to know what works better for what you're doing unless you buy (rent .. we never actually own any app. I've had one or two that I used very often disappear only to return asking for more money) and absorb the cost of experimentation. something should be changed about the commitment to apps - at least those that are used for production (games I suppose should be at your own risk).

New update is awesome, but still a few missing things. Really love the new keyboard and trackpad support—really makes it feel like a pro app. Thanks for fixing the issues with selection editing with the keyboard too! As some of the other reviews mentioned, the UI is definitely a little clunky especially on big iPad screens—especially the two modal screens you have to go through to choose a specific brush or selection type. The keyboard shortcuts make this a lot easier, but I don’t always have access to a keyboard (like when I’m drawing with Apple Pencil). Would love to have a tool sidebar kind of like the desktop Pixelmator app! There’s also some keyboard functionality missing like being able to select multiple layers/objects on the canvas with Shift or Command. A nice little bonus would be to have enhanced pointer shapes with brushes, erasers, etc. What if we had bigger pointers for larger brush sizes? Maybe a crosshair for more precise sizes? How about a unique pointer shape for the pixel brush tool, which also has pointer snapping to each pixel for even more precision? So many possibilities to make this a really unique experience for the iPad. It would also be nice to have support for multiple windows to make working with multiple docs at the same time easier. Totally understand if this can’t be done due to app memory limits though…

Great!. This app has many great ways to change and perfect your pictures from whole picture changes like adding lens flares, sharpening or blurring the image, or adjusting the saturation, contrast, and lighting with a few clicks. You can also use a (finger) brush tool to make minute and focused adjustments, and there is an awesome repair tool to fix any mistakes within the picture (it is extremely surprising how well it works). There are lots of other things that you can use to change your pictures, and this app is VERY affordable. I would recommend it 100% Some things that I would like to request are buttons to adjust the contrast/lighting/saturation levels by a percentage at a time so that minute adjustments can be made. Also if a picture preview could be used to make sure you know which image you want to use. I’ve noticed that if I have a lot of similar images , I am doing a lot of guess and check to make sure I have the right image. And if that can’t be done, a “replace” option would be nice rather than what is there now. It would also be convenient if you could take photos from your library and open them in the app. Now, I don’t know much about app making, so I don’t know what is or isn’t feasible, but all of these things would be great to see in the app. All in all, this photo editor is fantastic, and I would recommend it to anyone. It’s very affordable and very useful.!!!

My favorite photo editor. What the h…. this app has only four stars??? How is that even possible? If there’s a 5 star app on my phone, it’s Pixelmator - comparing all the (dozens and dozens) of iPhone editors I’ve tried over the years, Pixelmator takes the crown. Every aspect of this app, every little detail, has obviously been tweaked to perfection. I used to do most of my photo editing on a Mac in the past, but since the day I installed Pixelmator for iPhone I hardly ever open the Mac version anymore - it is such a joy to work with the iPhone app and the results I get are just stunning. A big thank you to the Pixelmator team - these guys have an eye for pixel perfect UI design. I admire how they’re sweating every little detail and how their tools are not only fun to work with but also innovative, clever and inherently usable. 5 stars all the way, well deserved.

okay...but..... Definitely not intuitive for me. Eventually I figured it out, but some stuff is just not possible. 1) can't add text boxes. 2) cant change the color of a selected item 3) since I have to use my laptop to do the previous I actually cannot open the file from imessge. I have to airdrop which is fine unless its collaborative. 4) since there were text layers added, my iPad just doesnt have the processing power so Pixelmator converts the file into a jpeg that isnt editable. which makes it really tiresome going back and forth between devices. Seriosuly? no text boxes? I used Pixelmator to draw out simple food items for a nutritional education project. I wish the crayon really meant the Crayola kind of crayon but fine. And for any kind of marker, i can only use the ballpoint "paint". Otherwise, apple pencil and this app is adequate for my needs...just cumbersome.

Just okay. I’ve been using Pixelmator Pro on my Mac for about a year now. I love everything that has to offer. Unfortunately my Mac has been living the last of its life and I’ve decided to go with an IPadpro as replacement (I truly only used my Mac for my hobby of editing photos I take). I was disappointed Pixelmator Pro wasn’t an option for such a great device. Pixelmator is just “okay” for quick edits, but nothing too advanced-at all. I’m sad I don’t have access to the mirror tool, and removing objects more efficiently. I’m just sappy I’ve learned so much of this software yet there’s no Pro version for IPad. If this ever becomes a thing, I’ll definitely be investing once more.

I hate it.. It’s impossible

Nice, but not quite.. This is one of the best photo editing apps for iPad. However, it's still light years behind the desktop version (which in all fairness, can also be said about the Mac vs iOS Photoshop). Some tasks which are simple and quick on the desktop either take too many steps on this app or are not even possible (there's no "Invert Selection" or a Paint Bucket Fill -- why?!?) It also does not support any shortcuts if you have a bluetooth keyboard connected, which would be very useful. I should probably give it 3 stars but I do give them extra credit for being on the right track. I know an iPad app can never 100% replace the Mac version, but there are some glaring holes in the iOS Pixelmator which leave me scratching my head and thinking "Wait, I can't do the basic task of ABC, but they included the ability to do XYZ which I will probably never use???"

Froze on save. Lost work. Stay away. Worse than useless.

My Go-To Photo Editor for Years. Above.

Great App just missing some Functions. This app is a great app for editing photos. It’s awesome. The layers, color selection tools, painting tools, selection tools, color editing tools, all the tools are really good. The biggest function that this app lacks in my opinion is a key frame option. The inability to creat gifs or other short animated forms is a reason why I still use other photo editing applications such as photoshop. A key frame feature would be awesome maybe even an option to turn each layer into a gif when exporting. The biggest issue I have with this app is that it never saves projects on the device. I like that it syncs and is well connected to the iCloud but when your working on a project then close the app for a second to check something and then come back and have to wait for the project to download again it’s a big annoyance after a while. If an option could be added to store projects on phone that would be great. I want to thank the Pixelmator team for making this app. It is a great app and overtime I think it will continue to get better. I hope you take on my feedback and eventually the features I mentioned get added. But once again thank you for making the best photo editing app on IOS.

Png photos. Adding png photos wont work anymore

Great app for photo editing it’s worth the money.. My overall impression of this app is really good being someone that’s experienced and using Photoshop and therefore being kind of spoiled, I really like this app. I do have a couple of small grapes with this app. One feature that all editing software should have as you should be able to crop you’re photos to a specific set size. Let’s say I’m working on a photo that’s already preset For Blu-ray dimensions I should be able to go up in the top left-hand corner and pull the cropping tool all the way down so that it extends from one side of the photo to the other, You should be able to slide the crop box area up and down your photo to select where you want to crop and then crop that photo to your specified dimensions. The second Feature that is missing In this app is save as a tiff file, if you’re an experienced photographer you should know already that if you’re going to edit your file you need to convert it as a tiff file first, the reason for this is most other photo files are compressed like a JPEG file for instance, when you’re editing a compressed photo file and then save that file over again your recompressing the file again causing a artifacts in your photos which completely defeats the purpose of editing your photo In the first place.

One of my top three apps. and gets 5 stars in every category I would rate it on. I edit only as a hobby. I first tried Photoshop-way to big of a learning curve for a hobby. Then I enjoyed 5 years with the paid version of Photoleap but a major update diminished what I liked about it. After 2 weeks of research I decided Pixelmator seemed to offer what I was looking for. WOW! After 9 mos of use I can confidently say it offers the professional level of Photoshop, the ease of Photoleap and a level of help documentation I seldom find in any app in any category. My #1 ask when looking for a new photo editor was that it was available for both iPad Pro 11 and Mac with Apple level cohesiveness between them. I haven’t downloaded the app to my MBP but from the little I’ve seen of it, I have much to look forward to. I’ll report back on that soon!

No Tutorials. How can I do what I want???

It’s become unusable. Used to use it for everything. Now it has become unusable.

Improving with each new release. I've been using this app since it first released. I do not find it as intuitive or easy to use as my other long-trusted other apps (Photogene, Snapsee, Procreate, iDraw). It has an interface that in many ways is much like Apple's Numbers & Keynote Apps, which is either good or bad depending on one's tastes. There are certain things this app does which my others either do not do at all, or do not do so easily (healing, is very easy in this app for example, the improved selection tools are great!). Each new release I find the additional features give me even more reasons to use this app on my iPad Pro. I also have the Mac version of this - love the iCloud integration which lets me work on the same file from either device. Thanks to the developers for their passion, hard work, and persistence!

Saved images are dated January 2023. I love this app BUT when I save an image it’s dated January 2023 and impossible to find in my Photos library.

Bought it years ago, and still worth it. I bought Pixelmator years ago, and it’s still my favorite iOS editing app. I only have two features that I believe are is missing. One is the ability to select a layer, and crop it. I’ve found a way around it by using the selection tool and then manually cropping but if I’m already at max layers (4 when doing the max size image) I can’t copy it into a new layer so I’m forced to merge layers or manually erase extras. The other missing feature is the ability to pull a color for text with the dropper. It’s available for painting, but not for text color. I believe the image size and layers are a limitation of device speed, to keep the app from crashing or slowing down, but if I’m wrong, that limit should be removed.

Nothing works!!. Attempting to import an image hangs on “loading” and trying to load an existing Pixelmator file will just stay on the files app screen.

Lost work. The app used to be good, but now it just doesn't save anymore. All work I do just doesn't save.

Pixelmator is now universal! Fantastic app that is fun to use. UPDATE: If there's one feature I could request it would be a button that lets you see the photo before the last edits without hitting the undo button then hitting the redo button. Original Review: I bought pixelmator when it was for iPad only and it was so nice to get the new iPhone version for free! Pixelmator is a very powerful photo editing app that has everything you'd want to create a better looking picture. It has editing tools that the competition doesn't have (eg repair and warp tools) and incredible painting tools that set it apart from the rest. Now that it's universal between iOS and Mac it's so easy to be able to edit your photos wherever you are and then go to another device and see all the pictures you've edited in pixelmator. Great update, and you won't regret buying it :)

Good app, a few suggestions. The latest update definitely did improve Pixelmator’s design and gave it more editing features for a variety of art styles. However, I suggest a few things to be added/fixed: - Color fill bucket to quickly color in a drawing without having to color it in by paintbrush, which takes longer - An eyedrop tool when choosing colors under the gradient option to make the desired color a gradient - An option to delete color swatches if a color swatch is created by accident - Occasionally, the app would crash while I’m working on a piece of artwork, and sometimes the artwork that I’ve worked hard on would disappear after crashing with no way to get it back, which I was disappointed about. I had first noticed this issue after the big update, so I’m not sure if it had been caused by the update. Saving it does help when I click on “Images” in the top left corner of the screen and going back into my project but I would rather not have to do that and a piece of artwork I was working on somehow disappeared when it had crashed again even though it had been saved more than once. I hope this issue would be fixed to prevent other users from losing their projects, especially ones they spent a long time on.

Perfect for Pixel Art - Except One Issue. I love Pixelmator - very smooth, simple, and easy to use, with lots of diverse tools. I use it mainly for pixel art, because simply enough, there aren’t and good tools to make pixel art or animations out there. This one has huge potential. One issue, however - when making pixel art, somewhere in the process of closing the file and reopening it, or somewhere in there, it becomes ever so slightly distorted in color. Pixels near the edge of other colored pixels will blend in color - and thus it’s impossible to maintain image quality. I’ve also noticed this in my non-pixellated work - a tiny loss in quality as I work over a period of days. I’ve tried everything to experiment and see if it was me causing the problem - but can’t seem to solve it (using iPhone 6 plus). Unfortunately, I can’t rely on the app to export when using it for game art or anything like that. However, if this issue were to be solved, it would easily be five stars, and the best art application out there.

Lovely little app. I’ve had this app for a very long time, never took the time to learn how to use it. I like easy quick fast and fun. Years later, cleaning up my phone opened this app, I had forgotten about. To my amazement, it has turned into the only app I use to edit and design with. I have learned through the method of “school of hard knocks” I dislike reading and generally can not focus long enough for information read to sink in. I suppose I’d rather waste several hours using the trial and error Method than a few seconds or minutes of reading. 🙄 I am still stumbling onto the amazing things you can do with Pixelmator. I have Pixelmator pro on my Mac and I love it! I don’t quite understand what the hype is about other main editing apps and programs are all about and the weird idea of having to pay monthly or yearly to use them? Pixelmator just can’t be beat. With that said, stop thinking about which app to get and we’ll I’ll decide for you, Pixelmator hands down is the way you need to go. 👍

Missing most features of pixelmator for Mac. What few features are available are generally well thought out and adapted for touch - especially on iPhone. However, if you're expecting to have access to any of the vectormator features available on pixelmator for Mac, or even some of the more advanced raster features, like channel masking, you're going to be disappointed. I understand that it's hard to port over all of the features for pixelmator for Mac. However, given that this app is missing so much of the Mac's features, it should be called 'pixelmator mobile' or 'pixelmator pocket'. Finally, there are a few iOS features that this app needs to have: open-in-place on iOS is a must. It's no longer acceptable to only store items inside an app library in iCloud. Users expect to be able to store their files anywhere - iCloud Drive, Google Drive, etc, and edit them without the hassle of importing/exporting to a drive.

Basic tools missing. What a disappointment. I have Pixelmator pro for Mac. This iPad app has less features than Microsoft paint. Doesn’t even have a fill in bucket tool. UI is also clunky. I want a refund.

No Alpha Masks - don’t waste your time.. What a joke. This is yet another dumbed down image editor under the guise of having “pro" features. Something as basic as editing an alpha mask is missing. There’s all types of smart select tools but they are all garbage because they don’t give you the level of control that a true alpha mask gives you. This is such a let down. The Mac app has this, why not iOS? The iPad with a pencil would be the perfect tool to draw alpha masks, I really don’t understand why the developer would neglect to add such a basic feature that even free image editors like GIMP on Linux provide you. Don’t waste your time with this app like I did. At the end of the day you get some preset effects, and color correction like the stock photos app gives you and some other effects that are more silly then useful. Really regret wasting my money on this garbage.

Worthless waste of money.. Did nothing. It basically allows cropping. And. If you want you can add a photo of skaters. Total junk app. No functionality. No photo editing. Nothing AI

A Wonderful Addition to the Toolbox. Yes, the interface is a bit cumbersome, but Pixelmator is packed with features. It seems most of the poor review are from folks who are looking for yet another app packed with dozens of 'filters', where dropping $5 really would be a big 'splurge'. This is not one of those apps. But if you're looking for an image program that can open up Photoshop files with layers, this is your app. If you need an app that supports layer styles (including strokes, color overlays, gradients, drop shadows, and blending modes), masking with feathering, smart shapes, healing tools, distortion tools, painting ability with over 100 brushes and smudge tools, along with a smart collection of color and level adjustment tools, all in one app, this is a great choice. And it even has some nice filters. Just not hundreds of them. ;)

Great Photo Editor, missing a few features. Overall this is a great tool for doing photo manipulation. I use it for compositing images and annotating images for promotional graphics. The interface is definitely a little challenging to get your head around at first and I wish there were more video tutorials for it, but once you get your head around the limits and idiosyncrasies, you can really fly. Probably the biggest missing thing for me is alpha layers... Without having some kind of alpha mask layer, compositing images is very frustrating. One of the more common things I do is duplicate a layer, mask off part of it them apply filters to one of the layers. This works well for applying an effect to only part of the image. With pixelmater on the iPad the closest I could do to replicating this was copying a section of the page and pasting that as a new layer. This works ok, but you can't adjust which portions of the image are masked after your initial copy/ paste which means if you make a mistake early in the process it's very difficult to fix it without repeating a bunch of steps. Overall, I've been able to do some impressive stuff, but the problems with layer masks and a few UI issues really hold it back. 5 stars because it's the best on the iPad, But it's still missing some vital stuff.

Blown Away.. This app is simply amazing. It has officially replaced the Photoshop Touch app for me! The fact that I can adjust the curves is just so perfect since I use it so often on desktop editors. Also the UI is gorgeous. You guys have done an excellent job in matching the design with the theme of iOS7/8! Not only does it look beautiful, but it also works in a swift easy-to-use way. It definitely beats the UI for Photoshop Touch! The one thing I would ask for: more options for adjusting the colors of the image. Even though it currently has the most advanced color adjustment tools on the App Store, I would like to see an app that allows me to take full control (Such as in the desktop version of Adobe Lightroom). It would be incredible if you guys could design an app that allows me to adjust things like split toning, individual color adjustments, and RGB curves. It's ok that these features aren't present right now, I'm not gonna complain. This app still gets a 5 star rating from me, and I would totally recommend this to all photographers and artists!

Company went to AI. i've been a loyal customer for years, you lost me. Don't replace artists with software.

Back up all of your images before upgrading. All of my previous Pixelmator projects have lost their thumbnails, so I have to open them in order to see what they are, which changes their time stamps, even if I make no changes. And even then, the thumbnails are not created. Also, regardless of where you opened your project from, when you close that project, it reverts to a (useless) project list, and you have to navigate back to wherever you were when you opened the previous project. And you can't move documents to different folders. Why bother with folders if you can only really find them by going unit "Recents"? I can't imagine any reason for this upgrade, though I suppose people who use Bluetooth keyboards are appreciative of having more keyboard shortcuts.

Great app. This is really nice. Simple yet powerful, it makes my iPad so much more useful. I use it all the time, as I take many photos. I have bought hundreds of apps from the App Store, and this is the first one that is absolutely perfect. The best app I've ever had. I have absolutely no problem with it at all. Don't use this as an excuse to stop innovating, you can be the best of the best of the best. I don't really get why you didn't make an iPhone version. I understand that the 5 and 5s are too small, why not the 6 and 6 plus? They are incredibly powerful and person, I take MUCH more photos with my iPhone 6. I would use Pixelmator a lot more. If I have a photo I want to edit, I have to take part in the lengthy process of transferring it over to my iPad. I think it would be much easier to add compatibility to iPhones. If you do is, then Pixelmator will be a truly great app.

No photo Selecting. I am given no way to access the camera roll on my iPad. Only files

Still fantastic, but with some clunky UI. I have been making edits with this app for several years and I love it! But recent changes have made the tools a bit harder to use, for me. The buttons are now a selection of wide buttons that take up basically the entire width of the tools window (on iPhone), which makes it annoying to quickly go back-and-forth between actions. My suggestion is to maybe offer an option to condense the bottoms to just the symbols, side-by-side. That way you can still recognize each tool while quickly having access to it all on the fly! The other minor annoyance I have is the top options no longer hide when you tap on it. I frequently used this feature to see exactly how my images look as wallpapers. Now I’d have to export the image before knowing exactly how it’ll turn out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Besides those issues, I love this app and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future!

Missing most essentials. I kept seeing this app pop up in the editor’s choice section. Their endorsement made me very curious and I debated whether to purchase it for a while. $5 was worth scratching that itch of curiosity. To those that came to a similar point of curiosity, this is for you. There are no gesture shortcuts. You find yourself trying to use a two-finger tap to undo. When you use undo, there’s no redo option. If you accidentally click the undo icon past the brush stroke you wanted to stop at, you can’t regain that progress without redoing it manually. The biggest offender is the lack of an option to disable finger touches. You will constantly make unintentional brush strokes. Combine this issue with an absence of any redo and you end up with frustration. I’m disappointed in this app, but I don’t regret spending the money to know that I won’t be interested in using this. The Adobe Fresco sub is $10 per month, and they haven’t even provided any big updates in a while.

Necessary features are missing.. The app is ok for quick sketches but that’s about it. As a graphic designer I need to do things on the fly and find myself frustrated with the features this app lacks. Many times I jump to this app to quickly put something together as a semi mock-up for clients. Simple features the app lacks are essential to anyone who does graphic work. A few missing features are skew & free transform. The distortion features in the app are pretty worthless imo. If I have a logo and need to add simple text I am unable to skew or italicize the text to fit image angles properly. This is a simple function that can be added to the text options/features. There needs to be a angle or skew tab in there to angle the text slant in a positive or negative direction. My second major issue is the same thing with images or object layers. There should be a free transform option or a skew or slant feature to grab individual points of an object to allow for easy manipulation. Or to be able to move only 2 points and adjust the angle/slant of any objects to add alternate perspective to the image objects. If the app had those two features added I would give it 5 stars. There are some great features. But the app itself is very limiting with essential functions that limit the user.

a Background bug. I take my subject from a photo but when I save my subject as a file. The background is available in the file.

I miss the smudge brushes. Update- im not sure if the smudge brushes were called the smudge brushes on the app but they were the last set of brushes next to water color and i used it to smudge and blend. There were a lot of options. I miss them. I think there was a wax one and oil one i forget their names even though i used them almost daily for awhile. A friend asked me to touch up a photo and i logged in with intention of the app being the same as i used before and noticed a lot had changed. I tried the new smudge feature and there were no brush options the old app had tons of brushes like 8 or 10. I loved them all. a circle also was there too when i was trying to use the new smudge. Im not sure if there was an option to take that circle away. Some ppl may find it helpful. I also miss the percentage for brush sizes. I also noticed the waterbrush section was missing but i think they may have been condensed into paintbrushes in general. So they still may be there just not in their own catergory. I really appreciate the app and dont want to sound negative i just miss my smudge brushes

Pixelmator escape!. I have had Pixelmator now for several years, on two different iPhones. An iPhone 5 and now an iPhone 6 Plus. The reason I have not written a review yet, is every time I try to use it & get involved with a picture, it crashes on me. I get frustrated and then put my phone away, or get busy with something else, as I don't think something should take all day to put a simple text on a picture. But it crashed 3 times today, just trying to put my name on a "dummy" picture. One I don't care about. So if I mess it up I can delete picture & all and not worry. But can't even get thru to where you save the picture with text & it shuts down. I've never been able to do one project with out it crashing. So something is wrong somewhere if you can't get it to even stay open. Please fix.

Crashed. Using apple pencil crashed dozens of times on ipad mini 6 and ipad pro 2018. Each crash will lead to the loss of drawings. Dozens of copies need to be backed up to draw a picture.

A second class citizen on iOS until layers support is added. Pixelmator Pro on Mac OS is a fabulous product for anyone looking for an alternative to the Adobe subscription offering. However, the iOS offering does not support all the features available on the desktop product; mostly glaringly the lack of support for layers and .pxd file support. For an otherwise very sound product, this came as a rude surprise the first time I started a project on Mac OS, saved the pxd file to iCloud, then tried to open on iOS with the intention to do some masking refinement using the Apple Pencil. Sadly, this was not supported at the time I write this review. So, beware that there is not proper integration between the desktop and iOS Pixelmators and don’t count on being able to move back and forth between the platforms as part of your workflow.

Love it!. So good. Please make a RAW video editor!

A fault when rectangle selection. The border of the selected area disappears automatically if I hit any icons after rectangle selection, this issue occurs in version 2.8.4. So I reinstall the package for 2.8.3 .

Serious crashing issues. New version crashes every photo. Totally unusable as you can never get anything done.

Mini-Photoshop!. If you’re looking for the basics of Adobe Photoshop, this app is perfect! I’ve been looking for a suitable replacement for PS since purchasing the iPad Pro (10.5) this past month. And unfortunately, besides LightRoom, the Adobe iPad apps still fall pretty short. Most people referred me to Affinity Photo on iPad (which looks amazing). But for the price of Pixelmator, I just had to try it out... And WOW 🙈. Awesome job you guys! I’ve been using it with the Apple Pencil for a few days, and for the first time, I actually don’t miss my laptop while doing light photo editing and sketching. Can’t wait to see future updates. Definitely some serious potential here!