App Detail » Pixelmator Pro

What's New

Pixelmator Pro 3.5.8 brings improved support for vector PDFs — including those created using Apple apps like Safari, Keynote, or Pages — now letting you edit text elements as regular text layers. The update also adds the ability to create freely customizable strokes around text layers and introduces a new Bento Grid template collection.

Text Editing in PDFs
• You can now import and edit text elements in vector PDFs as regular text layers.
• Replace, format, and style the imported text using your favorite Pixelmator Pro tools.
• Thanks to the advanced recovery of embedded text data in PDFs, original text content, fonts, and text formatting are retained.
• Even if a document contains fonts that are not installed on your Mac, you can still import them as editable text layers and replace missing fonts with other available ones.

Extended Support for Apple PDFs
• Enjoy editing text layers in PDFs created using Keynote, Safari, or Pages and unlock exciting new editing workflows.
• PDFs created from web pages using SF Pro font will retain their appearance and original typeface if this Apple system font is installed.

Customizable Text Strokes
• You can now fully customize strokes around text layers, giving you more creative freedom for styling typography elements in your designs.
• In the Style tool settings, add strokes on the inside, center, or outside of text layers, choose from various stroke end styles and corners, and even create dashed strokes.
• Combine multiple strokes of various styles and rearrange them whenever you want, all while keeping your text editable.

Bento Grid Templates
• Showcase your products or new app features with 12 customizable bento grid templates, perfect for web, social media, and more.
• Match your product style or a specific theme with a range of alternative color palettes.

Have any feedback about this update or Pixelmator Pro in general? Get in touch with us at [email protected]!

App Description

Pixelmator Pro is an incredibly powerful, beautiful, and easy-to-use image editor designed exclusively for Mac.

With over 50 image editing tools, Pixelmator Pro has everything you need to create designs, edit photos, draw illustrations, paint digital paintings, and be creative in just about any way you can imagine. Designed to be the ultimate Mac app, Pixelmator Pro has won multiple awards, including the Mac App of the Year awarded by Apple, and is one of the best-rated apps on the Mac App Store.

Edit and enhance
• Adjust the colors in your photos and even videos in any way you want using a powerful collection of pro-grade color adjustments
• Use machine learning-powered tools to automatically remove image background, enhance photos and videos, increase resolution, remove compression artifacts and noise, correct white balance, and more
• Magically remove unwanted objects from images using the incredible Repair tool
• Quickly make good-looking shots spectacular with over 40 presets that create cinematic, vintage, photographic film, and many other looks
• Enjoy full support for RAW photos from over 650 of the most popular digital cameras, including compressed Fujifilm RAWs
• Make precise selective edits using color adjustments layers

Create stunning designs
• Create beautiful designs in moments with over 200 templates
• Find templates for a range of different formats including posters, social media posts, resumes, and more
• Effortlessly replace placeholder content in templates and mockups using Smart Replace
• Harness the full power of layer-based editing to design posters, webpages, or apps from scratch
• Easily transform the look of templates using built-in alternative elements — lighting, shapes, effects, and illustrations
• Add text and customize all its typography features, including font, size, emphasis, alignment, ligatures, spacing, indents, and much more
• Quickly and effortlessly align objects using the intelligent Arrange tool
• Combine any of over 70 versatile, nondestructive effects to develop any artistic or special effects you can imagine
• Customize the look of layers using layer styles, such as Fill, Stroke, Drop Shadow, and Inner Shadow
• Showcase your designs in stunning, fully-customizable mockups

Draw and illustrate
• Create vector designs using a full set of vector tools, including Pen and Freeform Pen tools
• Speed up creating illustrations with over 200 stylish shapes designed by the Pixelmator Team
• Add customizable Smart Shapes to quickly create your custom shapes
• Import and export vector files in SVG format

Sketch and paint
• Paint digital or traditional paintings with a collection of beautiful, handcrafted dual-texture brushes
• Take advantage of full support for graphics tablets to paint with pressure and tilt sensitivity
• Enjoy incredibly fast and responsive painting thanks to a cutting-edge painting engine powered by Metal graphics technology

Machine learning-powered editing
• Automatically enhance images with machine learning-powered features including ML Enhance, Match Colors, Super Resolution, Denoise, Deband, and Crop
• Quickly and easily make accurate selections using the Quick Selection tool

Compatibility
• Open files in popular image and video formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, HEIF, SVG, AI, Illustrator EPS, PDF, GIF, BMP, TGA, WebP, JPEG-2000, AVIF, MP4, MOV, and more
• Open and export HDR images and videos
• Open and export Adobe Photoshop images with layers
• Share your images or videos to Photos, Mail, AirDrop, and other locations

Built exclusively for Mac
• Pixelmator Pro is a Universal app that is fully optimized for Mac devices with Apple silicon
• Designed exclusively for macOS, Pixelmator Pro supports almost every major macOS feature and integrates seamlessly with macOS Sonoma
• Enjoy support for iCloud Drive, Versions, a full-featured Photos extension, Shortcuts, Light and Dark Modes, Split View, AppleScript, Apple Pencil, and more

App Changes

• June 13, 2019 Initial release
• August 16, 2019 New version 1.4
• August 28, 2019 New version 1.4.1
• October 15, 2019 New version 1.5
• October 28, 2019 New version 1.5.1
• October 28, 2019 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $19.99
• November 04, 2019 Price increase: $19.99 -> $39.99
• November 26, 2019 New version 1.5.2
• December 02, 2019 New version 1.5.3
• December 02, 2019 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $29.99
• December 09, 2019 Price increase: $29.99 -> $39.99
• December 24, 2019 New version 1.5.4
• July 14, 2020 New version 1.6.4
• October 22, 2020 New version 1.8
• December 09, 2020 New version 2.0.1
• December 09, 2020 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $19.99
• August 05, 2021 New version 2.1.2
• August 05, 2021 Price increase: $19.99 -> $39.99
• October 08, 2021 New version 2.1.5
• September 16, 2023 New version 3.4.1
• September 16, 2023 Price decrease: $39.99 -> $34.99
• October 04, 2023 Price increase: $34.99 -> $49.99
• November 03, 2023 New version 3.4.3
• April 25, 2024 New version 3.5.8