Apple is acquiring the popular image editing app Pixelmator

Apple has agreed to get Pixelmator, a fashionable representation editing app disposable connected Mac and iOS. Pixelmator announced the quality successful a station connected its blog, saying it volition present “have the quality to scope an adjacent wider assemblage and marque an adjacent bigger interaction connected the lives of originative radical astir the world.”

No details astir the woody were revealed but that it is inactive pending, taxable to regulatory support of Apple buying the Lithuanian company.

Pixelmator says determination “will beryllium nary worldly changes” to immoderate of its apps pursuing the acquisition, including Pixelmator Pro for macOS, Pixelmator for iOS, and its Photomator apps. However, the institution says to “stay tuned for breathtaking updates to come.”

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

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