Acorn
Acorn is a macOS image editor for editing photos, creating graphics, and working with layers, text, filters, and export formats.
What is Acorn?
Acorn is a native macOS image editor designed for photo editing, graphic creation, and everyday image work on the Mac. It helps users retouch pictures, remove backgrounds, combine images, add text, draw shapes, and prepare graphics for web or print projects. The app includes layer-based editing, selection tools, non-destructive filters, color adjustments, and export options for many common image formats. It is suitable for people who want a full-featured editor without the complexity of a large studio workflow, including hobbyists, designers, bloggers, and small business users. Acorn also supports text on paths, shape tools, perspective correction, and animated image export, which makes it useful for both simple touch-ups and more detailed creative work. Flying Meat Inc. publishes Acorn as a desktop app for Mac users who want a capable image editor focused on practical editing tasks.
Key features
- Edit photos and graphics with layers, selections, and masks
- Adjust color, levels, curves, and other image settings
- Remove backgrounds and retouch images with clone, erase, and repair tools
- Add text, shapes, and text on a path for graphics and logo work
- Apply non-destructive filters and combine effects without committing immediately
- Export images to formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, SVG, and WebP
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Acorn is legitimate image-editing software for macOS. Access to your files, photos, or image folders is normal for this kind of app because it needs to open, edit, import, and export images. It does not require unusual system-level access for ordinary editing work. As with any editor, be careful when saving over original files if you want to preserve an untouched copy.
Recommendation: Keep Acorn if you use it for photo editing, graphics, screenshots, or other image work on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer use it, but make sure any projects, exports, presets, or files you want to keep are saved elsewhere first.
Common paths
/Applications/Acorn.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.flyingmeat.Acorn8
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Acorn
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.flyingmeat.Acorn8.plist
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