Pixelmator Pro
Pixelmator Pro is a Mac image editing and design app from Apple for photo editing, illustration, painting, and graphics work.
What is Pixelmator Pro?
Pixelmator Pro is a native macOS creative app for image editing, graphic design, digital painting, and illustration. Apple now publishes and supports Pixelmator Pro, and the product has historically been known for using Mac technologies and a Mac-first interface. Typical use cases include retouching photos, creating social graphics, working with layered compositions, drawing illustrations, and exporting assets for web or print. It supports common image formats along with many RAW formats, so photographers and designers may encounter it in both personal and professional workflows. On Mac, it integrates with system features and Apple technologies such as iCloud-related workflows, Apple silicon optimization, and modern macOS sharing and file handling. Users usually encounter it as a standalone creative editor installed in /Applications and associated with image files or design projects.
Key features
- Edit layered images, designs, and illustrations in a single document workflow
- Retouch photos with color adjustments, repair tools, and non-destructive editing controls
- Open and work with many common image formats, including numerous RAW photo formats
- Create graphics with text, shapes, vector tools, and alignment guides
- Paint and draw with brush-based tools for illustration and compositing
- Export finished work for common digital and print-oriented image uses
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
This is a legitimate commercial creative application. It is generally safe to keep if you use it, and its files are typically user documents, preferences, caches, and app support data rather than system-critical components.
Recommendation: Keep it if you use Pixelmator Pro for editing or design work. If you no longer use it, removing the app is usually optional, but review any project files you want to keep before uninstalling.
Common paths
/Applications/Pixelmator Pro.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Pixelmator Pro
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.pixelmatorteam.pixelmator.x.plist
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