Pixelmator Classic iOS Reviews

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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**

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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.

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS. I’ve requested a refund.

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS. 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS shines on that small screen. But compared to Pixelmator Pro (or Pixelmator Classic, RIP), PixelmatorClassiciOS 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.

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.

This used to be an amazing app, and Pixelmator puts out some amazing products in Photomator and Pixelmator Pro on the Mac. However, PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS.
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 PixelmatorClassiciOS is still stuck in 2010.

I have Pixelmator on multi iOS devices and my Mac computers. I do like PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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.

I’ve been using PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS is great!

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.

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.

I’m still feeling my way around PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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.

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.

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.

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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.

I've been using PixelmatorClassiciOS for years to do simple retouches of photos. I'm happy to see that it's not a part of Apple's lineup on my iPad Air. It makes up for the lack of retouching and layering tools in my Photos app. I love the simple tools for repairing and retouching. I'd love to see some updates and additions in the future, but overall, it's a great app. I appreciate the 'modify original' feature. It saves my having to delete duplicates from my camera roll.

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 🤷‍♂️.

This feature is available in others but I think it would be useful for drawing 3D scenes, and such. Thank you so much, PixelmatorClassiciOS 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.

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 PixelmatorClassiciOS get stale.👏🌟👍

PixelmatorClassiciOS can replace so many of the single tool apps that nickel and dime you for subscriptions. PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS 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 PixelmatorClassiciOS to other creator friends.

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. =)