Pixelmator Pro: What Users Actually Complain About

Users find the interface unintuitive with illogical tool organization.

“The latest revision of the interface drives me crazy because there seems to be no rhyme or reason to how the tools work”

Lack of essential functionality like typography tools and export options.

“It is missing some really basic typography features, like support for bullet points and numbered lists.”

“Surprised that there is no support for exporting to TGA or WebP file formats like in the regular non-pro version.”

Core editing tools like the healing brush perform poorly and produce unexpected results.

“The healing brush is also laughably bad. I tried to remove a birthmark on the face and it duplicated her eye, lol.”

“PIxelmator Pro does not offer this, instead it has something called Refine which applies more algorithms to try to impro”

Application suffers from frequent spinning ball and slow response times.

“The spinning ball rears itself too much and the wait until it stops is unnerving.”

Restrictive interface design forces inefficient workflows with excessive clicking.

“The lack of support for floating or detachable palettes means getting the job done requires far, FAR more mouse-clicking”

Issues with file format support and transition to subscription model create user frustration.

“Pixelmator Pro will not open that older file format & PXM Classic will not run on my M-series MacBook Air.”

“They have announced their apps are moving to a subscription model. This app is a fine photo editor, it is absolutely not”

Problematic conversion between color spaces affects professional workflows.

“The way Pixelmator works with CMYK input is that it converts your values to the RGB color space, which means when you sa”