Photomator - InDepth Review

An Inexpensive and Excellent Photo Editor for Mac

Pixelmator Pro has been one of the most high profile Mac apps for many years now thanks in part to winning Apple’s Mac App of the year award in 2018 and thanks in part to its very Mac-centric design and solid feature-set.

I bought the original Pixelmator all the way back in 2011 for $30 and Pixelmator Pro for $50 in 2017 and have got incredible value for money from those purchases in the subsequent years.

Over the years however, Pixelmator Pro has pushed further and further into graphic design territory and the photo editing tools have become a bit lost within the expanding vector, text and page editing tools.

Thankfully the Pixelmator team addressed this in 2019 by releasing a separate app focused totally on photo editing, originally called Pixelmator Photo and later renamed Photomator.

Late last year the Photomator team delivered the bombshell news that the company had been purchased by Apple which left many users wondering whether or not the app would be folded into existing Apple products and disappear in the same way that Dark Sky did.

The Photomator devs have assured users that the apps will continue and since you can still purchase lifetime licences and monthly or yearly subscriptions for the app, the signs are that the app will survive the buy-out.

So with that in mind here’s an updated review based on the current version 3.4.