Mojave Paint: A new macOS image editor for Apple Silicon

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What can you do with Mojave Paint?

Design a flyer!

Design App Store screenshots!

Draw an icon!

Color change specific areas of a photograph!

Recent releases

1.4.2 – July 29, 2026

New: • Image > Adjustments > Posterize • Filter > Blur > Surface Blur

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1.4.1 – July 28, 2026

New: • Conic gradients

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1.4.0 – July 22, 2026

This release is all about typography. New:

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Interactive roadmap

What missing features are your biggest pain points in Mojave Paint right now?

Shape layers

Such as square (with adjustable corner radius), circle, other primitive shapes. Ability to set fill and stroke and stroke width.

Smart objects

Ability to set a bitmap as immutable, such that transforming it leaves the original copy non-destructively in tact. This makes sizing up and down not lose detail.

Character and paragraph styles

Character style would include kerning and tracking. Paragraph style would include alignment and leading.

Snap to guides

Dragged element snapping to guides. Affects the move tool and the rectangle marquee and crop tool regions, among possibly other things.

Dodge and burn tools

Brush that lightens and darkens.

Warp tool

Warp on a grid, or fancier options like Liquify.

Camera Raw features

This has nothing to do with raw files, it means photo retouching controls such as sliders for exposure, color balance, shadows, highlights, etc.

Layer styles

Color and gradient overlay, drop shadow, outline, outer glow, etc.

Dark mode

Configurable in settings to be "Light", "Dark", or "System (OS)"

PSD import and export

And layered TIFF while we're at it. Pixel layers and type layers (with styles) should come across in high fidelity, other features will have to be lossy.