Acorn 8

Discover Acorn: Your Ultimate Mac Image Editor, 2025 App Store Awards Finalist!

Meet Acorn — an award-winning, beloved image editor crafted exclusively for the Mac. Whether you’re touching up photos, creating detailed designs, or experimenting with artistic edits, Acorn offers the tools and power you need to make your vision a reality.

Why Choose Acorn?

Acorn is your all-in-one image editor, designed to combine simplicity with professional-grade features. Add text and shapes, create stunning collages, retouch photos, or start something entirely new — all with ease.

What’s New in Acorn 8?

Unleash your creativity with Acorn 8’s latest enhancements:

• AI Subject Selection & Background Removal: Isolate subjects in your images with incredible precision using AI.

• Live Text Tool: Detect and copy text directly in your images.

• Data-Driven Graphics: Automate personalized designs using our powerful Data Merge feature.

• Expanded Format Support: Import/export JPEG-XL, WebP, Animated GIF, and Animated PNG with new presets.

• Enhanced Shortcuts Integration: Streamline your workflow with Apple Shortcuts.

• On-Canvas Ruler: Align and measure with pixel-perfect accuracy.

• Look-Up Tables (LUTs): Instantly elevate your photo and video aesthetics with advanced color grading tools.

• Improved Vector Tools: Includes a new polygon tool and enhanced vector shape capabilities.

• Optimized for Speed: Fully compatible with Metal, ensuring fast and smooth performance.

What Can Acorn Do?

Explore a world of possibilities:

• Add text to paths or shapes to design logos and custom typography.

• Remove backgrounds with tools like Magic Wand and Instant Alpha Eraser.

• Combine images to create collages and layouts.

• Retouch images with tools like Clone, Dodge, and Burn.

• Adjust contrast, highlights, and shadows using Levels and Curves.

• Export like a pro with customizable color profiles, file formats, and precise size control.

Image & Layer Capabilities

• Create layered screenshots of open windows.

• Work with unlimited layers and over 25 blending modes.

• Use features like snap-to-grid, guides, and precise transformations.

• Handle image depths of 8, 16, and 32 bits per channel.

Filters, Effects & Styles

• Enjoy non-destructive editing with unlimited combinations of effects.

• Apply tilt shifts, vignettes, blurs, distortions, and more.

• Fine-tune color channels with curves and levels.

Powerful Tools for Every Task

• Utilize brushes for cloning, blurring, erasing, and more.

• Select precisely with polygonal, elliptical, or magic wand tools.

• Design custom brushes with the built-in brush designer.

Vector Excellence

• Create stars, arrows, circles, and Bézier curves with Acorn’s vector tools.

• Combine shapes using Boolean operations like union, intersect, and exclude.

• Use the Shape Processor to tweak, adjust, and perfect vector designs.

Extensive File Support

Seamlessly import and export a wide array of formats:

• Import: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PSD, RAW, WebP, SVG, AI (with PDF compatibility), and more.

• Export: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, PSD, WebP, JPEG-XL, Animated PNG/GIF, CMYK files, and beyond.

Learn and Grow with Acorn

From detailed online documentation and tutorials to an active user forum, Acorn makes it easy to master new skills. Our responsive support team is always ready to help — reach out anytime at [email protected].

Take your creative projects to the next level with Acorn. Ready to get started?