Pixelmator Pro for iPad release notes

Find out about the enhancements and improvements in the most recent versions of Pixelmator Pro for iPad.

Before installing Pixelmator Pro, verify that your system meets Pixelmator Pro system requirements.

Pixelmator Pro comes to iPad as part of Apple Creator Studio – a collection of Apple’s most powerful apps for limitless creativity. Pixelmator Pro for iPad brings powerful features users already love on Mac and an intuitive new editing experience that makes creative imaging even more accessible than ever before.

New in Pixelmator Pro 4.0

Released 28 January 2026

Apple Creator Studio

• Pixelmator Pro is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful apps for limitless creativity, including Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, and all-new premium content and intelligent features in Keynote, Pages and Numbers.

Creative Imaging Reimagined for iPad

• Enjoy a completely reimagined editing experience, with Pixelmator Pro tools for design, photography, painting and illustration now fully optimised for touch.

• Intuitively create, navigate and organise designs with simple gestures such as pinch, swipe or tap.

• Design with pixel-perfect precision using Apple Pencil, with full support for hover, squeeze, double-tap and palm rejection.

• Paint in the most natural way with Apple Pencil and a vast collection of beautiful, pressure-sensitive brushes.

• Insert photos to your compositions directly from your iPad camera as new layers.

• Easily roundtrip between Pixelmator Pro for iPad and Mac through iCloud, picking up projects wherever you left off.

• Fast and smooth performance when creating even the most complex, multi-layered compositions on your iPad, thanks to full support for native iPadOS technologies.