Mojave Paint: A new macOS image editor for Apple Silicon

About

A new macOS image editor with familiar key bindings and a somewhat retro aesthetic. Keeping the dream of the '90s alive!

No AI tools here – plenty of other apps do that. We focus on deterministic and mathematical mutations rather than stochastically generated slop.

Built for Apple Silicon. Requires macOS 15 Sequoia.

This free download is fully-featured, except for Export, which is a $9.99 one-time purchase to unlock.

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Feature highlights

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Layers
Blend modes
Selections
Channels
Multiple documents in tabs
Spring-loaded tabs

Text tool
Paintbrush
Gradient tool
Adjustment layers
Free transform

Filters
Adjustments
Image/canvas resize
Cropping
Guides and snapping

Exporting (paid version)
Connect to external services
Quickmask
Layer masks
Magic wand

More info on features in the Hidden Manual.

Video gallery

Recreating the WWDC26 logo in Mojave Paint. Covers blur, layer masks and using the move tool on a specific color channel.

Changing my Smart Car from red to green. Demo includes Hue selection, Hue/Saturation adjustment, selection intersection, magic wand, and how you can disable marching ants.

Recent releases

1.2.4 – June 25, 2026

Changed: • When placing a new type layer, the cursor size now changes with the selected font size, giving a bit of a size preview • Image resize: You can now decouple width and height to allow changing the aspect ratio

1.2.3 – June 19, 2026

New: • Export in webp format. For things like screenshots, webp is half the size of PNG.

1.2.2 – June 17, 2026

New: • Snapping to guides: When you move layers around with the Move/Free Transform tool, or drag out selections with the marquee tools, you see it now snaps to the guides. Defeat with the "View > Snap" menu item or by holding ctrl. • And speaking of snapping, positioning of the guides themselves now snaps to 1/2 the distance between the nearest neighbors, or 1/3 and 2/3 of the distance when you hold Option. Again, defeat by holding ctrl.

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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)"