Release Notes
1.2.1 — June 12, 2026
Changed:
• New Document dialog lets you fill with white, black or transparent
• Improved layout for the Image Size dialog
Fixed:
• Invert and Desaturate could sometimes operate on the wrong selection area when the layer was moved out of document bounds
• File > Place was failing to snap to integer pixels when dragging, causing blurred pixels
• Layers grouped in folders could see soft edges and other semitransparent areas get darkened. This is because folders now each have their own compositing stack, meaning they result in premultiplied alpha that has to be "unpremultiplied."
1.2.0 — June 11, 2026
NOTICE:
• This release moves to an In-App Purchase mechanism to unlock exporting. Users of the free version still have all features including all the tools, adjustments, filters, etc, and the ability to save in the native Mojave Paint format, but to export as JPEG, PNG, or other formats it will be a one-time purchase in the $9.99 pricing tier.
New:
• Adjustment layers. Initially these six: Solid Color, Gradient, Curves, Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation
• A new Properties tab, showing details for the selected layer
• Type layers now support dead keys (repeated sequences used for typing accented characters such as ñ)
• Two new "logical" blend modes: Clip and Stencil, letting you get some of the functionality of clipping masks
Changed:
• The selection moves with now when you resize the canvas or rotate canvas 90 degrees
• Folders have a proper "Normal" blend mode, isolated from the parent and siblings. Previously they acted like "Pass Through" blend mode in certain cases.
• The information in the Info tab has moved to File > Info…
• Clicking any numeric text box selects all the text within, making it easy to blow away existing value with typing. Thanks to u/ToughAsparagus1805 for pointing me in the right direction here. Most of them start autofocused as well now when a new tool window appears.
• Native Mojave Paint file extension is now .mojavepaint
Fixed:
• Painting on a layer mask with a selection present was not working correctly
• No more 1 bit color variation when using the pencil tool
1.1.5 — May 29, 2026
New:
• Now you can drag pixels across spring-loaded tabs (use a selection tool to cmd-drag a selection), like you can already do with the Move tool
• Select > From Channel
Changed:
• Undo step limit increased from 100 to 1000
Fixed:
• Filters/adjustments and Free Transform work on the Quickmask
• Keyboard event fixes so you should never lose keystrokes anymore due to hidden focus state
• New framed text boxes start at the right height before you enter any text
• Paintbrush strokes over a partially selected region now limit to the selection correctly
• Dropping a layer folder on itself no longer vanishes the folder
1.1.4 — May 24, 2026
New:
• File > Duplicate
• Filter > Color > Colorize
• Filter and Adjustment windows have an "ants" icon to temporarily hide the marching ants
• Use the move tool to drag a layer across documents. Hold on a document tab and "spring" over to the other document.
• Whole screen overlay with obvious drop zones when dragging files in from outside the app
Changed:
• Updated tool slot flyout style (in preparation for a future dark theme)
• Delete key deletes a layer mask if select instead of the entire layer
• Gradient interpolation mode is part of the gradient model now, so it saves with swatches, renders in the preview, and so added color stops initialize to the correct midpoint value
• Curves: Click a control point to delete it
• Brush cursor gets chevrons now when holding ctrl+option, to make it obvious you're in brush resize mode
• You can double-click a recent document to open it even when "Multi-select" mode is ticked on
Fixed:
• The "duplicate" cursor you get with the move tool (while holding Option) is positioned about the correct hot spot now
• Click inside a selection with a selection tool to deselect, is undoable now
• Feather option is hooked up now on Lasso and Poly Lasso
1.1.3 — May 21, 2026
• Fixes a bug with the Move/Free Transform tool where escaping out of it can clip your layer pixels unexpectedly
1.1.2 — May 20, 2026
New:
• Gradient tool: Added various interpolation modes including OKLab and Grain
• Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation
• Select > Hue... allows you to select by hue. Works great with the new Hue/Saturation adjustment.
Changed:
• Drag a layer onto New Layer button to duplicate
• Option-drag a layer to duplicate
• Reduced default layer thumbnail size from 48 to 32
• Made "overlay scrollbars" the default, you can change back to regular scrollbars in Settings
• Option to toggle "rule of thirds" grid with the crop tool
• Halftone filter defaults the screen angle to 45 degrees
Fixed:
• Gradient color stop midpoints now work on reversed gradients
• Crop tool maintains aspect ratio correctly when you zoom in and out to grow/shrink the crop area
1.1.1 — May 12, 2026
New:
• File > New from Clipboard
• Image > Adjustments > Gradient Map
• Numerical inputs for translation, rotation and scaling when using the Free Transform tool, so you can type in precise values
• Command-drag a selection to cut and paste those pixels in place
• Improved anti-aliasing with the magic wand tool
Fixed:
• Text layers no longer lose formatting when backspacing all the characters away
• Up and down arrow now moves the cursor correctly on rotated text layers
1.1.0 — May 9, 2026
This release, somewhat reluctantly, adds generative AI features. This simply calls out to an external service (only Google Gemini supported at the moment) to do inpainting, object deletion, etc. It uses your own credentials and Mojave Paint is hands-off about how you might want to use these AI features.
Other features in this release:
• Added Opacity and Blend Mode parameters to the Brush and Pencil tools, with the backtick key temporarily activating the "Clear" blend mode
• Blend mode rewrite to use proper PDF-spec compositing in premultiplied alpha space
• Added a multiselect toggle on the start screen to make it easy to open multiple recent documents at once
• Added "Trim to document" in the pixel layer context menu
• Hold Command when you press the "duplicate layer" button and it goes below the target layer, similar to how the New Layer button works in Mojave Paint and various other paint programs
• (12) other minor changes and fixes
1.0.0 — May 5, 2026
Initial version