Apple Inc. agreed to purchase software program maker Pixelmator, including a well-liked high-end photo-editing app to its lineup. Pixelmator introduced the acquisition on its weblog Friday, saying its Lithuania-based workforce could be becoming a member of Apple. The 17-year-old firm — based by brothers Saulius Dailide and Aidas Dailide — makes apps for the Mac, iPad and iPhone.
The 2 corporations have already got a detailed relationship: Apple has regularly touted Pixelmator software program in its advertising and marketing — together with an iPad occasion final month — and the apps use an interface akin to the iPhone maker’s personal functions.
“We have been impressed by Apple since day one,” Pixelmator stated within the weblog put up. “Now, we’ll have the power to achieve a good wider viewers.”
The enterprise’s major app, Pixelmator Professional, contains superior enhancing instruments which can be harking back to options inside Adobe Inc.’s Photoshop, Illustrator and different applications, corresponding to layers and vectors. The software program additionally faucets right into a collection of Apple-specific applied sciences, together with iCloud, Shortcuts and the iPad’s Pencil.
Apple, based mostly in Cupertino, California, confirmed the transaction on Friday. Phrases weren’t disclosed.
For Apple, the acquisition provides clients a high-end picture enhancing app for the primary time for the reason that firm discontinued Aperture, its Photoshop various, a couple of decade in the past. Lately, the corporate has been releasing pro-level apps, together with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, on the iPad through subscriptions.
Pixelmator Professional prices $50 on the Mac, whereas a typical model for the iPad and iPhone is priced at $10. The corporate additionally affords a Photomator enhancing app throughout Apple units. The corporate stated there would not be instant materials modifications to the applications, however that it’ll announce additional updates later.
Apple hasn’t introduced many acquisitions recently, although it did purchase DarwinAI to help with manufacturing earlier this year, Bloomberg News reported. The corporate’s largest buy so far was the $3 billion acquisition of Beats in 2014.
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