Acorn is an App Store Awards Finalist for 2025! How sweet is that?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-announces-finalists-for-the-2025-app-store-awards/

#AppStoreAwards

@timpritlove I'd love to take a look at a file that's not working for you. Can you send it to support@flyingmeat.com so I can see what's going on?

@konfluenzpunkt sending an email to support@flyingmeat.com will do the trick!

Acorn 8.2 is out! Gus wrote a blog post about it <https://shapeof.com/archives/2025/9/acorn_8.2_and_tahoe_plans.html>

Say Hello to Acorn 8: https://shapeof.com/archives/2024/12/say_hello_to_acorn_8.html

Mask Subject, Remove Background, LUTs, Data Merge, Quick Processor, Canvas Ruler, new shape tools, Export Presets, SVG improvements, QOL things, in/cm support in all the UI, Shortcuts rewritten to use App Intents, JPEG-XL support, Live Text. And more.

It's on sale for a limited time, so grab it at a discount while you can: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Acorn is one of the few remaining independent full featured image editors left, built just for macOS.

New plug-in for @acornapp -- introducing OneBitOrderedDither, which creates black & white dithered images using a Bayer matrix for that distinctive Monkey Island gradient look.

https://github.com/edenwaith/OneBitOrderedDither/

@jasonmedeiros @neilsardesai And it still is!

From the FM blog - A Quick Tip for Cropping a Single Layer: https://flyingmeat.com/blog/archives/2023/5/quick_tip_for_cropping_a_single_layer.html

TLDR: Commit the crop action with the option key down.

You can of course get the same effect using the select tool, using the Select ▸ Inverse menu item, and then pressing the delete key. But our minds all work a little different so it's nice to have multiple ways of doing something.

Acorn 7.4 is out. Clone tool improvements, corner radius for bezier shapes, updated color picker, AppleScript stuff, and more: https://shapeof.com/archives/2023/4/acorn_7.4_is_out.html

Acorn 7.3.2 has been released! Just a couple of bug fixes, but one was a crasher so I wanted to get it out ASAP: https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

I'm a pixel nut. I'm so awesome, it's nuts.

I'll stop now. I'm just getting too nutty.