Acorn 6 Image Editor App Reviews

I like this program, I have nevr had any problems with crashing or anything like that. It does take some time to learn, it’s not as easy as they make it sound but it’s easier than some others and for it’s proce works very well

I'm a long-time Acorn user, and it's just a great tool. There's clearly a lot of thought that goes into the design and implementation, and the changes over time seem very well calculated and non-disruptive. Also, the "Create layers for windows when taking screenshots" feature is pure gold!

Unforgiveable. I would never have bought Acorn had I known the developer cared nothing for existing users. I already have the cable company for that.

I personally love this editor. I’ve previously purchased version 4 and now 6. It’s one of the few I can actually figure out how to use and is laid out nicely. It makes doing complex things relatively simple — especially when compared to free tools like Gimp.

Acorn is fine for modifying images quickly, adding filters, crops, etc. Working with more complicated layered files is where it begins to fail as a PhotoShop replacement. Dealing with text is a nightmare! Acorn is great for people who need a slightly more powerful way to edit images than using Preview, and don't need the power and functionality of other more expensive apps. But please fix working with text.

I could not open the app, it took forever to load when I tried to go to the free trial. I could not figure out how to edit the pictures without the app closing out, and it was basically useless to me. I could not get it open in the first place, so I could not use the app at all.

Acorn is a program I want to be thankful for--Acorn does have its good points--but doing anything with text is simply maddening, so much so that, as I write this, I am loathing Acorn. Update: Someone, please save me from this application.

I am on Sierra 10.12.6 and after you install Acorn there is an option to start the free trial … it doesn’t do anything. It just spins there and there is nothing you can do. Restarted Acorn and tried the other “unlock Acorn” button and nothing happened. Can’t even try the trial so I have no idea how to grade this app.

I’m really pleased with the new features in Acorn 6. Cloning across layers and images is great, and the scaling/transforming improvements make it easier to resize layers precisely. The path text tool goes hand in hand with the circle text tool to create great looking logos.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND. This is genuinely an amazing app, especially when considering the price. I do graphic designs for newsletters, cover art for independent book publishers, as well as logos for local/regional businesses. It took one small logo job to recuperate the cost of the app. I have been using this since version 2.0 and I haven’t hesitated to purchase the major updates, and I appreciate the developer's frequent updates and bug fixes. This app is simple and powerful, and I learn a little more every time I use it. Online info for features is easy to find.

I download to test the app becase it says that there was a trial period, but I checked and I was charged. I was about to uninstall when I realize I was charged USD 30. What should I do now?

I am a iOS developer, and I have been using Acorn 4 to make icons and edit icons, until today when I bought Acorn 6. Acorn is just pure awesome. I am just so thankful that it exists. Image editor for $15? Are you joking? Photoshop subscription will cost you hundreds of dollars and the Adobe's photoshop is so hard to use - and I hated it using it. When I switched to Acorn I realized that I can do everything I do here is such humanly easy ways. I love this app, and I made my wife buy for herself too. There is no other image editor that is as worth as this! Pay $15 and get it for your lifetime!

Acorn is ok. It seems I have to ‘Force Quit’ the application to get it to close running High Sierra. I wish there built in batch commands for image resizing instead of using Apple’s automater. All in all it’s pretty solid but I am going to keep looking for a better alternative.

Almost gave this a 4 star - simply because I have multiple monitors and a very busy desktop, and I don't like having undocked dialog windows. I've given this a 5 star, because it is worthy: Software tools are familiar (if your familair with Adobe Fireworks or even Photoshop), are well designed, even the first time 'touch-up artist' can be productive within miniutes, and deep enough that I a can use AppleScript for scripting automation. Excellent documention and video tutorials - top notch. Support was quick to respond when I fired off an email - minutes for the reply, on a holiday. Cannot beat the price. Great value, no question. I have no regrets purchasing this - and it's allowing me to escape the montly payments of another popular imaging tool.

I was searching for an easy-to-use tool that would let me select part of an image via a polygon selection and then rotate it. I’m making sprite animations myself and it’s not easy. This tool lets you do exactly what I wanted to do and I figured it out in about 5 minutes.

My wife is a professional photographer, and I help her with editing for shoots fairly frequently. We've previously used both Photoshop and Lightroom, but neither were as simple and easy to use as Acorn. For quick touch-ups, this is the best photo editing app I've tried on the Mac. Well worth the price!

I am by no means a power user of Acorn or any image manipulation tool, but for the tasks I need an editor for Acorn has long been my go-to choice. Version 6’s new web export features are making one of my favorite apps even better.

I was exctied when I read the reviews. I realize FREE is usually not all that great, but I wanted to try out the app first. I spent a day trying to download. Finally I closed the app store and reopened. Now Acorn is on my computer, and it’s open. I can do NOTHING! Not a single tool works, unless I pay for the full version. So much for the 2-week free trial. I would probablly just paid for it anyway, but I feel like I was tricked.

I love this app, and have owned it since the early years of development, via two different sources — a special offer through a 3rd party vendor that provided a license key, and via the App Store, as evidenced in my purchases. Yet it won’t let me use it without wanting me to pay for it again. I already paid for it twice — as recently as Aug 2017 — and yet here I sit, unable to activiate it after reinstalling it following a re-install of my operating software when I switched my MacBook Pro’s HDD to a SSD. Hopefully someone will respond to this call for help. . . . I gave the app 5 stars because it’s always been a great alternative to pricier products developed by big-name companies who hold the Lion’s share of the image-editing market. I love small companies that put a lot of thought into their software, and seek to provide users with many of the same options as those costly products at a fraction of the cost. Acorn is capable of meeting almost all of my needs as a professional photographer and digital conversion specialist, and I often recommended it to my students when I taught digital conversion and managing image digitization in small museum settings to graduate-level museum studies and photography majors. Why pay for expensive software when there’s a less-expensive product that does what we need it to do in an imaging lab? Museums are often working with small budgets, and must penny-pinch where possible, and yet I didn’t feel as though we were getting anything less by using Acorn instead of higher-priced programs. At this point in my career, I am digitizing my own photo archives and doing minimal edits to them, as they are documentary and photojounralism works from my many years on Capitol Hill in DC, and we are restricted in how much we can do to a photo to keep it authentic. But I also do some fine-art landscape work, too, and find myself using a variety of apps that help me achieve my artistic objectives. Acorn is one of those tools that I go to on a regular basis despite having almost every other app on the market on either my MacBook or Windows-based machines. This app has a very friendly user-interface, is well-supported by the developers, and is well worth the cost of purchasing it. I don’t hestitate to recommend it to my fellow photogs who aren’t too stuffy to deviate from higher-visibilty and costly apps, and I never hesitated recommending it to my students in my digital conversion lab. Acorn has been around for many years, and it’s a app that’s well worth your support. I am anxious to try some of this developer’s new offerings, too. I expect that they will be real time-savers, and equally efficient as Acorn.

Acorn is an adorable, adaptable, powerful little graphics editor that is pretty comfortable to use for anyone who's familiar with Photoshop or GIMP. The interface is clean, it looks native to the Mac, and I'm able to alter, create, and collage graphics for presentations not only quickly; but with the kind of control I really want to have! My custom backgrounds get noticed, my smoothly blended pictures and clean, clear graphics get compliments, and all thanks to this inexpesive but handy little App!

I don't always edit images, but when I do, I use Acorn. It does all the important things that Photoshop does, without a subscription, and with a Mac-like UI/UX.

I am a very light user of graphics editing tools in general, and for years I used a really really old version Photoshop I purchased as a student. It was fine for my uses, mostly annotating screenshots, but heavy handed and too expensive to get a newer version. When I got a new computer my ancient version of Photoshop was finally too old, so I shopped around. Acorn is a lightweight and perfectly priced app for my needs, and I barely needed to adapt to the keyboard command differences. Highly recommended for recovering Photoshop users who just don’t want to take out a mortgage to edit a few images.

Like many of you I can’t afford a subscriptipn for Photoshop, so I have sought out an alternative. I’ve tried Pixelmator and Affinity, and while each have some great features, I have found Acorn has the most Photoshop-like feel and keeps the interface simple. Performance is great and everything works as I expect. A minor complaint is that while Acorn can open Photoshop PSD, it cannot save this format like Affinity and Pixelmator can (via Export). This makes collaborating on a file more difficult unless everyone is using Acorn.

I like that it's not trying to replace Photoshop, instead focusing on features that lots of people will use without bloating itself. It's perfect for quick edits, crops, adding text, format conversions, etc. It has some powerful features, too (check out the Shape Processor, a huge time saver). It launches quickly, it has a clean and intuitive interface, and it's very stable. Development is very active and responsive. I've been using it since v.2 and I keep finding new uses for it.

Beautifully designed and reasonably priced yet very powerful.

I mistakenly downloaded this new version 6 instead of version 5 onto a new computer. Unfortunately even basic selection tools seem to be disabled in the “free trial”, which seems like a misnomer. I immediately went back to version 5 which I found in my Purchased list in the App Store, and I don’t think I’ll be upgrading any time soon.

Acorn 6 is a good editor. It can work with verieties of formats, has all the major modern editor features such as layers, color adjustments, text editing, some vector tools, filters etc. I’d say all the basics are well covered, so it’s sufficient to get work done for sure. Performace is ok, few things are as fast as you can imagine, some things a bit slow, but it’s totally fine. It’s more percepition than real lag. The weak part is UI polish. It just feels that it was designed by programmers and not UI and UX designers, programmers with taste, yet not professionals. It not one big problem, it 100 tiny rough edges. Does not stop you from getting work done, but it results in the feeling that it’s not a top notch image editor. Yet the price is low, thus the value is great. There are few minor bugs, I guess those will be ironed out with time, PSD file compatibility is C+ or even B-

Love the dark and light UIs, especially the transparency effects on the light UI, although I'd love to see more on the dark UI like in the Preview app when youre editing photos. A feature I'd like to see added is native iCloud Drive folder support. A lot of third party apps support this and it goes a long way towards making your app look and behave like an Apple native app, which I think is what most users ultimately want out of their third party apps. Great app!