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However, it would also make perfect sense in the context of Apple’s other creative apps.

The Pro versions of the latter are Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro.

A MacBook, iPhone and iPad running Pixelmator on a green and blue background

Pixelmator Pro looks likely to be the successor to Apple’s Aperture app (above) which it discontinued in 2015.

The return of Aperture?

Apple killed its pro photo editing app, Aperture, back in 2015.

So why has Apple bought Pixelmator almost ten years on from deciding to pull the plug on Aperture?

Two laptops on a grey background showing Apple’s Aperture app

Pixelmator Pro looks likely to be the successor to Apple’s Aperture app (above) which it discontinued in 2015.

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