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Acorn by Gus Mueller

Image editor for the Mac, designed to be powerful yet approachable and affordable.

🎨 Design Toolsflyingmeat.com

Indie alternative to:Adobe Photoshop

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About Acorn

Image editor for the Mac, designed to be powerful yet approachable and affordable. Acorn is a design tools product built by indie maker Gus Mueller.

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Design Tools
Website
flyingmeat.com

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Retrobatch

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Node-based batch image processing app for macOS.

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Award-winning desktop wiki for the Mac, later sold to Plausible Labs.

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FMDB

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Popular open-source Objective-C wrapper around SQLite.

Acorn FAQ

What is Acorn?

Acorn is a design tools product: Image editor for the Mac, designed to be powerful yet approachable and affordable.

Who made Acorn?

Acorn was made by Gus Mueller, Founder of Flying Meat, two-decade indie Mac maker of Acorn and Retrobatch. Gus Mueller has also built Retrobatch, VoodooPad, FMDB.

Is Acorn still active?

Yes. As far as IndieMakerList knows, Acorn is still active and run by Gus Mueller at flyingmeat.com.

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