It's low ceremony: load image, makes some changes, save, done. Most other image editing apps take too long and almost force you to save in their format. Acorn has its own format when you are actually making a project of it.
Acorn has been my go-to image editing app for a long time. Over a decade. It does layers, channel operations, composable filters. Really easy interface. Completely worth the low cost.
Acorn is probably the closest we'll get to a native macOS app that is analogous to Paint.NET from the Windows world, and it's worth the money if one is a Paint.NET cult member. Pinta (open source Paint.NET clone) is available for Macs but it's just as buggy as it is on Linux.
Huh they made Paint.NET closed source - what a strange backwards step.
Would you consider it strange if it were your project and after years of life in open source and being used by millions it didn’t pay the bills?
I think you’re confused - it’s free.
You’re absolutely right. I thought it had a different donation scheme than it actually does. Thank you.