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What do you like best about Acorn?

The circle text tool and the text on a path tool are awesome and make it so easy to get your text exactly how you want it to appear! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

I haven’t really experienced any negatives with Acorns yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating bold and flashy advertising without outsourcing the work has saved me money and given me complete creative control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Acorn?

Acorn is an image editor for Mac OS X 10.10 and later.

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Acorn is an image editor for Mac OS X 10.10 and later.


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Recent Acorn Reviews

Zarrar Y.
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Zarrar Y.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"A low-cost Photoshop replacement for Macs with limited features"
No doubt Acorn is affordable in price. It provides better options for sellecting the desired size before uploading a picture. It has many standard ...
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Pankaj W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Acorn - A beautiful photo creating and editing tool"
It's the most straightforward way of creating and producing great projects containing images. The tools available in this image editing applicatio...
Vinay Kumar Y.
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Vinay Kumar Y.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Review of Acorn"
One of best layer based editing tool and photoshop inmport service and also you will get raw image import services. Easily you can design curves a...
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Zarrar Y.
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What do you like best about Acorn?

No doubt Acorn is affordable in price. It provides better options for sellecting the desired size before uploading a picture. It has many standard tools that are versy simple and easy to use,layer editing is one of the good function i have sceen in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

Its good but there are some limitations it only supports MacsOS. It lacks modern AI tools. It dont provide vast functionality some times it promotes uncommon use of file formate use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is simple and easy to use. Its price worthy and affordable.variety of image selection that allows desired size before uploading. No need of too much knowledge a common peron could use easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn?

It's the most straightforward way of creating and producing great projects containing images.

The tools available in this image editing application are so quick and easy to implement. It also has a fantastic processing path tool.

There are also features for adding text style, size and color. You can customize it according to your needs and interest.

It is an affordable tool with all the benefits and features compared to Photoshop's expertise.

It is best for working on medium and high-level projects; fewer expert users can use it easily with just a few training hours.

Acorn software provides you with a good and innovative result, which will be unique too.

It would be a blessing for graphics designers to implement tools for producing high-level work.

The UI is fully customizable and well-arranged and can be changed according to the user's interest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

There is no option for directly paying for the software via cards. The software purchasing feature is quite out dated and time-consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software has been a blessing for me in my organization as it allows me to edit images in large quantities so quickly and produce higher results in less time. This is time-saving software. Completes tasks so quickly and significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinay Kumar Y.
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What do you like best about Acorn?

One of best layer based editing tool and photoshop inmport service and also you will get raw image import services. Easily you can design curves and levels and you get service like crop, erase, paint, clone, Pan zoom etc at one platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

Deep Color image support needs to be improve according to the new ganeration and also They need to acces the service other operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

Once you click the picture at same time I can make attractive and good looking pictures and also very cost effective and very simple to use to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn?

Acorn is one of those programs you'll wonder how you lived without! I use it whenever I need to design a quick layered graphic because it's incredibly easy to use (not over-bloated with fancy features). You can create layered art with text, plus you have tools for things like instant alpha or cloning – all at a one-time price rather than a never-ending subscription! Exporting is quick as well, with multiple format options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

Sometimes I do get annoyed trying to accomplish something, but it's likely due to my limited understanding rather than the program itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Acorn multiple times each week to hop in and edit or create a quick graphic for my website or social media. It saves me a lot of time over other programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manuel G.
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What do you like best about Acorn?

It is not a professional editing software, however, it meets what it is, perhaps it reminds me a bit of inKscape and even so, good quality editions can be achieved with the tools it provides and, like all editing software of this type, its handling is simple. and very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

The software is only available for MacOS and I'm not saying that the fact that it is exclusive to MacOS isn't a problem, but it is necessary to purchase an apple product to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acorn:

It is recommended since it is very powerful, you can purchase a free trial license if you have a MacOS that is not less than version 10.14. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

At the time I decided to use this software, basically what I did was make memes or simple illustrations in photographs or illustrative images, changing tones or deforming a face and the same making logos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andy D.
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What do you like best about Acorn?

Acorn is a stand-out product I recommend all the time, to anyone who needs to do simple illustration or photo editing on the Mac. It's my go-to image editor, one of only four apps that sits in the toolbar of my Finder.

Whilst it renders to bitmap images, Acorn's internal format allows you to preserve vector layers of shapes and text over the top. So it's a replacement for simple vector editors - I reach for it ahead of Sketch.

As a technical achievement, it's very impressive (speaking as a dev with 40 years experience). The Acorn filters and operations are blindingly fast. Often, you forget it's doing something complicated because the experience is so smooth.

I'm someone who has to dive into using a tool suddenly then often doesn't get back to it for weeks. Acorn's highly usable and intuitable interface makes this easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

I struggle to find fault as it's such a thoughtfully polished product. The only complaint I'd have is that their App Store strategy is to release new versions with a limited time 50% upgrade. I'm pretty sure this is an Apple limit that they cannot offer a discounted upgrade directly to users of previous versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it for image editing, simple fixups, logo bitmap editor, and minor page layout with text and shapes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Acorn?

Easy to use. Some features are really helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

GUI is not that user-friendly for me other than that good enough for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acorn:

yes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

Day-to-day photo editing is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve Y.
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What do you like best about Acorn?

How easy everything is! It is simple to use, especially for beginners. I really enjoy using this application regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

I have note found any dislikes. This is a great app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acorn:

It is affordable and easy to use. Try acorn first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

It works great with marketing. It works great for posting pictures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Madison B.
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What do you like best about Acorn?

Of Acorn I really like the ease it provides when editing, it is a simple editor where I can edit minor projects whenever I need to. I love the circle text tool and the text on a path tool, make it easy to get my text exactly how I want it to look like. Basically, Acorn has all the photoshop tools, but less complicated and cheaper, which is amazing because if you have experience on the design fields, you can have amazing results with a simple software like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Acorn?

I think my problem with Acorn is that it is not available por PC's and there are times when working on my cellphone is not the best option, I think they should expand it to PC's too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Acorn:

I would recommend Acorn for three simple reasons:

1-Easy to use, to set up and to acquire. Not expensive at all and give you the best results.

2-Doesn't have to be a professional to use it and lear how to.

3-It is simple but not basic, which is great since offers professional tools that turns out in professional, elaborated and creative designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Acorn solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acorn is so simple to use, that it has really helped in my designs, since it complements my other more complicated design softwares, giving me innovative and creative results in a fast way. With Acorn, I can even give my clients the option to create the basis of what they want in their social networks or web page, and since it is so simple they can do it without much hassle, helping me to work more safely in the extensive design of the image. Also, when there are sudden publications to be made, with this software I do not worry at all about it, it is quite easy to create them and upload it to social media. It has brought me many benefis as a freelancer designer, it has facilitated my work and expanded my ability to work with any kind of editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.