Apple Inc. agreed to purchase software program maker Pixelmator, including a well-liked high-end photo-editing app to its lineup. Pixelmator introduced the acquisition on its weblog Friday, saying its Lithuania-based crew can be becoming a member of Apple. The 17-year-old firm — based by brothers Saulius Dailide and Aidas Dailide — makes apps for the Mac, iPad and iPhone.

The 2 firms have already got a detailed relationship: Apple has ceaselessly touted Pixelmator software program in its advertising — together with an iPad occasion final month — and the apps use an interface akin to the iPhone maker’s personal purposes.

“We have been impressed by Apple since day one,” Pixelmator stated within the weblog submit. “Now, we’ll have the power to succeed in an excellent wider viewers.”

The enterprise’s major app, Pixelmator Professional, consists of superior enhancing instruments which are paying homage to options inside Adobe Inc.’s Photoshop, Illustrator and different packages, equivalent to layers and vectors. The software program additionally faucets right into a sequence of Apple-specific applied sciences, together with iCloud, Shortcuts and the iPad’s Pencil.

Apple, primarily based in Cupertino, California, confirmed the transaction on Friday. Phrases weren’t disclosed.

For Apple, the acquisition offers clients a high-end picture enhancing app for the primary time because the firm discontinued Aperture, its Photoshop various, a few decade in the past. Just lately, the corporate has been releasing pro-level apps, together with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, on the iPad through subscriptions.

Pixelmator Professional prices $50 on the Mac, whereas a regular model for the iPad and iPhone is priced at $10. The corporate additionally gives a Photomator enhancing app throughout Apple gadgets. The corporate stated there would not be speedy materials adjustments to the packages, however that it’ll announce additional updates later.

Apple hasn’t introduced many acquisitions recently, although it did purchase DarwinAI to help with manufacturing earlier this year, Bloomberg Information reported. The corporate’s largest buy up to now was the $3 billion acquisition of Beats in 2014.

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