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Show HN: Mojave Paint for macOS, edit images like it's 1999(mojavepaint.app)
3 points by jpsimons 5 hours ago | 5 comments

We all need a swiss army knife for images. A tool for really getting in there and dealing with the pixels precisely. You might be combining images into a sprite sheet, you might be matting images to squares, cutting out solid backgrounds, re-tinting graphical elements. For a website, a video game, for an app.

There's a million photo editors, there's a million design tools, and Mojave Paint can do those things in varying degrees but "graphical asset production" is its first and primary mission.

It's cheap! $9.99 (one-time, sad I even have to say that) for the "Pro" version. It's Mac-only, and Apple Silicon Mac at that. Does it look a little like Photoshop 5.5 from the year 1999? Maybe a little but also it's got plenty of its own original ideas. (Blog post on that is forthcoming…)

I've always been passionate about image editing tools for the technically-minded so I'm throwing my hat in the ring in that space. And sure GIMP is for the technically-minded but boy is it ugly on the Mac!

sgt 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> No AI tools here – plenty of other apps do that. We focus on deterministic and mathematical mutations rather than stochastically generated slop.

Love it. BTW, I assume this is native macOS? Swift or ObjC?

jpsimons 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks, yep comes in at 3 MB. It's all Swift and Metal. I'm a web developer by trade, done that at a high level for 20 years including Amazon, Google, other big tech, but this was my first native app and first time using Swift. At the moment I'm learning all about weak refs and reference cycles causing memory to be retained when you don't want it to be.

sgt an hour ago | parent [-]

Glad you get to enjoy Swift, Xcode etc. It really can be fun to work with.

jpsimons an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And I just discovered there's a group in Seattle called XCoders (https://xcoders.org/), I'll drop in on their social next week and maybe learn more about the Swift/Apple ecosystem.

jpsimons an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly Swift is a pleasure to read. I love the guard statements and the enum values starting with a dot.