Scumble
A layered image editor for the Mac. Paint, select, add text, adjust colors, and apply effects, with every edit undoable.
Free to download · Scumble Pro one-time purchase · macOS 15.6 or later · Works offline · No account
Now on the Mac App Store
What it is
An editor for the everyday jobs
Scumble is for the quick work that doesn't need a heavyweight editor: cropping a screenshot, touching up a photo, adding a caption or a speech bubble, cutting something out, or making a small piece of artwork.
It keeps your picture in layers, so you can change your mind, and everything you do can be undone. It works on your Mac alone, with no account to create and no internet connection needed.
Features
Built natively for the Mac
Layers
Add, duplicate, merge, reorder by dragging, hide, and set each layer's opacity and blend mode.
Selections
Rectangle and ellipse selections. Cut, copy, paste, fill, erase, or crop to the selection, and painting stays inside it.
Paint and fill
A paintbrush and eraser with adjustable width, and a paint bucket with a tolerance setting.
Text, bubbles, and pills
Add plain text, a speech bubble, or a pill. Choose the size, bold, text color, and background color, and drag it into place.
Twelve adjustments
Curves, Levels, Hue / Saturation, Exposure, Brightness / Contrast, and more, each with a live preview on your picture.
Forty effects
Blurs, distortions, noise, glow, sketches, fractals, and more in nine categories, with a live preview and Repeat Last Effect.
A palette in every window
Each window has its own color, a ready palette, and a place for your custom colors, with a hue, opacity, and hex editor.
Size and canvas
Resize the image, change the canvas size from any anchor, flip, rotate, and flatten.
PNG, JPEG, and layers
Open and save PNG and JPEG, or save a Scumble file to keep every layer for later.
Import from iPhone or iPad
Bring in a photo or a scan from your nearby iPhone or iPad with Continuity Camera.
Screens
A look inside
Pricing
Free, with an optional upgrade
Free
$0
A real editor, not a trial.
- Brush, eraser, bucket, shapes, text, and color picker
- Layers, undo, rulers, and rectangle and ellipse selection
- Brightness, hue, black and white, invert, and sepia
- Open any picture, save PNG and JPEG
Scumble Pro
One-time purchase
No subscription. Yours for good.
- All 40 effects
- Curves, Levels, and the other adjustments
- Lasso, Magic Wand, and combining selections
- Gradients
- Save with layers, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, BMP, and very large images
Privacy
Your images stay yours
Scumble has no account, no ads, and no analytics, and it makes no network connections of its own. It opens and saves only the files you choose, and the developer never sees your images.
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