Impressive Mac App, Sub-par iPad Pro App

Having pretty high expectations from Pixelmator which I bought for Mac a while ago, I’ve bought this app yesterday for the iPad Pro.

At first sight, the App welcomes you with an uncluttered user interface, putting emphasis on the canvas. But as soon as you start trying to do some serious work, the cleanliness of the UI makes switching between tools a painful chore (takes up to 3 steps to get to the tool you want and often takes a 4th extra step to confirm you are done with the tool!). Also, there aren’t any keyboard shortcuts whatsoever to select the tools. You guys could at least use the same keyboard shortcuts from the desktop app…

Also, it says that PSD files are supported but opening Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 files only gets me layer-less documents. I wouldn’t call that a good “support”...

Make no mistake, this App is pretty far from it’s desktop counterpart, despite wielding the same name. The iPad Pro is a real capable machine made for working but Pixelmator for iOS just doesn’t follow suite yet. I guess its better to hold spending money here and go for some better Pro Apps available on the App Store while the developers are getting up to speed.

If you guys can somehow make something as good as ProtoSketch, UI-wise, I might consider giving you more stars. Thank you.

P. Côté about Pixelmator, v2.2.1