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Acorn (software)

Acorn is a raster graphic editor for macOS developed by August Mueller of Flying Meat Inc, based out of Mukilteo, Washington, United States. Acorn was first released on September 10, 2007 and was built upon the framework of a previous image editing application of Flying Meat Inc., FlySketch.

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Developer
Flying Meat Inc.
License
Proprietary
Operating system
macOS
Release
September 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10)
Stable release
8.6.1 (3 July 2026; 52 days ago (3 July 2026)) [±]
Type
Raster graphics editor

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Acorn (software)

Nodes19
Edges18
Triples18
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.105263
Components1

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Acorn (software)

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Developer · 1
Acorn (software) → Flying Meat Inc.
License · 1
Acorn (software) → Proprietary
Operating system · 1
Acorn (software) → macOS
Release · 1
Acorn (software) → September 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10)
Stable release · 1
Acorn (software) → 8.6.1 (3 July 2026; 52 days ago (3 July 2026)) [±]
Type · 1
Acorn (software) → Raster graphics editor
Website · 1
Acorn (software) → flyingmeat.com/acorn/

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acorn image editing flying meat inc raster editor macos framework features photoshop built apple's native format vector filters custom color

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Acorn (software)DeveloperFlying Meat Inc.1.00infobox
Acorn (software)LicenseProprietary1.00infobox
Acorn (software)Operating systemmacOS1.00infobox
Acorn (software)ReleaseSeptember 10, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-10)1.00infobox
Acorn (software)Stable release8.6.1 (3 July 2026; 52 days ago (3 July 2026)) [±]1.00infobox
Acorn (software)TypeRaster graphics editor1.00infobox
Acorn (software)Websiteflyingmeat.com/acorn/1.00infobox
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eraseinstance ofand image editing tools0.80text
paintinstance ofand image editing tools0.80text
selectinstance ofand image editing tools0.80text
paninstance ofand image editing tools0.80text

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