PhotoScape X Pro 4.3 for macOS

Right out of the gate, this one needs an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later. If you're on an older Intel machine, the app simply won't launch. It was built ground-up for ARM architecture, so that M1, M2, or M3 chip isn't just a nice-to-have — it's the only way in.

Browse, clone, and heal in one app

PhotoScape X Pro is the Mac edition of Mooii Tech's all-in-one editor, and it covers more ground than you might expect. You can browse and organize your library, then jump into edits with tools like the clone stamp, healing brush, liquify, and a simple red-eye fixer. Need to pull a subject off a busy background? There's a magic eraser, plus lasso and brush tools for the tricky edges. The app also builds collages, splits a single photo into multiple pieces, and captures screenshots when you need a quick grab. A built-in print dialog handles your paper copies, and the batch tools quietly churn through format conversions, resizing, and renaming while you go get coffee.

Extras that come with the package

The sticker and frame libraries are surprisingly deep — over a thousand stickers, 290-plus frames, and 240 shapes and figures to dress up a project. Animated GIF creation is right there too, without sending you to another program. Bottom line: this is a full workbench for photos, not just a quick-fix editor, but only if your hardware matches the requirements.

Activate loupe view for bigger thumbnails

Out of the box, a few defaults slow you down more than they should. Open preferences and you'll spot them fast.

• Turn on "Open in Loupe View by default." The standard browser view shows thumbnails that are too small to judge sharpness. Loupe view lets you hover and see a full-size preview instantly — it saves you from double-clicking into the editor just to check if a shot is blurry.
• Switch the save format to PNG for editing sessions. The app defaults to JPEG, which re-compresses every time you save. If you're making multiple passes on a photo, PNG keeps the quality intact between saves. Swap back to JPEG only when you're exporting the final version.
• Disable the splash screen. It adds about two seconds to every cold launch. Uncheck it once and you'll never miss it.

Small shortcuts that hide in plain sight

Some of the handiest moves don't live in menus. Here are a few I stumbled onto after weeks of use.

• Right-click any thumbnail to "Combine Vertically" or "Combine Horizontally." This skips the separate Combine tool entirely. Select two or more images in the browser, right-click, and the app stitches them into one strip. Great for before-and-after comparisons or quick reference sheets.
• Hold Option while dragging a sticker to clone it instead of moving the original. In a collage or meme layout, that one key saves you from digging through the sticker panel again.
• Press Command-Shift-C to grab a color from anywhere on screen, even outside the app window. The color picker tool is easy to overlook, but once you start using it for matching text overlays to a photo's palette, it becomes muscle memory.

Nothing here rewrites the app. But together, these tweaks cut the friction between opening a folder and getting real work done. If you grabbed the photoscape x dmg and jumped straight into editing, these are the first things I'd set.

Version 4.3 is a housekeeping release — it shipped a fix to smooth out the current build.

• macOS 13 Ventura or later
• Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3 or newer)