Tornasol
Image Editing and Design
$9.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now an iPhone Duo app: the editor fills the open display, divides at the fold, and brushes follow Apple Pencil (USB-C)'s tilt. Layers, masks, PSD and RAW, on iPad too.
Tornasol is a layered image editor for iPad and iPhone. Layers and folders, masks, adjustment layers, layer effects, brushes and retouching, selections, type and a Camera Raw filter, on a canvas drawn by the GPU, with Apple Pencil pressure and gestures in place of the modifier keys.
LAYERS THAT STAY EDITABLE
• Layers and folders, with blend modes, opacity, layer masks and clipping masks.
• Adjustment layers you can reopen at any time: Hue/Saturation, Levels, Curves, Exposure, Gradient Map, Black & White, Color Balance, Invert, blurs, grain and noise.
• Layer effects: stroke, drop shadow, inner shadow, outer and inner glow, color overlay.
• Move, scale, rotate, flip and distort layers without losing their pixels.
PAINT AND RETOUCH WITH APPLE PENCIL
• Brushes that follow Apple Pencil's pressure, and an eraser a double-tap away.
• Spot Healing, Clone Stamp, Blur, Smudge and Liquify, and gradients.
• Content-Aware Fill and Remove Background.
SELECT EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN
• Marquee, Lasso and Magic Wand, Select Subject and Color Range.
• Feather, expand, contract and invert a selection, mask with it, or lift its pixels and move them.
DEVELOP AND FINISH
• Open RAW photos from your camera and develop them before they become a layer.
• A Camera Raw filter with tone curves, an HSL and point color mixer, sharpening, defringe, Upright perspective, vignette and grain.
• Filters: Gaussian and Motion Blur, Vignette, Bloom, Grain, Dither, Lens Correction and Tonal Contrast.
• Type and shapes on their own layers.
OPENS WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
• PSD and PSB files open with their folders, masks, blend modes, simple shapes and horizontal text still editable.
• Bring in photos and images as layers, or start a project from several at once.
• Export PNG or JPEG through the share sheet, to Photos, Files or another app.
MADE FOR TOUCH
• Pinch and pan with two fingers. Tap with two fingers to undo and three to redo.
• Touch and hold with a finger where a Mac would want a modifier key: pick a color while painting, set the Clone Stamp's source, draw a shape from its center. Rest a second finger to constrain a line, a square or a move.
• On iPad, a full menu bar and keyboard shortcuts when a keyboard is attached, and windows side by side in Stage Manager.
• On iPhone, a compact layout with the tools along the bottom and the canvas still live under every sheet.
YOUR FILES, ON YOUR DEVICE
Projects are .tornasol documents in Files: they save as you work, can live in iCloud Drive and show their own thumbnails. Every edit can be undone. There is no account, no tracking and no data collected; your images never leave the device unless you share them.
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Tornasol is now an iPhone Duo app.
• Open the phone and the editor takes the whole display with the iPad's layout: the tool rail, the options bar and the Layers panel floating over the canvas, and the bar's controls in a column under the camera.
• Fold it part way and the editor divides at the fold: the canvas on one page, and on the other the Layers panel at full height under a navigator of the whole picture, live, which a finger pans. Held like a book, the panels take the page beside the bar; set down like a laptop, they take the raised page, leaving the flat half to draw on.
• Closed, the phone's layout, with the tools along the bottom.
• Brushes follow Apple Pencil's tilt where the Pencil senses no pressure, so Apple Pencil (USB-C) draws the whole brush held upright and a thinner line laid flatter, with pressure still sizing the brush where a Pencil has it.
• Two projects side by side in Split View on the open display.
Also in this version:
• The Layers panel's actions open in place under the selected layer: opacity, blend mode, adjustment layers, effects, mask and delete, so it is plain which layer an action touches.
• The tool options are divided into groups, so each label sits with its control.
• A new icon.
The developer, Pineapple Technologies Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Pineapple Technologies Inc
- Size
- 20.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 27.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 27.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 27.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 27.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 27.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Pineapple Technologies Inc.

