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Pixea 4+
Image viewer + Video player
ImageTasks Inc
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Pixea is an image viewer & video player for macOS with a nice minimalistic user interface. Pixea works great with HEIC, PSD, RAW, WEBP, MKV, MP4, and many other formats. Enjoy the all-new way to browse media folders and archives. Search, sort or shuffle your media. Remove defects and unwanted objects or upscale low-resolution images with AI-powered tools. Fine-tune your photos with hue, saturation and tone adjustments. Define keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures.
Object Removal:
Use Object Removal Tool to remove unwanted objects, people, or defects. Pixea will reconstruct what was behind the object. It features great accuracy and high-resolution support to achieve amazing results.
Super Resolution:
Amazing 2x and 4x upscaling powered by machine learning. The algorithm is trained by analyzing millions of images. Sharpen and upscale a photo without losing its content. Unlike many competitors, Pixea's super-resolution technology supports images with alpha channel. Yes, you can upscale icons too!
Pixea can make adjustments to exposure, shadows, highlights, contrast, hue, saturation, brightness, color temperature and tint. Use built-in tools to denoise, sharpen, crop, rotate, flip, clone and resize images.
Image formats:
JPEG, HEIC, GIF, PNG, TIFF, Photoshop (PSD), BMP, Fax images, macOS and Windows icons, Radiance images, and Google's WebP. RAW formats: Leica DNG and RAW, Sony ARW, Olympus ORF, Minolta MRW, Nikon NEF, Fuji RAF, Canon CR2, CR3 and CRW, Hasselblad 3FR. Sketch files (preview only). ZIP-archives.
Video formats:
MP4, MOV, A4V, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPEG and MKV.
Export formats:
JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF.
* Some features require Pixea Plus in-app purchase. Super Resolution tool requires macOS 10.15 or higher. Object Removal tool requires macOS 11 or higher.
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What’s New
Version 6.0
We are thrilled to release Pixea 6, the biggest update we've ever published! It brings the all‑new Media Browser, introduces enhancements to AI-powered tools, as well as a refined new design, dozens of small features and bug fixes.
Media Browser
• Enjoy the all-new way to browse media folders and archives
• Add folders to favorites
• Search for images and video files
Object Removal Tool V2
• Pixea 6 brings huge improvements to the Object Removal Tool: version 2 features great accuracy and high-resolution support to achieve amazing results.
Subfolders support
• Subfolders in Media Browser
• New subfolders menu in Media Window
• Hierarchy support for zip archives
Sorting
• Sort directories and archives by name, type, size or date
• Shuffle option
Other updates and improvements:
• Photo location is shown on the map in the Details Panel
• New context menu in Thumbnails Panel
• Confirmation when deleting files
• Support for password-protected zip files
• CR3-format support
• New thumbnailing engine: up to 2x times faster
• New image preloading engine
• Updated permissions storage: Pixea will ask for access less frequently, subfolders are always accessible now
• Settings redesign
• Animation for Previous/Next media actions
• New option: When opening images - Use existing window for any folder
• New option: Ignore zip hierarchy
• Include EXIF metadata option when exporting images
• New shortcuts: Edit with: App #1-#5
• New Welcome screen
• Over 50+ small fixes
* Some features require Pixea Plus in-app purchase. Object Removal Tool V2 requires macOS 13 or higher. V1 is used on lower macOS versions. V1 will be removed in future updates.
Ratings and Reviews
Full-Screen Perfection
This photo-viewer is by far the best in the biz. I thoroughly enjoy viewing photos with it. I tried a couple of others out, but this one is exactly what I was looking for. There is no dead space or any extra design baggage when viewing photos. Pixea knocks it out of the park keeping the design minimalistic while ensuring the functionality is through the roof
So far, mostly good
In a graphics viewer, I like a minimal interface with no distractions. I also prefer to see my images in their actual size, with the exception of images that are of a higher resolution than my display, in which case they should be resized to fit automatically.
Pixea gets closer to this than most. The interface is minimal indeed with borderless windows, but where it fails for me is primarily the on-screen controls that pop up whenever my move my mouse. It's unnecessary if you know the keyboard commands already and there should be an option to not have that appear.
I'm also not a fan of havng the window "close/minimize/zoom" buttons overlaid on my images when displayed. I know they hide "eventually", but I would actually rather just have a border on top than have those buttons overlaid onto my photos.
The last gripe I have is with the fitting of my images to the window. Generally speaking, I want to see them in their actual size, with over-sized ones reduced to fit. Pixea doesn't do this. If you have it set to "Actual Size", then images that exceed my display dimensions are not completely visible.
Other than this, Pixea is great. The controls are intuitive and other than my caveats above, is generally unobtrusive. Rendering can be a bit laggy compared to another viewer I've long used when panning through a folder of images, but iits rendering quality seems pretty good otherwise.
App Will Sometimes Corrupt Your Photos
I thought at first it was my harddrive but systematically across both Intel and M! chip laptops (2019 and 2022 respectively), on both local and external harddrives (both disk and SSD) the Pixea app will randomly corrupt your photos.
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It wasn't always this way and it happens predicably 100% of the time if you tell Pixea to stretch your images to fit or to fill screen in slideshow mode. This seems isolated to the latest update of the app. So I'd say buyer beware.
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It should be noted that I did check my original source photos both in Photoshop, Adobe Bridge and Lightroom just to make sure the source images were intact. Always it was only after being previewed (even while the slideshow is running) that Pixea would corrupt my photos.
Developer Response ,
Pixea is not able to corrupt photos or files, as it requests read-only access when viewing images.
App Privacy
The developer, ImageTasks 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.
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Information
- Seller
- ImageTasks Inc
- Size
- 178.7 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2020-2024 ImageTasks Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Upgrade to Pixea Plus $9.99