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Pixea for Mac

Minimalistic image viewer and video player.

Free
In English
4.3
Based on 3 user rates

Pixea overview

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.

Supported formats:
  • JPEG, HEIC, GIF, PNG, TIFF, AVIF, Photoshop (PSD), BMP, Fax images, macOS and Windows icons, Radiance images.
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.

What’s new in version 6.0

Pixea 6 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
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Pixea for Mac

Free
In English
Version 6.0

What users say about Pixea

ttoesvmware
By ttoesvmware on May 17 2024 for v.5.2

Reliability: 1.0

Mostly very reliable except for the one thing I really need it to do. The < > buttons for advancing are greyed out and don't function. Intel Mac 10.15.7

Other user ratings:

Value | 4.0
Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 4.0
Customer support | 1.0
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What customer like

Performance
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What needs improvements

Regular updates
Bug fixing

Pixea qualities

Value
4.5
Ease of use
4.5
Features
4.5
Reliability
3.0
Customer support
2.5

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4.3

(1 Reviews of Pixea)

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zlazkow
zlazkow
Apr 11 2023
5.0
3.0
Apr 11 2023
3.0
Version: 5.0
not ready for use. When doing basic editing (contrast, exposure, sharpness), the editing tool blocks the image (despite being quite small), and not moveable. I'd say, the application is not useable yet.
Globalmouser
Globalmouser
Aug 13 2024
6.0
5.0
Aug 13 2024
5.0
Version: 6.0
zlazkow
zlazkow
Apr 11 2023
5.0
3.0
Apr 11 2023
3.0
Version: 5.0
Freenergy
Freenergy
Jan 11 2030
1.0
5.0
Jan 11 2030
5.0
Version: 1.0