Pixea for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By $1K Master

  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.

  
  
• By jasondunn

  Solid app!

  I was looking for a replacement for LilyView, and this came across my radar. So far I'm impressed with it. The only gripe I have is the full-screen view involves a lot of "whoosing" back and forth with PC taking me to a full-screen virtual desktop. I'd prefer a full screen option that just took over the screen without taking me to another virtual desktop. Maybe this is a limitation of PC, I'm not sure. But overall this is solid image viewing app, and I'm shocked it's free. I'd happily pay a few bucks for it.

  
  
• By back_pack_jack_

  All great except for one thing

  I wanted to use this to scroll through reference pictures when drawing. The borderless window allows me more drawing space while still being able to see the images. I also love how smooth the zoom in/out feature is. The dealbreaker for me is that the window pops back into the center of the screen when I click to the next picture. I have to resize and drag it to the edge of my screen each time.

  
  
• By La Step

  Beautiful app -- with one major issue

  This is such an elegantly designed app and I love it overall, but there is one issue that makes it something I don't use as often. In slideshow mode, the entire app jumps to the middle of the screen every time it advances to the next image. This seems like such an easy fix and I see that several others have mentioned it, too. Sometimes it jumps to my other monitor, too. I will change this to 5 stars if this can be resolved as it is otherwise a great app!

  
  
• By Oneljt

  Nice viewing option

  I used to use preview before, when looking at photos that were not in Iphoto.. This is quick and loads larger files. Great options, hopefully it will continue to upgrade

  
  

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