Features

Everything Pixo does, and what is free

Name: Pixo
Brand: Pixo
Price: 19.90 USD
Availability: InStock

A native Mac viewer for the pictures and PDFs you already have. Viewing and every tool on one file are free. Pro does many at once and adds more Apple Intelligence.

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Viewing

Faster than Preview, and calmer

Pictures open at once, and the ones either side are ready before you press an arrow. Zoom, compare and look closer without waiting.

HEIC, JPEG, PNG, RAW, WebP, AVIF, PSD, TIFF, GIF, SVG and more
True HDR on screens that show it
Compare two to four shots side by side, zoom kept in step
Live Text: select and copy text in any picture

A photo open in Pixo with the inspector showing its size, camera, lens, aperture, shutter, ISO and when it was taken, and a filmstrip below — The viewer, with the inspector open (⌘I) and the filmstrip below.

Browsing

Your folders, as they are

Point Pixo at any folder and see everything in it, subfolders included. Nothing is imported, moved or copied into a library.

Recents and Screenshots from anywhere on your Mac
Bookmarks with ⌘D, and Boards that gather pictures from many folders
Sort by name, date, size or kind; search by name
A menu bar panel with your newest screenshots and downloads

The Pixo window: a sidebar with Recents, Screenshots, Bookmarks, places and boards, and a grid of pictures and PDFs with page-count badges — A folder in Pixo: pictures and PDFs together, nothing imported.

Apple Intelligence

Ask a picture or a PDF anything

Questions, summaries, search by what is in a picture, names for files and alt text, all from Apple's own models on your Mac.

Ask about a picture, or a PDF with the page each answer comes from
Search a folder for "receipts" or "dog on the beach"
Lift a subject off its background, or pick the best shot of a burst
Invoices and receipts to one spreadsheet

How Apple Intelligence works in Pixo

The inspector's AI and Content Credentials section, naming Stable Diffusion, the model, the prompt and the negative prompt saved in the file — What a file says about AI: Content Credentials, the source tag, and prompts saved by generators.

Tools

The picture tools you keep looking for

Convert, compress, resize, rotate, remove the background or the metadata, from the toolbar, a right-click or Finder. The originals are never changed.

JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, PNG and TIFF
Rotate and remove metadata without re-compressing
Crop to the subject for square, 16:9 or story
Rename in one go, or make a PDF

The Convert sheet in Pixo: three pictures on the left, the format, quality and details options on the right, and Convert 3 Pictures — Every tool is one sheet: the pictures, the options, and where to save.

PDFs

PDFs, without opening another app

Read, reorder, rotate, highlight, add notes and sign. Merge, split, compress, protect and redact. Summarise or ask, with page references.

Changes are saved as a copy, so the original stays as it was
Scans become searchable PDFs
Redaction removes the text, it does not just cover it
Pull out the photos stored inside a PDF, as they are

A tenancy agreement PDF open in Pixo, with page thumbnails on the left and the PDF toolbar for rotating, highlighting, notes, signing and asking — PDFs open in their own viewer, with page thumbnails to reorder.

Keyboard

Move through a folder without the mouse

The keys you would expect, and every one is in the menus too.

Press	To
`← →`	The previous or next picture.
`Space`	Open the selected picture, or go back to the grid.
`⌘ + ⌘ −`	Zoom in or out. ⌘ 0 shows actual size, ⌘ 9 fits the window.
`⇧⌘ K`	Compare the selected pictures side by side.
`⌘ I`	Show or hide the inspector.
`⌘ K`	Ask Apple Intelligence about the picture or PDF.
`⌘ D`	Bookmark the picture.
`⌘ ⌫`	Move to the Trash, with undo.
`⌥ Space`	Peek at the picture selected in Finder.

And also

The small things a viewer needs

Keyboard first

Arrows to move, Space to open, ⌘K to ask, ⌘I for the inspector, ⌘⌫ to the Trash with undo. Everything is in the menus too.

An inspector that explains

Camera, lens, exposure, when and where it was taken (in the place's own time), colour, and a map.

AI and Content Credentials

See when a file says AI made it: Content Credentials, the IPTC source tag, and prompts saved by generators.

Peek with ⌥Space

Select a picture in Finder, press ⌥Space, and its details float up without opening a window.

Finder Quick Actions

Right-click pictures in Finder: Convert, Resize, Remove Background or Remove Metadata with Pixo.

Looks like your Mac

Native macOS controls throughout, in light and dark, with your accent colour.

Settings for how you work

Theme, picture background, what the mouse wheel does, square or whole thumbnails, which inspector sections show.

Signed updates

Pixo updates itself, and installs a new version only when its signature and Apple's both check out.

The full list

Every feature, free or Pro

Pro is $19.90 per year or $29 once, on 2 Macs. There is no trial: the free version is the trial, with no time limit.

Viewing and browsing

The whole viewer is free, for good.

Viewer and grid
Pictures and PDFs, every common format, zoom, filmstrip, full screen.
Free
Compare
Two to four pictures side by side, zoom kept in step.
Free
Inspector
Camera, exposure, colour, location and a map, file details, AI tags.
Free
Live Text
Select and copy text and codes in any picture.
Free
Recents, Screenshots and Bookmarks
From anywhere on your Mac, without importing.
Free
Boards
Collections that gather pictures from many folders.
Pro
Menu bar panel and Peek
The newest screenshots and downloads; details of the Finder selection with ⌥Space.
Free

Tools

Every tool works on one picture for free. Pro does many at once.

Convert, compress, resize, rotate
JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, PNG and TIFF. Rotate without re-compressing.
Free
Remove metadata
The location only, or every detail, without re-compressing.
Free
Remove background
The subject on a clear background, as PNG or HEIC.
Free
Rename and Make PDF
From a pattern; one PDF from many pictures, searchable if you like.
Free
Tools on many pictures at once
A whole selection or folder in one go.
Pro
Crop to subject
Square, 4:5, 16:9, story or 3:2, around what draws the eye.
Pro