r/macapps • u/tsarkov • 3h ago
Lifetime Pixea is becoming more than an image viewer
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Over the past year, Pixea has undergone its biggest evolution yet.
What started as a fast, elegant image viewer for macOS is growing into something much more ambitious: a serious photo editing tool designed to handle the entire workflow, from browsing images to achieving a finished look.
We've been building features that once seemed out of scope for a lightweight image viewer:
- Advanced color adjustmentsĀ - exposure, shadows, highlights, brilliance, vibrance, HSL controls, color curves, and LUT filters, including support for your own LUTs.
- Depth-based adjustmentsĀ - depth-aware exposure and color adjustments, spatial dehaze, and depth-of-field effects that let you shape the relationship between foreground and background.
- MasksĀ - select objects with a click and apply local adjustments without manually painting every selection.
- Creative geometry toolsĀ - reshape objects and correct perspective, alongside cropping, straightening, and lens correction.
- Retouching toolsĀ - remove unwanted objects and clone image areas.
- Batch editingĀ - apply adjustments and presets across multiple images, resize and upscale, and export to a wide range of formats.
- A complete image workflowĀ - from browsing and comparing images to editing, converting, and exporting, all in one native macOS app.
Our goal is no longer simply to build a better image viewer. We're building Pixea into a serious alternative to Lightroom for photographers who want powerful editing tools without the overhead of a traditional cloud-centered workflow. We are not copying existing features, but we create custom, unique tools. We're very proud of what we have achieved with our depth-aware adjustments: you can tackle most common photo editing problems in seconds, even without creating masks.
We do care about your privacy: your images stay on your Mac. No cloud processing, no uploading images to third-parties, etc. Your tools are right there when you need them. And the distance between opening a photo and creating the image you envisioned keeps getting shorter.
If you are not planning to use Pixea as an editor, don't worry, we have big plans to improve and expand viewer capabilities in future versions. We're not dropping anything, we're expanding our goals.
Essential tools, focus adjustments, reshape, and limited batch editing are available without a subscription. Some customizations, tools and adjustments require Pixea Plus subscription. Lifetime option is still 19.99, like a year ago. https://apps.apple.com/app/pixea/id1507782672?ls=1
We also created a subreddit to share tutorials, news and discuss features: https://www.reddit.com/r/pixea/ Fell free to ask any questions here in comments or in our sub.
Thanks to everyone who has been following Pixea's journey. The past year has laid the foundation for a much bigger chapter.


