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Pixea - free image viewer and video player for macOS

Pixea is an image viewer & video player for macOS with a nice minimal modern user interface.

Pixea works great with JPEG, HEIC, PSD, RAW, WEBP, PNG, GIF, and many other formats. Provides basic image processing, including flip and rotate, shows a color histogram, EXIF, and other information. Supports keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. Shows images inside archives, without extracting them. And it's free!

PIXEA - Free image viewer and video player for macOS

Image Editing

Adjust brightness, sharpness, reduce noise, crop, resize...

Pixea includes essential tools to enhance your images and photos.

Adjustments: Exposure, Shadows, Highlights, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Color temperature, Tint.

Tools: Denoise, Sharpen, Crop, Rotate, Flip, Clone, Resize.


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Objects Removal

Remove any object from your photo in a few brush strokes

Use Objects Removal Tool to remove unwanted objects, people, or defects. Pixea will reconstruct what was behind the object. Use Clone tool to polish the result.

Objects Removal is based on Machine Learning functionality first introduced with macOS Big Sur. macOS 11 or higher is required.


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Super Resolution

2x and 4x upscaling powered by machine learning

The machine learning algorithm is trained by analyzing millions of images. Sharpen and upscale a photo without losing its content instead of mathematically interpolating the values of pixels as done by the regular scaling algorithms.

macOS 10.15 or higher is required.

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Video Playback

Built-in Video Player with MP4 and MKV support

PIXEA - Free video player for macOS
Audio tracks

Select audio track for your movie.

Subtitles

Select, hide subtitles while playing.

Play/Resume

Resume where you paused the movie.

Aspect Ratio

Change aspect ratio and size.

Repeat

Play Next, Play and Stop, and Repeat modes.

Playback speed

0.5x, 0.9x, Normal, 1.1x, 1.5x, 2x modes.

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Scroll: W, A, S, D
  • Zoom In: Z + Mouse Click
  • Zoom Out: Z + Option + Mouse Click
  • Selection Tool: M
  • Square Selection: Hold Shift
  • Scroll: Hold Spacebar + Drag
  • Previous / Next Image: ← ⁄ →
  • Previous / Next Image Frame: ↑ ⁄ ↓
  • Zoom In / Zoom Out: + ⁄ -
  • Slideshow: Enter
  • Rotate Image Left / Right: [ ⁄ ]
  • Fit to Screen: \
  • Actual Size: 0
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Touchbar Support

PIXEA - Free image viewer for macos

Supported Formats

Images

PEG, HEIC, GIF, PNG, TIFF, Photoshop (PSD), BMP, Fax images, macOS and Windows icons, Radiance images, Google's WebP. RAW formats: Leica DNG and RAW, Sony ARW, Olympus ORF, Minolta MRW, Nikon NEF, Fuji RAF, Canon CR2 and CRW, Hasselblad 3FR. Sketch files (preview only). ZIP-archives.

Video

MP4, MOV, A4V, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPEG and MKV.

Export

JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, TIFF, BMP

Pixea Plus

Enjoy more options, customizations and tools with Pixea Plus

Actual Size

Set pixels or points


Keyboard Shortcuts

Customize any shortcut the way you want it


Thumbnails Panel

Set Size and Autohide options


4x Image Upscaling

Four times double the pixels using ML-powered algorithms


Trackpad Gestures

Customize swipe gesture for video playback


Status Bar

Status bar with resolution, date taken and other image properties


Object Removal Tool

Remove any object from your photo in a few brush strokes


Clone Tool

Clone pixels from another part of the photo


Sharpness and Noise Tool

Sharpen images and remove noise


Pixea Plus is a one-time in-app purchase. No subscriptions or hidden costs. Pixea Plus helps us to support Pixea and add even more free features with every release.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7

based on 4500+ AppStore reviews

System Requirements

macOS 10.12 or higher. Native Apple Silicon and Intel based Macs support.
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How to change the default image viewer on Mac?

Select an image file you want to open with Pixea. Hit "Command + I" on your keyboard or right click on the file, and select Get Info.

Under the "Open With" dropdown menu, select "Pixea". Click "Change All" to apply settings to all images with the same type. You might have to repeat the process with different image types.

Related articles: How to change the default Mac app for specific image types?

Pixea Support

Found a bug? Have a suggestion? Please, send it to support@imagetasks.com or reach us on X at @imagetasks.

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