Pixpresso is a lightweight image viewer and editor for macOS, built for the everyday jobs you don't want to open Photoshop for: cropping a screenshot, straightening a phone photo, marking up an image for a teammate, or resizing before you send. Open one picture and it lists every image in the folder in a sidebar, with nine one-click filters and export to JPG, WebP, or HEIC. It's included in every getapps.cafe subscription.
Open one image and Pixpresso lists every image in the same folder in the sidebar - turning it into a real viewer, not just a one-shot editor.
Highlights
- Folder browsing - thumbnail sidebar with inline rename and a right-click menu for duplicate, delete, and move-to-trash.
- Copy text from images - extract text from any image; select all or drag to highlight just the part you need, then copy straight to the clipboard.
- Crop - drag to select or type exact X / Y / W / H; choose an aspect ratio (free, 1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, and more).
- Resize - change dimensions with optional aspect-ratio lock; the preview shows the actual output pixel size.
- Rotate & flip - 90° left/right and horizontal/vertical flip, written straight to the file.
- Annotate - rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, free-draw, and text with custom color & stroke; group, reorder layers, undo / redo, multi-select.
- Filter - brightness / contrast / saturation / blur sliders plus 9 preset looks (Sepia, Vintage, Polaroid, Kodachrome…) with a per-preset intensity slider.
- Export - JPG / PNG / WebP with a per-format quality slider.
- Session reset - revert to the version before your first save in this session, even after multiple edits.
- Open from Finder - drag-and-drop a file or folder onto the window, or right-click an image and choose Open With → Pixpresso .
Supported formats
PNG · JPG · WebP · GIF · BMP · TIFF · HEIC / HEIF
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
⌘O | Open image or folder |
⌘S / ⌘⇧S | Save / Export |
V · C · R · N | View · Crop · Resize · Annotate |
⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z | Undo / Redo (in Annotate) |
+ / - / 0 / F | Zoom in / out / 100% / Fit window |
↑ / ↓ | Previous / Next image in folder |
⌘ -click ( Ctrl -click) | Toggle a thumbnail in the multi-selection |
⇧ -click | Range-select from the current image to the clicked thumbnail |
⌘A ( Ctrl+A ) | Select every thumbnail in the sidebar |
Perfect for
- Cleaning up screenshots - crop the chrome, draw an arrow, save back over the file.
- Extract text from images - pull the address off a screenshot, the code out of a photo, the quote from a slide; select, copy, paste.
- Design & bug feedback - circle the broken pixel, label the spacing issue, send.
- Resizing before sharing - knock a 24-megapixel photo down to the size your CMS actually wants.
- Triaging photo folders - page through a shoot with arrow keys, rename or delete as you go.
- Quick rotate & straighten - fix portrait phone shots that imported sideways, no re-export required.
