# Microsoft Pix — Point. Shoot. Perfect

> AI-powered camera app for effortless, enhanced photo capture and editing. (iPhone/iPad app by Microsoft Corporation.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/microsoft-pix/id1127910488 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Microsoft Corporation](https://appshunter.io/developer/298856275)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 515 App Store ratings · 54 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 189 MB
- Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian and 13 more
- Released: 2016-07-27
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/microsoft-pix/id1127910488/reviews.md

## What is Microsoft Pix?

Microsoft Pix is an AI-powered camera app that helps you to take better photos without extra effort! It is like having a pro photographer inside your camera – tweaking settings, selecting the best shots, and enhancing them on the fly – to help people and scenes look their best. It’s designed to help take the guesswork out of getting great photos, so now you can just enjoy the moment, instead of struggling to capture it! Microsoft Pix: Point. Shoot. Perfect.

Features
• Moment capture and best images - Captures a burst of frames every time you tap the shutter button, including frames before and after your tap, so you won’t miss the right moment. Uses discarded burst frames to enhance each Best Image, improving exposure and color, and reducing noise and blur. Images in low lighting, moving objects are now much better quality than before.
• Professional toolkit - control exposure bias manually, set and lock focus point, adjust aspect ratio,  use level, and grid to capture the best photos.
• Document capture - capture, crop and clean a picture of a document, whiteboard, or business card. It is like a scanner in your pocket.
• Advance photo editing and free filters - adjust brightness, contrast, temperature, saturation, vignette, grain, highlight, and shadow, the sharpness of the photos, or enhance your photo with 30+ free filters.
• Light and Dark theme - automatically use system color theme or you can override the setting for the app to suit your preference.

## Key features

- AI-powered photo enhancement
- Moment capture and best image selection
- Professional camera toolkit
- Document scanning and cleaning
- Advanced photo editing and filters
- Light and dark theme options

## What do users think of Microsoft Pix?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 📸 Superior photo quality and clarity compared to native iOS camera
- 👤 Excellent portrait mode with adjustable focus after capture
- 🎨 Non-sharpened, natural-looking photos without over-processing
- 🔄 Automatic burst and multi-frame blending for better results
- 📱 Simple, intuitive user interface without excessive menus
- 🆓 Free application with premium features
- 🎯 Document scanning capabilities
- 🤳 Front-facing camera zoom functionality
- ⚡ Efficient processing on modern devices
- 🌟 Excellent face enhancement and lighting adjustments

**Cons**

- 🐛 App freezes and crashes frequently
- 🔋 High battery consumption during use
- 🤝 Poor panorama stability with arm movements
- 📊 Inconsistent panorama auto-stop behavior
- 🔒 Lack of transparency about photo privacy and data handling
- ⚠️ Excessive blur in portrait and beautify modes
- 🎬 Weak video stabilization (OIS)
- 📚 Poor documentation and user guides
- ⏱️ Slow processing on older devices
- 🖼️ Document auto-cropping frequently incorrect

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Edit functions (crop, brightness) unresponsive in iOS 14.6
- Multiple camera mode freezes on iPhone 11 Pro Max
- App freezes after taking single photo with greyed-out button
- Camera roll access broken after recent update
- Photos not saving after capture
- Panorama mode stops prematurely due to memory constraints
- Spelling error in app description
- Shutter sound cannot be disabled despite previous capability

**Most requested features**

- Adjustable lens aperture for regular photos and video
- 2D panorama mode for flat surfaces like whiteboards
- Manual user control over panorama stop button
- Restore artistic filters and style transformations
- Restore business card scanning to Outlook contacts
- Restore photosynth/panorama stitching feature
- Restore video stabilization feature
- Restore OCR text extraction from photo library
- Improved panorama quality and performance
- Better night mode comparable to Apple's Night Mode
- 48MP mode support
- Front and rear flash support for selfies
- Comprehensive in-app user guide and tutorials
- Improved document border detection and adjustment

## Recent user reviews (10 of 54)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/microsoft-pix/id1127910488/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Best photo application

*2023-12-25*

Hi
Truly, without any compliments, your application is the best when it comes to taking photos. In my opinion and through my experience in the field of photography, and to increase the efficiency of the application, it is preferable to make it possible to change the lens aperture when taking regular photos and video, without limiting it to portrait only. 
My best regards

### 1/5 — Photo privacy??

*2023-09-29*

App wants access to photos/videos, but doesn’t tell you the most important thing: do the photos EVER leave my phone?

It’s one thing for the app to access the pix to -process- them, but an entirely different thing to send them off the phone.  WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BE CLEAR ON THIS??

### 4/5 — Panorama mode is great!

*2023-07-07*

Panorama mode could also be improved by allowing it to lock into a '2D' mode, such as when the user is capturing something like a large whiteboard (or wall of an art gallery)... this might both improve output quality and performance at the same time (as the calculations would be simpler).
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Possible regression:

In early-mid 2023 the panorama mode appears to have changed... it used to continue capturing photos until the user pressed the 'stop' button, but now it stops when it 'thinks that you are done'? This results in incomplete captures, especially when capturing large wall installations (or, e.g., whiteboards in hallways, where multiple photos are needed to get the entire board in focus and in sufficient detail). 

Maybe it is just stopping automatically when the device is low on memory?

### 5/5 — My favorite!

*2023-03-12*

It’s simple and everything you need is right in front of you without having to deal with 400  menus and ads. This is, imo,  enter than the Apple cam app and  you can zoom in on front facing cam! Love it

### 1/5 — What happened?

*2023-02-04, version 2.6.2*

What happened? Pix used to be able to make creative character changes. I had started an album of my own pictures that I used pix to make mosaic for children’s books. Now all of that is gone and I can’t finish my project. The changes to remove those artistic changes is a real loss. The new filters are bland and not creative. Now instead of using pix for my projects for years I will have to go somewhere else. Disappointed in your support if customers.

### 5/5 — Wow, did not expect this.

*2023-01-31, version 2.6.2*

How did Microsoft end up creating a camera app better than apple, camera+, manual camera, pro camera, and a dozen others? It takes amazingly nice, NON SHARPENED (apple) photos, and an incredibly useful portrait mode like my s22 ultra where you can edit the focus point AFTER you take the photo. Blown away so far. No 48mp mode but still… really nice light touch in eliminating the overprocessed photo that kills Apples own camera app.

### 1/5 — Worst camera app I’ve ever used

*2023-01-14, version 2.6.1*

The only thing this is good at is blurring things. Portrait mode? Lay on the blurriness over everything. Horrible filter to “beautify” faces? Pour that blur on. Produces absolute garbage photos.

### 5/5 — My favorite!

*2022-10-27, version 2.6.1*

I prefer this to record selfie vids. you can zoom in on front facing cam! Love it

### 3/5 — Multiple camera don’t work

*2022-09-26, version 2.6*

On my iPhone 11 Pro Max, it freezes

### 5/5 — Great quality pics!!

*2022-08-10, version 2.6*

Great quality pics!   Love the Portrait mode!

## Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Pix

### What does Microsoft Pix do?

Microsoft Pix is an AI-powered camera application designed to help users take better photos effortlessly. It automatically enhances images, selects the best shots from bursts, and offers professional editing tools and filters to improve photo quality.

### What are the key features of Microsoft Pix?

Key features include AI-powered moment capture to ensure you don't miss the right shot, a professional toolkit for manual camera controls, document capture for scanning, advanced photo editing with numerous filters, and theme options for the app's interface.

### Is Microsoft Pix free to use?

Yes, Microsoft Pix is a free application. The provided information indicates it does not have in-app purchases or ads, suggesting a completely free user experience.

### What kind of photos does Microsoft Pix excel at capturing?

This app is particularly good at capturing photos in low lighting conditions and of moving objects, producing better quality images than standard camera apps. It also excels at capturing people and scenes by automatically enhancing them to look their best.

### Can I use Microsoft Pix to scan documents?

Yes, Microsoft Pix includes a document capture feature. This allows you to easily capture, crop, and clean up pictures of documents, whiteboards, or business cards, functioning much like a portable scanner.

## Version history (last 1 release)

### 2.6.2 — 2023-01-27

Bug fixes and performance improvement.

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