Microsoft Pix User Reviews

Microsoft Pix
Microsoft Pix
Microsoft Corporation

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Best photo application

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
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Photo privacy??

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??

Panorama mode is great!

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?
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My favorite!

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

What happened?

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.
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Wow, did not expect this.

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.
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Worst camera app I’ve ever used

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.

My favorite!

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

Multiple camera don’t work

On my iPhone 11 Pro Max, it freezes

Great quality pics!!

Great quality pics! Love the Portrait mode!

User guide?

This app would be a lot more useful if, in addition to bragging about what it *can* do, it told us *how* to do those things. As it is, it’s just an alternative camera app with the same capabilities as Apple’s camera app.

Very convenient camera app

This is a very nice & easy to use camera apps. The best parts is no shutter sound. Envy the MS efforts. Thanks to the team.

They killed the reason I got the app.

The only reason I got the app was because you could turn off the camera click sound. Now you can't, so I'm looking for a new app.

I just don’t understand

Don’t get me wrong, I love this app, 5 stars! But the developers first removed all great features (pano, Live Photos) and now adding them back one by one. Why? Just don’t understand if you guys gonna adding these features back, which is awesome, then why removed them before? I almost going to give up this app and looking for other solutions. But thanks god, finally, everything is back now!
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A great alternative to Apple’s base camera app.

If there are just some apps that you like a more “Microsoft feel” to, go for it. It has a few extra features. I do not know how well it does for the nighttime feature, as to Apples night mode is epic, but this is a solid alternative. It also scans documents.

Spelling mistake

You misspelled business in your own description.

Pass

The “pano” feature struggles with arm movements any faster than a glacier sliding downhill while having a seizure trying to balance exposure. MS nailed it with Photosynth. Pix is a digital train wreck.

My favorite part of the app is back!

You so much for bringing back the Photosynth/panorama mode! It’s my favorite part of the Pix app. I love being able to take extremely wide-angle shots with this! While I miss the features of the old Photosynth app and service, I’m really glad to have the ability to take those kinds of pictures again with MS Pix.
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Filtered artwork

I miss the filters like “Honolulu” that would transform my regular photos into works of art. Is that feature available anywhere else? Is there anyway to bring that feature back in a future update? If so, then please do. Many thanks.

Better Quality Images

Here is another free app that I like. When I compare the pictures it takes to the ones taken with the native camera app that comes with iOS, the ones taken with this app seem better exposed and color balance. The disadvantage is, it requires a lot of processing so on my old iPhone 5s, it took a while but on my SE and iPhone 7, it took significantly less time. Document mode is useful but the automatic cropping needs improvement. It frequently does not select the correct borders and when adjusting the borders, it too easily changes a rectangle into a shape with opposite sides that are not parallel.
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Response from developer

Good News Newtown... We have released a new update today (June 21st) with improved performance, smaller app size, and a new feature called 'Styles' that allows you to apply artistic filters to you your photos turning them into painterly works of art!