# Pixave — The Smartest Image Organizer > Smart image organizer with AI tagging, collections, and web/map capture for iPad. (iPhone/iPad app by YoungHo Kim.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixave/id1132974651 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [YoungHo Kim](https://appshunter.io/developer/301345235) - Category: Productivity, Photo & Video - Price: Free - Rating: 2.97/5 from 36 App Store ratings · 17 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 11.0 · 109 MB - Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese - Released: 2017-09-24 - Data updated: 2026-06-28 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixave/id1132974651/reviews.md ## What is Pixave? Stay Inspired. There is a whole world that we get from images. A single picture can fill us with inspiration which, in turn, brings us joy. Such impressions grow to create wonder and amazement for the world. That growth and creation is made possible by you. And Pixave is here to store and organize those inspired moments - to enable you to bring them to mind whenever, wherever you are. A Convenient and User-friendly Working Environment Essentially, Pixave for iPad provides a streamlined environment to manage and view graphic resources. With the user-definable Collections graphic resources can be managed using folders to sort according to the needs of the user and, like the Finder in Macs, provides hierarchical management capabilities. In addition, countless graphic resources can be organized using the highly intelligent Smart Collections, which can be instantly accessed with just a touch without having to search for them, and also graphic resources can be easily searched based on tags. Easy Import Media by Drag and Drop By using iOS 11's awesome Drag and Drop feature media can be imported with a minimum of effort. What more is there to say? Plus, Pixave for iPad also offers Share Extension, which allows the user to easily transfer media from various types of programs into Pixave for iPad. Supports Popular formats! Pixave for iPad supports common image formats such as GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, ICNS, PSD, PDF, BMP, ICO, Camera RAW, EXR, MPO, HEIC, HEIF, MOV, M4V, MP4 as well as document formats from iOS Graphic applications such as Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Mindnode, Pixelmator, Sketch, Audodesk Graphic, and Procreate. Machine Learning Tagging Pixave for iPad offers astonishing tagging abilities. The contents of an image are detected to automatically create or add tags, allowing easy access for the user. To provide the most convenient environment for tagging Pixave for iPad uses 'Machine learning'. Machine learning is a technology that allow computers to learn and then use the learned knowledge to perform specific tasks, to behave more like a person than a computer. Integrated via the new, blazing fast Core ML framework, machine learning lets Pixave for iPad detect and understand various contents within images. Enhanced Web & Map Capture One of Pixave for iPad's wonderful features is its Web & Map Capture ability. By using this feature you can save a desired webpage as an image - an absolute must for web designers. And on top of that, the Map Capture ability is nothing lesser - with it a desired location can be easily searched for and instantly saved as an image. And yet another amazing thing is images saved with Map Capture store the location information within it, so that when shared with others the original location information can also be viewed right away. Nice! Wouldn't you say? All-around viewer Pixave’s image displaying feature is not limited to only viewing images. Not only can you edit the metadata but you can also use the powerful, Core Image Filters to edit images (JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF only), and animated GIFs. Files such as Pages, Numbers, and Keynote can be easily viewed by using QuickLook. Plus, the built-in PDF, Movie Viewer lets you easily view PDFs and Movies, as well letting you save a part of a movie as Animated GIFs. Multiple Libraries Pixave supports multiple libraries - you can easily create and manage libraries on your iPad or iCloud, and libraries made using iCloud can be shared with Pixave for Mac for immediate use. iCloud Sync Due to its iCloud compatibility, you can sync your Pixave for iPad libraries, with its multiple libraries structure, with iCloud. Users using both Pixave for Mac and Pixave for iPad will find this an extremely useful feature. Pixave for iPad and iCloud enjoy an intimate relationship. - Compatibility: Requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPad. ## Key features - User-definable and Smart Collections - Hierarchical management - Tag-based searching - Drag and drop import - Share Extension integration - Machine learning tagging - Web and Map Capture ## Recent user reviews (10 of 17) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pixave/id1132974651/reviews.md ### 5/5 — Need more good products as good as this *2022-11-25, version 2.6.1* Thank you ### 4/5 — Nearly Perfect! *2021-11-11, version 2.6.1* I use a digital planner on my iPad. Organizing my png digital stickers was a pain. The files app always felt cumbersome. I was literally about to teach myself how to make an app to organize, tag, and easily locate my stickers. Then, thankfully, through much research, I finally found this app! Love the minimal interface and being able to choose thumbnail backgrounds because png files sometimes show with a black background in other apps and this can make it hard to see what certain files are. I love the tagging feature. It’s exactly what I needed! I love the thumbnail size. I love that it works in the 1/3 multitasking window pane. I love that you have the option for iCloud storage because I prefer to have my files in the cloud for syncing. I love that when making a collection you can add multiple tags to the whole collection, but you can also tag individually later. These are the things I think would help your app! :) 1. I’d optimize your SEO for easier finding for those in the digital planning community as well. We look for apps for our stickers. Idk how SEO works on the App Store, but just a thought. I searched for things like: sticker book, sticker organization, sticker management, file management, file organizer, png organizer, png management, and finally photo management and then I found you. But, not before googling and then downloading and testing multiple apps to try and find a solution. 2. Please allow us to search with more than one tag. Rn I can only search one tag at a time. So, if I’m looking for say a budget widget I can’t search both the budget and widget tag. And I have a lot in each category. 3. Please fix the crash that happens when importing a large number of files. When I pull in close to 100 files the app crashes. I am on a new model iPad Pro and I have plenty of onboard storage and iCloud storage, yet the app crashes. It’s not a huge deal for me, it doesn’t happen all of the time. But, it does need to be fixed. 4. iCloud syncing doesn’t work across iPads. Not a huge deal, because I plan from one of my iPads mostly. But, before I can push this app out on my platforms for others to download, it needs to be fixed. And I really would love to have it sync so I can plan from either iPad. Now onto my wishlist from my own app ideas: 1. I wish you could lasso and drag in multiple pngs from goodnotes and it would bring in the images separately. Right now, it brings them in as like a sticker sheet in one image. Not a huge deal, just saves some time because a lot of us digital planners use digital sticker books in goodnotes. So, it would make the migration to Pixave so much faster for our collections. 2. I’d love the option to choose the scale of the image in the thumbnail. This makes it easier to see what some stickers are. 3. I’d like to see all the tags on an image in a row in the info panel. Sometimes when we are filming a video we want to tell our followers where a certain sticker or pack came from. So, I tag my images with the store name. But, I noticed in the info panel to see all the tags, I have to scroll and look through them and I have a ton of tags. Just like a list above the tags would be great. Again these are all just wishlist items and I understand your app isn’t specifically for us in the digital planning community. But, it is a very large and ever growing community that your app does appease to. I know this was a long review. If you made it to the bottom you’re an even better app team! 🤣 Thank you for such an awesome app! I will update my review if crashes and syncing are fixed. ### 1/5 — Bummed out… *2021-09-10, version 2.6.1* I was so excited to have found an app that was going to do what I needed, and at a affordable price on the Mac. Note to the developer, I’d pay 5 times that easy - especially if the cloud sync was working. Heck, 10 times would be fine too. That is how bad I need this product. Hoping it can be brought up from the abyss… ### 2/5 — Another Crushed User *2021-03-10, version 2.6.1* Like other reviewers have said, I’ve used and loved this app for years. It was the best, and really only one of its kind for keeping my design images separate from my personal photos and keeping it all synced across IOS and Mac. Then I had a problem that led to a hard reset of the iPad itself and all my libraries were lost on the iPad but still on my Mac, and no amount of “pulling down” would load them. So now I’ve come to see that it hasn’t updated in 3 years and it’s simply not syncing libraries anymore and there is no workaround. Crushed. Tragic. Much sad. RIP Pixave. You were a good app. 2 stars rather than 1 because If you aren’t concerned with syncing between platforms and only have your design assets on your iPad OR on your Mac, it still does that much fairly well. But the fact that it hasn’t been updated in so long doesn’t bode well. I wish I could say you should find an alternative, but my searches are coming up frustratingly blank. I wish you luck. ### 1/5 — No longer supported *2020-11-30, version 2.6.1* I loved this app, and I’m sorry to have to pan it, but you should not buy it—or even get used to using it—at this point. Once upon a time, Pixave was a great way to organize and store images. It replaced Pixa for me on the Mac, but unlike Pixa, Pixave had the incredible advantage of being able to sync with the iPad! I used it successfully for years, but recently, after I had to factory reset my iPad Pro due to unrelated issues, I found that Pixave will no longer sync. The iPad app does not recognize Pixave libraries already stored in iCloud, or new ones created on the Mac. Sync between Mac and iPad had become an essential part of my workflow, so Pixave is now worthless to me. I contacted the developer seeking help, but weeks later I have not received an answer. I found it reliable and useful. It was perhaps the only app of its type that truly embraced iCloud sync, and for a while, I considered it completely essential. But it’s not working now, and there’s no support to be had. So don’t become dependent on it. Your best plan is to avoid Pixave and find some other solution for managing your images. ### 2/5 — A bag of sad and fail. *2020-11-17, version 2.6.1* I’ve use this for a few years now. As a photographer this app would allow me to make collections of photos that I would use as references and ideas for future photo shoots. I had the app for my Mac as well as my iPad. It would allow you to import images into the desktop version and it would automatically sync those images to my iPad. This feature no longer works. And this is one of the most important features for my workflow. After purchasing a new iPad and installing the app, I selected the option to use a previous library in iCloud. The app no longer sees previous collections in iCloud. It does allow me to move or create a new library in iCloud on both my iPad and my Mac, but any previous library is now unavailable. Now it’s reduced to only being usable as a single standalone app on either platform, as it will no longer sync libraries between devices. I’m fairly certain this limitation was introduced with a update to iOS and macOS and not an actual fault of the software author. Regardless this needs to be addressed, this app should no longer be allowed to advertise its ability to sync library‘s between iCloud if it can no longer do it. Please please please for the love of everything holy fix this issue. I would be more than willing to pay $50 for this app to work correctly right now I wouldn’t pay you two dollars for it. What was once the most important and beloved app on my iPad, is now something I am forced to delete and look for an alternative to. The reason I’m giving it 2 stars is because how well it works on either my Mac or my iPad, but also how much it has failed on the sync issue. ### 2/5 — The fate of former Apple “best of” apps *2020-10-30, version 2.6.1* Previous to Catalina and iOS 14, Pixave really was an award winning app.I’m guessing this developer can’t keep up with all of Apple’s platform changes. Unfortunately it shows. While my macs pick up my one Pixave library, any new iPads I add do not. Pressing controls that used to work on iOS 13 now result in crashing. This seems to be happening to a number of formerly useful apps, it’s becoming a pattern that these apps used to be stable until Catalina / iOS 14 but now less so, and while the devs pay the annual tithe, it may be over a year if any update at all. Maybe stabilize your platforms before you ship, Apple? -1 star because can’t read in Library from iCloud tho’ I’m going to blame this on Apple as well. ### 1/5 — No, not of much use *2020-03-23, version 2.6.1* I lost two libraries due to app updates. Never found the libraries again and lost all images. Quality of thumbnails for photos is not good enough, thumbnails are somewhat blurry. In theory this could be a great app. It’s just... not. ### 1/5 — A solution in theory hampered by poor iCloud integration *2019-06-23, version 2.6.1* I had high hopes for the Pixave iPad and Mac app. Unfortunately, the app seems to refuse to sync with iCloud reliably making it ineffective as a digital asset manager. ### 1/5 — DON’T BUY *2019-01-21, version 2.6.1* This app is not working completely. ## Frequently asked questions about Pixave ### What is Pixave? Pixave is an iPad application designed to help users store and organize graphic resources. It offers features like user-definable and smart collections, tag-based searching, and machine learning-powered automatic tagging. ### What devices does Pixave support? Pixave is specifically designed for iPads. It leverages features like iOS 11's Drag and Drop and Share Extension for seamless media import. ### What file formats does Pixave support? Pixave supports a wide range of popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PDF, and HEIC, as well as document formats from various iOS graphic applications. ### How does Pixave's tagging feature work? Pixave uses machine learning to detect the content within images, automatically creating or suggesting tags. This allows for easier access and organization of your graphic resources. ### Can Pixave capture web pages and maps? Yes, Pixave features Web & Map Capture. You can save desired webpages as images and capture desired map locations, with map captures storing location information. ### What is the update frequency for Pixave? Pixave was last updated on January 9, 2018, with version 2.6.1. The release date was September 24, 2017. Users can expect updates to improve functionality and add new features over time. ### What is the user sentiment for Pixave? Pixave has a rating of 3.0 stars from 36 ratings. This suggests a mixed user reception, with some users finding the app useful while others may have encountered issues or desired further improvements. ### Is Pixave free to use? Yes, Pixave is available for free. There are no in-app purchases or subscription fees associated with using the application. ## Version history (last 1 release) ### 2.6.1 — 2018-01-09 This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon. What's New in Version 2.6.1 - Fixed minor problems What's New in Version 2.6.0 - Added Chinese (Simplified) Localization - Added ability to import Pixelmator Pro document - Added ability to import MindNode 5 document - Added ability to sort collection by Color Label - Added a new preference to show/hide rating in Browser View - Added a new preference to show/hide rating in Image Viewer - Added Export feature - Improved handling date creation for imported images based on EXIF date time, date digitized - When capture website, page title will be added into note info - Improved iCloud Sync for multiple devices - Fixed Japanese Localization issue - Fixed minor issues What's New in Version 2.5.1 - Fixed a problem where library location didn’t save correctly What's New in Version 2.5.0 - Added Japanese Localization - Added ability to compress and share stored images - Added ability to rename library in iCloud - Added ability to backup library in iCloud for the future updates. - Support fullscreen view in Image Viewer - Improved image viewer - Improved Tag Action UI - Fixed minor issues and more stable What's New in Version 2.4.4 - Fixed minor issue with other applications What's New in Version 2.4.3 - Fixed a problem where preferences didn’t save correctly What's New in Version 2.4.2 - Added ability to save iOS screenshot directly with Pixave Share Extension What's New in Version 2.4.1 - Fixed the problem of duplicate import when drag & drop images - Fixed a problem where background color wouldn’t show properly in image viewer on iOS 11.1 - Fixed a crash that could occur when scrolling tags - Fixed a couple of potential crashes What's New in Version 2.4.0 - Improved Drag and Drop import - Improved Camera RAW import with the new Camera RAW import engine - Improved Drag and Drop export with any applications (Messages, Mail, Pages, Numbers, Keynote and more) - Improved past image from Clipboard - Added Korean Localization - Improved iCloud Sync - Fixed minor issues By the way, App Store reviews are very helpful to us. 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