Need more good products as good as this
Thank you
Nearly Perfect!
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.
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.
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Bummed out…
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…
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Another Crushed User
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.
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.
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No longer supported
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.
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.
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A bag of sad and fail.
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.
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.
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The fate of former Apple “best of” apps
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.
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.
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No, not of much use
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.
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.
A solution in theory hampered by poor iCloud integration
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.
DON’T BUY
This app is not working completely.
Almost there
The concept is great and I have been using the Mac app. It’s a great tool for a graphic designer but unfortunately I’ve had too many issues with the app crashing and long/cumbersome import from iOS issues, and have exported my collections to plain old folders in iCloud Drive, which I have found to be the quickest and most reliable method accessible from any device. If this app becomes more reliable and includes an iPhone version I would take back in a heartbeat because I really want this app to work. For example I love the ability to search images by color and that all images are stored in a database file to not clutter up Finder/Files. Hope this app takes off.
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Not ready yet
First off, I adore the Mac app - which is why I bought the iPad version. That said, this has been nothing but a let down and a bunch of time lost. If I could ask for a refund, I would. There are several things that are wrong with basic operations. It never remembers that I have already seen the onboarding screens, so it always shows those to me, and requires a tap to close... no big deal yet, but then it never remembers what my last library was, so it always forces me to choose a library. The screen that lets you choose a library is always empty until you pull down to refresh, then it may show previous libraries. I have had to create new libraries 4 times now because it seems to have a problem accessing the ones in iCloud. On that note, if I add a photo on my iPad, and i have the same library opened on my Mac, they don’t update each other - which was kinda the point of iCloud. I can not find the libraries on iCloud that I create on my iPad, not sure where there are going or stored. Today I updated and guess what - all my libraries are gone now. Don’t know how to open them or find them. So ok... that’s it - I’m gonna tap out and try another solution. Good luck getting this fixed - and good luck to those who are staying on this ride.
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Great!
Fast, reliable and cool
Awesome!
Pixave is one of the best options for organizing your files for the Mac and now for iOS. You can sync to your favorite cloud service, including iCloud Drive which syncs files across computers and devices.
Never buy.
Folders are not created in the iCloud.
I can not load a Mac-saved library from the iPad.
I can not load a library from my iPad.
Because the library is not stored in the iCloud folder.
It does not tell the customer where the library is stored.
This app is just stupid.
This developer does not know how to work with the iCloud.
Do not be fooled by screenshots.
Never buy.
Enjoy a delicious lunch for $ 7.99.
I can not load a Mac-saved library from the iPad.
I can not load a library from my iPad.
Because the library is not stored in the iCloud folder.
It does not tell the customer where the library is stored.
This app is just stupid.
This developer does not know how to work with the iCloud.
Do not be fooled by screenshots.
Never buy.
Enjoy a delicious lunch for $ 7.99.
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Just what I wanted to sort pictures
Love this app. Smart folders to store pics with certain criteria automatically
Great start, looking forward to updates
Pixave is a great image organizer on the Mac and I was excited to have it on my iPad as a way to get images for projects out of my photos app. The apps does that but is still buggy. It randomly imports less items then selected from the photos app and also quits after several imports. No drags and drop from Photos app, although developer says it is coming. Developer is very responsive and I look forward to seeing the app improve.
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