Pixave

I found this to be a great digital scrapbook that supports importing not just de facto established graphic files but also formats from less widely used apps, that nevertheless are important tools in an arsenal of many designers: documents created in Affinity Photo/Designer, Acorn, Pixelmator, Sketch, Autodesk Graphic (ex iDraw), provided you have any of these installed. Personally, I regularly use Serif's Affinity apps and this is a great boon for me. Quite solid app overall and I am very pleased with it.

I bought Pixave soon after it first arrived in 2015 and was very pleased with it. Whilst some aspects of the interface are a little unintuitive, altogether the app worked well. Syncing via iCloud with my laptop worked fine and I invested in the iOS version too, although syncing the library there could take a while and seemed occasionally to repeat itself without apparent reason. So far, so good. However, recently an important library of professional work refused to open correctly. No images appeared, no collections, nothing, yet the library was still 1,4GB in size. A backup version has the same problem so it seems clear to me something has probably gone wrong with the library database. I was alarmed as this work is valuable to me and I sent an urgent request for help to the dev, LittleHJ. It is now a week later and I have still had no response despite a repeat request. The Pixave website and general activity around the app seem to have quieted down a lot recently and I am wondering if the dev has maybe got tired of the app and has moved on to other things conveniently leaving loyal customers like me in the lurch. So my advice is to beware of keeping important data in Pixave or to have a non-Pixave backup if you do. In any event I will not be using Pixave any more. I am laboriously rebuilding my library from other sources and am cautiously looking around for a replacement from a reliable developer.

I think Pixave is capable of simple picture management scenarios, but if you have a large number of image categories, it will be a disaster, it is very inefficient. If you are looking for an efficient software that supports Windows and macOS operating systems, you may want to try Eagle App. https://en.eagle.cool/

IMPRESSIVE – Pixave is by far the best lightbox cataloging solution. Handles huge libraries with ease, and powerful tagging and smart folders and collections make organization a breeze. Previews are stunning fast, even fast scrolling. Pixave is a bargain, and a must-have for photographers, artists and videographers. Best-of-class by far.

Decent I guess.. these media management apps come and go.. and none ever took the crown (or maybe for a minute) over the about 25 years I've been on Mac. A major drawback of this app is its inability to import files it cannot read..

Case figure: you want to keep a hierarchy of folders that contain say.. UI elements.. so you may have vector files, raster files and maybe some css, html, js etc.. well Pixave will only imports the files it CAN read.. so if you throw away your original folder hierarchy thinking you've got an all-around assets manager..well... you're screwed. as you'll have thrownn away your css, html etc and will be left with your graphic files only.

Sometimes I feel Finder is still the safest and most open-ended file manager as lacking as it may be.

Fantastic programs for capturing, archiving and organizing images! Deep and wide feature set, very consistent and stable. Working out great for me, a real value.

Overall really nice. Could use a couple more features, such as image rotation and map display for geolocation. It also takes quite a while to import images, especially if there's a lot of them. I could see that if I was moving the images into the Pixave database, but if I am keeping them in their current location I wouldn't think it should take as long as it does. Still a very good app.

This is my favorite image/reference organizer. Well executed! Fast! Works with dropbox......seriously dope app!