A look around
Browse — a thumbnail grid with a folder tree, index overlays and instant sorting.
Built for folders full of photos
Pixee opens a directory of images and gets out of the way. Thumbnails are decoded on four background threads into a local SQLite cache and prioritised by what's actually on screen, so the grid fills from the top-left down instead of making you wait for the whole folder.
It exists because the alternatives crawl on a network share. Every directory read, image decode and file operation happens off the UI thread, and Pixee deliberately avoids Qt's stock file models and dialogs — the ones that stall for seconds on an SMB mount. The window stays responsive whether the photos are on an SSD or a NAS across the hall.
What's in it
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Thumbnails that keep up
A four-worker decode pool feeding a SQLite cache, ordered by distance from the viewport, with the rest of the folder filling in behind you.
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A real viewer
Fit, 1:1 and stepped zoom from 0.1× to 8×, space-drag panning, fullscreen, and a five-image preload so prev/next is instant.
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Edit without leaving
Rotate, flip and crop with a marching-ants marquee and optional fixed ratio. Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and gamma preview live, then apply at full resolution on save.
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File operations that explain themselves
Copy, move, rename, delete and batch rename through a proper task queue. Clashes show both files side by side — thumbnail, size, date — so you choose by eye.
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Every format your Qt build can read
JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF and ICO out of the box; HEIC, AVIF, PSD and XCF come bundled in the Windows builds.
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Yours to change
MIT licensed, themeable with plain Qt stylesheets, and translated into English and Hungarian with more scaffolded.