Sylvain Cleymans, August 25, 2022
Taking and sharing photos is part of our daily life and still, managing this constant stream of pictures and videos is hard for most people. Way harder than it should be. A lot of apps provide chat, photo and video sharing and a lot of other apps offer photo storage and management, but separating these concerns creates a lot of problems.
Instead of adding a new layer of complexity, Pixwire tries to reinvent how we think about photo management by combining multiple apps into one, enabling features that wouldn’t be otherwise possible.
Like pictures to add them to your gallery
We use chat apps to share most of our pictures. This means where pictures are shared is not usually where pictures are stored and organized, this leads to a variety of issues (hard-to-find pictures, low quality, cluttered phone…). By combining these different apps into one, Pixwire proposes a unique approach.
Pictures get organized on the fly. Press the like button and the picture is automatically added to your collection, it can easily be found again later, tomorrow or in ten years. Only the pictures you liked appears in the gallery.
Your phone doesn’t get cluttered. Pictures and videos are stored in the cloud, not on your phone and only the ones you liked will appear in your collection. You can easily download them from your phone or from your computer using the web app.
Most pictures represent memories shared between multiple persons. Preserving them shouldn’t be the responsibility of just one. Where with traditional chat apps you share them with a group, with Pixwire you also manage them as a group, and this changes everything.
Classification is crowdsourced. Anyone in the group can add labels or tag people in a picture, meaning the hard work is done only once.
Pictures are stored once, just once. No more everyone keeping (or losing) their own copy of a picture, no more filling up disks or clouds with the tenth copy of the same picture. This means less storage used and less money spent. This even means a better carbon footprint for your pictures.
Zoom in full quality pictures
Not all pictures are created equal. That family reunion picture? You probably want to keep it in full quality, forever. That screenshot of a website or the blurry photo of you friend’s dog? Probably not.
Using likes, Pixwire can determine whether a picture is worth saving in full quality or not. This way storage space is used in a more efficient manner.
Pictures saved in their original quality mean no detail is lost and you can print them or zoom in on your friends faces. Try it!
Pixwire is just at the beginning of its journey and a lot more is coming! So if all of this sounds good to you, give it a try and let us know what you would like to see next!