Pixellect
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Native for macOS Nondestructive by default AI-native
Own the edit. Delegate the busywork.
A professional Mac image editor with an AI agent that works in your layers. Retouch, generate, and compose—and keep every step editable.
The agent
Create a new design or make changes to an existing document with AI. Let the agent build the layout, edit text, or adjust an image—then keep refining it through conversation or directly on the canvas.
Remove the background, bring out the jacket texture, and prepare a web export.
Layers
portrait-web.jpg ready to export
No opaque automation. Every action lands in the layer tree, ready to inspect, adjust, or undo.
The full Mac editor is free. Cloud AI is optional.
One continuous workspace
Start with a description, an image, or a document you already have. Get help with the work, then fine-tune the details in the same place.
Create
Describe what you want to create, or open a document you want to improve.
Refine
Rewrite a headline, rearrange the layout, or clean up an image with help from AI.
Finish
Edit the text, move a shape, or tweak a colour yourself. Export when it’s ready.
One document, many ways forward
Need a different headline tomorrow? A new colour? Another version for a different audience? Text, shapes, images, and adjustments remain separate, so you can change the part you need and keep the rest.
Built for the whole job
Let AI help you get started, then make the changes that matter to you. Keep refining your document, try another direction, and export when you’re ready to share.
Keep text, shapes, and images on their own layers. Update a headline, move an element, or swap a photo while keeping the rest of your design in place.
Warm up a photo, bring out the shadows, or try a different colour treatment. Revisit each adjustment until the mood feels right.
Adjust now. Fine-tune later.
Remove an unwanted detail, soften a background, or touch up a photo. Get help from AI and finish with a brush where you need a closer touch.
Focus on what matters
Save your work as a .pixellect document to keep its layers and adjustments. Reopen it tomorrow to change the wording, try a new look, or adapt it for another audience.
Ready for the next revision
Bring in a photo, a layered PSD, or an SVG and keep working. Export an image to share, and save your editable document for the next round of changes.
Zoom in, line things up, and give every detail the attention it needs. Familiar Mac controls make those last small changes feel natural.
A little closer to finished
The finishing touches
After the agent has helped with the work, you can still move an element, soften an effect, or change a font. The controls are right there when you want to make an adjustment yourself.
Pixellect plans
Pixellect is free to download and use. Choose a cloud plan when you want the agent, generative editing, flagship models, or more weekly capacity.
Early beta users get a limited amount of free cloud AI tokens to try the agent and creative tools. Available to the first accounts while beta places last, for up to 30 days. No payment details needed.
LocalFree forever
Everything you need to edit, with private AI that runs on your Mac.
$0/ forever
Limited on-device AI
CloudFor occasional use
Bring a little cloud AI into the editor whenever inspiration strikes.
$9.99/ month
Cloud AI usage included
CloudFor creating
Bring the agent and generative AI into your everyday workflow.
$29.99/ month
Cloud AI usage included
CloudMost popular
More room to create, with first-class access to the best models.
$59.99/ month
More usage than Starter
CloudMaximum power
The highest-capacity plan for demanding generative workflows.
$99.99/ month
Even more usage than Pro
Cloud subscriptions are optional. Every plan starts with the same free Pixellect download.
Pixel, text, vector, group, adjustment & effect layers with nested masks, layer styles, and 21 blend modes.
16 adjustments including Curves, Levels, HSL, Color Balance, Vibrance, and LUTs, plus six built-in presets.
36 effects including blur, sharpen, distortion, stylization, alpha & halftone effects.
Standard shapes, Quick Selection, Magic Wand, and AI-powered subject selection.
Brush, Eraser, Fill, Gradient, Clone Stamp, and a texture-synthesis Heal tool.
Bezier pen, boolean ops, editable Core Text layers you can rasterize or convert to paths, plus SVG import/export.
Trace raster images into editable vector shapes, with colour or binary modes, stacked or cutout results, and adjustable curve smoothing.
Keyframe layer placement, operation and style properties with hold, linear, bezier, and easing interpolation on a scrub-able timeline.
Keep a live view of another layer as a non-destructive reference while giving it its own transform, opacity, blend, and effect controls.
Subject detection, SAM3 segmentation, text-to-image layers, ML Enhance, Super Resolution.
Zoom to 5000%, rulers, guides, grid, and live-preview gesture editing.
PNG, JPEG, HEIF, WebP, TIFF, AVIF, animated GIF, SVG, and full PSD/PSB round-trip.
.pixellect zip container, 100 levels of undo, sRGB color management throughout.
100+ agent tools, PixellectMarkup layout generation, and an in-panel agent chat.
Full tool and command shortcut set — V, M, B, P, T, ⌘Z, ⌘T and more.
Crop, auto-crop, straighten, perspective correction, free four-corner transform, liquify-style warp, and canvas flip, rotate, or resize.
Brush-based lighten, darken, saturate, desaturate, and smoothing controls, plus texture-aware repair for unwanted details.
Stamp and round tips with pressure, flow, fade, jitter, scatter, angle, and spacing dynamics — plus Photoshop .abr brush import.
Linear and radial gradients with editable colour stops, presets, and a full scientific colour picker for every stop.
Add, subtract, intersect, or invert selections, then feather, expand, or contract them for a clean edge.
Exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma, hue rotation, shadow recovery, highlight recovery, and Black & White controls.
Noise reduction, debanding, selective colour replacement, and chroma-key colour removal for transparent backgrounds.
Mosaic pixelation, hexagonal pixelation, deconvolution, alpha fill and border, plus Bevel & Emboss.
Clip one layer to the transparency of the layer beneath it, alongside editable vector, text, alpha, and pixel masks.
Lock and hide layers, duplicate them, group or ungroup, merge down, flatten, and transform individual layers without losing control.
Inspect every adjustment and effect, edit its parameters, toggle it on or off, remove it, or apply an effect when you are ready.
Pencil, rectangles, ovals, rounded rectangles, lines, and triangles with editable paths, fills, strokes, dashes, and markers.
Fine-grained text styling with font, size, weight, colour, fill, and stroke controls — then rasterize or convert to paths when needed.
Align layers or shapes to any edge or centre, distribute equal spacing, tidy a layout, and snap precisely to guides.
Hit a byte budget automatically, limit dimensions, convert to sRGB, and optimise GIF or PNG palettes with dither controls.
Drop images straight into a document as layers. SVG files stay editable vectors, PSD layers arrive grouped, and EXIF orientation is handled automatically.
Live RGB and luminance histograms, HEX/RGB entry, colour-wheel selection, reusable palettes, and document colour swatches.
Generate editable SVG vectors, restore images, upscale in the cloud, remove backgrounds, and turn depth maps into layer masks.
Preview AI-generated PixellectMarkup layouts before applying them, then fill any generated image placeholders directly on the canvas.
Choose your OpenRouter model, stream responses, set a tool-call limit, and let the agent inspect canvas and layer previews as it works.
A command palette, recent-document launcher, configurable transparency checkerboard, pixel grid, and canvas-border controls.
Questions
The complete editor is free. Cloud subscriptions are optional, and the download is the same whichever plan you may choose later.
Yes. The complete Pixellect editor and its on-device AI tools are free to download and use. Optional cloud plans add the agent, generative editing, flagship models, and more capacity.
Pixellect runs on a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 15 Sequoia or later. The current download is version 0.9.4.
Pixellect releases are signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple before they are published.
Core editing and the included on-device AI tools run locally. When you choose a cloud AI feature, Pixellect sends the inputs required for that request; see Data Processing & Retention for details.
Download the ZIP, move Pixellect to your Applications folder, and open it. Pixellect can then check for signed updates from inside the app. You can review every published version in the changelog.
Start creating
Free forever. Full editor included. Version 0.9.4 for Apple silicon Macs with macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
