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PIXU

A fast free image viewer that lives in your terminal

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PIXU is a fast and free, cross-platform terminal image viewer for developers. View images in RGB, grayscale, 256-color, ASCII, Kitty/iTerm2 or Sixel, with interactive browsing, clipboard input, pipelines, resizing, rotation and dithering.

PH · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: terminal emulators and utilities · 106 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -88% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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More like this: all 106 launches in terminal emulators and utilities →

Could you build this?

Yes Terminal image viewers rendering via ASCII, ANSI escape codes, Sixel, or Kitty protocols are standard CLI tools easily built with Go and established terminal libraries using AI assistance.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #167 of 212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 260 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ImageColorPix · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Pixepi · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Pixlpin · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Pix · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Peek · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • PixConvert · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Pixohub · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Pixloveloom · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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