PIXU
A fast free image viewer that lives in your terminal
Details
- External ID
- 1245195
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PIXU
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 11, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphic design assets and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal-based image viewer
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #50 of 98 (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 0.50
- Peek · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal · hn · 2026-05-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Play SNES, gba, in your terminal, even in tmux · hn · 2026-07-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- PiX · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- open-pi-viewer · github · 2026-09-24 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Picta.cc · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol) · hn · 2026-08-02 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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