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A year later... Are there any alternatives to Ember

8 years ago from Toby Negele, Senior Product Designer

  • Anwar ChoukahAnwar Choukah, 8 years ago

    Very interesting thread.. I need to get something like this and am not bothered at all whether the interface has changed in the last year or not, as long as it looks good and works well.

    Needs:

    • sync (probably Dropbox, but Box or Google Drive or whatever would be nice as I could use the free tier for nothing but that rather than clog up my Dropbox with thousands of files)
    • tagging – auto tagging/file format separation (vector/bitmap/screenshots/colour/etc.)
    • folder support – I don't want to be locked in to some proprietary file system
    • list view

    Might give Pixa a go...

    2 points
    • Chris Aalid, 8 years ago

      Pixa is great but doesn't support EPS, even though I think it still says that on the app store.

      It looks like Pixave, mentioned above, does support EPS (if it was saved in the right way).

      0 points
      • Anwar ChoukahAnwar Choukah, 8 years ago

        Looks like I've got some testing to do:) Thanks for the suggestion!

        0 points
      • Anwar ChoukahAnwar Choukah, 8 years ago

        Right, I decided to give Pixave on the App Store a go.

        There was no demo available, but at the very reasonable (cheap, really) price of £7.99, I just bought it.

        First impressions in bullet-points:

        • Dark mode only. This is a problem when viewing black pngs/svgs with a transparent background
        • Only OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and above – rules out my work Mac
        • It should sync. So far, I'm trying out a Box solution (see below)
        • Tags seem OK, but that's going to take regular upkeep

        My system, however, seems.. alright..

        • Organise the Box (free 10GB account) folder into:
        • Box Sync
          • "The Goods"
            • "Icons"
            • "Textures"
            • "UI-Kits"
        • Use Box account for only this (luckily, I also have Backblaze so everything's backed up)
        • Should be able to use different apps with a view of something working on Windows as well. (Sorry, I've never used a Linux machine...)

        So far, so good, though – going to blow on.

        0 points
      • Anwar ChoukahAnwar Choukah, 8 years ago

        Right, I decided to give Pixave on the App Store a go.

        There was no demo available, but at the very reasonable (cheap, really) price of £7.99, I just bought it.

        First impressions in bullet-points:

        • Dark mode only. This is a problem when viewing black pngs/svgs with a transparent background
        • Only OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and above – rules out my work Mac
        • It should sync. So far, I'm trying out a Box solution (see below)
        • Tags seem OK, but that's going to take regular upkeep

        My system, however, seems.. alright..

        • Organise the Box (free 10GB account) folder into:
        • Box Sync
          • "The Goods"
            • "Icons"
            • "Textures"
            • "UI-Kits"
        • Use Box account for only this (luckily, I also have Backblaze so everything's backed up)
        • Should be able to use different apps with a view of something working on Windows as well. (Sorry, I've never used a Linux machine...)

        So far, so good, though – going to plow on.

        0 points