Download PixCompare for Mac OS X 10.5 and up (577 kBytes). Latest Version 3.62. (Jul 24, 2011) Intel Only, see below for PPC versions.
New in version 3.62
- move to Xcode 4.1, SDK 10.6
- various bug fixes
- dropped PPC support due to move to Xcode 4
New in version 3.6
- move to jpeg library 8.0 & various speed improvement results in about 30% faster picture loading
- greatly improved performance on 4/8 core machines (up to twice as fast)
- borders for printing pictures can be turned on and off
- fixed various memory leaks
- ignore iPhoto thumbnails and other spotlight index data
- fixed bug with alias files
New in version 3.5
- Complete rewrite of printing-code, removed old quickdraw code to improve 10.5 compatibility
- Removed 150 dpi option when printing (everything is printed at 300dpi)
- Added Fast-Jpeg code for printing (Increase by 2x when printing large pictures)
- various bug fixes that caused crashes
- moved SDK to 10.5, cleaned all deprecated APIs
This version requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Older Versions:
- V3.6 PixCompare for 10.5 and up on PPC architecture
- V3.4 PixCompare for Mac OS X 10.4
- V2.1 of PiXcompare for Mac OS X 10.0 – 10.3.
- V1.6 of PICTcompare for Mac OS 9 or earlier.
- V1.2 of PICTCompare for 68k machines
Using this program, you can compare images files, and print contact sheets. It works natively on Jpeg pictures and supports all Quicktime compatible picture formats.
PixCompare also identifies two pictures if
- one of them is grayscale
- they don’t have the same size / aspect ratio
- they have a different intensity
- they have a different pixel-depth
- and when one of them is blurred
PixCompare works best on digital photos.
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March 23, 2012 at 09:02
Hi, Oliver,
Tried using PixCompare 3.62 on a 10.7.2 Lion MBP with Core i7 processor against an external disk containing .jpg images. Comparison processing went extremely fast. However, when I attempted to discard the undesired duplicates, PixCompare stated that they were in the trash, yet that did not occur. Never were they moved to the Trash folder. Is this yet another one of Lion’s eccentricities that cause tried and tested programs to fail?
Thanks for any insights.
March 23, 2012 at 16:27
Yes, that’s Lion related – every volume has it’s own hidden trash. With Lion, I cannot properly access that anymore. You can copy PixCompare to the same volume as the pictures and try again. Also, move at least one item from that disk to the trash, so that the trash folder does exist.
Eventually, I’ll have to rewrite the whole App for Cocoa, otherwise it won’t run in Mountain Lion at all…
Regards, Oliver
May 31, 2012 at 00:14
I get the same results on my ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer. Any ETA on when you’ll have the app ready for Mountain Lion?
Any enhancements you can share for Mountain Lion?
Thanks!
May 31, 2012 at 07:25
I don’t have any plans for Mountain Lion just yet. When it gets out, I’ll make PixCompare work as good as possible. I don’t have an ETA for the Cocoa version though…
October 16, 2012 at 05:21
Any update on Mountain Lion and Cocoa version? I want to upgrade to Mountain Lion but not if PixCompare doesn’t work.
Thanks for making such a great app!
October 16, 2012 at 08:56
Unfortunately I’m not that far in the implementation of the Cocoa version – I probably have one third… But the current version 3.62 does work on Mountain Lion!
November 21, 2012 at 19:35
Hi. Just thank you for this app that find better than some commercial apps … even if there are more faulse positive which better than doesn’t find similar files.
November 26, 2012 at 10:51
Thanks for a brilliant app. You’ve saved me hours of deleting duplicates that regular duplicate finders just can’t find.
January 21, 2013 at 20:38
Thanks for the great app.
I’m trying it on Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and it ran and found duplicates on a folder on my NAS device. I went out to the Finder and deleted a couple of the duplicates and now it won’t start up again.
I’m getting this error message:
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0×0000000000000002, 0×0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** CFRelease() called with NULL ***
Any thoughts on how to fix this? Any ETA on the new version?
Thanks!
January 22, 2013 at 13:59
PixCompare does have some issues when using it on server volumes or external drives. I haven’t found the cause for that, but expect this to be solved with the new version…
Unfortunately, I still have no ETA for the Cocoa Version. It does take me more time than I thought!
If PixCompare won’t startup, the preferences file is most likely corrupted. You can find it in the Library/Preferences folder, called “com.dreer.PixCompare.plist”. Just trash that and try again!
February 4, 2013 at 19:38
Thanks is large! It works sufficiently well. on Mountain Of lion (10.8.2). Order in the folder of photo has long ago wanted to direct, removed about 2000 photos from the external disk, connected through USB.Thanks!Спасибо еще раз,очень хорошая программа.P.S.Предложение мое вот какое:Чуть доработать и в Аппсторе,и сделать ее платной от 1до5 долларов.Я думаю,что будет очень популярна и востребована,да и деньги не помешают при обновлениях.Все-таки это ведь работа!
April 6, 2013 at 07:33
Hi Oliver,
Its really great app! Many thanks!
How about iPad version?
Best regards,
Wsewolod