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New Pixz App Looks To Share Group Photos During Coronavirus

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Though COVID-19 is making history every day this spring, its imposed realities of social distancing and quarantines make for potentially dull photography for social media sharing amidst the general public. A new app now wants to invite friends and families into groups to record and share their visual memories only for each other to enjoy.

Founded by Dr. Michael Kelso, a Gastroenterologist from Alabama, Pixz is a social photo sharing app for groups and events without ads, hashtags or filters. Users employ Pixz to share moments in real-time with groups during events without hashtags.

The app acknowledges Instagram demands the inviting of the general public to review a user’s photographs. While friends and family are most likely included in that public user pool, Instagram lacks any feeling of personal exclusivity. Meanwhile, with many Instagram accounts performing as social media advertising fronts for individuals or brands, it can be difficult to generate a family feeling around curated photographs.

To avoid inviting tens of thousands of followers into their personal social media spaces during COVID-19, many users currently invite friends and family into Zoom, Skype or FaceTime to share everyday videos or images away from the public. Pixz looks to create that same closed loop for photos in place of live video.

The Pixz app operates with a simple three-step process. The user creates a private online space to host images centering on an event or theme. After inviting a list of friends and family to the Pixz group, all hands can save and share their photos while enjoying everyone else’s images.

Kelso believes the time is right for this friendlier photo sharing app with the ongoing strains of COVID-19 life.

“Current messaging apps like GroupMe, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger lack the ease of use, visual appeal, and social experience we have grown to love,” Kelso says. “In this new normal, people are yearning to connect and share together. Pixz provides a fun, safe, and private space for people to share comfortably.”

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