Pixno

Pixno, hosted at the historical Photes.io domain, is an AI note-taking workspace that turns photos, PDFs and audio recordings into structured notes.¹ The product goes beyond plain OCR by using multimodal models to interpret contextual material such as charts and diagrams, then generates organized text, summaries and AI-assisted Q&A.¹

The current site emphasizes image-first capture: a user can photograph slides, whiteboards, textbook pages or other visual material and convert it into notes. It also supports PDF input and lecture/audio transcription, so the product now covers more than the older Photes.io image-to-note positioning.¹

Pixno can export notes to Notion, Google Docs and other note systems, and the Google Docs integration uses account authorization to send generated notes directly into Docs.² Multi-device synchronization and collaborative sharing are also part of the current product surface.¹

A newer desktop utility extends the brand beyond a note library: Pixno Voice Input is advertised as a free macOS/Windows app that converts speech into cleaned-up text inside any application.¹ An Android app is also available as a direct APK; the official mobile page says iOS is still forthcoming.³

The branding transition matters for evidence matching. Current official pages use Pixno while older tutorials and listings may still call the product Photes.io. Official historical content explicitly labels the relationship as “Pixno (Photes.io),” so those names should be treated as the same product lineage rather than separate tools.¹

Pixno has a genuine free Hobby tier with no credit card requirement. The current pricing page gives 50 credits per month, roughly five generated notes or about three image inputs, access to the 4o model and one simultaneous processing slot.⁴

Basic is currently $3 per month when billed annually at $36. It includes 1,500 monthly credits, approximately 150 notes, 1 GB of cloud storage, a 10 MB image limit, 1,200 minutes of audio-to-notes/transcription and four simultaneous processing slots.⁴

Pro is $6 per month billed annually at $72, with 3,500 credits, about 350 notes, 5 GB storage, 30 MB image uploads, 3,600 audio minutes and ten simultaneous jobs.⁴ Ultra is $12 per month billed annually at $144 and increases the allowance to 10,000 credits, about 1,000 notes and 7,200 audio minutes.⁴

The current page also presents monthly billing and one-time credit packs as purchase modes, though the retrieved annual view is the clearest directly verifiable price surface.⁴ Users should therefore check the live toggle before comparing annualized and month-to-month prices.

Current official pricing is materially lower than some older third-party listings. For example, The AI Report still describes a $20–40 monthly paid band based on an October 2025 snapshot.⁵ That stale figure should not be used for the current product; it illustrates why first-party pricing needs to override older directory data.

The product surface is well documented for capabilities and pricing, but independent performance evidence is weak. No substantive exact-product review, controlled benchmark or mature user-rating corpus was found in the major external source set searched for this review. Missing coverage is not negative evidence, but it means OCR accuracy, transcription quality, chart interpretation and generated-note fidelity cannot be scored confidently from public data alone.

The AI Report provides a useful independent product description and identifies the same multimodal note-taking use case, but its pricing snapshot is already stale.⁵ Complete AI Training also describes image-to-note conversion, integrations and synchronization while warning that AI interpretation may vary on complex or unconventional visual inputs.⁶ Neither source supplies a controlled accuracy test.

The official mobile download page says Pixno data is encrypted and stored securely using the same privacy standards as the web app.³ That is a first-party security claim, not a certification. No public SOC 2 report, ISO 27001 certificate, detailed enterprise DPA or independent security audit was located for the reviewed product surface.

The Android distribution method deserves practical attention. The official page provides an APK outside Google Play and tells users to enable installation from unknown sources.³ That does not imply the app is malicious, but enterprises and security-conscious users may prefer the web or desktop workflow unless their device-management policy explicitly allows direct APK installation.

Because Pixno can process lecture recordings, documents, screenshots and potentially sensitive notes, users should verify retention, model-provider processing and deletion controls before uploading confidential business or personal material. The public pages retrieved for this review do not provide enough detail to infer those policies safely.

Pixno is strongest for students who photograph slides or textbook pages, record lectures and want those inputs converted into organized notes without manually transcribing them.¹ Researchers and professionals can use the same workflow for PDFs, meeting whiteboards and reference material.

The direct export integrations make it more attractive to users who already organize knowledge in Notion or Google Docs and do not want another isolated repository.² Users who primarily need speech-to-text across desktop apps may also find the separate Voice Input utility useful.¹

The product is less compelling for users who only need occasional OCR, because operating systems and general-purpose AI assistants can already extract text from images. Pixno’s value comes from combining capture, AI restructuring, note storage, Q&A, references and export into a repeatable workflow.

Organizations handling confidential documents should evaluate privacy and security requirements separately from feature fit, because public assurance evidence is not yet as mature as enterprise-focused document platforms.