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Pichon Changelog

What's new in Pichon 1.9.1

Feb 29, 2024
  • Check out the latest update featuring bug fixes and performance improvements!

New in Pichon 1.9.0 (Feb 29, 2024)

  • New features and improvements:
  • More icons: Pichon’s collection now includes over 1.3M icons. We added icon packs by independent artists.
  • Onboarding: New users will now see a brief onboarding on launching Pichon for the first time.
  • Style search: You can now quickly find the required icon style by typing its name in the field above the list of icon styles.
  • Selected icon styles: The name of the currently selected icon style now appears not only in the left panel, but also above the icon gallery.
  • Search field placeholders: The search field now shows different placeholder texts depending on the tab you are working with.
  • Fixes:
  • Drag-and-drop of SVG illustrations to Figma now works properly.
  • Shadows in icons no longer look pixelated on zoom.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.8.1 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in Pichon 1.8.0 (Jan 16, 2024)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Find similar. You can now search for icons, illustrations, and photos similar to the selected image by clicking the Show similars button in the right sidebar.
  • No extra windows. User account details, app settings, and other auxiliary options now appear as modal sheets instead of new windows.
  • Advanced download. We added more downloading options for icons, including embeddings and favicons. Select an icon and click the Advanced download button in the right sidebar to explore all the options.
  • Fixes:
  • The With characters filter in illustrations now works properly.
  • Icon collection sharing now works properly.
  • Playback of animated icons in the grid now works properly.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.7.2 (Dec 15, 2023)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in Pichon 1.7.1 (Dec 6, 2023)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in Pichon 1.7.0 (Nov 16, 2023)

  • New features and improvements:
  • New filters in illustrations: The left sidebar now features a rich set of filters to let you find the right image quicker. Various filtering options include mood, technique, colors, and more.
  • Search by style in My images: When you search My images, you’ll see a set of related Icons8 illustrations suggested by Pichon. You can now select an illustration in this set and then click ’Search in This Style’ in the right sidebar to find more illustrations in the same style.
  • Fixes:
  • SVG images are now exported from My images in proper sizes.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.6.1 (Oct 24, 2023)

  • Check out the latest update featuring bug fixes and performance improvements!

New in Pichon 1.6.0 (Oct 18, 2023)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Icon styles: To enhance your experience, the list of icon styles is now accessible through the left sidebar. Categories have been moved to the drop-down list above the gallery.
  • Filters in My images: You can now apply filters to the content you store in My images.
  • Improved QuickLook: The QuickLook window now stays right there where you want it as you browse the gallery.
  • WEBP support: You can now upload, upscale, and remove backgrounds from .webp files in My images.
  • Restoring backgrounds: You can now undo background removal in My images.
  • Fixes:
  • The Search in this style feature in illustrations now works correctly.
  • The right panel now updates correctly as you switch from static to animated images, and vice versa.

New in Pichon 1.5.2 (Sep 19, 2023)

  • Check out the latest update featuring bug fixes and performance improvements!

New in Pichon 1.5.1 (Sep 1, 2023)

  • Check out the latest update featuring bug fixes and performance improvements!

New in Pichon 1.5.0 (Aug 23, 2023)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Trash folder: Deleted images now go into the Trash folder first. From there, you can either restore or permanently delete them.
  • Purchased folder: You can now find all the images you’ve purchased in this folder.
  • New autocomplete: To help you find the things you need faster, search autocomplete now suggests file and folder names, tags, and your recent searches.
  • Improved multiselect: When you select multiple images in the gallery, the right sidebar now shows a stack with the last selected image at the top.
  • Operations with multiple images: You can now upscale, remove backgrounds, change tags and folders for several images at once.
  • Improved icon styles filter: The filter now shows all icon styles, regardless of the selected category.
  • Improved UI of the Tags section.
  • Improved UI of the image import wizard.
  • Fixes:
  • No more occasional freezes on multiselect.
  • Horizontal photos in the gallery no longer have large black margins at the top and bottom.
  • UI elements now properly update in the right sidebar when switching from static to animated illustration type.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.4.1 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Check out the latest update featuring bug fixes and performance improvements!

New in Pichon 1.4.0 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Animated graphics: The Pichon gallery now includes animated icons and illustrations.
  • Improved navigation in related images: To save you a couple of clicks, we replaced the drop-down list for switching between graphic types with tabs.
  • Uploading large files to Cloud: Pichon now automatically downsizes files that exceed the 5 MB limit and uploads them to Cloud.
  • Proper icon sizes in All styles: When the All styles filter is set, Pichon now displays individual sizes for each icon depending on its style. In the previous versions, all icons had common sizes (50x50, 100x100, etc.).
  • Free illustrations and photos: Illustrations and photos that you can use for free without a subscription, now have a corresponding label in the top-left corner.
  • Creating Cloud folders: You can now create folders using the context menu. Right-click over an image > Add to folder > Create folder. In the earlier versions, this was only possible through the side panel.
  • Renaming Cloud files: You can now rename cloud files right in the gallery pane.
  • Fixes:
  • Pichon now does not occasionally skip image files when scanning folders.
  • Selecting assets with arrow keys in the QuickLook mode no longer resets the settings in the sidebar.
  • Export of collections under free accounts now works properly.
  • Zoom of the gallery pane within icon collections now works properly.
  • It is now possible to add PNG icons to collections.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.3.0 (May 19, 2023)

  • M1 and M2 native support, faster asset copying, and streamlined download process. This update makes your workflow with Pichon more comfortable and efficient.
  • New features and improvements:
  • M1 and M2 support: Pichon now runs natively on ARM processors without Rosetta.
  • Redesigned right panel: Enhanced download process, larger image previews, and an updated UI.
  • Image grid zoom: Use the zoom slider in the toolbar to enlarge image previews.
  • Copying images: Press ⌘C to copy an image to your clipboard, making it easy to paste into other apps.
  • Drag image from right panel: Drag and drop images not only from the image grid but also from the right panel preview.
  • Refreshed Illustrations section: More visually appealing previews.
  • Illustration styles on hover: Illustration style now appears in a hover tooltip, like in the Icons section.
  • Cross-tab search: Search queries are now shared across Icons, Illustrations, and Photos sections.
  • Trendy UI illustrations: Pichon now has beautiful new illustrations for its app UI.
  • Fixes:
  • Icons maintain their proper size after exporting.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.2.3 (Nov 29, 2022)

  • Search now properly works when you're not signed in.

New in Pichon 1.2.2 (Nov 7, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed the bug with the reset of selected format upon dragging icons to the Finder or other apps.

New in Pichon 1.2.1 (Oct 27, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Misc minor fixes

New in Pichon 1.2.0 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Asset sidebar. Now when you select an icon, photo, or illustration you see a sidebar where you can choose the size of the image, its format, and then export it.
  • Fixes:
  • 3D icons are now properly displayed in the app.
  • Other minor fixes.

New in Pichon 1.1.2 (Oct 7, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Pichon no longer requires subscription from already subscribed users when they try to download illustrations in high-res.

New in Pichon 1.1.1 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • New features and improvements:
  • My images tab. You can now upload your images and references to the My images tab and keep them right next to Icons8 graphics. It will help you:
  • Organize your images with folders and tags. Or you can rely on auto-tagging by AI.
  • Share images, folders, or the whole library via web links.
  • Find similar images in your library with AI-based help.
  • Cut out people or objects from images in one click with built-in background remover.
  • Enhance low-quality images with built-in image upscaler.
  • The space for your images is not limited. The maximum file size is 5 MB.
  • Fixes:
  • Drag-and-drop to native Mac apps like Keynote or Pages now work properly.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.0.13 (Aug 25, 2022)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Icon style previews. Sample icons now appear in front of the icon style names in the style list.
  • Shortcuts for switching tabs. Now you can switch between the Icons, Illustrations, and Photos tabs using the ⌘1, ⌘2, and ⌘3 shortcuts.
  • Fixes:
  • User collections now work properly.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.0.12 (Jul 19, 2022)

  • Fixes:
  • Users on the unlimited plan no longer get the limit exceeded error when trying to download photos or illustrations.

New in Pichon 1.0.11 (Jun 29, 2022)

  • New features and improvements
  • Search for icons in the same style Right-click over an icon, then click Search in this style on the context menu, and Pichon will show only the icons belonging to the same pack.
  • Labels The Free label now appears over the icons available for free in all formats. The Purchased label shows up over the icons that you’ve already bought.
  • Account deletion. To comply with Apple requirements, we added the possibility to delete user accounts.
  • Fixes:
  • Lots of minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.0.10.1 (Dec 23, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Pichon no longer crashes upon switching icon styles. The bug manifested itself on macOS 10.15.
  • Other minor fixes.

New in Pichon 1.0.10 (Dec 20, 2021)

  • Adaptive colors of controls and fixes
  • New features and improvements:
  • Adaptive colors of controls. Now the colors of selection frames and buttons in Pichon adjust to the color theme set on your computer.
  • Fixes:
  • Illustrations. The app no longer crashes upon selecting illustration categories.
  • Photos. Irrelevant tags no longer appear above search results.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Pichon 1.0.9 (Dec 7, 2021)

  • App Store version, adaptive color of icon group names, and fixes
  • New features and improvements:
  • Pichon is on the App Store. The App Store version is completely similar to the current one. You can use any version, features and content will always be the same.
  • Adaptive color of icon group names. The names of icon subcategories that show up in the main area now adapt their color to be visible against the selected background color.
  • Fixes:
  • The background of Quick Look windows now adjusts to the selected mode: Dark or Light.
  • Icons. Recolored icons no longer change their color during export.
  • Icons. The names of icon subcategories no longer appear above the search output.
  • Icons. Icons added through the Finder are now displayed correctly in collections.
  • Photos. In some rare cases, the Transparent toggle didn't show up. We fixed this issue.
  • Illustrations. The style drop-down list no longer disappears upon selecting a category without illustrations in the current style.

New in Pichon 1.0.8.1 (Nov 15, 2021)

  • Fixes:
  • Pichon no longer crashes upon attempts to enter the password in the sign in form. The bug manifested itself on macOS 12.0.

New in Pichon 5.7.4 (Sep 17, 2020)

  • New icon style: Fluent System Regular
  • New icon style: Fluent System
  • Performance and reliability improvements

New in Pichon 5.7.3 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • New icon style: Fluent!

New in Pichon 5.7.2 (Dec 27, 2019)

  • Dark mode
  • New icon style: Emoji!
  • Performance and reliability improvements
  • iOS icon style updated to include iOS and iOS Filled
  • Office icon style now available in 4 different sizes

New in Pichon 5.6.9 (Jul 20, 2019)

  • Please update if you are experiencing any issues with your current app version

New in Pichon 5.6.7 (Jan 25, 2019)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Exports 75px PNG files
  • Shows All icons if the search field is empty

New in Pichon 5.6.6 (Jan 11, 2019)

  • Seven New Icon Packs:
  • Material Outlined
  • Material Rounded
  • Material Two Tone
  • Hand Drawn
  • Clouds
  • Circle Bubbles
  • Color Hand Drawn

New in Pichon 5.6.5 (Jul 4, 2018)

  • Three New Icon Packs:
  • Doodle
  • Cotton
  • Flat Round

New in Pichon 5.6.4 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • New Icon Pack:
  • iOS Glyphs — Apple introduced a new icon style for the tab bar icons. They are not thin outline icons anymore; these are the solid icons. Apple calls them the glyphs.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed minor user interface issues.

New in Pichon 5.6.3 (Jul 26, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Better search
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed some rare bugs that caused crashes.

New in Pichon 5.6.2 (May 23, 2017)

  • Prevents crashing at launch, please update!

New in Pichon 5.6.1 (May 17, 2017)

  • New Icon Pack:
  • Wired - outlined version of the Dusk icon pack
  • UI:
  • You can open and close the app by clicking on the icon in the menubar (as long as Application icon is in Menubar and window losing focus behavior is set to Hide in Preferences)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed all regression bugs that caused crashes. Thanks for your crash reports! You're our heroes!

New in Pichon 5.6 (May 2, 2017)

  • New Icon Packs:
  • Nolan — round, highly stylized gradient icons
  • 1em — tiny 16x16 icons that look great with text
  • Dotty — decorative style with dots
  • Ultraviolet — purple borders with matching colors
  • Dusk - half tone icons for web and wireframes
  • Features:
  • A popular request: You can run Icons8 as a standard window application, not just as a menu bar app, a must for those of you who use two displays.
  • Icons8 can stay on top of other windows now. Optionally, it can become opaque. Try using various options, which you can select in the Preferences tab.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an annoying bug with drag and drop. Dragging works well now.
  • Fixed some rare bugs that caused crashes. Thanks for your crash reports! You're our heroes!

New in Pichon 5.5 (Jan 22, 2017)

  • Subcategories. This way, the "drinks" category doesn't mix beer, milk, and coffee anymore
  • The new view grid — oh boy, it's fast
  • New, more compact database — it loads faster
  • Removed tons of crappy code — there is plenty of refactoring

New in Pichon 5.4.3 (Nov 25, 2016)

  • Browsing just got better. You can find a horse in both animal and astrology topics now. Icons appear pixel-perfect now. So, Windows 10 icons appear 32x32 px, and Android L icons are 24x24 px
  • Synchronizations consume much less bandwidth now
  • Color palette bug fixed. If you switch to Sketch and back to Icons8 with the open color picker, it keeps working
  • New application icon. What is that? Hint: "Draw me a sheep!" Answer: It's the box from The Little Prince

New in Pichon 5.4.2 (Oct 7, 2016)

  • Fixes user-reported bugs.

New in Pichon 5.4.0 (Sep 7, 2016)

  • 2,400 icons are available in Office style
  • Synchronization is rewritten from scratch, the good news is that it requires way less processor time; the bad news is that we can’t make coffee on our processor anymore
  • It fixes sharing of color icons (icons were losing details previously)
  • The app has both simplified and original versions of each icon. You can switch them in the Preferences
  • It shows improved search (now, you can search for symbols like +, -, and @)
  • At first launch, there’s no penis icon in sight
  • We collect and analyze the crash reports now. Sorry for all the crashes we had in the past; thank you for all the crashes you’ll send us
  • There’s a build version in the About dialog now

New in Pichon 5.2.0 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • New features:
  • Search is on steroids now. 10x faster.
  • Fixed the issue that prevented updating the icons in El Capitan.
  • Same for the application updates.

New in Pichon 5.1.0 (Dec 17, 2015)

  • You can select multiple icons now. Save them to disk, drag them to Finder, and have lots of fun.
  • It now serves pixel perfect icons
  • Shorter name: Icons8 App → Icons8
  • New icon

New in Pichon 5.0.0 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • Design improvement: from a Marilyn Manson look to a Marilyn Monroe look
  • You can choose the size of pdfs now

New in Pichon 4.1.1 (Jul 27, 2015)

  • Fixed a bug preventing to copy PNG to clipboard

New in Pichon 4.1 (Jun 30, 2015)

  • New icon pack: Windows 10 icons
  • Users with expired subscriptions can hide unavailable icons
  • Bugfix: Now you can use special characters in your password

New in Pichon 4.0 (Jun 24, 2015)

  • 1600 color icons
  • 7x faster and 4x smaller
  • PDF format
  • New support for paid users

New in Pichon 3.3 (Feb 20, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Icons up to 100x100 px (50x50 in previous versions)
  • Share feature is back! Shared icon example: https://t.co/OVnwstKMRS
  • Improved sync — it _should_ lead to less CPU and disk usage.

New in Pichon 3.2.1 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Fixed a bug that prevented using the smallest sizes of Android KitKat icons.
  • Fixed a bug where PNG icons were rasterized with the wrong sizes.
  • Fixed a bug that added paid icons for the $149 plan.

New in Pichon 3.2 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Android L icon pack
  • New application icon
  • Looks sexy in Yosemite dark mode
  • Fixed support of the paid icons for the $149 plan

New in Pichon 3.1.1 (Oct 21, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Search has been fixed — now it searches by icon name, not only tags
  • Search results are better arranged
  • More icons, with a total of 5,500
  • Other minor fixes

New in Pichon 3.1.0 (Oct 13, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Recoloring of icons
  • Now works on OS X Yosemite
  • Search works faster—much faster

New in Pichon 3.0.0 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • Background syncronization of free icons
  • Drag and drop installation of purchased zips with icons

New in Pichon 2.0.10 (Jun 27, 2014)

  • Fixed crash related to erroneous layout of Sunrise icon files