Open the artwork, not a picture of it
Someone sent you the logo as a .ai file and your phone had nothing to open it with. Pathside opens it — on the phone itself, sharp at any zoom, with nothing uploaded anywhere.
- .ai
- .svg
- .svgz
- .eps
Pathside is being submitted to Google Play. This page will link straight to the listing the day it is public.
Your artwork never leaves your phone
Files are drawn on the device, and nothing you open is ever sent anywhere. You do not have to take that on trust: put the phone in aeroplane mode and the app works exactly the same. The only things it sends are anonymous crash and usage reports, and your purchase.
The other viewers in this category upload the file to a server, render it there, and send back a compressed image. Their own reviewers describe it: “it is not a vector representation … the app uploads your CDR to the cloud … zoom-in is pixelated, confidential info concerns, and requires internet connection.”
What it does
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Redraws when you zoom
Pinch and the artwork is drawn again from the vector, not stretched. Check a hairline, a join, the edge of a cut line.
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Every artboard
A multi-artboard Illustrator file is a set — six lockups, four sizes, every colourway. Step through them one at a time.
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Opens from anywhere
WhatsApp, Gmail, Drive, Files, Downloads. Open with → Pathside, and the file is on screen.
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Tells you the truth
If a file cannot be drawn, it says which file and why — instead of the blank canvas the rest of the category shows.
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Export when you need to
PNG, JPG or PDF at 1024, 2048 or 4096 pixels on the long edge, with the exact dimensions shown before you save. A one-time unlock, not a subscription.
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Phones and tablets
Portrait and landscape, with a second pane on a tablet instead of a stretched phone layout.
What it does not do
It does not open CorelDRAW .cdr files. Drawing one properly needs Corel's own format engine; the alternative is showing you the small preview image hidden inside the file, which is what the 1M-install app in that search result does, and what its reviewers complain about. Pathside tells you it is a .cdr instead.
It does not open Photoshop .psd files — those are layered pixels, a different job — and it does not edit anything. Some .eps files are plain PostScript with no PDF inside; those cannot be drawn accurately, and the app says so rather than guessing.
Guides
Short, specific answers to the questions that bring people here.