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Pics.io

Design — Turning Google Drive into a tool for creatives [Design Tools, Photography, Tech]
Designsaasest. 2014
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 19, 2026
Pulse 14.3 · 2/4
14.3
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
9
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 19, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 13% of 16 probesavg response 8843 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
#240,644
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Pics.io's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 19, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 14.3 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 9 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Visual Asset Sharing for PowerPoint by Brand.aidesignsimilar78%42.00.0● live
Redpen.iodesignsimilar78%9.70.0— unverified
Niice 2designsimilar78%40.00.0● live
Dribbbledesignsimilar78%40.00.0● live
ZCooldesignsimilar78%0.0-40.0■ inactive
Pixelfold Feedbackdesignsimilar78%8.00.0— unverified
Pixilartdesignsimilar73%48.4+32.0— unverified
Realtime Boarddesignsimilar73%49.80.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-19 14:47Z10011timeout
2026-08-11 13:59Z10015timeout
2026-08-08 23:39Z10015timeout
2026-08-05 19:32Z10002timeout
2026-07-30 18:48Z200pics.ionginx2078alive
2026-07-26 15:29Z10001timeout
2026-07-18 12:14Z10025timeout
2026-07-12 09:26Z10003timeout
2026-07-04 13:32Z10010timeout
2026-06-23 14:42Z10006timeout
2026-06-21 17:46Z10007timeout
2026-06-21 17:46Z10009timeout
2026-06-20 07:10Z10002timeout
2026-06-19 05:36Z200pics.ionginx1611alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Pics.io · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/pics-io · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.