FigpeaMobile Design Viewer & Touch Review Guide
Someone sends you a design and asks what you think. You are on a train, holding a phone, and the file is a 40 MB PSD. Figpea opens it in the browser tab you already have — no app, no account, no upload. The file is read on your device and stays there.
This page covers the review loop on a phone: opening a file, moving around the canvas, reading a layer's properties, presenting a deck, and sending a single layer to someone else.
What changes on a small screen
Below 768px wide, Figpea swaps the desktop panels for a bottom action bar with five slots — Pages, Layers, Inspect, Present and Share. Each slot is a 44×44 touch target, which is the size a thumb actually hits.
The Inspect drawer slides in over the canvas. The bottom bar stays put underneath it.
Pages and Layers open a drawer from the left; Inspect opens one from the right. Only one is ever open — tapping Inspect while the Layers drawer is out closes Layers for you, so the canvas is never buried under two panels at once. Tapping a slot a second time closes it.
Zoom and pan by touch
Pinch with two fingers on the canvas to zoom about the midpoint of the gesture — the point between your fingers stays where it is, so you zoom into the thing you are looking at rather than into the centre of the screen. Drag with one finger to pan.
Pinch to zoom about the gesture midpoint, then drag with one finger to pan.
Where that gesture ends up: the detail stays centred on the point you pinched.
The canvas absorbs the gesture, so the page behind it does not scroll or rubber-band while you drag. Figpea handles zoom itself rather than leaving it to the browser, which is why a pinch zooms the design and not the whole interface.
Reading a layer's properties
Tap a layer on the canvas to select it, then tap Inspect. The drawer lists that layer's inspectable properties — position, size, fills, typography — sized to fit the screen, so nothing is cut off the right edge and there is nothing to scroll sideways to reach.
Layers opens the layer tree if you would rather pick from the structure than hunt on the canvas, and Pages lists every page or artboard in the file. Selecting one renders it immediately.
More on what each property means: Basic Layer Operations.
Presenting a deck
Tap Present and the current design fills the screen. Advance with the on-screen next and previous controls, both sized to 44 pixels; the exit control returns you to the canvas.
Presentation fills the viewport — the editor chrome is gone, the slide is the whole screen.
Tapping the next control advances the deck one artboard at a time.
You can present the whole deck on a free account, start to finish, with no interruption partway through. See Plans & Pro for what the paid tier adds.
Sending a layer to someone
Select a layer, then tap Share. Figpea renders that layer to a PNG at 1× and hands the file to your phone's own share sheet — Messages, Mail, Slack, AirDrop, whatever you have installed. Nothing is uploaded to us and no link is created; the file goes straight from your device to the app you pick.
The Share slot mid-export. Your phone's share sheet opens over the top of this — it belongs to the operating system, so it never appears in a screenshot of the page.
Two things worth knowing. The Share slot needs a selected layer — tap it with nothing selected and Figpea tells you to pick a layer first. And on a browser without Web Share file support, the same tap downloads the PNG instead and says so, so the action never silently fails.
Sharing a layer this way is free and prompts no upgrade. Full export options: Exporting.
Opening a file on your phone
Two routes, both covered in Opening Design Files:
- Pick a file from the device — your phone's own file picker, including iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Files.
- Open a link with
?loader=http, which fetches the file straight into the tab. Handy when the design lives on a URL somebody sent you.
Format support is the same as on desktop: PSD and PSB, Adobe XD, Figma .fig, SVG, PDF and plain
images. Adobe XD files render with the highest fidelity of anything we parse — see the
XD viewer — with PSD close behind on the PSD viewer. Figma .fig
support opens files locally for review and is still young; see the
Figma viewer and Figma Import (Alpha) for what it does and
does not cover yet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I view Photoshop PSD or Adobe XD files on my iPhone or Android without installing an app?
Yes. Figpea runs 100% locally inside mobile web browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox). Simply open the page and select your design file or open a deep link. No app download or account creation is required.
How do I zoom and pan a design on a touch screen?
Pinch with two fingers on the canvas to zoom in or out about your gesture midpoint. Drag with one finger to pan smoothly across the design.
Can I share individual design layers from my phone?
Yes. Select the layer you want, then tap Share on the bottom action bar. Figpea exports that layer as a 1× PNG and passes it directly to your phone's native share sheet (Messages, Slack, Mail, AirDrop). If your browser does not support sharing files, Figpea downloads the PNG instead.
Do I need a paid account to present design decks on mobile?
No. Full-deck presentation playback is free on mobile devices. You can present all slides uninterrupted; an upgrade prompt surfaces conveniently after you exit presentation mode.