Picview is an image viewer with a nice minimal modern user interface. it is for photographers, artists, designers seeking a solution to visualize images in Windows style.
Picview works great with JPEG, HEIC, PSD, RAW, WEBP, PNG, GIF, and many other formats. Provides basic image processing, including flip and rotate, EXIF, and other information. Supports keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. The most important, Picview like Windows' default picture viewer — Photos, where zoom in and out with the mouse wheel and switch between images with arrow keys and/or with on-screen buttons.
### Quick & Easy Viewing
Double-click to open and view instantly. Rich gesture support.
1. Keyboard: Arrow keys to flip, up/down to zoom, ESC to close. Custom shortcuts supported.
2. Mouse: Scroll to zoom, Command + scroll to flip, Option + scroll to pan. Double-click to close/zoom/fullscreen.
3. Trackpad: Two-finger swipe to flip, pinch to zoom in/out.
### Immersive Image Experience
Clean, minimal interface with no distractions and fast loading.
1. Focus on Image: Borderless window with auto-hide title bar and toolbar.
2. Slideshow: Auto-play with shuffle and loop support.
3. Fullscreen Mode: View images in immersive fullscreen with auto-hidden cursor.
### Multiple Viewing Modes
Fixed or adaptive window sizes. Choose the mode that fits you best.
1. Window Strategy: 9 instant-switch modes like fixed size, fit-to-image, etc.
2. View Styles: Single/multi-window, grid, or pin-to-desktop browsing.
3. Pin to Desktop: Turn any image or text into sticky notes on your desktop.
4. Long Image Support: Auto-scroll to top, drag to move, zoom with scroll.
### Folder Browsing
Open one image to view all in the folder.
1. Sort Images: Sort by capture time, size, and more.
2. Filter by Type: Filter images by file extension.
3. Subfolder Support: Browse images inside subfolders recursively.
### Broad Format Support
From vectors to RAW, almost all common formats supported.
1. Format Rich: View over 30 formats including PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP, ICO, GIF, CR2, CR3, NEF, and more.
2. EXIF Info: View color profile, shot time, camera/lens model, ISO, aperture, exposure, and more.
### OCR Text Recognition
AI-powered tools make images interactive and actionable.
1. Text Selection: Recognize text in images for selection, copy, and translation.
2. Object Extraction: Detect main subjects, copy and paste them into other apps.
### Contact us
- Email：office.chitaner@gmail.com
- Telegram invite link: https://t.me/+2Im1PTFR4chjYWFl
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Fast & Simple
ccdrop
Coming from Windows one of the biggest things I miss is a super speedy image viewer. There really doesn’t seem to be anything that compares to FastStone Image Viewer from the Windows world in the MacOS ecosystem. Picview has some rough edges, like the arrow keys not working quite right, not rendering pixel art correctly, and zero editing tools, but it terms of scrolling through your images it’s faster than the built in preview app and more robust. Overall it has the core to be a really awesome program if the dev wants to keep polishing it out. II’ve tired over 3 dozen image viewers on MacOS thus far and thus far PicView is the winner for actually clicking images and viewing them, or looking through complex sets of files quickly.
Good App But Gifs Too Fast
xThatBlackCatx
The app itself works really well and is a great alternative to viewing images that doesn’t use Preview. The only real issue I’ve been having is that GIFs play way too fast. Hoping this can be fixed at some point, would rather not have to rely on opening GIFs in my browser constantly just to view them normally.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback and support! We’re glad to hear Picview works well for you as an alternative to Preview.We also appreciate you pointing out the GIF playback speed issue. We understand how inconvenient that is, and we’ll look into improving it in a future update so GIFs can play more naturally in Picview.Thanks again for your suggestion.
Almost perfect - One more thing to improve
miajonj
All good as expected, especially for a freemium product. Has many excellent aspects. I really like the feature of displaying all images under **ALL SUB-FOLDERS**. I only hope to the App would have tighter Finder integration, in terms of:- Be able to display images even after files or the file structure are changed in a sub-folder at the Finder app- Be able to rename the file in the App without the need to go out to Finder or FInder/Get Info (File property) for file name change.With the improvement, the App will be able to be better integrated with a common image processing work flow.Thanks and keep up with the great work. P.S. macOS 12.x Intel mac
Million times better than the original app
Raaaambo
Apple can’t even create a normal photo viewer so I can zoom picture just with MOUSE WHEEL, it’s crazy, it feels so dumb after windows. This developer deserves more money than any of apple apps developer
- Added a close button to the mouse operation tips view
- Added a close button to the tags view
- Optimized image format parsing
- Improved the guidance for adding folder permissions
- Fixed some issues
Version 1.5.3
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